Sunni Welles, an entertainer and artist who blamed Bill Cosby for rape, died on Monday in Downey, California, subsequent to engaging cellular breakdown in the lungs, as Variety reports. She was 72. Her child Shaun O'Banion affirmed the news through Twitter. 

Welles started her acting profession at 10 years old and showed up in mainstream TV shows like Leave It to Beaver and My Three Sons. Conceived Nancy Kay Rihl in Caracas, Venezuela, she embraced her stage name when she was a high schooler. 

Her diversion profession crossed music and moving as well as acting, and she visited the world performing. In 1979, she featured as the vital artist with the Folies Bergère melodic theatrical presentation in Las Vegas. 

In 2015, Welles claimed Cosby physically attacked her when she was 17 years of age in the Sixties. As indicated by a March 2015 explanation she made by means of her legal advisor Gloria Allred, Welles asserted she met Cosby while on set for I Spy and that he later welcomed her to a jazz club, where she requested a Coca-Cola. Welles expressed that she didn't recall leaving the club or driving anyplace.

What she recalled next was "awakening exposed in a bed alone in an inadequately outfitted loft" and feeling as though she had intercourse.

She affirmed that get-togethers called Cosby to ask what happened, he said that she had plastered champagne and he took her to the loft to work it off. At that point, she said she trusted him. 

In a subsequent occurrence, she went to supper with Cosby at the Magic Castle where she drank a Coke again and she "stirred in a similar room alone and exposed." She said they never talked again.

Welles was among many ladies who blamed Cosby for medicating and physically attacking them. In 2018, Cosby was sentenced to rape. His conviction was upset in June 2021 by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. 

In the last part of the Nineties, after Welles resigned from acting, she played as a jazz soloist in her band Shiver in California. As per IMDB, she likewise showed up in the credits as a creative partner for Quincy M.E. in 1983 and showed up in O'Banion's 2004 short, Lift.