Sunni Welles, TV actress and Bill Cosby accuser, dead at 72

During her career in the entertainment industry, Sunni Welles became friends with Elvis Presley while she toured the world as a singer and dancer.

During her career in the entertainment industry, Welles became friends with Elvis Presley while she toured the world as a singer and dancer. She later married singer and actor John O’Banion, and they had one son before divorcing a few years later. In 2015, Welles accused Cosby of sexually assaulting her when she was 17 after meeting him on the set of the TV series "I Spy" in the mid-1960s. In a statement released in March 2015 through her lawyer, Gloria Allred, Welles claimed that Cosby took her to a jazz club, where she ordered a Coke. Welles said that she didn’t remember leaving the club, and she later woke up in an apartment naked and alone, feeling as if she had had sex. After calling Cosby and asking what happened, Welles claimed he said she drank champagne and he took her to the apartment to sleep it off. Afterward, she alleged Cosby took her to the Magic Castle club, where she drank a Coke and woke up naked and alone in the same apartment. Welles claimed she never heard from him again.