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Pellicano Pleads Not Guilty To Reporter Threats

18 June 2009 5:10 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Shamed Hollywood private investigator Anthony Pellicano has entered a not guilty plea over claims he threatened a Los Angeles Times journalist who reported on one of his clients.

Pellicano, along with revered Hollywood lawyer Terry Christensen, were convicted last year of breaking the law while acting for high-profile clients.

The detective was convicted of wiretapping and Christensen was found guilty of aiding and abetting a wiretap. He was sentenced to three years in jail in November while Pellicano started a 15-year stretch behind bars a month later.

And on Wednesday the disgraced detective was up in front of a Los Angeles judge again for allegedly hiring Alexander Proctor to threaten L.A. Times' Anita Busch.

Prosecutors told the court that in 2002, Proctor - on Pellicano's orders - had placed a dead fish with a rose in its mouth on the bonnet of Busch's car, put a bullet-sized hole in her windshield, and wrote a note saying 'Stop'.

Both men pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy and making criminal threats.

The incident allegedly occurred after Busch wrote about the financial woes of Hollywood agent Michael Ovitz - one of Pellicano's powerful clients at the time.

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Ester's Weekly 'Wrap': Ari, Carradine & Glambert

11 June 2009 4:42 PM, PDT | From The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news

By Ester Goldberg

Catch up on all the top schmooze in Hollywood, as Ester gives her own outrageous take on the week on TheWrap. In this episode: Ari Emanuel, whose ass is on the line to become the new Michael Ovitz; the Thai newspaper photos of David Carradine in fishnets; and Adam Lambert on the cover of Rolling Stone (he's gay ... huh!). So sit your tookus down and watch ...

 

 

Lew Harris

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Ari Emanuel: He Might Be the New King of the World

10 June 2009 8:05 AM, PDT | From The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news

By Sharon Waxman

Michael Ovitz should officially hand over the keys of the kingdom to a fast-talking, trash-mouthed, steam-rolling successor to his Hollywood dominion.

 

It is a rare moment in time and space that allows Ariel Zev Emanuel to hold the kind of power that even Ovitz could only dream about, chronicled today on the front page of the New York Times and concurrently noted by Kim Masters at the Daily Beast.

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Sharon Waxman

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Ari Emanuel: Hollywood's Next Don

9 June 2009 12:14 PM, PDT | From The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news

After snatching up the William Morris Agency, Rahm’s younger brother is vying to become the next industry strongman -- but does he have the muscle?

By Kim Masters

Hollywood hasn’t had a real strongman since Michael Ovitz built up the Creative Artists Agency in the 1980s and called the shots from his sleek I.M. Pei-designed headquarters in Beverly Hills.

 

There’s been such a long gap since he took a fatal step by accepting the No. 2 job at Disney in 1995 that a person had to wonder whether nature really did abhor this particular vacuum.

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Lew Harris

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'After Michael Ovitz Sued Me ... '

31 March 2009 1:01 PM, PDT | From The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news

By Cathy Schulman (to Eric Estrin)

Cathy Schulman’s rise from Yale theater studies major and playwright to her current position as president of Mandalay Pictures included stints in film production, development, acquisitions, financing and three years programming the Sundance Film Festival. She won an Academy Award as producer for best picture “Crash,” and suffered through a much publicized legal battle with Michael Ovitz, whose one-time production company, Apg, she briefly headed. Schulman talks with Eric Estrin about going from the depths to the heights -- and how it feels to be sued by the most powerf...

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