S26E20: The Double+ Life of Johnnie Cochran (A Trashy Divorces Encore Plus!)
Trashy Divorces
Hemlock Creatives
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Back in 2021, Stacie was captivated by the tale of betrayal told by Barbara Berry, the first wife of superlawyer Johnnie Cochran. For years, he juggled two families and an eye-popping number of other mistresses, while also subjecting Barbara to physical and emotional abuse more directly.
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| 0:11.2 | Hello and welcome to trashy divorces, everybody's favorite good podcast about bad relationships. |
| 0:18.3 | My name is Alicia, and today we are jumping on the, let's revisit the OJ Simpson |
| 0:23.7 | mess bandwagon with our Encore Plus this week. Stacey, who you bring in the people. |
| 0:29.9 | Hello, everyone. It's also been a very big week for lawyers with integrity, so it seemed like |
| 0:35.0 | the right time to revisit a lawyer whose integrity was a little |
| 0:38.7 | more questionable with the double plus life of Johnny Cochran from back in 2021. Obviously, his |
| 0:45.8 | legal career isn't really our focus, but he definitely started out in the law with big dreams |
| 0:50.6 | and a mission to make the world a better place. Ah, the best laid plans. |
| 0:55.0 | Before we get started though, Alicia, who do we spy in our magic mirror? |
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| 1:42.2 | Alicia, if we're going to get to poorly fitting gloves with a nice rhyme, what do we have to do? |
| 1:47.9 | We got to go, go, go. |
| 1:57.0 | So from the flip side, Stacey, you're bringing us a different kind of tale this week, a little bit more old school. |
| 2:03.7 | A little more old school. |
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