Upshaw also disclosed the affair with Cosby to the media in 1997, per interviews by the tabloid Daily Mail and the National Enquirer.
Upshaw claimed that when she later found out she was pregnant, she knew Cosby was the father as he was the only man she was sexually active with during that time period.
Upshaw expressed concern that no one would believe her account as she first made her allegations to the supermarket tabloid the National Enquirer in 2005.
[4] Following new sexual assault allegations against Cosby in 2014, questions surrounding Jackson's paternity resurfaced in the media.
Jackson believed the leverage she held over Cosby was that his public and professional image would be damaged if the affair and disputed paternity claims were revealed.
Jackson was persuaded to come to New York for the purposes of a sting operation devised to gain proof of extortion on her part.
[14] When Jackson began her sentence at the Dublin Federal Correctional Institution in April 1998, she was six months pregnant with twin boys.
[15] In June 1999, after serving 14 months of her sentence, Jackson's conviction was overturned and she was released from jail, pending a retrial.
[17] It has been suggested by legal experts that if Jackson had negotiated the original terms through a lawyer rather than acting on her own, she would have been able to avoid extortion charges and reach a settlement with Cosby.
[20] Before the extortion case, Jackson worked for Spanish filmmaker José Medina and his production company.