Anthony Pellicano Diaries--Research Compiled by Cheryl Shuman

March 8, 1990: The Enquirer's chief goon, Anthony Pellicano, began a nonstop campaign to hound Lurie, de Becker and Stuart Goldman (three journalists who were doing an expose on the National Enquirer). He threatened, bullied, wheedled, and cajoled them. (At one point, Pellicano sent Suart Goldman a personal check as "hush" money to keep him from incriminating the Enquirer.) When Goldman changed his private telephone number -- which he did frequently -- Pellicano would call just to let him know he'd "made" the new number. Pellicano never really harmed Goldman, just wiretapped his conversations and terrorized his family. However, Pellicano had "a major hard-on" for Lurie and de Becker, who he said he was going to expose as "a couple of fags." Pellicano stated ominously, "Their lives are going to be disrupted in ways they can't even begin to imagine". subsequently, Lurie, while riding his bicycle, was knocked fifty feet in the air by an unmarked car and wound up in the hospital with two broken ribs and a busted back. Lurie was resolute after the accident, "It was no accident.....they made good on their threat".