Bill Cosby

On January 16, 1997, Cosby received word that a 22-year-old Las Vegas woman named Autumn Jackson was claiming to be his illegitimate daughter. Jackson was threatening to sell her story to the tabloids unless Cosby paid her $40 million. For Cosby, the timing couldn’t have been worse. He received this news on the exact same day he’d learned that his 27-year-old son, Ennis, had been murdered during an attempted robbery.

Nevertheless, Jackson met Cosby’s attorneys two days later. They negotiated a payoff of $24 million and signed an agreement. She was not aware that Cosby had contacted the authorities and that this so-called payoff arrangement was an FBI sting operation.

Jackson was arrested and charged with extortion. When the story went public, Cosby did confess to having a secret affair with Jackson’s mother during the 1970s. He’d even sent the family more than $100,000 over the years to keep them quiet. However, Cosby did not believe that Jackson was his biological daughter. When asked to take a paternity test to find out if Cosby was her father, Jackson refused. Jackson’s claims were never proven. She was convicted of extortion and sentenced to 26 months in prison.

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