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That drama appeared to end two weeks ago, when a jury convicted Autumn Jackson, 22, the woman who claims to be Cosby's illegitimate daughter, of extortion for trying to coax $40 million out of Dear Old (Maybe) Dad in exchange for her not taking her story to the tabloids. But the soap opera keeps taking new twists. The issue of whether Cosby really is Autumn's father--he denies it, while admitting he had sex with her mother--was ruled irrelevant at the trial. But last week on CNBC's Rivera Live, Cosby attorney Jack Schmitt dropped a bombshell...
Blindsided on live TV, her attorney Robert M. Baum at first hedged, but later said Jackson would not submit to the test, at least not until after her sentencing in October. "The test will not change the fact that Autumn was raised to believe he was the father," Baum said. Jackson supporters attacked the Cosby TV ploy as grandstanding, pointing out that he had refused their earlier requests to take a paternity test. Some skeptics were suspicious because Cosby's blood sampling was done by surprise and in secret rather than in a controlled setting along with Autumn, in keeping...
...could. Jerald Jackson, who is named on the birth certificate as Autumn's father, claims he is her real dad. Jackson, a convicted felon who is now a truck driver and born-again Christian, says he and Autumn's mother, Shawn Upshaw, had a relationship while she was a prostitute. (Upshaw "categorically denies" that she ever worked as a prostitute, says her attorney, Wanda Akin.) "We really cared about one another, and Autumn was supposed to symbolize that," Jackson told TIME. "I don't just believe I am the father. I know I am the father...
...STATE V. AUTUMN JACKSON...
Stupidity and naivete, it seems, are no excuse under the law. Autumn Jackson faces as much as 12 years in prison and $750,000 in fines because of a clumsy attempt she made to extort money from the man she says she thought was her father. (In case you've managed to miss this one, BILL COSBY claims that he had a one-night stand with Jackson's mother many years ago and that he's been paying her to keep quiet about it--but that Autumn is not his child.) If she is a Cosby, she certainly didn...