Paige Young and Bill Cosby 1970 (and before). El Paso, Malibu, Sunset Strip. 2/10/2023

Tamara Green’s account of her interaction with Paige Young and Bill Cosby, was published in the Dailymail.com December of 2014, quoted below.

Tamara Green during modeling days, late 1960s. Photo found on Dailymail.com

“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 and learned she was dating Bill Cosby.

‘I was there seeing my boyfriend and Paige called me and said Bill was on tour and she was travelling 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.

El Paso Times Feb. 22, 1970

‘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.” (reporting by Ryan Parry)

The next account is from a man named Henry who contacted me to say he knew Paige Young from Malibu and used to hike with her frequently in Topanga Canyon.

Again, it happened around 1970.

Henry told me about one time he was with Paige at her home and 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 that he thought always Bill “was a nice guy,” to which Paige replied that he is not nice, he 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 prior to the rape. Henry said he remembers Paige saying how she “came to” and “realized she had been raped.”

Henry said that 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,” and that “it had several zeroes.”

Later in the year, Henry let Paige stay in one of the rooms he was renting out in his house in the Trancas Beach area of Malibu. It was off of Broad Beach Rd. across from the Trancas market.

Paige stayed at Henry’s house for only about 3 months. She had been complaining that the “isolation” in the area was making her “antsy” and “unable to paint.”

Henry also told me that he didn’t see Paige very much the last 2-3 years of her life as she had become “reclusive.”

After Paige left Henry’s house on Trancas beach, is likely the time she moved to her final home, a carriage house in Westwood, by UCLA and the Playboy Mansion.

The next incident was told to me by Richard Sample. It must have happened before 1970, because Paige and Richard were not really seeing each other by then. I have also included this account in Richard Sample Interview #1.

Richard said he would occasionally pick up Paige at the Sunset Strip Playboy Club, after her shift. She worked at the club “for about 3 months,” he said.

Vintage Postcard showing the Playboy building on the right. It had the club, offices and a suite on the top floor for Hugh Hefner while he was visiting LA.
Back of postcard. This Playboy Club was opened on New Year’s Eve 1964

Bill Cosby was a frequent visitor and performer at many Playboy Clubs. He was a close friend to Hugh Hefner.

“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

Richard then told me about one time when he was picking up Paige from the club after her shift.

He was waiting for her and witnessed Bill Cosby get angry at Paige after she rebuffed another one of his advances.