Is Cos a 'pretty decent reader' of sexual situations?

BILL COSBY might be able to read women, as he testified in 2006, but Andrea Constand's attorneys say he couldn't read her.

In court filings yesterday in Constand's case against the comedian in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia, attorneys Dolores Troiani and Bebe Kivitz revealed that Constand is a lesbian.

"Despite [Cosby's] talent for interpreting female reactions to him, he did not realize [Constand] was gay until police told him," the lawyers wrote in a memorandum.

Constand, formerly the director of operations for Temple University's women's basketball team, accused Cosby of molesting her at his Cheltenham mansion in January 2004. She was visiting Cosby to receive career advice, according to court documents.

Questions about Cosby's ability to accurately interpret women's sexual cues came up in his 2006 deposition in a civil case related to the alleged assault, which later was settled.

"I think that I'm a pretty decent reader of people and their emotions in these romantic sexual things, whatever you want to call them," Cosby said in the 2006 deposition.

Criminal charges have never been brought against Cosby from any of his accusers, who number in the dozens.

But Cosby admitted in court filings to offering Quaaludes to women with whom he wanted to have sex.

Cosby allegedly gave Constand three half-pills of Benadryl. His attorneys have said that the women who took Quaaludes knew what they were taking.

The revelation of Constand's sexual orientation comes a week after Cosby's newest attorney, Monique Pressley, began appearing on his behalf, on "Good Morning America" and other TV shows.

"All of these women, more than two dozen women, all of these women are liars?" the ABC program's host, George Stephanopoulos, asked Pressley last week.

"I'm not making conclusions - and you know that I can't - about whether someone is lying or not," Pressley said. "What I am saying is that Mr. Cosby has denied the accusations that have been lodged thus far. The sheer volume or number of people who are saying a particular thing does not make it true."

Patrick O'Connor, the lead attorney for Cosby in the Constand case, couldn't be reached for comment last night. He's the chairman of Temple's Board of Trustees. Cosby resigned from the board in December after 32 years.

After receiving requests from the Associated Press, federal judge Eduardo Robreno agreed July 6 to release excerpts of Cosby's deposition in the case. In the ensuing weeks, the two parties' legal teams have traded blows in court filings.

Cosby's team initially sought to quash the release of the full deposition from a court-reporting service, arguing that it violated a confidentiality agreement made as part of the settlement of the civil suit.

They also said in court filings that Constand's tweets and her quotes in a Toronto Sun article violated the agreement.

On July 8, Constand tweeted "YES!" and then "SIR!" in a subsequent tweet, the same day the Sun story ran and two days after the deposition excerpt was released.

"Respectfully, I don't talk about it and I don't plan on talking about it," Constand told the Toronto paper about the allegations against Cosby. "It's a force that is unfolding all on its own."

In the documents filed yesterday, attorneys contend that Constand had been tweeting about gay rights.

Pressley has said on national TV and to the New York Times that the release of the deposition is good for Cosby because all it reveals is that he had consensual sex.

- The Associated Press contributed to this report.