Sunni Welles, Actress, Singer and Bill Cosby Accuser, Dies at 72

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She said she was victimized by the comedian in 1965 when she was 17.

Welles died Monday at a hospice care center in Downey, California, after a brief battle with lung cancer, her son, Shaun O’Banion, announced.

Welles was born Nancy Kay Rihl in Caracas, Venezuela. Her father, Eugene, was an executive with Pan Am Airways, and her mother, Marykay, was a television story editor. The family came to the U.S. when she was 3.and took her stage name as a teenager from her nickname “Sunshine” and the surname of screenwriter Halsted Welles , who was a surrogate father.

 

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shaun_obanion This shouldn't happen to young aspiring artists (esp women) their lives are forever changed. What might have been? The world a richer place...

Charislovess Yeah right

Bill Cosby accuser? She'd have to drug me, not the other way around.

RIP Sunni 😔

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