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Cosby feels Mile High heat from ex-models

Comedian Bill Cosby is getting some Colorado heat in People magazine this week. Two former Denver models say he drugged and sexually molested them in the 1980s when they were working for Jo Farrell's JF Images modeling agency. Farrell says this is all news to her - unsettling news that she finds "mind-boggling."

The allegations came out after Cosby settled out of court last month a civil lawsuit charging him with sexual assault and drugging a woman in Philadelphia in 2004.

The trial had 13 witnesses lined up, listed as "Jane Does," who stood ready to testify of similar experiences with the comic.

Barbara Bowman and Beth Ferrier were two of the 13, and both were interviewed and pictured in the People story. The two were represented by JF Images when they were introduced to Cosby in the '80s. (Neither woman had come forward before, and they do not stand to profit from the allegations as the statute of limitations has expired, according to People.)

Bowman, who is married and now lives in a Phoenix suburb, was 18 when she says Farrell arranged to have her meet Cosby at a Denver nightclub, Turn of the Century. People magazine says Farrell then arranged for Bowman to move to New York, where her professional relationship with Cosby continued. Bowman says that in a Reno hotel in 1986, "(Cosby) took my hand and his hand over it, and he masturbated with his hand over my hand."

She goes on to say that soon she was in a New York townhouse with Cosby, who gave her a glass of red wine. "The next thing I know," she is quoted, "I'm sick and nauseous and I'm delusional and I'm limp and ... I can't think straight. ... And I just came to, and I'm wearing a (men's) T-shirt that wasn't mine, and he was in a white robe."

Ferrier, a single mom who still lives in Denver, says she was introduced to Cosby by Farrell in the mid-'80s. She tells People that Cosby was her mentor, a "father figure" to her, when she drank some cappuccino in his Denver dressing room and blacked out.