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Los Angeles Talc Trial: Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in 1973 — and Three Women Are Dead If your mother, your wife, your sister used Johnson & Johnson baby powder for years — for decades — and then died of ovarian cancer, you are reading this at a kitchen table at two in the morning with a question that will not let you sleep: did the powder do it? And if it did, did the company know? In a Los Angeles courtroom right now, a jury is hearing the answer to both questions. Three families brought their cases together in one trial because three women — three mothers, wives, people with names and histories and people who loved them — died of ovarian cancer after long-term use of Johnson & Johnson’s talc-based baby powder. And in front of that Los Angeles County jury, an attorney held up a document from 1973. It is an internal Johnson & Johnson memo. In it, executives discussed reports that found asbestos in talc mines. They considered safer alternatives — corn starch. They knew. Fifty years ago, they knew. And they kept selling talc. That memo is the spine of this trial. It is…