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November 26, 2007 | Greg Krikorian, Times Staff Writer
An FBI agent and federal prosecutors repeatedly violated Anthony Pellicano's 6th Amendment right to counsel by having his onetime girlfriend secretly elicit information from him during prison visits, the former private eye's attorneys allege in new court papers. The accusation of government misconduct is contained in a request by Pellicano's lawyers for an unusual court hearing in which they hope to prove that wiretapping and racketeering charges against him should be dismissed.
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February 16, 2006 | Andrew Blankstein and Greg Krikorian, Times Staff Writers
Reaching for the first time into the upper ranks of Hollywood's legal establishment, the federal grand jury investigating private eye Anthony Pellicano indicted prominent Los Angeles entertainment attorney Terry N. Christensen on Wednesday for allegedly having the ex-wife of billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian wiretapped.
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September 3, 1993 | DAVID FERRELL and CHUCK PHILIPS, TIMES STAFF WRITERS
The instant the phone call arrived, Anthony Pellicano knew there was trouble--possibly big trouble. The caller told him there had been a raid. Police had confiscated photos and videotapes from the homes of the private investigator's top client, pop superstar Michael Jackson. For Pellicano, who was accompanying the singer on the Asian leg of a world concert tour, the bombshell was sufficiently jarring to prompt his own phone call moments later to Los Angeles, where it was not yet dawn.
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April 2, 2008 | Carla Hall, Times Staff Writer
Hedge fund manager Adam Sender was angry -- at the man with whom he had invested $1.1 million and at himself for believing it would lead to a successful film company and another venture. So after a year of searching in vain for Aaron Russo, Sender hired private detective Anthony Pellicano.
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March 25, 2006 | Richard Verrier, Times Staff Writer
Actor Keith Carradine on Friday became the biggest name allegedly wiretapped by Anthony Pellicano to file a civil lawsuit against the former Hollywood private investigator, saying that his privacy was invaded when his phone line was tapped on behalf of his ex-wife.
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February 5, 2006 | Greg Krikorian, Times Staff Writer
In the latest chapter of a still-unfolding investigation, FBI agents have quietly arrested a former music industry executive in connection with the wiretap and conspiracy prosecution of former Hollywood private investigator Anthony Pellicano. Robert Joseph Pfeifer, 50, once president of Disney-owned Hollywood Records, was taken into custody Friday afternoon and held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles, sources close to the investigation said Saturday.
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May 16, 2008 | Carla Hall and Tami Abdollah, Times Staff Writers
Private investigator Anthony Pellicano, who wiretapped, followed and intimidated people all in the name of serving his moneyed clients, was found guilty Thursday of 76 federal criminal charges. Just reading the jury's verdicts on the dozens of counts of racketeering, wire fraud, computer fraud and wiretapping took 20 minutes. Stoic to the end, the man who represented himself at trial and refused to testify in his own defense lest he be forced to talk about his clients declined U.S.
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March 5, 2008 | Greg Krikorian, Times Staff Writer
For the last six years, few plots in Hollywood have kept more power brokers and entertainment lawyers in suspense than the FBI investigation into onetime private eye to the stars Anthony Pellicano. With alleged victims including actors Sylvester Stallone and Keith Carradine and secret grand jury testimony from the likes of super-agent Mike Ovitz and studio executives Brad Grey and Ron Meyer, the case was seen by many as the entertainment industry's biggest scandal in decades.
ENTERTAINMENT
March 17, 2006 | Paul Lieberman, Times Staff Writer
Los Angeles police did not need any fancy computer program the time they turned the tables on private investigator Anthony Pellicano and secretly taped him in one of their own station houses. Pellicano had requested a meeting with the police detectives investigating his client -- accused "limousine rapist" John Gordon Jones -- so they told him to come to the Hollywood station at 1 p.m. on Dec. 9, 1998.
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April 21, 2008 | Rachel Abramowitz, Times Staff Writer
Editor's note: Rachel Abramowitz will be periodically checking in on the trial of Anthony Pellicano -- former private eye to the stars, who faces 79 counts of racketeering, wiretapping, conspiracy and other federal charges -- and writing about what the case means to Hollywood.