03.29.06
What Makes Anthony Pellicano Tick?
In an early article about Anthony Pellicano from 1978, the man clearly demonstrated a grandiosity that went well beyond the norm. Pellicano believed he was in fact immortal and boasted of being a believer in an obscure Eastern philosophy wherein “absolute confidence can conquer death. That’s what I have. That’s why I’ve been able to accomplish what I’ve accomplished.”
A LITTLE BACKGROUND
Pellicano was brought up by his mother and doesn’t really ever mention his father.
Pellicano has been married six times and has nine children. His last marriage to a topless dancer in Las Vegas occurred right before his incarceration in 2003 and has already ended in divorce.
He is estranged from some of his daughters and used to wiretap their phone calls as well as that of his ex-wife Kat Pellicano. She is writing a tell-all book and one can only imagine about what.
Pellicano would call grown women he dealt with professionally “girl” and “sweetie”.
THE MISOGYNIST ELEMENT
Pellicano was indeed a popular item in Hollywood before his disgrace, but his clientele was almost exclusively male. Except for that reclusive Canadian millionairess recently, Pellicano’s last female employer over a decade before was Roseanne Arnold (who subsequently labeled him “the sleaziest human being ever”). You’re right; I’m not counting Farah Fawcett or Sandra Carradine, with whom he both was romantically involved, or Hilary Clinton — or Michael Jackson.
While the disgraced P.I. would wiretap both men and women without any sexual preference, he particularly relished slandering, threatening and bullying women while attempting to destroy their lives. I’m choosing to leave out of this discussion that Pellicano had no moral qualms about working for rapists and child molesters because frankly I’m getting sick to my stomach.
Famous cases his handiwork was apparent in were Monica Lewinsky, Katherine Willey and Gennifer Flowers in the Clinton sex-gate scandals, the Scanlon/Kennedy rape case, Heidi Fleiss, Monica Harmon of Jerry Bruckheimer/Don Simpson fame, Kathleen Bell in O.J. Simpson, the mothers of the boys in the 1993 Michael Jackson child molestation case, Linda Doucett the ex-girlfriend of Gary Shandling, the six rape victims in the Jones case, the nanny of that Canadian millionairess and Anita Busch.
Now those are the names and faces that you might recognize, but in the year and a half of doing this website I’ve met a far greater number who have remained anonymous in the media. They have included women in the health field like me, attorneys and paralegals, screenwriters, businesswomen, personal assistants, secretaries and housewives. Many of them have been single mothers who were literally afraid for the welfare of their children if they said anything. Most of the women had only been guilty of knowing something that was inconvenient for Pellicano to have them know. Some have simply been behaving in a fashion that displeased one of Pellicano’s male clients.
A quip by a male journalist friend of mine sums Pellicano’s prowess with women up beautifully for me, “Pellicano never lost a fight to a woman or a child. Men? He didn’t fare too well.”
Let’s all hope that new female judge, Dale S. Fischer, presiding over the Pellicano trial gives him hell. The gumshoe might really not be at the top of his heap for the next few years in an all male prison.
