The thing that I try to remember when I'm watching this trial is why it even matters. The government has chosen to give a lot of Mr. Pellicano's clients immunity -- so they can talk about the bad and illegal things that he did. But the real question is why did so many rich, famous and respected people in this town seek out Mr. Pellicano to do their dirty work?
What was it about Bo Zenga that scared Brad Grey so much that he actually hired Anthony Pellicano to deal with the screenwriter in the middle of their lawsuit? And, what was it about the producer Charles Roven that drove director John McTiernan to ask Pellicano to wiretap him? Why did someone as rich and successful as Mike Ovitz hire Anthony Pellicano to work on some small time litigation matters and then, deal with a list of enemies including people who were merely writing about him like reporters like Anita Busch and Bernie Weinraub?
Why were these supposedly really wealthy and successful people so afraid of their enemies? And why did they hire someone like Anthony Pellicano to not only discredit their adversaries, but to totally destroy their reputations and often their careers? That's what interests me about everything that's happening. I'm waiting to see these clients on the stand, look at Anthony Pellicano and tell the jury under oath why they hired him and how they didn't know what he was doing.
Anthony Pellicano may be taking the fall for all of these clients -- except for the ones who are too poor to call in favors -- but there are a lot of people in town who hired him knowing exactly who he was and who would probably hire him again if he were out and about.
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They say word of mouth is the most effective endorsement....
Oh, and the people he "imtimidated" were all women! He didn't stand up to men and was very careful not to get into confontations with anyone packing a dick.
One case in point: Shortly after Heidi Fleiss got her tit caught in the microwringer, two of her girls showed up at a party and were asked to leave. The next morning, on a Sunday, pencil-peepee Pelicano showed up at their house, dressed like a goombah in a jogging suit with about 100 gold necklaces and told these girls that if they ever contacted the party-giver again, he would hurt their faces-if I remember correctly, he threatened an acid attack! Of course, there is no evidence that he ever followed through on a threat.
This is why he lost power in LA, and was eventually nailed-people had figured him out.
There is one interesting story about him. There has been a persisten rumor that he was watching Nicole Brown's house the night of the murders, looking for Faye Resnik. The rumor, which I heard within a few days of the killings, was that TP was working for a client (a married man who had an affair with Resnik ) that wanted to send a message to the dope-addict Resnick to stay out of the client's life.