In this chapter, I have gathered all the accounts of witnesses to Bill Cosby and Paige Young’s relationship. Witnesses who either saw these events with their own eyes or Paige told them directly.

Tamara Green’s account was published in the Dailymail.com Dec. of 2014. She is quoted at length below. (This is the article that started my investigation into the life of, and people, times and events surrounding Paige Young.)

Article by Ryan Parry.

“One of Cosby’s victims, attorney Tamara Green, knew Paige from modeling circles and recalls seeing the pair together.

Tamara Green recalls that she ran into Paige while in El Paso, Texas around 1970.

‘I was there seeing my boyfriend. Paige called me and said Bill was on tour. She was traveling with him.

‘They picked me up at my friend’s house and I remember sitting in the back of a stretched black limo with them both and Bill wanted to score some drugs.

I called around and found a bag of pot some place on the edge of El Paso.’

‘Paige was in to her drugs and Bill wanted to get her some, she was along on the trip like his pet dog, she was a very subdued person, more like moon on the water in terms of her personality.

‘They were clearly well acquainted with each other, it didn’t seem like a new thing. As far as I know they dated for a while.

‘Paige always seemed in a stupor, a daze, like he was controlling her. All I remember is that their relationship wasn’t healthy.’ 

‘Paige was a young thing who was very much taken advantage of by the men of Hollywood, she was intelligent and talented, it’s a tragedy what happened to her.'”

Cosby – whom has recently become the subject of at least 17 sex attack allegations dating back to the late 60s and 70s – was obsessed with Young who had caught his eye during his many visits to the glitzy Playboy Club where she worked on Hollywood’s Sunset strip.

Cosby was also a regular at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles as he and Hugh Hefner began working on many projects together.”

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A few years ago, I posted the image you see below, on a private Malibu Facebook group.

The members either lived or grew up in Malibu, generally from the 1940s-1990s.

They all seem to have had several experiences of celebrity encounters in the neighborhoods or beaches of Malibu. (People who worked at Malibu watering holes shared hair-raising stories about residents and heavy drinkers Jan-Michael Vincent and Gary Busey.)

I also notice that many members are from long-established families. Their parents, grandparents, or even great-grandparents moved to Malibu when it was undeveloped, located “away from it all.”

That’s how the movie stars felt when they settled in the Malibu Colony.

Google AI says:

Movie stars began living at the Malibu Colony in the mid-to-late 1920s, with development starting in earnest in 1926 when real estate developer Harold J. Ferguson began leasing parcels from May Rindge to build cottages for Hollywood’s elite. By 1929, the area was known as the Malibu Movie Colony and was attracting a number of famous actors, including Gloria Swanson, Dolores del Rio, and Bing Crosby. GOOGLE AI.

In those eras, Malibu was certainly not as internationally famous as it later became with Gidget, Beach Party movies, The Beach Boys and Malibu Barbie.

I asked the group if anyone remembered Paige Young from 1965-70, the estimated years she lived there.

Of course, many of the Facebook readers recognized the Malibu tile, but no one recognized Paige.

Peter Gowland was the Playboy photographer who produced Paige’s centerfold issue.

He used many locations in and around Malibu for his pinup shoots which was close to his own area of town by Will Rogers Beach and Rustic Canyon.

Until..

finally, one person who contacted me: Henry G.

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Henry said he knew Paige from the Malibu art scene and used to hike with her, often in Topanga Canyon. Henry remembers Paige living in a cabin in Topanga. He indicated they were “just friends” and hiking buddies.

Again, it happened around 1970.

Henry told me about one time he was with Paige at her home in Topanga Canyon, when she began to “break down and cry.”

Henry asked her what was wrong and she told him that Bill Cosby had raped her.

Henry worked in the television industry and said to Paige that he “always thought Bill was a nice guy.” Paige replied that he is not nice. She told Henry that Cosby is “a piece of shit,” “scum,” “a bastard” and “don’t even get me started.”

I then asked Henry if Paige indicated that Cosby had drugged her before the rape. Henry said he remembers Paige saying she “came to” and “realized she had been raped.”

Henry said at one point in this conversation Paige “tilted her head in the direction of her dresser. I looked over and saw a check made out to Paige signed by Bill Cosby, it had several zeroes.”

In episode 8 of the 2020 documentary Secrets of Playboy, I am shown working in my home office. My voice over recounts the story Henry told me about the Bill Cosby rape.

I had sent some audio comments to the producers of Secrets of Playboy. It was too late to do another in-person interview after I spoke to Henry.

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In the episode my comment was edited with a couple of different audios. It’s not completely clear what I am saying.

This may be due to legal issues.

I do hope the story is now comprehensible as to what I was told by Henry.

At some point, Henry knew Paige did not have much money. He offered her a place to stay in one of his rental rooms.

This was in Henry’s house located in the Trancas Beach area of Malibu. It was off of Broad Beach Rd., across from the Trancas Market. “Long since torn down.”

Paige stayed at Henry’s house for “only about 3 months” he said.

She had been complaining that the “isolation” in the area was making her “antsy” and “unable to paint.” (this is odd coming from a self-confessed Nature Lover.)

