13 Facts About Camille Cosby

Camille Olivia Cosby is an American television producer, philanthropist, and the wife of comedian Bill Cosby.

The character of Clair Huxtable from The Cosby Show was based on her.

Camille Cosby has avoided public life, but has been active in her husband's businesses as a manager, as well as involving herself in academia and writing.

Camille Cosby's father was a chemist at Walter Reed General Hospital and her mother worked at a nursery.

Camille Cosby acted as manager for her husband and has been depicted as a "shrewd businesswoman".

The character of Clair Huxtable from The Camille Cosby Show was based on her.

In 1994, Camille Cosby released Television's Imageable Influences: The Self-Perception of Young African-Americans, a book that "dramatically charts the damaging impact of derogatory images of African Americans produced in our media establishments".

In 2001, Camille Cosby was a co-founder of the National Visionary Leadership Project, a group whose mission is to "develop the next generation of leaders by recording, preserving, and sharing the stories of extraordinary African American elders".

On December 9,2015, attorney Joseph Cammarata subpoenaed Camille Cosby to give a deposition in a defamation lawsuit filed against her husband by seven women.

Camille Cosby called for a criminal investigation into the Pennsylvania prosecutor behind the conviction and argued that her husband had a "binding agreement" with Bruce Castor that he would not be charged in the case.

In 1982, Cosby joined the Reverend Jesse Jackson and his wife Jacqueline Jackson, congressman William H Gray III, and historian Mary Frances Berry to meet Pope John Paul II at the Vatican, where the group was pictured with the pope.

Camille Cosby has been the subject of multiple portraits by artist Simmie Knox.

In December 1981, Camille Cosby purchased Henry Ossawa Tanner's The Thankful Poor at Sotheby's, and gave to her husband for a Christmas gift.