Anthony Pellicano Diaries--Research Compiled by Cheryl Shuman

September 3, 1993: Pellicano and Weitzman claim that the unauthorized wiretapping they used to defend Michael Jackson was legal.

Anthony Pellicano Diaries--Research Compiled by Cheryl Shuman

September 1, 1993: Private investigator, Ernie Rizzo accused Anthony Pellicano of doctoring audio tapes in the MIchael Jackson case to falsely implicate the 13 year old boy's father in an extortion attempt. Rizzo also accused Pellicano, who works for Jackson, of trying to bribe the boy's family members into keeping the sexual molestation allegations under wraps.

Anthony Pellicano Diaries--Research Compiled by Cheryl Shuman

August 29, 1993: Anthony Pellicano announced that the sexual molestation allegations from the 13-year-old arose against Michael Jackson only after the boy's father had tried and failed to extort $20 million from the singer. Pellicano told the LA Times he was at a meeting where this occurred.

Anthony Pellicano Diaries--Research Compiled by Cheryl Shuman

August 24, 1993: Anthony Pellicano immediately said the 1993 sexual molestation allegation against Michael Jackson was prompted after the Chandler family's unsuccessful effort to extort money from the musician. "These people tried to extort Michael for a lot of money," Anthony Pellicano told KNBC-TV. "When we would not pay, a phone call was made to Child and Family Services, which started this investigation." He offered no further details.

Anthony Pellicano Diaries--Research Compiled by Cheryl Shuman

August 22, 1993: Anthony Pellicano announced within one week of the DA's investigation of Michael Jackson beginning that "extortionists" filed an abuse complaint against the star.

Anthony Pellicano Diaries--Research Compiled by Cheryl Shuman

August 16, 1993: During the Heidi Fleiss scandal in Hollywood, Pellicano was hired by Nathanson of Columbia Pictures to sort out the facts. Pellicano boasted that, "People are scared to death of being exposed. I'm getting phone calls from a lot of people who want me to represent them."

Anthony Pellicano Diaries--Research Compiled by Cheryl Shuman

January 1993: Anthony Pellicano's greatest strength lay in getting people not to talk. Larry Feldman charged that Jackson's side had deliberately used Pellicano in the 1993 Jackson sex scandal "to be out front and make slanderous charges about [Jamie] and his parents." He further states in court documents: "Muzzling independent witnesses, while allowing defendant's investigator to say anything he wants in a declaration for the press, is not justice."Cabell Bruce, a producer for Hard Copy, told of going up to the front porch of a woman who worked at Neverland and trying to talk to her. "She literally started shaking, her eyes filled with tears, and all she could say was 'Call Mr. Pellicano.'" Diane Dimond of Hard Copy complained that every time she found a source who had been close to Michael Jackson the response is "Mr. Pellicano has asked us not to say anything." Pellicano went as far as to offer to pay Kevin Smith to tell him who had leaked the Department of Children's Services report to Splash. When Smith refused, Pellicano pointedly said, "You're not even a citizen" and "I don't want anyone to get hurt in all this." There were also reports that Jamie's father had found a bug on his home phone, and was roughed up at his office. Pellicano denied that he had anything to do with this, saying, "If I had wanted him roughed up, he would have been roughed up." Diane Dimond, who along with local KNBC has broken more new developments in this case than anyone else, says she has received messages via other reporters from Pellicano: "Tell Diane Dimond I'm watching her." "Tell her I hope her health is good."

Anthony Pellicano Diaries--Research Compiled by Cheryl Shuman

1993: Filmography: Special Thanks on movie "The Firm"
Synopsis: Power can be murder to resist. A young lawyer joins a prestigous law firm only to discover that it has a sinister dark side.

Anthony Pellicano Diaries--Research Compiled by Cheryl Shuman

January 30, 1992: Because of the gaps, Anthony Pellicano said, even more doubt remains about the meaning of the conversation. In addition to the apparent editing, Pellicano said he has a "subjective" judgment that some of Gennifer Flowers ' statements on the tapes may have been dubbed in later, making Bill Clinton appear to be responding to remarks that he never actually heard. "The tape is suspect at best," Pellicano said, adding that, without access to the original tapes, he cannot prove his suspicions. When the Star released the copy of the tape, it labeled some gaps, but Pellicano said the ones he found would not have been noticeable to a casual listener.