Paige’s cabin was at the southern end of Topanga Canyon Rd., close to the PCH and beach. She frequented Fernwood Market said her friend Veronica. Fernwood Market is the southern end of Topanga Canyon Rd. Paige moved further west along the coast to Trancas Beach, but she found this area too isolated from LA. (Apologies if the map doesn’t transfer.) Paige is featured in her Playboy issue as being a painter living on Malibu Beach with her dog Joshua. Truthful, but more precisely she was probably living closest to Topanga Beach part of Malibu, and her cabin was north of Hwy. 1

Henry also told me that he didn’t see Paige very much the last 2 or so years of her life. She had become “reclusive.” (Maybe, but she lived in Westwood by this time and another Malibu friend Veronica told me it was more difficult to get together with Paige after she moved.)

I asked Henry if Paige ever mentioned Hugh Hefner, or her Playboy experience. He said she didn’t but that he himself had a Playboy experience of his own.

One evening he found himself at the Playboy mansion. Because his companions were “beautiful, young Malibu girls, Henry and a few other males were allowed entrance the mansion.

Henry said at one moment during that evening he and Hefner locked eyes for a few seconds, enough time to exchange a mutual smile.

The next incident was told to me by Paige’s boyfriend and fellow artist Richard Sample.

I believe this happened before 1970. Paige and Richard were not seeing each so much other by then.

This story also appears in chapter Richard Sample Interview #1.

Richard Sample told me he would occasionally pick up Paige at the Playboy Club, after her shift.

She worked at the club “for about 3 months,” he thinks.

Bill Cosby was a frequent visitor and performer at many Playboy Clubs and a close friend of Hugh Hefner during this era.

“Bill Cosby was always trying to put the make on Paige. She didn’t want anything to do with him, she ignored him.”

Richard Sample

One time, when Richard was waiting in his car for Paige to get off her shift at the Playboy club one evening, he said he was close enough to

witness Bill Cosby acting angry at Paige.

Apparently, she had rebuffed yet another one of his advances.

Richard Sample gives an account of Paige at the Playboy Club in the 2014 Daily Mail article.

Richard said during our interview that Paige “went downhill when she started (her association) with the Hefner gang.”

Bill Cosby’s name was found in Paige’s phone book after she died, which I had access to part of.

Recently, I found even more proof.

I spoke with Darlene J. Valentine. She knew Paige as a casual acquaintance from 1970 until her death in 1974.

Mrs. Valentine mentioned that her ex-husband, artist DeWain Valentine, told her that Paige was “a mistress of Bill Cosby.” DeWain and Paige were dating at the time that she was also Cosby’s mistress. And DeWain was dating a lot of women too.

We know Cosby during this era was already dating while married, pursuing, grooming, drugging and raping women.

Some background on the accusations against Cosby.

Bill Cosby was first publicly accused of a drugging and rape in 2004/2005 by Andrea Constand.

Constand and Cosby met through her job at Temple University. They formed a friendship there. Cosby had been a supporter of the university and on the board of trustees for decades. Constand was director of operations for Temple’s women’s basketball team.

Andrea considered Cosby a mentor, and was not prepared for what occurred at Cosby’s family home in Connecticut.

Since Tamara Green, who knew Paige, has long said she was drugged and assaulted by Cosby testified about this behind closed doors in support of Andrea Constand in 2005.

She did an interview about it with Matt Lauer of the Today Show in 2005. (The interview seems to be gone from youtube.)

Tamara was one of a dozen “Jane Does” who testified on behalf of Constand in her suit. These women claimed that Bill Cosby drugged and raped them too. Therefore, Constand’s claims could be corroborated.

Cosby and Constand settled out of court.

Life went back to normal for Bill Cosby.

The sexual assault suit and discussion was quickly forgotten in the media and therefore forgotten amongst the general public.

Soon to recap the 2014 suit Constand filed against Cosby.

Then of course the Hannibal Burress video went viral in 2014 and the rest is history. (Please see my Start here/about page.)

https://paigeyoung1968.com/

Tamara Green’s reputation and character were disparaged by Cosby’s legal team in both 2005 and 2014/15.

I was lucky to find “Veronica,” friend of Paige’s from Malibu.

She told me via email that Paige was a financially struggling oil painter and Paige told her that Bill Cosby was acting as her “art patron.” He was giving some kind of financial assistance to Paige, possibly including rent on the Topanga Canyon cabin.

Veronica wrote that she thought nothing of it, only that it was very nice of Bill Cosby to help Paige, allowing her to pursue her goal of painting for a living.

Bill Cosby’s name was found in Paige’s phone book after her suicide in 1974, so they definitely knew each other.

Paige frequently shopped at the Fernwood Market, Veronica told me, which is located on the southern part of Topanga Canyon Rd. “Paige never took more than she could carry.”

UPDATE:   I interviewed Darlene Valentine, ex-wife of prominent LA artist  DeWain Valentine.

Mrs. Valentine was acquainted with Paige Young, Richard Sample and his father Charlie Sample.

She was told by her ex DeWain, that Paige was a “mistress” of Bill Cosby. DeWain himself dated Paige during this time she was Cosby’s mistress.

Darlene said she and Paige were friendly; Paige invited her to an all-female tea party at Paige’s house. (Please see related chapter.)

Darlene also told me she knew that Bill Cosby purchased pot from a friend of hers in Venice Beach.  So she was long aware that Cosby was not as “squeaky clean,” as he appeared on TV.