Anthony Pellicano

Here We Go Again: New Trial for Anthony Pellicano

Yesterday Anthony Pellicano, the former Private Eye to the Stars, was brought out of a prison cell and ordered by Superior Court Judge William Pounders to stand trial with co-defendant Alex Proctor against charges they colluded to intimidate former L.A. Times Hollywood correspondent Anita Busch. Pel ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Third Time's the Charm? After being convicted in two federal racketeering trials, former private eye Anthony Pellicano and an associate are to be arraigned this morning in Superior Court on state charges. Pellicano and Alexander Frederick Proctor allegedly conspired to intimidate then-L.A. Times ent ... More >>

Hammer Time: Pellicano's End, Judge's Verdicts, Juror's Accusal

Misconduct in the jury room? No fuzzy sentences for Pellicano associates

Pellicano Co-Defendant Kevin Kachikian Sentenced

"I'm not a warm fuzzy type," Judge Dale Fischer told Kevin Kachikian at his sentencing today. As an understatement, the icy jurist's comment ranks just below, "Houston, we have a problem." But there was no need to point this out to Kachikian - he knew all about it. Last year he was one of five men ... More >>

Crossing Jordison: A Pellicano Juror Feels Betrayed by System

On Tuesday afternoon Judge Dale Fischer lowered the hammer on three of Anthony Pellicano's convicted co-defendants, and the resulting sentences and handcuffings that each man received brought a sudden finality to this case involving racketeering, wiretapping and conspiracy. Still, the hearing had a ... More >>

Day of Wrath: Anthony Pellicano's Co-defendants Get Sentenced

When they put the cuffs on Ray Turner the convictions that had ended the Anthony Pellicano trial last May suddenly seemed real. On Tuesday afternoon the racketeering verdicts now acquired the metallic sound of consequences and finality -- coming after federal Judge Dale Fischer, having read Turner h ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

The Emptying Sky Both LAX and LA/Ontario airports are experiencing substantial decreases in their numbers of travelers, despite a wave of fare reductions. L.A. TimesFreeway With a View Rows of noise-break trees have been cut down by the side of the 405 Freeway in Sherman Oaks, and by an apartment co ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Clerical Error? U.S. Attorney Tom O'Brien's not talking, but the L.A. Times is reporting that a federal grand jury is investigating Los Angeles Archdiocese Cardinal Roger Mahony for not protecting parishioners from predator priests. Scott Glover and Jack Leonard write that Mahony could be charged wi ... More >>

On Trial: Pellicano, Scat-Porn King Ira Isaacs, Designer Anand Jon

Verdicts are never the last word in court

"Roadside Carnage:" Anthony Pellicano Sentenced

Former Private Eye to the Stars Anthony Pellicano entered Room 840 of the Roybal Federal Building at 1:25 p.m. grinning, and managed to bring his manacled hands up to his lips to blow a kiss to his wife, Kat. Two hours later he wasn't smiling --  today was sentencing day for Pellicano, 64, who' ... More >>

0 for 4: Pellicano and Christensen Strike Out

Former “private eye to the stars” Anthony Pellicano and high-powered entertainment/corporate lawyer Terry Christensen were found guilty by a jury this morning of all four counts of the conspiracy and wiretapping that the men faced. For Pellicano this must seem now routine, having been convicted ... More >>

Can Billionaire Kirk Kerkorian Save Terry Christensen From Tony Pellicano's Fate?

Pellicano-Christensen Case Goes to Jury

The Billionaire Wore Loafers: Kirk Kerkorian Testifies

Las Vegas land baron and former MGM owner Kirk Kerkorian put in a long-anticipated appearance this morning at the trial of former private investigator Anthony Pellicano and Kerkorian’s Century City attorney, Terry Christensen. The 91-year-old Kerkorian entered the courtroom in Los Angeles’ Royba ... More >>

The $64,000 Answer

Terry Christensen’s Big Expert Witness Speaks Tuesday marked Day Two of the defense counterattack waged by former private eye Anthony Pellicano and super-lawyer Terry Christensen, who are accused in federal court of wiretapping and conspiracy. Actually, so far it’s been all Christensen’s def ... More >>

Miguel Was My Dog, Jorge Was My Partner

The federal trial of private eye Anthony Pellicano and his co-defendant, super-lawyer Terry Christensen, resumed this week after a long, 10-day break. In some ways the case, in which the two men are charged with wiretapping and conspiracy, resembles one of those fish-out-of-water buddy movies from l ... More >>

Pellicano on Tape: “I’m Unrelentless!”

Postpartum Woes in Pellicano II

"Tell him I killed the fucking baby!"

Pellicano Sequel

“Tell Him I Killed the Fucking Baby!”

Pellicano Juror Reveals Inner Workings

Juror No. 7 speaks out on Anthony Pellicano, Anita Busch and Christian values

Guilty As Charged: Anthony Pellicano trial ends with prosecution victory

Anthony Pellicano, onetime “P.I. to the Stars,” was convicted today of 76 of the 77 counts he faced for racketeering, wire fraud and identity theft. As Judge Dale Fischer began reading the first of the jury’s guilty verdicts at 12:15 p.m., Pellicano displayed the stoic bravado he showed throu ... More >>

Pellicano Verdict Watch

Will he be a free bird or a jailbird?

