From the Los Angeles Times, this is Nikki Wisensy Egan, and you're listening to a special bonus episode of Chasing Cosby.

On this episode, you're going to hear a live discussion about the downfall of America's dad from those closest to the story.

The panel was moderated by Pat Morrison of the LA Times.

I'm on the panel alongside Andrea Constan,

Tamara Green, Lily Bernard, and Therese, who you heard from in earlier episodes of this podcast.

It was recorded at the Skirball Center in Los Angeles in front of a live audience.

Thank you, everyone, and welcome.

Appreciate your being here tonight.

We are gathering to talk with women who stood up to ridicule and threats

and survived their personal demons to show the world who the real Bill Cosby was.

And maybe it's coincidence and maybe it's karma,

but we're doing so on a night that is barely 48 hours

after a jury found another famous Hollywood figure, Harvey Weinstein, guilty of rape and sexual assault.

Years ago, the movie studio was in Los Angeles, an executive of that studio, had a back entrance to the office.

And the story was that every day at 4 o'clock, a different young woman who worked at that studio,

went through that door for what one writer called the movie moguls' daily sex siesta.

When the studio chief left, that door got bricked up.

And now similar doors like it, metaphorical

doors and literal doors that powerful men had opened to young women and then closed behind them

are now being closed forever. Tonight we find out more about how it happened, about how the

pinchers closed on the secret life and the conduct of one of the most

beloved figures of modern television, and how the women who were made to feel they had no power

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