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Yippee-ki-yay, Motherf***er.
For those of you following the sordid illegalities of private investigator to the stars, Anthony Pellicano, you probably already know that Tom Cruise had hired him to wiretap Nicole Kidman’s telephone conversations during their 2001 divorce, and that Warren Beatty, Sly Stallone, Garry Shandling, and Steven Seagal were former clients or victims of Pellicano’s pursuits. Just last month, Pellicano was indicted on 110 counts in federal court for alleged racketeering and conspiracy, wiretapping, witness tampering, identity theft and destruction of evidence.
Well, the latest fallout from Pellicano’s exploits involves director John McTiernan (Rollerball, Die Hard, Predator), who has been charged with hiring the detective to wiretap conversations of a movie producer and then lying about it to F.B.I. agents. According to the criminal complaint obtained by the LA Times, “McTiernan claimed that he had no knowledge of any wiretapping conducted by Anthony Pellicano and had never discussed wiretapping with Anthony Pellicano, when in fact, as defendant McTiernan knew, he had hired and paid Anthony Pellicano to conduct a wiretap.”
Hopefully, McTiernan’s legal problems won’t plague him for long; there’s only so much time before Chris Klein gets too old to don another pair of roller skates and reprise his roll in Rollerball 2: This Time It’s Rollerblades, Bitches!
