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 For the past nine years, retired attorney Tamara Green has stayed fairly quiet about her claims that Bill Cosby drugged and groped her back in 1970.But she thinks it's "fabulous" Cosby is once again under fire for allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting 14 women – including former Temple University employee Andrea Constand."He is in fact a sexual predator," Green, 66, tells PEOPLE exclusively. "I don't dispute the fact the man has done much good, but he is a flawed man.""He's not the fictional Dr. Huxtable or the Jell-O salesman," she says. "This is Bill Cosby who for years felt entitled because of his status as a celebrity and because for years he was above the law. And he'll always be a small man because a great man would embrace his faults as well as his talents."Cosby's spokesman, David Brokaw, could not be reached. In the past Brokaw has said her claims are not true Constand went to authorities in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, where Cosby, 77, owns a home and where she said the sexual assault happened, in January 2005.Five weeks later, then-Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce L. Castor Jr., citing "insufficient credible and admissible evidence," announced there would be no criminal charges against Cosby.Constand subsequently filed a civil suit against him, and 13 other women with similar stories were added as supporting witnesses. She settled the lawsuit for an undisclosed amount in November 2006."The district attorney in Montgomery County wouldn't file the charges because he said it was a he said/she said case," says Green, who is retired and lives in southern California, "but 10 years later because of social media people get to decide these facts for themselves."Green, who once represented Liza Minnelli's stepmother in a lawsuit against the famous singer, was the first of the 13 women to go public with her story.She contacted Constand's attorneys after hearing Castor characterize Constand's allegations against Cosby as "weak" at a press conference in January 2005."I worked in a DA's office and that's DA-speak for, 'We're not filing charges,' " Green told the Philadelphia Daily News in her first interview. "I felt compelled to come forward after I heard that."Through the years, Cosby has only given one interview on Constand's accusations – to The National Enquirer, which ran in March 2005."Looking back on it, I realize that words and actions can be misinterpreted by another person," Cosby told the tabloid , "and unless you're a supreme being, you can't predict what another individual will do."I'm not saying that what I did was wrong, but I apologize to my loving wife, who has stood by my side for all these years, for any pain I have caused her," he told the Enquirer. "These allegations have caused my family great emotional stress."He addressed Green's claims in that interview as well."My problem is with some media and how it appeared that Miss Green was allowed to be a 'wrecking ball,' " he told the Enquirer.Green not only told her story to Constand's attorneys, Dolores Troiani and Bebe Kivitiz, who were partners in Devon, Pennsylvania, but she went to Montgomery County authorities as well."I volunteered to take the heat and believe me there was considerable heat," she says.Cosby's people began leaking negative information about her to the press after her interview with the Daily News went national – all of which was true, she says."I expected that," she says. "I've been a career defense attorney. I know how to crack credibility."Believe me I'm not a perfect person either," she says. "On the other hand, I have perfect credit and have never been arrested for a felony."She believes the accusations might go away for good if Cosby would just admit to what he did – and apologize."I keep thinking of two words – he needs to own it," she says. "He needs to say, 'I am a flawed character. I let stardom go to my head. I'm an older and wiser man and I want to apologize to the people that I have hurt.' How hard can that be?"If he would just do that, "every celebrity would say, 'Everyone makes mistakes,' " she adds. "So keep it up. We'll be here." ||||| How long before Bill Cosby is exiled to the Island of Misfit Celebrities? 
 
 Last week, the once-adored actor and comedian had the temerity to invite Twitter users to “Go ahead. Meme me!” He might as well have affixed a “Kick me” sign to his gray hair-stubbled chin. What he received was a torrent of acerbic references to accusations that, through the years, he has sexually assaulted more than a dozen women. Before day’s end, the ill-conceived idea was scrubbed from Cosby’s website, as was the original tone-deaf tweet soliciting comments. 
 
