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Anthony Pellicano, the high-profile private investigator whose clients included some of the biggest stars in Hollywood, was charged today with conspiracy and making threats against a Los Angeles Times reporter. Anita Busch was researching a story in 2002 about the relationship between actor Steven Seagal and a reputed Mafia figure when someone fired a bullet through the windshield of her unoccupied car. Left on top of the vehicle was a dead fish with a rose in its mouth and a sign reading: "Stop." The charges today were filed by Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley after a lengthy investigation...

Sealed transcripts of tape-recorded conversations between Bill and Hillary Clinton's top private detective and his clients will be shared with prosecutors, a federal court ruled on Thursday. Reuters reports that the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected arguments from lawyers for notorious Hollywood sleuth Anthony Pellicano, who tried to claim that a November 2002 search of his Sunset Blvd. office office was illegal, and that evidence seized there could not be used to convict him. Pellicano - a self-proclaimed "sin eater" for some of Hollywood's biggest names - worked for Mr. and Mrs. Clinton during the 1992 presidential campaign...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Celebrity private eye Anthony Pellicano, whose clients once included Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Jackson, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in federal prison Friday for possessing firearms and explosives. Pellicano, who was also fined $6,000, remains the subject of a grand jury investigation into whether he may have conducted illegal wiretaps of celebrities. Federal officials have declined to provide details of the investigation, and Pellicano has said he is refusing to cooperate. His career collapsed last year after investigators raided his office, seeking evidence to link him to threats made against a Los Angeles Times reporter....

Private Eye May Have Eavesdropped On DA, Police LOS ANGELES -- Federal agents are keeping District Attorney Steve Cooley in the dark about their wiretapping probe targeting former celebrity private eye Anthony Pellicano, it was reported Thursday. Pellicano, now imprisoned for illegally possessing explosives, may have eavesdropped on at least two deputy district attorneys, a Los Angeles police detective and an alleged rape victim, sources close to the wiretapping investigation told the Los Angeles Times. Cooley, who said he was not privy to details of the probe, said criminal investigations could have been compromised. "Such illegal wiretapping puts lives of...

Nov 17, 2003 Celebrity Private Eye About to Go to Prison Vows Not to Cooperate With Wiretap Investigation The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) - Anthony Pellicano, the private eye to the stars who is going to prison for possessing illegal explosives, says he won't cooperate with authorities investigating whether he secretly taped conversations of celebrities and their lawyers. Pellicano, who was to report to the Federal Detention Center in Los Angeles on Monday, also said the lawyers and celebrities he worked for over the years are innocent. "They did nothing wrong," he was quoted as saying in Monday's Los...

Celebrity Private Eye Pleads Guilty To Weapons Charges Anthony Pellicano Faces 33 Months In Prison LOS ANGELES -- Celebrity private eye Anthony Pellicano pleaded guilty Thursday to two felony counts of possessing hand grenades and C-4 explosives, authorities said. Pellicano, 59, also faced one misdemeanor count of unlawfully storing a plastic explosive, but the count was dropped under a plea agreement, said Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office. Pellicano faces up to 33 months in prison and was scheduled to return to court Jan. 20 for sentencing. He previously could have received 21 years in prison if...

<p>Hillary Clinton's PI Anthony Pellicano starts his trial today on two felony counts of possessing unregistered firearms (handgrenades) and C-4 explosives. He was arrested November 2002 after FBI agents searched his office as part of an investigation into threats made to Los Angeles Times reporter Anita Busch, who was investigating a possible connection between actor Steven Seagal and an alleged Mafia associate.</p>

SOURCES: 'THE PELICAN' PELLICANO CUTS A DEAL, GUILTY PLEA; TOP HOLLYWOOD PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR 'TO PRISON FOR UP TO 3 YEARS', POSSESSION OF ILLEGAL EXPLOSIVES...

<p>FOR 30 years Anthony Pellicano, P.I., has figured into the lives of Stallone, Roseanne, Wacko Jacko, Elizabeth Taylor Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher Burton Burton Warner Fortensky, Mike Meyers, John DeLorean, etc.</p> <p>In November, a real-life Steven Seagal C-grade scenario led to extortion charges against someone else which led to whether this stare-down, arms-folded, in-your-face Hollywood detective threatened a reporter which led to the feds discovering weapons in Pellicano's office. He was arrested.</p>

A California private detective who worked to discredit Clinton Sexgate accusers Monica Lewinsky and Gennifer Flowers has been arrested in connection with attempts to intimidate a reporter for the Los Angeles Times after the FBI caught him with an arsenal of explosives. Anthony J. Pellicano was arrested Thursday after a search of his office by a dozen FBI agents turned up an "array of explosives," reported New York's Daily News on Saturday. "Agents seized plastic explosives, detonating cord, blasting caps and two handguns," the paper said. Pellicano's stash of explosives "could be used to bring down a plane or blow...