Bill Cosby has been in the cell for years

- Bill Cosby (81) was sentenced to a prison sentence of at least three and a maximum of 10 years for drugging and abusing Andrea Constand. Judge Steven O \u0026 # x27; Neill also imposed a fine of 25,000 dollars on him plus the legal costs. Cosby immediately had to be transferred to a state prison. A request to release him provisionally while awaiting the appeal was rejected.

The 81-year-old comedian was convicted in three respects of sexual assault by Andrea Constand, a former employee of Temple University, in 2004. He would have drugged her first in his home. Earlier in the day it was decided that the three cases would be merged into one, so that the maximum prison sentence could not be thirty, but ten years.