For the dude saying it's suspicious, "why are all these women conveniently coming up with the same exact rape story?" -- it's because that was his move. And he perfected the move to get to the finish line he needed. The stories are all the same because they all experienced essentially the same move.
Bill Cosby was in a position of power and has been for many decades. Do you know this allowed him to do? Play women. He groomed them, asked about their life story first to see if they were damaged goods and easier prey and uncredible if they ever made any claims. Many aspiring models and actresses ended up meeting him and he invited them to his office, hotel, and house to come by for a chat about the business and how he could help them get their foot in the door, etc. He played the nice guy card. When a man such as good and wholesome Bill Cosby says this to you in the 70's and 80's.....you probably listen. So these young women would go and meet him and a lot of times he would have skits set up, telling them "I want to see your acting skills" and they would act out scenes. And many times Bill would tell them it's time to "act drunk" or "act sick" while also slipping them something in their water/drink/etc. This would confuse the women and lead to what we now know. This routine was his calling card. And he played it perfectly because he had all the power and a stream of aspiring actresses trusting his word. No one would believe them once he kicked them out the door and never saw them again.
People have asked, how come we haven't heard anything about him drugging Phylicia Rashad or the actresses in his TV family? It's because he couldn't assault them. They were in his inner circle who he had to see every day. And they were credible people in power positions.
People have asked, is it possible he was paying off these women and he was innocent and didn't want his wife to find out? Not likely, because his wife has since come out and said she's known he has strayed and she doesn't care. Bill is the breadwinner for her and he has provided her with the lifestyle she craves for over 50 years. She is going nowhere and Bill has never been scared of her.
People have asked, how come these ladies are just now coming out? They aren't. Decades ago many went to their friends/managers/etc.first and were told it would be wise to just let it go. Janice Dickinson wrote in her memoir drafts about Cosby assaulting her. Her publisher wouldn't allow it because it was Bill Cosby. One woman went to her local police in 2004. Tamara Green, a lawyer, went to the Today Show on camera in 2005. Several others went to People magazine in 2006. It went away quickly because it was Bill Cosby. Schools had honorary degrees to keep giving him. Foundations had awards to keep giving him. Meanwhile the accusers had been out there and did talk and a lot of times, if not all the time, were made to feel like it is inconveniencing everyone if you keep pushing this.
And finally, people may ask why didn't more of these just immediately go to the POLICE and end this? Well ask yourself this... who wants to be the young one to make a claim that Cliff Huxtable is a sexual predator?