What You Need to Know About the Bill Cosby Sex Assault Allegations

— -- Bill Cosby's lawyer this weekend provided the only statement he said the comedian or anyone on his team is going to make about any past allegations of sexual assault.

John P. Schmitt, Cosby's lawyer, posted a notice on Sunday to the famed comedian's website, saying Cosby, 77, would not be addressing "decade-old, discredited allegations," even though some women have recently come forward for the first time publicly.

"The fact that they are being repeated does not make them true," Schmitt added. "There will be no further statement from Mr. Cosby or any of his representatives."

Another Woman Accuses Bill Cosby of Rape

Cosby did appear for an NPR interview posted Saturday morning to talk about African art, only to have the allegations brought up once again, to which Cosby didn't speak, just shaking his "head no," interviewer Scott Simon told his listeners.

Cosby, who has never been criminally charged in connection with the allegations and has repeatedly denied them in the past, was first publicly accused of assault 10 years ago in 2004. Here is a quick rundown of what has happened since then.

-- The initial accusations came to light after Andrea Constand -- a former Temple University employee, the Philadelphia school from which Cosby graduated -- said the comedian drugged and sexually assaulted her in 2004, People magazine reported in 2006.

Soon after Constand’s allegation, 13 other women stepped forward anonymously as witnesses with similar claims in support of Constand, People reported. Authorities in Pennsylvania did not charge Cosby because of "insufficient credible and admissible evidence," the magazine reported, but the actor settled out of court in a civil claim with Constand for an undisclosed amount in 2006. There was no admission of guilt.

-- Around the same time, Barbara Bowman was asked to come forward and testify against the comedian, according to an op-ed she wrote in the Washington Post last week. After he wasn't charged, however, Bowman said she moved on with her life, even though she never told her story in an official setting. Now, with the allegations resurfacing, she is speaking publicly.

"Cosby had drugged and raped me, too, I told them," Barbara Bowman wrote in her op-ed for the Washington Post. Bowman added that the alleged incident happened in 1985 when she was a 17-year-old actress.

"[He] brainwashed me into viewing him as a father figure, and then assaulted me multiple times," she wrote. "I have never received any money from Bill Cosby and have not asked for it," she continued in her piece, adding that the statute of limitations for any of her allegations has run out.

Bowman spoke to ABC News today and explained how even a lawyer didn't take her claims seriously when she brought them up in the past.

"When I went it the lawyer's office he laughed at me, he treated me as if I was delusional," she said. "Who's going to believe that? Bill Cosby? Dr. Huxtable?"

-- Another accuser stepping forward is Joan Tarshis, who spoke to BuzzFeed in a story posted online this morning about allegations dating back to the late-1960s.

Tarshis said the alleged assault happened in 1969 when she was 19 but was now coming forward "to support my sisters who were brave enough to come out before me.”

She never went to the police, because of Cosby's "power that he wielded,” she told BuzzFeed.

“It’s me versus the big Bill Cosby, a Hollywood powerhouse over this little 19 year old girl. “I really didn’t want to upset my parents," she told BuzzFeed.

Efforts for further comment from Cosby's lawyer or rep were not immediately returned to ABC News.