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- Trapped in the Closet
- feat. Tom Cruise and Scientology
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New York Post October 2, 2005 By PHILIP RECCHIA A FORMER Scientology staffer is breaking her silence about being sexually assaulted 100 times at ages 16 and 17 by the church supervisor she was "ordered" to live with, and then receiving threats and intimidating phone calls when she reported the abuse. Five years ago, Gabriel Williams, then a 27-year-old chief supervisor at the Church of Scientology in Mountain View, Calif., forced then-16-year-old Jennifer Stewart to have intercourse with him on the first evening she moved in, according to her statements in court records. After Williams was charged with rape and sodomy with a minor — and later convicted of sexual battery and sodomy — Stewart's family endured death threats, stalkers and other harassment. "We want the world to know that when Tom Cruise calls psychiatry a 'pseudoscience,' it's all part of Scientology's plan to brainwash people," said Stewart's husband, Tom Gorman, referring to the actor's "Today" show interview in June. Stewart believed that if she went to the police, she would not be able to avoid being sent to a psychiatrist. According to Scientology, psychiatry is a source of evil. Members who see "psychs" or take psychiatric drugs will be declared "SP" — "suppressive person" — and can't achieve spiritual freedom. In a related civil suit brought by Stewart against Williams and the church, she recently received as part of the settlement a "generous monetary resolution," said her attorney. Although the church admitted no wrongdoing, it forked over about $700'000, sources say. Stewart's ordeal began in 2000, when she became a supervisor under Williams at the church in the San Francisco area, where she and Gorman were raised as Scientologists. She had come to know Williams as someone who made "lots of overt sexual comments" about women, she says. Still, she was told by a senior church staffer that the church had "ordered her" to work from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and to live with Williams and his fiancée at their San Jose flat, which was closer to the church than her home, making carpooling easier, she says. "At the time, Williams was a highly regarded member of the church, so the arrangement seemed safe," said her father, Michael Stewart. According to court documents, the church said it "refutes any 'order' by management instructing the victim to stay with" Williams. After Williams assaulted Stewart the first night, he did so again the next, telling her, "I'll kill you if you say anything," according to the police report. "Williams told me everything that was happening was my fault because I'd been evil in a past life," said Stewart. "If I told anyone, I'd be sent to a psych and be taken away from my family." Only after Gorman became suspicious of bruises on Stewart's body in May 2001 did she admit what Williams had been doing, he said. THE next day, Gorman and Stewart told Stewart's father. Michael Stewart took his family out of the church and hid his daughter. A few days later, he told church authorities what Williams had done. "A deputy special affairs officer told me not to go to the police," said the elder Stewart. "If we did, we'd lose Jennifer to child services." "The church had no knowledge of the relationship between Williams and Stewart, and upon learning of the allegations and determining that Gabe and Jennifer were indeed having a relationship, Gabe was immediately fired," said Jeff Quiros, president of the Church of Scientology San Francisco. Quiros sent The Post several testimonials from acquaintances and colleagues of Stewart and Gorman, which he said would have been entered as evidence in the criminal proceedings had Williams not struck a plea deal that settled the case without trial. Elliot Abelson, an attorney for Quiros' church, emphasized that the church never knew about Williams' behavior, that Williams was fired within a day of them finding out about the allegations, and that there have been no other such cases within the church. Michael Stewart finally went to the cops on his daughter's 18th birthday, when the fear of losing her to the state no longer loomed. More than a year after his last assault on Stewart, Williams was arrested in Florida in 2002 by a San Jose detective, according to the DA in the case. While Williams was waiting for his criminal case to be heard, Stewart, who married Gorman in 2002 and now lives with his family in San Francisco, filed a civil suit against him and the church. That was when the threats began, they say. On one occasion, a man phoned Gorman's father and said, "SPs don't live long. Your son and his wife, Jennifer, will be dead soon," according to a police report. "Who else would use the term 'SP'?" said the younger Gorman. Such incidents continued up until three months ago, he says. After doing about eight months in jail, Williams was released last year. Now on probation, he lives in Clearlake Oaks, Calif., with his wife and two kids. "I paid my debt to society in this matter, and I was not found liable in the civil action," Williams said through his attorney. |
