Disney removes Bill Cosby bronze from Hollywood Studios theme park

Walt Disney World officials say a bronze statue of Bill Cosby is being removed from the Hollywood Studios theme park.

Local news outlets report the statue was being removed after the park closed Tuesday night. Disney offered no other comment.

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The removal of the statute at Disney's Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame Plaza came after court documents unsealed on Monday revealed that Cosby testified in 2005 that he'd obtained Quaaludes with the intent of giving them to women he wanted to have sex with.

The 77-year-old Cosby hasn't commented on the documents, which were secret for a decade until Monday, after The Associated Press went to court to get them released.

Friends reserving judgment

While many of Cosby's accusers feel vindicated by his decade-old admission, some of his Hollywood friends are reserving judgment, saying the testimony doesn't prove he committed a crime.

On ABC's The View, Whoopi Goldberg said Tuesday that she was still reserving judgment on Cosby, reiterating the stance she has held since the allegations against him resurfaced last winter.

"You are still innocent until proven guilty," Goldberg said. Cosby, she said, "has not been proven a rapist."

The View co-host Raven-Symoné, who starred on Cosby's 1980s sitcom as a child, said she doesn't like talking about the allegations because he helped launch her career.

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"You need the proof and then I'll be able to give my judgment here or there," she said.

The Bounce TV network, which is geared toward black viewers, said it is pulling its reruns of the 1990s-era CBS sitcom Cosby from the air immediately.

And Philadelphia singer Jill Scott, who supported Cosby through the barrage of recent allegations, changed her tune. "I'm not sorry for standing by my mentor. I'm sorry the accusations RTrue," Scott tweeted.

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Cosby has never been charged with a crime, and the statute of limitations on most of the accusations has expired.