Bill Cosby is keeping quiet as new allegations of sexual assault emerge. “I know people are tired of me not saying anything, but a guy doesn’t have to answer to innuendos,” the 77-year-old comedian and actor told Florida’s Today Magazine backstage at his show Friday night in Melbourne. “People should fact check. People shouldn’t have to go through that and shouldn’t answer to innuendos. “But more accusations surfaced throughout the weekend; a former NBC employee said Cosby paid off eight women. Frank Scotti told the New York Daily News that he sent money orders for thousands of dollars to numerous women on Cosby’s behalf and was there when Cosby invited models to his dressing room. “He would tell me to keep the women in there, don’t let anybody in, and it was very obvious what was going on,” said Scotti, 90, in a Daily News video posted Sunday. “When the models used to come, he said, ‘Get rid of everybody, and leave that one there.’ … I got suspicious about it, but I didn’t see it happen.” Scotti eventually quit working with Cosby, “because of the girls.”

Another woman told TMZ that a friend of Cosby’s assaulted her, after Cosby gave her a white pill. Joyce Emmons, who knew Cosby from the comedy club circuit, said he gave it to her to help her with a migraine. Joyce says she blacked out and woke up in Cosby’s bed with a friend of the comedian that she had turned down earlier in the night. The network aired The Cosby Show and just pulled the plug on a Cosby sitcom in development.

Sixteen women have publicly stated that Cosby, now 77, sexually assaulted them, twelve saying he drugged them first and another saying he tried to drug her. The Washington Post has interviewed five of those women, including a former Playboy Playmate, who has never spoken publicly about her allegations. The women agreed to speak on the record and to have their identities revealed. The Post also has reviewed court records that shined on the accusations of a former director of women’s basketball operations at Temple University who assembled thirteen “Jane Doe” accusers in 2005 to testify on her behalf about their allegations against Cosby.

The accusation, some of which Cosby has denied and others he has declined to discuss the arc of this career. From his pioneering years as the first black star of a network television drama in 1965 to the mid-2000s, when Cosby was rooted as an elder statesman of the entertainment industry, a scolding public conscience of the African American community and a philanthropist. They also span a monumental generational shift in perceptions, from the sexually unrestrained ’60s to an era when the idea of date rape is well understood.