Jurors Watch Video of ‘Cosby’ Set Visit

The jury in the extortion trial of a woman claiming to be Bill Cosby’s daughter on Monday watched a home videotape that showed the actor joking with the defendant the first time they met in 1991.

“Hello, all the people,” Cosby says to the camera while putting his arm around an adoring Autumn Jackson after a taping of “The Cosby Show.”

Cosby, dressed in a sweatshirt and baseball cap, mentions that Jackson is about to enter a Florida prep school, “where she’ll be an honor student, and if she doesn’t, watch this.” He then throws a fake punch at Jackson, causing her to burst out in laughter.

Jackson’s attorney, Robert Baum, played the 15-second clip as part of a brief defense featuring only one witness--Jackson’s grandmother, who took the video. Closing arguments were scheduled for today.

Jackson, 22, Jose Medina, 51, and Boris Sabas, 42, are charged with extortion, conspiracy and traveling across state lines to commit a crime in threatening to go public with Jackson’s claim that she is Cosby’s child unless Cosby gave them $40 million.

In testimony last week, Cosby admitted having sex with Jackson’s mother, Shawn Upshaw, in the 1970s and later paying her to keep quiet about their brief affair. He also acknowledged supporting Jackson in prep school and college, but he said he had told her he is not her father.