BREAKING NEWS: Bill Cosby accused of sexually assaulting TWELVE Playboy bunnies - as club hostess claims comic drugged and raped her

• Former Playboy bunny P.J. Masten says star attacked her in 1970s
• She claims many more bunnies claim to have suffered same experiences with him
• She says she was prompted to speak out after Judy Huth claims Cosby raped her at Playboy mansion when she was 15 in 1974 
• Two other former Playboy bunnies, Victoria Valentino and Carla Ferrigno, say Cosby also attacked them

By SARA NATHAN FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 18:32 GMT, 5 December 2014 | UPDATED: 22:37 GMT, 5 December 2014

A former Playboy bunny today accuses embattled comedy legend Bill Cosby of drugging and raping her - and sexually assaulting 12 other Playboy bunnies.

P.J. Masten, from New Jersey, said she was in her 20s and working at Playboy's famous Chicago club in the late 1970s when she met the star, who then invited her out to lunch.

A dinner date soon followed, at the end of which, she claims she woke up naked and bruised in a bed after being drugged and attacked by Cosby, adding: 'There were bruise marks all over me. I knew I was raped.'

And in shocking claims, Masten - real name Patricia - told CNN: '(There are) 12 former bunnies that I know of that are ashamed to come forward, frightened to come forward, married with families (and) don't want to come forward. But they were also drugged and raped by Bill Cosby.'

P.J. Masten donned the famous bunny ears, tight-fitting corset and fluffy tail for her job as a waitress at the Chicago club.

She started working for Playboy in 1972 in her home state of New Jersey and went on to work in LA and Chicago for the organisation.

She said she first met Cosby in Chicago and he invited her to lunch, telling CNN how he jumped behind the counter to make hot dogs, saying: 'Everybody was in there laughing. It was a lot of fun.'

The next day, she said the comic called and asked her to dinner and told her to meet her at the Whitehall Hotel.

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