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L’Oréal’s U.S. subsidiary is working with restructuring counsel Weil Gotshal & Manges and investment bank Ducera Partners to address mass lawsuits from individuals alleging that the talc products have caused illness, the people said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Tens of thousands of plaintiffs lined up to sue, though science hasn’t proven a causal link between talc products and cancer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

Earlier in July, a federal court handed the firm a victory by questioning individual plaintiffs' ability to show that talc was the direct cause of their ovarian cancer.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

Johnson & Johnson agreed to pay $5.5 billion to resolve outstanding lawsuits alleging its talc products caused ovarian cancer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

He is comforted by the talc smell of her housedresses mixed with the sunbaked smell of her skin, the perfumy smell of her party dresses.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

Food and Drug Administration was considering a limit on asbestos in talcs.

From Reuters ● Dec. 14, 2018

After receiving inquiries from Reuters, the ACS in early December revised its website to remove the assurance that cosmetic talcs are free of asbestos.

From Reuters ● Dec. 14, 2018

Wide-shouldered, hairy-chested William Nassaur, whose Courtley, Ltd. shaving soaps, lotions, talcs, and bubble baths had already deodorized and sweetened thousands of U.S. males, got set last week to waft his perfume worldwide.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then the three brothers took, each of them, a princess with him on his horse, and they all rode together back to the old King, telling talcs and singing songs as they went.

From Old Peter's Russian Tales by Dmitri Mitrokhin

"How can you ask that? What do you imagine I'm doing? I am talcing care of your brother. I am taking care of Bran."

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin