Hulk Hustles the Hulk Hogan Ultimate Grill, Before the Recall
By Art Harris, (c), www.artharris.com, all rights reserved.
With the stock market diving, I figured sports star memorabilia might be the ticket, and phoned the QVC Shopping Network’s 800 number Wednesday night to try and nab the Hulk Hogan New Ultimate Grill.
If O.J. Simpson is so bullish as to use armed goons to bust into a Las Vegas hotel room to steal back his own Not Guilty suit, who’s to say a beleagured Hulk and his collectibles aren’t a smart play, too? Read the rest of this entry »
By John Nazarian, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved
LOS ANGELES, April 10–It’s 8:50 a.m. and guess who walks into the Anthony Pellicano federal wiretapping trial… Hollywood Superagent Michael Ovitz, nicely dressed and with two lawyers,”Suits!”
He is well spoken, but does the “my lawyers took care of it” routine.
On Thursday, lucky Anthony Pellicano had 28 charges against him and a co-defendant dropped, but he’s still facing more than 35 other counts dropped by prosecutors, and Hollywood superstar clients like Ovitz keep the revolving star door spinning at the courthouse, all of them rather dismayed the guy they hired to snoop on others recorded their conversations, too.
Ovitz was the founder of Creative Artist Agency and after 21 years moved to work at Disney in October 1995. The big move would cost Disney millions as things did not work out, and they paid Ovitz to leave…and leave he did with the bank he towed behind his car! Read the rest of this entry »
From Bald Truth Staff, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved
It’s no comedy special, and painful to hear, comedian Chris Rock on audio tape introduced as evidence in the federal wiretap trial of PI Anthony Pellicano.
The Pellican caught his comedy client on tape as the investigator reads from an illegally obtained LAPD report about a Hollywood model out to sucker punch the celeb with a paternity claim that went nowhere.
That’s Rock above with his now estranged wife; pix of the model are a bit too racy even for The Bald Truth to publish.
By John Nazarian, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved
And the band played on, what is going on? I am probably more confused now as to the criminal justice system than when I started my career many years ago!
Now I know that the system is good, and for the most part works. The prosecutors on this case are right on top of their game and seldom if ever miss a beat!
By John Nazarian, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved
LOS ANGELES, March 26—-Movie producer Charles Victor Roven (Batman Begins, Three Kings) comes in on Tuesday, and sits and listens with us to Exhibit 54a, a recording of his former partner, director John McTiernan (Diehard, Predator) telling Anthony Pellicano that Roven is a “rich fuck-up” and “is what he is.”
That had to hurt. A rich fuck-up, is that any different than a poor one…YES!
Roven was the producer and McTiernan the director of the remake of Rollerball, a movie that I hated…Pellicano tells “McT” that he has “to listen to every one of them,” i.e. the wiretaps of Mr. Roven and his wife. This guy McT is getting the Pellicano massage of removing his money from his wallet. Pellicano tells him that he still owes $25,000.00, and that there is so much more work to be done…
By John Nazarian, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved
LOS ANGELES, MARCH 26–Well, after a three day break in the fun and games of the Pellicano trial, aka “Omerta is dead,” we were met Tuesday morning by a gentleman named Peter L. Knecht, Esquire.
His client and friend is a guy named Bilal Barody…a guy who claimed to live almost everywhere and then again nowhere. A castle, a condo on the Wishire corridor, or who knows. He does, however, owe “Ronny” $300,000.00 and is being handled by “Ronny’s” friend Pellicano. Oh, I almost forgot, “Ronny” is also known as Ron Meyer, the CEO of Universal Studios! Yes, another Mr. Big! Read the rest of this entry »
What better window on Lalaland, its celebrity-infested back alleys and damage control lawyers than the wiretap and racketeering trial of the Prince of Pecadillos, one Anthony Pellicano, that special breed of investigator all rely on known as The Hollywood PI.
That’s why we were delighted to learn that another swashbuckling legend of Sunset Strip and fellow private eye, burly, tough-talking John Nazarian, had scored a press pass to court, and will be reporting the wails and travails of his old pal–and filing salty-tongued dispatches for our readers, as well as his own site, Desperate Exes.
He’s an ex-cop and prison guard whose sweet smell of success wafts from the leather interior of the Bentley he drives (he’s got a Rolls, too). Satisfied starlets smile down from his walls, and other ditched divorcees can be found thanking him online for helping them level the playing field…Sooooo, let’s welcome Big John….and let the games begin…first with his account of jury selection on the next page. Read the rest of this entry »
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