Prison official: Bill Cosby getting hit with chicken patty is ‘fake news’

The disgraced comedian is only in contact with prison staff, the official said and it has not been determined when or if he'll have any interaction with other inmates

Jay Scott Smith

Oct 9, 2018

While attorneys for Bill Cosby figure how to get him out of prison, they are also trying to quell rumors about him on the inside.

The embattled comedian, who was convicted of sexual assault last month, reportedly has spent the first the first two weeks of his 3-to-10 year prison term being evaluated by prison staff and spending most of his time in his own cell.

One thing that is apparently not true is that he was assaulted with a piece of chicken. According to TMZ, the rumor that Cosby, who coincidentally had a famous 1972 stand up bit called “Chicken Heart,” was hit with a chicken patty after telling a distasteful joke are not true.

“The way I see it, you have to be very angry to throw your meal in jail because I don’t think you get seconds,” an unnamed source told RadarOnline last week. “Mr. Cosby told us last week that the chicken patty was the best meal he had so far at SCI Phoenix Opens a New Window. … so that says a lot.”

But an official from the Pennsylvania Dept. of Corrections told TMZ: “This did not happen, and I am unhappy with anyone who is reporting such fake news.”

The official says that Cosby has no contact whatsoever with other inmates. He’s continuing to be evaluated by prison staff and, until they determine the extent to which he should interact with others, he’s by himself and in his own cell.

Cosby was sentenced on Sept. 26 after being found guilty of the 2004 sexual assault of former Temple University women’s basketball assistant Andrea Constand. He was immediately remanded to a state prison outside Philadelphia. His sentence was the first major conviction of the #MeToo Movement while former Hollywood heavyweight Harvey Weinstein is awaiting trial on sexual assault charges in New York.

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