COMIC'S COS FOR CONCERN

’70s teen’s Playboy sex-suit trial on tap

Bill Cosby is facing another trial beginning this week in Los Angeles over accusations that he sexually assaulted a teenage girl in the 1970s.

Jury selection in the civil case is likely to start Tuesday in LA Superior Court, and could last up to a week, a rep for Cosby told The Post on Sunday.

The fallen funnyman, who is 85 and legally blind, will not be present in court when the panel that will decide his fate is chosen, the spokesman said.

Opening arguments are expected to begin June 1, and the trial itself is expected to last around seven days.

The legal battle comes less than a year after Cosby was freed from prison when Pennsylvania’s highest court overturned his sexual-assault conviction in the drugging and molesting of Andrea Constand in 2004.

In the LA case, Cosby stands accused of sexually assaulting Judy Huth at the Playboy mansion in 1975, when she was 16 or 17 years old. Huth had previously said the alleged incident happened in 1974, and Cosby’s team tried and failed to get the suit dismissed after she revised the timeline of her allegations.

While Judge David Karlan wouldn’t throw out the claim, he ruled last week that Cosby’s attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, could again depose Huth, and her friend, Donna Samuelson.

Samuelson was deposed Friday and Huth will be deposed Monday evening, Andrew Wyatt, spokesperson and crisis communicator for Cosby, told The Post.

“This is a trial by assassination of Mr. Cosby’s legacy and livelihood,” the spokesman said.

Huth’s suit, which was filed in 2014 but repeatedly delayed, claims she and Samuelson met Cosby while he was filming a movie at Lacy Park in LA.

‘Pretend to be older’

The women, minors at the time, said Cosby asked them how old they were during that initial meeting, and a few days later invited them to the mansion, warning them to pretend to be 19 if asked about their age.

Huth claims Cosby molested her at the mansion by “putting his hand down her pants, and then taking her hand in his hand and performing a sex act on himself without consent,” according to the original complaint.

“We deny, obviously, that Mr. Cosby did anything at the Playboy mansion that would constitute a sexual battery,” Bonjean said last week.

John West, one of Huth’s attorneys, argued his client’s claims fall within the statute of limitations under the 2019 California law that allows victims to sue over decades-old child sex assaults.

Cosby spent two years in prison before his conviction in the Constand case was thrown out because a deposition he gave in a civil suit was introduced in evidence after a prosecutor promised him it would not be.