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Le détective privé utilisé par Tom Cruise pour espionnage a été condamné à quinze ans de prison ferme. Anthony Pellicano est un célèbre détective hollywoodien utilisé par divers avocats de superstars dasn des affaires de divorce etc. Il a notamment été utilisé par l'avocat du divorce de Tom Cruise et Nicole Kidman. Il a écopé de 15 ans de prison ferme hier à Los Angeles pour ses activités illicites. LOS ANGELES — Hollywood private eye Anthony Pellicano was sentenced Monday to 15 years in prison for running a wiretapping scheme that spied on the rich and famous. U.S. District Judge Dale Fischer also ordered the 64-year-old Pellicano and two other defendants to forfeit a total of $2 million. Pellicano showed no emotion when the sentence was read. "I have taken full and complete responsibility for all my actions," he said. Fischer said Pellicano engaged in "reprehensible behavior" while digging up dirt for his well-heeled clients to use in legal and other disputes. "He did this eagerly, sometimes maliciously and with extreme pride," the judge said. The private eye was convicted of a combined 78 counts, including wiretapping, racketeering and wire fraud, in two separate trials earlier this year. Prosecutors said Pellicano wiretapped stars such as Sylvester Stallone and bribed police officers to run the names of comedians such as Garry Shandling and Kevin Nealon through law enforcement databases to gain information. Prosecutors previously recommended in court documents that Pellicano serve nearly 16 years in prison for running a criminal enterprise and for becoming a "high-priced thief who fraudulently obtained prominence through the harm that he wantonly inflicted on others." Assistant U.S. Attorney Dan Saunders said outside court that he thought the sentence was appropriate. Pellicano must serve 85 percent of his sentence, making him eligible for release when he is about to turn 77, the prosecutor said. Defense attorney Steve Gruel plans to appeal Pellicano's conviction. He said authorities tried but couldn't get Pellicano to cooperate with their investigation and now are taking it out on him by recommending a hefty prison sentence. "Three years ago they wanted him to provide the sizzle, and he didn't and he won't," Gruel said. In all, 14 people have been charged. Seven, including film director John McTiernan and former Hollywood Records president Robert Pfeifer, have pleaded guilty to charges including perjury and conspiracy. Authorities investigated Pellicano's activities for three years. An indictment was unsealed in February 2006, just days after he completed a 2 1/2-year prison sentence for possessing illegal weapons. Throughout the trial, prosecutors portrayed Pellicano as a well-connected thug who ran a lucrative business by charging clients a nonrefundable retainer fee that started at $25,000 and could reach hundreds of thousands of dollars. Authorities were led to Pellicano after former Los Angeles Times reporter Anita Busch found a dead fish with a rose in its mouth on her car along with a sign reading "stop" in June 2002. The discovery came after she wrote a series of unflattering articles about one-time superagent Michael Ovitz, a Pellicano client. Busch, hobbled by a hip injury, spoke before sentencing, telling the judge she has suffered with stress-related physical and emotional problems because of Pellicano. She no longer works in journalism. "It was a death by a thousand cuts," she said of the affect of the spying on her life. "They were deep and they were hard." Former Los Angeles police Sgt. Mark Arneson and ex-telephone company employee Ray Turner were also ordered to pay restitution for accessing confidential information for Pellicano. Both are scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 29. Major industry players with links to Pellicano, such as Ovitz, Paramount studio head Brad Grey and entertainment attorney Bert Fields, weren't charged in the case and maintained they didn't know about Pellicano's tactics. Pellicano and four co-defendants, including Arneson and Turner, were convicted in May. Pellicano acted as his own attorney during the trial and called only one witness. He kept his promise that he wouldn't give up information about his clients to save himself. In another trial, Pellicano was found guilty along with entertainment attorney Terry Christensen of charges linked to the wiretapping of billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian's former wife in a child support battle. Prosecutors said they bugged her phone conversations to disprove her claims that the MGM mogul was the father of her young daughter. DNA tests later showed movie producer Steve Bing was the biological father. Christensen was sentenced last month to three years is prison. Pellicano and Alexander Proctor, who prosecutors said was hired by the private eye, are awaiting trial in state court on charges of conspiracy and making criminal threats in the Busch case. Proctor, 65, is serving a 10-year sentence on unrelated drug charges in a Georgia prison. Numerous civil lawsuits against Pellicano and others seek unspecified damages and claim his activities amounted to invasion of privacy, negligence and infliction of emotional distress. |
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NICOLE Kidman has been questioned by the FBI
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- Reuters just reported that Pellicano was re-arrested today
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- Anthony Pellicano is returning to L.A. from prison to face new charges
- of conspiring to use illegal wiretaps, sources say
- latimes.com
- February 3, 2006
Former private investigator Anthony Pellicano will be returned to Los Angeles from a federal prison near Bakersfield as early as today to face new charges that he and others illegally used wiretaps and confidential law enforcement records to help his clients, sources said Thursday.
