Back in 2002 there were two investigative reporters tearing up Hollywood. Bernie Weintraub of the New York Times and Anita Busch of the L.A. Times. They dug deep and reported all sorts of stories that the movers and shakers of Hollywood didn’t like. Many were about the then super-agent Michael Ovitz. Ovitz didn’t appreciate the bad press.
Before you knew it Ovitz’s bad boy buddy - Private Detective “to the stars”, Anthony Pellicano, was being accused of hiring goons to terrorize the two reporters. He denied it all. Just as he later denied the fed’s charges of wiretapping and racketeering. Pellicano was convicted of those charges last year and is spending the next 15 years in prison.
But back to the allegations about threatening those reporters … Anita Busch in particular. Now, Mr. Tough Guy Pellicano (you can read what he did to me when I worked as a reporter in Hollywood here) is back in court facing THOSE charges.
Convict Anthony Pellicano
The case of the shattered windshield, a dead fish and a rose is finally moving forward. Hollywood private eye Anthony Pellicano and his alleged hired hand, Alexander Proctor, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that they threatened reporter Anita Busch in 2002 to scare her off a story.
Before you knew it Ovitz’s bad boy buddy - Private Detective “to the stars”, Anthony Pellicano, was being accused of hiring goons to terrorize the two reporters. He denied it all. Just as he later denied the fed’s charges of wiretapping and racketeering. Pellicano was convicted of those charges last year and is spending the next 15 years in prison.
But back to the allegations about threatening those reporters … Anita Busch in particular. Now, Mr. Tough Guy Pellicano (you can read what he did to me when I worked as a reporter in Hollywood here) is back in court facing THOSE charges.
Convict Anthony Pellicano
The case of the shattered windshield, a dead fish and a rose is finally moving forward. Hollywood private eye Anthony Pellicano and his alleged hired hand, Alexander Proctor, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that they threatened reporter Anita Busch in 2002 to scare her off a story.
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