Who knows what lies Cosby may have told them? They were stars and starlets. Perhaps he said he wanted to discuss a script he thought would be perfect for them?
In my case, at the time a divorced mother juggling a job and small children, I was told about another woman (by her son) who had done the same, and succeeded well. I said I would love to talk to her, and was told we three could go to lunch. This young man held a job working with children, that's how I met him, through my kids' activities. What could be healthier? I taught an Arts and Crafts class at the same venue where he worked. I knew him many months. This was no pick-up in a bar. But he invented that whole thing about meeting his mother, to get me into his home.
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