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Dozens Of Bill Cosby's Alleged Victims Appear On Cover Of New York Magazine

By Jan Carabeo

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- A powerful new cover for New York Magazine's July 27th - August 9th issue is gaining a lot of attention Monday, even crashing the magazines online edition overnight.

The project was six months in the making. The cover shows 35 women who say Bill Cosby sexually assaulted them.

Inside the pages are the faces of alleged assault and their stories which span decades. Featured are 35 of the 46 women who say Bill Cosby sexually assaulted them.

The New York Magazine cover quickly crashed the website overnight.

The feature is entitled, "Cosby: The Women, An Unwelcome Sisterhood."

One by one they tell their stories. New York Magazine posted to its Twitter Beverly Johnson's account.

She said in the piece, "The part of it I wasn't prepared for was the onslaught of women that have been assaulted and them telling me their story because I told them mine."

Barbara Bowman also shared her experience. She says she was assaulted by Cosby over the course of years.

"I felt like a prisoner; I felt like I was kidnapped and hiding in plain sight. I could've walked down any street in Manhattan at any time and said 'I'm being raped and drugged by Bill Cosby,' but who the hell would've believed me? Nobody, nobody."

Tamara Green, allegedly raped in the 1970's, talks about a culture that wouldn't listen.

"In 2005, Bill Cosby still had control of the media. In 2015, we have social media. We can't be disappeared. It's online and can never go away."

The cover comes after the release of documents from a 2005 sexual assault lawsuit. In them, Cosby admitted giving sedatives to women he wanted to have sex with, but Cosby has always denied wrong doing and has never been criminally charged.

Cosby's attorneys insist that drugs were only introduced into consensual sexual relationships.

At last check the website is still down, but the magazine says it is working to fix the problem.

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