Pellicano Trial: Courtney Love Caught On Tape

**Scroll down to listen to the complete, HuffPost exclusive of the recorded phone call**

Courtney Love called Anthony Pellicano for help back in 2001 from a movie set in Vancouver. Ms. Love, the actress and lead singer for Hole, best known for being the wife of Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain, called Mr. Pellicano because she was having a host of legal and personal problems. She was fighting with the surviving members of her husband's band over control of his estate and trying to support her then-boyfriend Jim with his divorce and custody lawsuit. She also was concerned that an ex-assistant, who'd allegedly hacked into her email account, was going to publish all kinds of personal correspondence with her famous friends Drew Barrymore, Cameron Crowe and Russell Crowe. After hiring another private investigator who she felt wasn't terribly helpful, she called Mr. Pellicano for assistance. Love has not been charged with anything in relation to Pellicano.

Transcript highlights:

1:40
CL: I'm so confused by this divorce that it's getting in the way... I really love this man, and he came out of a really bad marriage. This is a divorce case that has dumped everybody. It's mostly Jewish people dealing with it, but if you're Christian, or you were raised Christian, it's like, "ye who enter the valley,' you know what I mean?"

5:50
CL: I need everything from refinement to fucking baseball bats, and I need them all under one roof
AP: Courtney, if you come to me, that's the end of that. I'm an old style Sicilian. I only go one way. My clients are my family, and that's it. You fuck with my family, you fuck with me.

11:00
AP: Don't you think we should have this conversation when you get down here?
CL: Yeah, but I'm on a really secure line, so I'm just going to tell you the story and you can tell me what you want to do with it.

16:24
AP: Now if I can determine that I can trust you, and we have a meeting, there are lots of things I can do for you. Now all of these conversations have to be between you and I. You cannot betray me, you understand? You cannot have conversations with lawyers...
CL: I like talking to an Italian!
AP: Sicilian
CL: Well that's even better

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Comments

[mojopo]

Courtney, you really do waste some time on crap. Freaking name dropping left and right and all of those cyber detectives... It's so vapid and this is teenager drama, except between adult millionaires who think they have Important Issues. Auh.

You needed to pay someone to complain to, and a fraction of the time was about taking care of your stupid business. I hope other celebs learn by your example. Although I'm sure they would love, love LOVE to visit your astrologer.

I don't know how you do it, but you make that scuzzbag Pellicano sound reasonable. And you people don't even know how to use Outlook Express. That's just flat out retarded.

[Phaedrusnyc]

I have always adored Carrie Fisher, but the more I hear that people like Pellicano and Courtney Love are her "friends," the more I begin to judge her by the company she keeps.

[desertdweller]

Kurt Cobain sure had questionable tastes in women.

[Hufffan]

Courtney says in the first minute, "My problem is.... is that I have a lot of problems."

[mojopo]

...and then she asks if she can send her BOYFRIEND to talk to Pellicano about her crap. Her freaking boyfriend. That's just so pitiful. Courtney, her army of cyber cops and her boyfriend. LOL!

Bug.f*cking.crazy!

[Rachel36]

Wait, weren't his conversations with Chris Rock posted here last week? Man, Pellicano's 'secure' conversations are really making the rounds.

[Counterglow]

Gotta love Pelicano's "I'm on a really secure line" crap. Unless Courtney was, too...

[AdultFilmLegend]

I thought she was dead. Maybe that was her career I was thinking of.

[countbeckula]

I cannot fathom how this would surprise anyone. Hopefully now we can see this wretched "black widow' brought to justice.

[QueenOfViolets]

This man Jim she loves so much in this tape -- that's the same man who had to call 911 when she broke in and threw a champagne bottle at the girl sleeping on his couch.

[wenton]

Courtney Love is a sad sad character.

[kellygrrrl]

her nose sounds like she has A LOT of something up there. I wonder what.

[YellowPanties]

Yuck. I couldn't make it through this whole call, bailed out at 8 minutes. They are both disgusting "humans."