Report: Disney World to Remove Bill Cosby Bust From Theme Park
According to the Orlando Sentinel, a Walt Disney World spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday that a bronze bust of Bill Cosby would be removed from the resort’s Hollywood Studios theme park after closing today.
The company offered the paper no further comment on the decision, which comes just one day after unsealed court documents revealed Cosby to have admitted to obtaining drugs to “use” on women “he wanted to have sex with.”
A Change.org petition created several months ago urged Disney World to remove the bust, which stands in the park’s Hall of Fame Plaza alongside other Television Academy Hall of Fame inductees such as Lucille Ball and Walt Disney.
Citing “an individual with knowledge of the removal,” however, The Wrap reports that the decision was made internally and not due to the petition.
