Bill Cosby Turns 81 Today — as Possible 30-Year Sentence Looms After Sex Assault Conviction

Bill Cosby turns 81 today — but the entertainer faces the possibility his next birthday will be spent behind bars.

On September 24, a judge in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, will convene a scheduled two-day sentencing hearing that follows the entertainer’s conviction last April on three counts of aggravated indecent assault. Cosby faces up to 30 years in prison — 10 years for each charge — for drugging and assaulting former Temple University employee Andrea Constand, now 45, in 2004.

After the verdict, the judge ordered Cosby to be confined to his Pennsylvania mansion with an electronic monitoring device. He can leave the residence with the court’s permission only for doctor visits and to meet with his attorneys, Kate Delano, a spokesman for the Montgomery County prosecutor’s office, tells PEOPLE.

Cosby has “no special plans” for his birthday, his spokesman Andrew Wyatt tells PEOPLE. “He’s just going to spend time with family and friends, and spend time with Mrs. Cosby and enjoy his special day,” he says.

The interim between the guilty verdict, which Cosby has appealed, and the sentencing has not dimmed Cosby’s outlook, says Wyatt. Throughout this year’s trial and the long walk-up to it — including a 2017 trial on Constand’s claims in which a jury failed to reach a verdict — Cosby’s defense has maintained the sex was consensual. Cosby denied any attack on her as well as similar allegations against him made by more than 60 other women, although only Constand’s claim resulted in a criminal charge.

“He’s living his life, enjoying his life, being blessed to see every day that God has given him,” says Wyatt. “He’s doing fantastic.”

Victim Now Working as Massage Therapist in Canada

Constand has also kept a low public profile heading into the sentencing. She has granted only one post-verdict interview, to NBC’s Dateline.

The former staffer for the woman’s basketball team at Temple, where Cosby was a high-profile alum and her mentor, said on Dateline last month that she didn’t tell anyone what happened for a year after the assault. She broke her silence — first telling her mom — after she awoke in tears from a dream “that Mr. Cosby would do this to somebody else if I did not say or tell someone.”

“She had been so maligned during the trial, and she just wanted to make people aware that she was not the person that they tried to portray in court,” her attorney, Dolores Troiani, tells PEOPLE, explaining Constand’s decision to grant the interview with Dateline. “She feels she has accomplished her goal of people getting to know her better, and just is not commenting any further.”

Now living back home in her native Canada, Constand is following in her father’s footsteps and works as a massage therapist, says Troiani.

Neither Constand nor her family members have decided whether to take advantage of their right to give victim impact statements, either in court testimony at Cosby’s sentencing or through submitted written statements, her attorney says.

Another unknown: Whether the judge at sentencing will hear from the five additional women who testified during Constand’s trial to allege Cosby drugged and assaulted them, too. “That’s totally up to the district attorney,” says Troiani.

The district attorney’s office has not made a determination on that point.

The question arises in part after more than 150 women and girls were allowed to testify during the February sentencing of Larry Nassar, a former doctor for USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University who was sentenced to up to 175 years after admitting the sexually abusing women and girls for years under the guise of providing medical treatment.

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Cosby, too, is allowed character witnesses at his sentencing. They could speak to his record of philanthropy, his donations to support the arts and his educational scholarships. His wife, Camille, has steadfastly stood by her husband. After the verdict she issued a statement through Wyatt calling for criminal investigation of the prosecutors and saying she believed Constand had “perjured” herself with false testimony.

At the time, Troiani, Constand’s lawyer, responded: “Twelve honorable people — a jury of Cosby’s peers — have spoken. There is nothing else that needs to be said.”

Cosby himself did not testify at his trial.

Cosby Has New Lawyers

Behind the scenes, Cosby replaced his entire legal team last month, dropping defense attorney Tom Mesereau, who successfully defended Michael Jackson against claims of child molestation in 2005. In Mesereau’s place Cosby hired Joseph P. Green, a defense attorney based in Montgomery County.

“I am looking forward to representing Mr. Cosby in post verdict proceedings and at sentencing,” Green said in a statement release June 14 through Wyatt. “There are complicated legislative and constitutional issues unique to Pennsylvania law that have to be addressed prior to sentencing.”

Green declined further comment.

The prosecutors office has not announced whether it will push for the full 30-year prison term against Cosby, nor has the office publicly recommended any other penalty.

“We do not reveal what we’re going to do at a sentencing hearing prior to the sentencing hearing itself,” says Delano.