When Douglas went with her lawyer Bill Sobel to receive the payment she was allegedly owed, and Sobel mentioned the meeting in which Moonves allegedly assaulted Douglas, CBS seemed more receptive. The network offered Douglas a mini-series as well as the payment she had not initially received after being fired from Queens. (CBS stated that the mini-series, titled Bella Mafia, was to fulfil Douglas' overall deal with the network. The network claims it was unrelated to her meeting with Moonves. A spokesperson for the network told The New Yorker that "the amount paid was half of what she was owed, which is not what one might do if concerned about a claim such as this.")