Jailed US actor and comedian, Bill Cosby is embroiled in a huge debt of over N1bn ($2.75m) in legal fees.
According to Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, a California law firm which represented him from 2015 to 2016 following allegations of sexual misconduct, the jailed comedian is yet to pay $2.75 million in legal bills that a judge ordered him to pay last year.
This was revealed by the law firm in Manhattan Supreme Court papers according to Fox News.
The firm noted that Cosby‘s balance has increased to $2.98 million as result of the 10% interest the bill accrued.
Cosby had attempted to challenge a California arbitration award that upheld nearly $7 million of a $9 million bill submitted by Quinn last year, but a judge ordered him to pay the remaining $2.75 million unpaid balance.
At that time, $4.3 million of the bill had already been paid by both Cosby and his insurer, AIG, according to CNN.
The legendary comedian is currently serving three to 10 years in prison for a 2018 sexual assault conviction. But in a stunning decision that could test the legal framework of #MeToo cases, the comedian has since won the right to fight the conviction in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
The 82-year-old has been imprisoned in suburban Philadelphia for nearly two years after a jury convicted him of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand at his home in 2004.
Last month, a judge ruled that Cosby can appeal his 2018 sexual assault conviction.
