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Louis C.K. and other disgraced Hollywood men have put hundreds out of work just before the holidays

When art director Francis Giglio signed on to work on the TBS animated series "The Cops" last summer, he believed he had a full-time job through next May. The project starring the comic dream team of Louis C.K. and Albert Brooks meant steady income for the 36-year-old Newhall, Calif., resident, who is supporting a wife and a young daughter.

But his economic security ended Nov. 13 when the show's production company FX Studios and TBS quickly distanced themselves from C.K. after five women went public with accounts of how he masturbated in front of them or asked if he could. C.K. acknowledged the stories were true, and the production was indefinitely suspended by TBS.

Giglio was so upset he wrote an open letter to C.K. on one side of a corrugated box used

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