Bill Cosby's Star Won't Be Removed From Hollywood Walk Of Fame

HOLLYWOOD (CBSLA/AP) – Despite being sentenced to 3 to 10 years in prison for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman, Bill Cosby's star will not be removed from the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

In a statement Tuesday to CBS2, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce said it "does not remove stars from the Walk of Fame" because they "are intended to be permanent."

"The stars only commemorate the recipient's professional accomplishments," the chamber wrote. "It is regrettable when the personal lives of inductees do not measure up to public standards and expectations."

This comes after a petition was submitted Monday demanding that Cosby's star be pulled. The chamber has never removed a star from the Walk of Fame and turned down a 2015 request to remove Cosby's star when the sexual assault allegations against him first began to surface.

A Pennsylvania judge Tuesday sentenced Bill Cosby to 3 to 10 years in prison for three felony counts of aggravated indecent assault. The judge also declared him a sexually violent predator.

In April, Cosby was found guilty of sexually assaulting Temple University women's basketball administrator Andrea Constand at his estate near Philadelphia in 2004.

"It is time for justice. Mr. Cosby, this has all circled back to you. The time has come," Montgomery County Judge Steven O'Neill said. He quoted from Constand's own statement to the court, in which she said Cosby took her "beautiful, young spirit and crushed it."

O'Neill also denied Bill Cosby bail, ordering him to be locked up immediately.

Not everyone shared the Chamber of Commerce's view after Cosby's sentencing Tuesday.

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