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Anthony Pellicano was a ripped-from-a-pulp-novel private eye who made himself an indispensable Hollywood fixer.
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The wiretapping trial of Anthony Pellicano, the accused sleuth to the stars, has offered a close look into the surprisingly easy access to all sorts of spyware.
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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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The 11th-hour surprise in the Hollywood wiretapping trial resulting in the jury being sent home abruptly on Friday.
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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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Chris Rock, the actor and comedian, described in court the circumstances in which he hired Anthony Pellicano, the private detective on trial for wiretapping and racketeering.
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A hedge fund manager testified that Anthony Pellicano, the Hollywood private detective accused of wiretapping, had once offered to have a movie producer killed for him.
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