Nonetheless, her defense is hitting hard on the notion that she believed Cosby was her father, and her intention was to negotiate a settlement of her “moral and legal” rights as a daughter.
The grandmother testified that Cosby took an interest in Jackson from an early age. He wanted to move the child away from Thompson when she had drug problems, Maxfield said, and more recently paid for Maxfield and Jackson to come to New York for a taping of his television show, then go to Florida to attend college.
“She was very excited to see him,” Maxfield said of the New York trip. “It was the first time she had seen her fahter in person. The jury watched a video of the meeting with Jackson holding a toy teddy bear a smiling Cosby had seemingly just given her. “This is the lucky bear,” he says.
Earlier Monday, the government presented its final piece of evidence in the trial--a tape of Thompson, urging Jackson’s accused partner in crime, Jose Medina, to lay off their “blackmail” of the entertainer.
Thompson called Medina on January 17, after Cosby's attorney told her that Jackson had threatened the entertainer. A tape of the call was found in Medina’s safe-deposit box and, in it, Thompson can be heard saying, “Autumn has painted herself into a corner...She has tried to blackmail him.” Referring to Jackson's threat in a letter to Cosby to sell her story to the Globe tabloid, Thompson said, “That’s extortion when you do it like that.” Medina and Jackson were arrested the next day.
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