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'Chasing Cosby' Author Says Covering The Cosby Case Was A Journey Of Disillusionment


Before Bill Cosby was an inmate at a Pennsylvania state prison, he held a pristine reputation as one of Hollywood's most beloved entertainers.

So when Andrea Constand's sexual assault allegations against Cosby broke in 2005, Nicole Weisensee Egan, an investigative reporter at the Philadelphia Daily News at the time, was skeptical. She had grown up watching The Cosby Show, revering the show's family-friendly main character, Cliff Huxtable."I was like, 'Who is this woman?' Because they weren't releasing her name," Egan says.Whitaker or Cosby why.

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