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 Cosby settled a lawsuit in 2006 filed by a woman who claimed the comedian drugged and raped her in 2004, and he has never been charged with any crime connected to the allegations. Yet from comedian Hannibal Buress, who straight up called him “a rapist,” to countless slings and arrows on Twitter, there’s a sense that Cosby won’t emerge from this mess unscathed. 
 
 And if the social media firestorm is any indication, Cosby may not be allowed to recover. Though major media outlets recently interviewed Cosby and his wife Camille about their extensive private collection of African-American art loaned to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art, none asked him about the accusations, though they have gained traction. Howard Bragman, a longtime celebrity public relations consultant, insisted on CNN that Cosby has “got to be willing to go on the air and go on the record, and say ‘These charges are not true, this is nothing I would do.’ ” So far, Cosby has done no such thing, perhaps already realizing his reputation is a lost cause. 
 
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 How celebrities weather such disasters often depends on how they previously existed in the public’s consciousness. For many, news of R&B singer Chris Brown’s 2009 arrest for assaulting his then-girlfriend Rihanna was the first they’d ever heard of him. That initial impression continues to cloud everything else. His career has continued, but nothing he has done thus far has outweighed his image as the man who battered Rihanna. 
 
 On the other hand, former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson may be the hardest-working convicted rapist in show biz. He had cameos in the first two “Hangover” movies. In 2012, he starred in a one-man show on Broadway. Last year, he had appearances in “How I Met Your Mother” and “Law & Order: SVU,” and he’s now the animated star of the Adult Swim cartoon series, “Mike Tyson Mysteries.” Tyson’s criminal record seems irrelevant these days; it probably helped that Tyson, in his boxing heyday, was a violent man in a violent sport, and few seemed surprised when he was convicted in 1992 of raping a beauty pageant contestant. It matched the already accepted image of Tyson as scary and dangerous, and much of his post-prison, post-boxing career resurrection has cynically parodied and capitalized on that. 
 
 While celebrities crash-and-burn with tedious frequency, the gnawing possibility that Cosby may have committed horrific acts against women is working our culture’s nerves in a different way. After all, this is the man who was all but anointed “America’s dad” during the giddy years of “The Cosby Show.” On Saturday mornings, he entertained a generation and shared life lessons on “Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids.” He was the comedian who proved you could keep it clean and still sell out arenas. 
 
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 From his pudding commercials with kids to his ability to achieve wide mainstream success without whitewashing his blackness, we not only liked Cosby; we trusted him. What now feels like a stinging betrayal of that trust means that, going forward, Cosby’s soiled career will more closely resemble that of Brown than Tyson. There’s no longer a conversation to be had about him without the accusations peeking around every corner. Cosby likely knows this, and it may account for why he postponed a recent appearance on “The Queen Latifah Show,” an innocuous featherweight even by the depth-averse standards of daytime TV. 
 
 Though the once revered, now increasingly reviled icon may never have to answer for these allegations inside a courtroom, it seems the court of public opinion has already decided its case against him. 
 
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– Bill Cosby notably clammed up when NPR asked about allegations of sex abuse that have recently reared their head, and he won't be talking about them anytime soon, his lawyer tells the AP. Calling the accusations a "decade-old" and "discredited," lawyer John Schmitt says Cosby won't "dignify" them with comment. But while Cosby might be holding his tongue, accuser Tamara Green—a retired lawyer who says the comedian drugged and groped her in 1970—tells People she thinks it's "fabulous" that he's again taking heat. "He is in fact a sexual predator," she says. "I don't dispute the fact the man has done much good, but he is a flawed man." Cosby can hold his silence all he wants, writes Renee Graham at the Boston Globe, but "the court of public opinion has already decided its case against him." It's a particularly unexpected and "stinging betrayal" because "this is the man who was all but anointed 'America’s dad' during the giddy years of The Cosby Show." Social media is crucifying him, she writes, giving the sense that he "may not be allowed to recover." Perhaps his silence is simply his realization that "his reputation is a lost cause" and his career forever "soiled."