Geek Tragedy: Pellicano's Computer Man Crashes

In the Jury’s Lap: Pellicano Trial Finishes

The fate of the Pellicano Gang of Five rests with the jury, now that closing arguments have concluded. Attorney Mona Soo Hoo began the morning by announcing that “This case is about dualities.” She then enumerated a list of dialectical opposites that described perceptions of her client, former p ... More >>

Pellicano Trial’s Restless Defense

Today defense attorneys in the racketeering trial of Anthony Pellicano and four co-defendants began their closing arguments, with lead-off hitter Chad Hummel attacking prosecutor Daniel Saunders’ Tuesday closer on two fronts. Hummel reliably tried to exploit the government’s court pratfall of la ... More >>

Mistakes Were Made

Dysfunctional business as usual at Pellicano trial When we last left the trial of Anthony Pellicano and four co-defendants, the proceedings had been thrown into chaos after attorney Chad Hummel’s cross examination of a “businesswoman” whom the government had called to the witness stand to tes ... More >>

Pellicano Trial Bombshell

Witness shocker throws trial in turmoil For days Chad Hummel had been uncharacteristically quiet as the trial of famed private eye Anthony Pellicano and four codefendants wound down this week. Normally Hummel’s baritoned objections could be heard ricocheting off the walls on behalf of his clien ... More >>

Pellicano Trial Enters Home Stretch

Killing Fields testimony

Phone Talk at Pellicano Trial

Tuesday was Ray Turner’s day in court, although he elected not to take the witness stand on his own behalf. Turner, the “phone guy” co-defendant in the Anthony Pellicano racketeering trial, easily wears the casual coolness of a BET executive, and sat impassively through most of today’s testi ... More >>

Pellicano Trial's Freaky Friday

Pellicano Defense Finishes Its First Week It’s a crime to lie to the FBI, so I won’t: The courtroom was bored to tears with Friday's appearance by its former special agent, Stanley Ornellas. A big man with a brutal face and soft voice, Ornellas was the bureau’s lead investigator into the case ... More >>

Pellicano Trial Prosecutors Rest Their Case

The color of dirt

Ex-Cop Gets Third Degree

Pellicano Briefs Team Pellicano is now taking its turn at bat, but the past few days of the defense’s case have seemed like prosecution by other means. Last Friday co-defendant Mark Arneson took the witness stand on his own behalf and the affable, three-hour colloquy between Arneson and his attor ... More >>

Pellicano Defense Goes on the Offense

Sparky remembers to forget On Thursday the prosecution’s guns in the racketeering trial of Anthony Pellicano and four co-defendants fell silent as the government rested its case-in-chief that afternoon. Friday morning came and spectators filled Courtroom 890 in the Roybal Federal Building to watc ... More >>

Pellicano Trial reveals Hollywood's Top Bottom Feeders

The Sleaze Factor-y

Sex and Nerds Invade Pellicano Trial

'Tis pity she was a whore

Pellicano Briefs: Keith Carradine’s Blues

The Pellicano trial turns into divorce court Who’s that tapping, gently wiretapping, at my trailer door? actor Keith Carradine may well have wondered in April, 2001, as he and his girlfriend Hayley DuMond began noticing telephone problems and other odd events occur in Carradine’s Valencia RV pa ... More >>

Pellicano Trial: Now That's Humilitainment!

Proceedings shine a light on Hollywood bad boys

Anthony Pellicano’s Female Trouble

Cheetahs never prosper In a Dickensian twist, Anthony Pellicano was confronted this past week by women whose lives he had touched over the years – although the ladies in question might claim “blighted” is a more appropriate word. Tuesday saw L.A. assistant district attorney Karla Kerlin take ... More >>

Pellicano Briefs: The Garry Shandling Show

Anthony Pellicano's Gang of Five Stand Trial

It isn't racket science

Pellicano Briefs: The Snitch Wore Black

Anthony Pellicano discovers Tarita Virtue is her own reward For four days ex-Pellicano employee Tarita Virtue wore black to court as she testified under an immunity grant. And why not? It wasn’t her funeral, but that of her ex-boss, “P.I. to the Stars” Anthony Pellicano, who, with four others ... More >>

Tasty Tidbits From Hollywood's Frenzied Fall

Borat slumps, Dubya dies, Fields goes free and Lansing dishes?

Pellicano's Rat Pack

Loose lips and sinking ships

Two Tonys Is One Too Many for Mogul

Brad Grey would rather be in bed with Soprano than Pellicano

Two Tonys Is One too Many for Mogul

Brad Grey would rather be in bed with Soprano than Pellicano

Requiem for Anita Busch

Pellicano charges are vindication for the former Hollywood reporter, but we’ve already buried her

P.I. for All

Anthony Pellicano could play both sides

Arnold, Pellicano and Politics

Where will The Pelican’s droppings land next?

The Pelican Briefs

Hollywood is not messing its shorts over FBI investigation