The transfer of Pellicano to local federal custody comes as authorities prepare for the release of grand jury indictments resulting from more than three years of investigation by the FBI, said the sources, who refused to be identified because of the continuing criminal probe. The indictments could be announced as soon as Monday, they said.The investigation, though focused on the flamboyant private eye, has rocked Los Angeles' legal and entertainment communities because Pellicano for years had worked on behalf of some of the biggest names in both fields.
In recent weeks, according to sources, authorities have zeroed in on a handful of Pellicano clients and associates as potential accomplices in his long-suspected use of illegal tactics. Those people include former Los Angeles Police Sgt. Mark Arneson and Ray Turner, a former Pacific Bell employee, said the sources, who did not rule out the possibility that others also would be charged in the case.
Attorneys advising Arneson and Turner declined to comment Thursday.
Pellicano could not be reached for comment. The 61-year-old private investigator has been serving a 30-month sentence at the Taft Correctional Institution after pleading guilty to federal charges of storing hand grenades and plastic explosives in his Sunset Strip offices.
His former legal team in the explosives case had no comment on the possibility that he would face new charges.
The investigation, directed by the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles, began in November 2002 when FBI agents raided Pellicano's offices for evidence that he had been involved in a threat against a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Anita Busch. A dead fish, a rose and a sign reading "Stop" had been placed on the windshield of her car. Pellicano still faces state charges in connection with that case.
During the 2002 raid, and one that followed two months later, records and interviews show, the FBI hauled away voluminous computerized records containing alleged evidence of wiretaps and other illegal acts. The evidence provided a road map for investigators who pored over countless pages of documents and conducted hundreds of interviews with clients and potential victims of Pellicano.
The first public charges resulting from the wiretap probe were disclosed three weeks ago, when former Beverly Hills Police Officer Craig Stevens and Pellicano's onetime girlfriend, Sandra Will Carradine, pleaded guilty to lying about the detective's use of wiretaps and other illegal tactics. Both are scheduled for sentencing in the fall.
Stevens' guilty plea provided the first official link between Pellicano and the law firm of one of Los Angeles' best-known entertainment lawyers, Bert Fields. The 24-year veteran of the Beverly Hills force admitted that he had used police computers to gather information on a person who had been in court battling a client of Fields' firm: Greenberg, Glusker, Fields, Claman, Machtinger and Kinsella.
Fields long ago acknowledged that authorities had told him he was a subject of the investigation. But Fields, his attorney and a lawyer for the firm all have denied any wrongdoing or knowledge that Pellicano engaged in illegal acts.
Given Pellicano's broad connections within the legal community, Fields' firm was only one of many to come under scrutiny by the FBI.
In recent months, documents and interviews show, at least five local law firms have been subpoenaed for records of Pellicano's work for their attorneys. Though the firms turned over some of the records, others were withheld on grounds that the work was confidential or irrelevant.
For all the public interest in the case, the FBI and federal prosecutors have been extraordinarily secretive about the pace and direction of the investigation, which has been led by Assistant U.S. Attys. Daniel Saunders and Kevin Lally under the supervision of George Cardona, the office's chief assistant U.S. attorney.
Debra Wong Yang, the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, months ago recused herself from the case because she had worked earlier in her career for Greenberg, Glusker, according to several private lawyers involved in the case.
