Where did Bill Cosby get the quaaludes he’s accused of using to drug and sexually assault dozens of women?
A major source, according to The Washington Post, was the late Hollywood doctor Leroy Amar, described as a “disgraced gynecologist and plastic surgeon.”
Amar, who died in 2002 at 71, apparently knew Cosby had no intention of using them himself, according to a 10-year-old deposition quoted by the Post.
“I would not doubt in a minute that Amar would sign a prescription to give anybody anything they wanted. That’s just the way he was,” the Post quoted Meldon S. Hollis Jr. as saying.
Hollis is a former Washington-area lawyer who represented Amar and later blamed him for the loss of his law license. “He was unscrupulous,” he told the Post.
The California Medical Board revoked Amar’s license in 1979 after finding that he acted with gross incompetence and negligence and had “engaged in the most serious misconduct,” the Post found.
“In 1985, his license was reinstated under a host of conditions, including that he would never again perform surgery. But he failed to pay his licensing fees and never practiced in California again, records show.”