Anthony Pellicano Diaries--Research Compiled by Cheryl Shuman

July 31, 1990: Even though two years ago William Nickloff Jr., a Sacramento sound engineer and private investigator, scoured the "Stained Class" album for subliminal clues and uncovered a subliminal chant which said the words "do it" implanted on a cut titled "Better By You, Better Than Me", Anthony Pellicano, a Los Angeles private investigator and audio tape analyst testified as an expert witness for Judas Priest and CBS, and insisted that there was no subliminal content or backward sounds anywhere on the recording.

Anthony Pellicano Diaries--Research Compiled by Cheryl Shuman

July 16, 1990: Anthony Pellicano as an audio expert for CBS testifies that there were no subliminal messages in a Judas Priest recording that resulted in the death of two teenage boys.

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".

Anthony Pellicano Diaries--Research Compiled by Cheryl Shuman

1988: Filmography: Acting credit as "Mr Norris" on movie "Illegally Yours"
Synopsis: After all, what's a little blackmail, burglary, perjury and murder amongst friends?

Anthony Pellicano Diaries--Research Compiled by Cheryl Shuman

1986: Filmography: Guest Appearance on TV series "Crime Story"
Synopsis: The saga of a Chicago police detective's efforts to stop a young hood's ruthless rise in the ranks of organized crime.

Anthony Pellicano Diaries--Research Compiled by Cheryl Shuman

May 9, 1984: John DeLorean's lawyers charged that the government may have tried to undercut the auto maker's defense against cocaine-trafficking charges by obtaining the telephone toll records of a private investigator hired by the defense, Anthony Pellicano.

Anthony Pellicano Diaries--Research Compiled by Cheryl Shuman

October 26, 1983: Anthony Pellicano, a private investigator hired by John Z. DeLorean's attorney, Howard Wietzman, said that he welcomes an investigation into how Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt obtained copies of secret FBI videotapes implicating the auto maker in an alleged cocaine smuggling scheme.

Anthony Pellicano Diaries--Research Compiled by Cheryl Shuman

1980: Filmography: Writer for episode of TV series "Magnum P.I."
Synopsis: The adventures of a Hawaii based private investigator.

Anthony Pellicano Diaries--Research Compiled by Cheryl Shuman

December 29, 1978: Dissenting opinion from the Final Report of the Select Committee on Assassinations on JFK in which it was openly questioned whether the December 13, 1978, report of Anthony J. Pellicano had been carefully reviewed prior to the conclusion that only one shooter had been involved.

Anthony Pellicano Diaries--Research Compiled by Cheryl Shuman

December 13, 1978: Pellicano's Analysis of Dallas Police Tapes in JFK Assasination that was submitted to. Congress in which is asserted that only one shooter had been involved.

Anthony Pellicano Diaries--Research Compiled by Cheryl Shuman

April 29, 1978: In Pellicano's "bat cave" he stores more than $200,000 worth of electronic equipment including his own computerized voice identification system. "I"ve become number one in the country," he announces without a blush. "It just means when Pellicano gets a hold of something he goes all the way." He uses x-ray equipment and "highly sophisticated electronic equipment" to find surveillance devices. Pellicano said he is involved only in finding bugs — not planting them. Pellicano is not sure he will ever die. He admits, "...absolute confidence can conquer death. That's what I have. That's why I've been able to accomplish what I've accomplished." **Early PR piece about Pellicano that's an absolute must read.**

Anthony Pellicano Diaries--Research Compiled by Cheryl Shuman

August 31, 1977: Sgt Richard Archambault, who was heading up the investigation for the Forest Park police department into the disappearance of Mike Todd's remains, said he had probed as much as he could into the case without subpoening private detective Anthony Pellicano to testify before a grand jury. Pellicano tipped off police to the location of the Todd remains two days after the theft on the basis of information supplied by an informant. He refused to reveal the identity of the informant to police. "All I'm asking is that the states attorney call Pellicano before the grand jury and have him reveal his informant," Archambault said. The states attorney refused to subpoena Pellicano and the investigation was closed.