Thom Mrozek, spokesman for the office, confirmed that Yang had removed herself from the probe.
Loyola University law professor Laurie Levenson, a former federal prosecutor, said Yang "did the right thing."
"It is my understanding that they have walled her off from day one and that she has had no decision-making responsibility in the case," Levenson said.
Several attorneys close to the case said Bruce G. Ohr, chief of the U.S. Justice Department's organized crime and racketeering section, is involved in decisions about the case. Ohr oversees the unit that handles prosecutions under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, which authorities have considered using in this case.
Levenson said federal prosecutors in Los Angeles have to clear RICO cases with the Justice Department in Washington.
Several veteran Los Angeles lawyers who specialize in defending white-collar crime suspects said they had been retained by other attorneys who are under scrutiny in the Pellicano case.
The lawyers all spoke on condition that they not be identified because of the sensitivity of the situation, including the possibility that some of their clients could be indicted.
Some of them said they thought it highly likely that attorneys would be indicted in the near future.
Asked how serious the government was about indicting certain attorneys, one defense lawyer said: "Beyond serious."
Added the lawyer: "That dead fish led to a treasure trove of stuff."Times staff writers Peter Y. Hong, Hemmy So and Richard B. Schmitt contributed to this report.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Private eye to the stars Anthony Pellicano, freed from prison on Friday after serving 2 1/2 years for firearms offenses, was immediately arrested again in a federal wiretap investigation closely watched in Hollywood. The charges were contained in sealed court documents that will be made public when Pellicano, 61, is arraigned on Monday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, said Inspector Jimell Griffin, a spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service. The former private detective whose clients have included Tom Cruise, John Travolta and Michael Jackson, has been quoted as vowing never to betray his high-profile clients. Still, a number of Hollywood heavyweights have answered questions from federal agents or appeared before the grand jury that conducted the investigation, among them Paramount Pictures Group Chairman Brad Grey, Universal Studios President Ron Meyer and veteran entertainment lawyer Bert Fields. The scope of the charges will reveal whether federal prosecutors believe he acted at the behest of powerful Hollywood clients willing to eavesdrop on their enemies. The wiretap probe was triggered in 2002 by accusations that Pellicano had tried to intimidate reporter Anita Busch, then working for the Los Angeles Times, to keep her from pursing stories about a suspected Mafia extortion plot against actor Steven Seagal. FBI agents searching Pellicano's West Hollywood office found computer files containing large volumes of wiretap transcripts and notes, as well as firearms, grenades and plastic explosives in a safe. The weapons discovery led to his guilty plea on felony firearms charges in October 2003 and a 30-month prison term. Pellicano was taken into custody as he was released from the Taft Correctional Institution near Bakersfield, California, where he was serving that sentence. Griffin said Pellicano was then transferred to the San Bernardino County Jail, east of Los Angeles, to be held until his arraignment, which is scheduled for 2 p.m. on Monday. In June, the Los Angeles County district attorney charged Pellicano in a separate case with making criminal threats against Busch and conspiring with an associate, Alexander Proctor, to carry out those threats. According to prosecutors, it was Proctor who placed a dead fish with a rose in its mouth on the windshield of Busch's car outside her home in June 2002. He also is accused of making a hole that resembled a bullet hole in the windshield and leaving a sign printed with the word "stop." Proctor is serving a 10-year prison term in Illinois on unrelated drug charges. © Reuters 2006. |
- Latimes.com, February 15, 2007
- A grand jury indictment identifies new details and
victims in the investigation
- of alleged wiretapping by the Hollywood private eye.
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source : www.lermarnet.com (06.07.2006) Pellicano thread from ocmb The LA Times today reported that
: Quote : Former private investigator Anthony Pellicano will be returned to
Los Angeles from a federal prison near Bakersfield as early as today to
face new charges that he and others illegally used wiretaps and
confidential law enforcement records to help his clients, sources said
Thursday. The transfer of Pellicano to local federal custody comes as authorities
prepare for the release of grand jury indictments resulting from more than
three years of investigation by the FBI, said the sources, who refused to be
identified because of the continuing criminal probe. The indictments could
be announced as soon as Monday, ref: http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-pellicano3f...
