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The accused is one of the world’s most famous men.

The accuser – a woman who says she was groped and sexually assaulted – isn’t the only one making lurid allegations.

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The tabloids are in a tizzy.

This could be the story of Bill Cosby, circa 2016.

It’s not.

It’s the long-forgotten story of Bill Cosby’s daughter Erinn, circa 1989, when she accused famed boxer Mike Tyson of sexual assault. This is what happened when the roles, in a sense, were reversed. It was an episode when the comedian – who has now been accused of rape, sexual assault or sexual harassment by more than 50 women over four decades – played an active and complicated role in the accuser’s camp in a sexually charged he-said, she-said battle.

Bill Cosby has aggressively defended himself against sexual assault allegations, suing some of his accusers and seeking to damage their credibility as a criminal sexual assault trial looms in Pennsylvania. But when his own daughter, then 23, was the one making the accusations, he took a decidedly less confrontational approach and, in the process, gave a hint of his attitudes toward sexual misdeeds and their consequences.