Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter

NEWS ABOUT: Anthony Pellicano

Anthony Pellicano stories: 7 news summaries

(Newser) - Former Hollywood detective Anthony Pellicano was sentenced 15 years in prison today, Variety reports. Convicted earlier this year on 78 counts including wiretapping and conspiracy, Pellicano was also told to pay $2 million with two other defendants. Former Los Angeles Times reporter Anita Busch, who helped bring Pellicano to trial,... More »

MORE ABOUT:
celebrity trials • sentencing • Anthony Pellicano • wiretapping

 Hollywood Private Eye
 Found Guilty 

'Ultimate problem solver' Pellicano faces hefty term after racketeering conviction

May 15, 08 4:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - Celebrity private detective Anthony Pellicano was found guilty today of 76 of the 77 charges he faced, including racketeering, wire fraud, and illegal wiretapping, the Los Angeles Times reports. Pellicano, 64, could face a life sentence after prosecutors won conviction on charges he illegally threatened and placed several prominent celebrities... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Hollywood • corruption • celebrity • racketeering • Anthony Pellicano • private investigator • wiretapping

Shandling Says Private Eye Smeared Him

He's the first big celebrity to testify in
the Pellicano trial

Mar 14, 08 10:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Comedian Garry Shandling took the stand yesterday and accused Los Angeles private eye Anthony Pellicano of using underhanded tactics to "smear" him. Shandling’s former manager hired Pellicano after promising to “make my life miserable,” Shandling said. The FBI soon told Shandling that the detective had rifled... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Hollywood • celebrity trials • wiretap • Anthony Pellicano • private eye • Garry Shandling

Private Eye's Assistant
Spills on Stand

Arranged wiretaps, transcribed tapes for Hollywood's Pellicano

Mar 8, 08 10:16 AM CST
(Newser) - A former assistant to Anthony Pellicano, improbably named Tarita Virtue, told a packed courtoom yesterday that she transcribed many wiretapped conversations for the Hollywood private eye, Variety reports. She explained Pellicano's wiretapping process step by step, and described the detective's security system, including punch-code locks on every room  and files... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Hollywood • Nicole Kidman • Tom Cruise • celebrity trials • trial • celebrity • racketeering • wiretap • Anthony Pellicano • private eye

Hollywood Private-Eye
Trial Begins

Celebs expected to be called in Pellicano
racketeering case

Mar 7, 08 4:35 AM CST
(Newser) - The illegal wiretapping and racketeering trial of Hollywood private detective Anthony Pellicano kicked off yesterday with a celebrity-studded witness list that sounds more like a casting call than a legal action, the Guardian reports. Sylvester Stallone, Farrah Fawcett and Chris Rock are among 127 possible prosecution witnesses. Studio heads and... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Hollywood • celebrity trials • Sylvester Stallone • wiretap • Anthony Pellicano • private eye • Chris Rock • Garry Shandling

Dunne Wanted Daughter's Murderer Killed

Now-disgraced
PI talked famed
crime writer down

Aug 30, 07 11:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Crime writer Dominick Dunne asked Anthony Pellicano to put out a contract on his daughter’s killer’s life—and relented only when the private investigator talked him down. Dunne hired the now-incarcerated Pellicano to follow John Thomas Sweeney in the mid-1980s; the Vanity Fair writer now tells Slate he... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Vanity Fair • murder • Anthony Pellicano • Dominick Dunne • private investigator • John Maura • John Thomas Sweeney

Seagal Is Back, and This Time It's Personal

Action star targets
FBI for sabotaging
his career

Aug 17, 07 12:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Steven Seagal, the high-kicking, cartel-busting action star that dominated the "Under Siege" movies in the early 90s, is demanding an apology from the FBI for allegedly shattering his stardom, the LA Times reports. Seagal's career didn't prove that hard to kill—he has been headlining in low-rent straight-to-DVD films... More »

MORE ABOUT:
FBI • celebrity • Mafia • Steven Seagal • Anthony Pellicano • private eye • movies

7 Stories


from our news partners

CinemaBlend.com