Bill Cosby’s Secret Plea Deal For A Slap On The Wrist

Bill Cosby is facing prison time after being convicted of sexual assault — because he refused any plea deal that would've marked the creepy comic as a "sex offender!"

As earlier reported by The National ENQUIRER, Cosby first sought and then rejected plea deals while going to trial over charged that he had drugged and sexually assaulted Andrea Constand in 2004. “Why take a deal?” Cosby told the New York Post's "Page Six" — adding: “Not when they want me to say that I’m a sex offender. I didn’t do what they said I did.”

Instead, court insiders revealed to The ENQUIRER, the once-beloved star had tried to cheat justice by insisting on a no-contest plea to “unwanted attention.” Former Boston prosecutor Wendy Murphy told The ENQUIRER that agreement would've been “a disgraceful deal where he can...skate free without serving a day of prison time or getting any probation.”

“That’s the kind of ‘slap on the hand’ punishment some stalker might get for repeatedly contacting a love interest,” added Murphy. Prosecutors, however, insisted that Cosby face criminal charges for drugging and sexual assaulting Andrea — after he'd been accused of similar shocking incidents by multiple women over the decades.

Cosby remains defiant after a jury found him guilty, however. He even compared himself in the Post to beloved freedom fighter Nelson Mandela, who was imprisoned for 27 years while fighting for human rights in South Africa. “I sat in that cell where he lived," said Cosby, “and I saw how he lived...if they send me to that place, then that’s what they will do, and I will have to go there.”