Anthony Pellicano Diaries--Research Compiled by Cheryl Shuman

June 30, 1977: Police were told where to find the remains of Elizabeth Taylor's late husband, Mike Todd, by Anthony Pellicano. Pellicano said that he received instructions on where to find the body from an informant. Pellicano told police his informant suggested that the thieves may have removed hte body in the belief that Todd was buried with a 10-carat diamond ring on his finger.

Anthony Pellicano Diaries--Research Compiled by Cheryl Shuman

June 3, 1973: An electronic eavesdropping device was discovered attached to a telephone in the Chicago office of Secretary of State Michael J. Hewlett, a highranking aide to the secretary says. Anthony J. Pellicano, operator of Business Intelligence Unlimited, who was reported to have discovered the electronic eavesdropping device, refused to discuss it with a newsman who telephoned him.

Anthony Pellicano Diaries--Research Compiled by Cheryl Shuman

August 25, 1972: Anthony J. Pellicano, owner of Fortune Enterprises, a missing persons investigation service in Chicago claims that 75 out of every 100 runaway spouses are wives. In Pellicano's estimation an unsatisfactory sex life is the most common reason a wife runs.

Anthony Pellicano Diaries--Research Compiled by Cheryl Shuman

November 28, 1971: Tony Pellicano, a private detective who specializes in finding missing persons, said, "To many people, the image of the private eye is terrible. They have this stereotype of the gun in a shoulder holster and a bottle on the desk. Maybe there still are guys who operate that way, but I don't know any." Pellicano works out of an llth floor Chicago office designed in rich reds and blacks with S900 mirrors and a giant carved zodiac glazing the walls behind his huge desk. His car is equipped with a telephone for which the monthly bill is $300. "That's why I laugh when I see some television detective handle a case for $100 and get shot a couple times besides," he said. Pellicano, 31, said, "Private investigating is highly competitive, except for me. I'm the best." Pellicano was reluctant to divulge his investigative methods. Pellicano, attempting to explain his approach said, "A private eye needs logic, common sense and a fantastic imagination."

Wiretapping Trial of Anthony Pellicano

Mr. Pellicano has plead innocent to a 112 count indictment handed down in federal court where he and thirteen others are accused of crimes that include racketeering and conspiracy, wiretapping, identity theft, witness tampering and destruction of evidence. He is being held without bail in LA County. The indictment comes after Pellicano finished serving his 30 month month sentence for illegal weapons possession. An attorney, Terry Christensen,who used Pellicano has also been implicated in the wiretapping scandal in a new ammended indictment. Six people have already plead guilty in the federal investigation and are co-operating with the prosecutors. Assistant U.S. Attorney, Kevin Lally, has indicated that more indictments are forthcoming in the next few months before jury selection begins.

Mr. Pellicano now has asked the court if he may represent himself in the case after he fired his second attorney, Victor sherman and hired Stephen Gruel, a retired federal prosecutor and San Francisco defense attorney. His first attorney had been Bert Field's first criminal attorney as well, Donald Re. Sources say that Mr. Pellicano's funds have run dry and that his current defense is being paid for by one of his former A-list employers. If convicted, he will serve up to 20 years for each charge.

The Los Angeles Times has featured prominently in the reporting of recent current events about Mr. Pellicano. Interestingly though, they have still failed to publicly disclose the extent of their own newspaper's prior involvement with the investigator. Sources say that the in house counsel for the Times had frequently used Mr. Pellicano's services in the past.

There is still an investigative Grand Jury ongoing in Los Angeles probing wiretap and extortion issues with Mr. Pellicano and many of his celebrity clients and further indictments are expected over the next few months. Assistant U.S. attorneys Daniel Saunders and Kevin Lally continue to head the Pellicano investigation and prosecution (213)892-2272 . Stanley Ornellas and Stephan Tidwell are the FBI agents in Los Angeles still working the case (310)996-4305.