Bill Cosby's 'mistress' DEFENDS him from dozens of rape allegations

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Teresa Taylor claims she had three-year affair with Cosby from 1979-1982
Claimed they met when he was 42 and she was 19 in Hollywood
Defended 77-year-old, who has been repeatedly accused of rape
Taylor 'doesn't believe' the more than 40 women who've accused him
Newly-public court records show Cosby admitted drugging women for sex

Published: 18:53 EST, 10 July 2015 | Updated: 02:04 EST, 11 July 2015

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Bill Cosby's alleged mistress has come forward to defend him for a slew of rape allegations, claiming she doesn't believe his accusers.

Teresa Taylor defended the shamed 77-year-old comedian, claiming he was always 'respectful' to her while they had a three-year affair in the early 1980s.

Taylor, who said she was 19 when the affair began, also dismissed claims that Cosby surreptitiously drugged his victims.

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'Mistress': Teresa Taylor, pictured left in 1980, claims that she had a three-year affair with Bill Cosby from 1979-1982. He is pictured, right, around the time of the affair

Speaking to Fox411, she said he 'didn’t need to do anything to get women to sleep with him' because he was rich and famous.

Her attempts to protect Cosby's tattered reputation came not long after court records were unsealed showing that he admitted drugging women for sex in the 1970s.

Cosby, answering an accusation made in 2005, told an attorney for one of his accusers that he bought the Quaaludes party drug for young women he had designs on.

In the FOX interview, Taylor said she had never gone public about having sex with Cosby before, but felt she 'needed' to share her experience after hearing the allegations.

'He was powerful': Taylor said Cosby, seen here in 1980, would have had no shortage of female attention

Referring to his accusers - who include actresses, Playboy housemates, supermodel Janice Dickinson and girls who were as young as 15 at the time -Taylor said: 'Do I believe half of the women? No.'

'I respect the women and I can’t dispute it but I don’t believe a lot of it.'

'He didn’t need to do anything to get women to sleep with him. Women are attracted to men with money and power. At the time he was one of the most powerful men in Hollywood.'

Taylor, now 56, added that she he 'respectful' to her, never drugged, gave her money and was 'good to my family'.

According to Taylor, she and Cosby started sleeping together after he met her backstage at The Tonight Show in 1979, when she was an aspiring actress.

He would have been 42 at the time.

She claims they carried on the affair for three years then split up amicably - and that Cosby's wife Camile knew about it.

Cosby has avoided commenting on the scores of allegations against him, though his lawyers have denied individual accounts.

Earlier this week, a judge unsealed a civil case accusing Cosby of tricking a former Temple University employee, Andrea Constand, into taking drugs before he sexually assaulted her.

The case was settled for an undisclosed sum in 2006 but files from it were made public, despite lawyers for Cosby claiming the revelations would embarrass the star.

'Respectful to me': Taylor, pictured left last year, said that Cosby, right in May this year, said that the star was always nice to her and that she doesn't believe 'half of' his accusers

The documentation recounts a conversation with a lawyer for Constand.

He was asked: 'When you got the Quaaludes, was it in your mind that you were going to use these Quaaludes for young women that you wanted to have sex with?'

He replied: 'Yes'. His lawyers cut off further lines of questioning.

Lawyer Glorida Allred, who is representing some of Cosby's alleged victims, said that the fact Cosby had consensual sex with one women has no bearing on the rape claims.

She said: 'We have never claimed that Cosby gave drugs to every woman with whom he had a consensual sexual relationship... What is important, however, is that scores of women have accused him of drugging them without their knowledge and consent in order to sexually assault or rape them.'

Cosby admitted obtaining quaaludes to give to women in 2005