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The six-year-old Hollywood wiretapping case went to the jury after a federal prosecutor urged the panel members to look past the celebrities and entertainment moguls involved.
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Defiant and colorful to the end, the accused Hollywood wiretapper Anthony Pellicano told jurors in his racketeering trial that he was simply a diligent private eye.
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Prosecutors told jurors that Anthony Pellicano was a “very well-paid thug” who used wiretaps and crooked police officers to dig up dirt for his celebrity clients.
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Closing arguments will begin in Anthony Pellicano’s Hollywood wiretapping case after a federal judge rejected a defendant’s call for a mistrial.
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A reporter who wrote damaging articles about Michael S. Ovitz cried as she testified about what she said were threats on her life orchestrated on Mr. Ovitz’s behalf.
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Prosecutors drew a link between Michael S. Ovitz, a founder of Creative Artists Agency, and illegal database checks by private investigator Anthony Pellicano.
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A day of testimony in the wiretapping trial of the Hollywood private eye Anthony Pellicano included industry names in the most embarrassing of contexts.
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A Hollywood journalist whose report of a threat led to the trial of Anthony Pellicano, a private detective facing wiretapping charges, will soon be a witness in the case.
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