Reuters just reported that Pellicano was re-arrested today : Quote
: LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Private eye to the stars Anthony Pellicano, freed
from prison on Friday after serving 2 1/2 years for firearms offenses, was
immediately arrested again in a federal wiretap investigation closely
watched in Hollywood. The charges were contained in sealed court documents that will be made
public when Pellicano, 61, is arraigned on Monday in U.S. District Court
in Los Angeles, said Inspector Jimell Griffin, a spokesman for the U.S.
Marshals Service. The former private detective whose clients have included Tom Cruise, John
Travolta and Michael Jackson, has been quoted as vowing never to betray his
high-profile clients. Still, a number of Hollywood heavyweights have answered questions from
federal agents or appeared before the grand jury that conducted the
investigation, among them Paramount Pictures Group Chairman Brad Grey, Universal Studios President Ron Meyer and veteran entertainment lawyer
Bert Fields.... ref : http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&stor...
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Allegations leveled in Pellicano case
The latest and perhaps final federal indictment in the
long-running Anthony Pellicano investigation raised new allegations Wednesday
about how the onetime Hollywood private eye conspired with attorney Terry
Christensen to wiretap the ex-wife of billionaire Kirk Kerkorian.
While it did not charge any new defendants, the grand jury indictment named two new victims of Pellicano's alleged racketeering. Included is well-known entertainment attorney John LaViolette, who was chief negotiator in a bitter battle between the German company Intertainment AG and its onetime producing partner, the now-bankrupt Franchise Pictures. The 111-count indictment, coming more than a year after federal prosecutors first charged Pellicano and six others with a litany of crimes, was immediately assailed by defense attorneys as a meaningless addendum to what they characterize as an overblown case. "These are not even new charges," said Pellicano's attorney, Steven F. Gruel. "And what upsets me the most about it is that instead of providing discovery so we can contest the existing charges, it seems to me that they are wasting their time before the grand jury bringing meaningless accusations against Mr. Pellicano." Christensen's attorney, Terree Bowers, was equally critical, suggesting the U.S. attorney's office brought the indictment in retaliation for the sharp criticism leveled at its tactics by defense attorneys. "The prosecutors have made a huge mistake in their attempt to strike back at Terry Christensen for his recent charges of misconduct and disorganization against the government," Bowers said. He contends that the details of that conversation "will actually clearly prove Terry's innocence if this matter is ever aired before a jury." The U.S. attorney's office, as is its custom in pending cases, did not respond to the accusations of the defense attorneys. The new allegations center on a March 18, 2002, conversation between Pellicano and Christensen in relation to his representation of Kirk Kerkorian in a child support case with his estranged wife, Lisa Bonder Kerkorian. Prosecutors contend Christensen paid the investigator $100'000 to eavesdrop on Bonder Kerkorian's phone calls to her attorneys and pass on information to Christensen. The new indictment asserts that Christensen told Pellicano "one of the criteria" of arranging the illegal wiretap "is that no name ever surfaces anywhere" because "the people related to me don't want to do this." The next month, the indictment adds, Pellicano allegedly told the attorney that "if we continue to get this kind of information with their strategy, we're really killing 'em." And later in April 2002, according to the indictment, Pellicano allegedly told Christensen that he had 80 intercepted telephone calls to review "just from today." The latest indictment also identifies attorney LaViolette as a victim of alleged wiretapping in 2001. On March 15 of that year, the attorney was involved in a negotiation between Intertainment and Franchise Pictures, then owned by Hollywood producer Elie Samaha and onetime actor Andrew Stevens. In an interview Wednesday, LaViolette said he was told more than two years ago by his client, an Intertainment executive in Los Angeles, that the FBI had found phone records at Pellicano's offices suggesting that their conversations had been bugged. "The implication was that our calls were tapped, but [FBI agents] didn't give much more information than that," LaViolette said, adding that the FBI never interviewed him. The indictment is the fourth issued by a grand jury that was impaneled in February 2005 and is expected to disband. It also names Los Angeles art dealer Paul Rusconi as a wiretap victim. To date, seven people, including a former Beverly Hills police officer and film director John McTiernan, have pleaded guilty in the case. greg.krikorian@latimes.com
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