WHAT AN ASSHOLE…I loved his records growing up and after meeting him in person at the Trident I’ve despised him ever since. He was an arrogant prick who preyed on the women there. Elsewhere on this site one of the waitresses calls him out for his bs….
On February 10, 2011, Paul Liberatore reported in the Marin Independent Journal newspaper that:
In 1965, just before he was cast in “I Spy,” becoming the first African-American to co-star in a dramatic television series, Bill Cosby lived on a houseboat in Sausalito with his young bride, Camille, while he worked at San Francisco’s hungry i.
The 73-year-old entertainment industry icon, educator, and activist returns to Marin on Feb. 12 for two shows at the Marin Center in San Rafael.
During a recent telephone interview, Cosby, the winner of nine Grammys, six Emmys, and two Golden Globe awards, reminisced about his idyllic time in Marin.
During the day, he’d often hang out at the Trident, a legendary fern bar, and restaurant on the Sausalito waterfront.
“I remember afternoons at the Trident, enjoying the jazz performers,” he recalled, mentioning “the little Italian fellow with the ‘Peanuts’ thing,” referring to Marin pianist Vince Guaraldi.
The ’60s were the nascent days of the counterculture when educated young people were dropping out, going back to the land, experimenting with alternative lifestyles.
And sadly Bill would eventually be exposed for the predator he was…American comedian Bill Cosby has been the subject of publicized sexual assault allegations and was convicted of aggravated indecent assault in 2018. He has been accused by numerous women of rape, drug-facilitated sexual assault, sexual battery, child sexual abuse, and sexual misconduct.
Use to be a Cosby fan until I met him at the Trident. The manager asked me to tell Bill to take his cigar outside on the deck and he replied, “Fck You!” Full of himself back then, and now a world class asshole.