Commander Palca from the LAPD for Les MoonVez.

Yeah, I'll hold.

Detective Palka, how are you?

Les, I just got a call from a Phyllis Golden Gottlieb?

Les?

I'm here.

Les, she made some pretty disturbing accusations.

Some things that happened back in the 80s that are just coming around now with what's been going on in Hollywood, and now some women may have been treated. Parker, that was 30 years ago. Besides, it was consensual. I get it, Les. I really do. Listen, I probably shouldn't do this, but I'll send you over a statement and you can get your

eyes on it. I'll see what I can do with kill it on my end. You've always been loyal to me, Palka.

I appreciate it. The commander of the Hollywood precinct and the most powerful man in that town

would meet together two weeks later at an Italian restaurant in West Hollywood.

Years later, the phone call and that dinner would be the subject of an LA City Ethics Commission investigation.

But for now, these two top bananas were unruffled. It was true. CBS CEO Les Moonvez had a growing pile of skeletons.

But he didn't have to worry about a police investigation when the LAPD was in his pocket.

Favors and cover-ups? That's just how business was done.

At the time, Defenders of Les Moonvez, whose nickname was Mr. Hollywood,

populated boardrooms and casting

couches across LA County.

He was a one-man media mogul, responsible for catapulting CBS from a sleepy granny network

into a primetime cash cow, churning out hits like Big Brother, Survivor, Criminal Minds, and

the Big Bang Theory.

But if you zoom out, you'd see that Moonvez's high horse was perched upon shaky ground.

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