04.28.06
Pellicanos at War
Kind of read with amusement Nikki Finke’s exclusive interview with Kat Pellicano today. Kat trashed the recent Vanity Fair expose about Anthony Pellicano by Bryan Burroughs and John Connolly and threatened to take legal action. What I was immediately reminded of was all the very nasty emails from the Pellicano clan that I had gotten when I initially started Anthony Pellicano Web Links back in the day. The Pellicano family, with Kat as their queen bee, claimed that I was embarrassing them in front of their neighbors by saying things about both their Tony and them that weren’t true. I had responded that I was just aggregating links to news articles others had written and if there was anything factually inaccurate I really wanted to know. There were more nasty letters from more relatives and eventually my website was completely hacked into and my trusty old desktop got a nasty computer virus that ultimately resulted in its demise.
Now, there are no fingers being pointed here at anyone. Websites get hacked into constantly and computers do die painful deaths of their own accord. I always found something interesting though, which happened when I put some spiffy software into my new digs. This software was magical and would tell me if anyone was trying to access my computer, and what their geographic location was. I kept on getting addresses in Chicago and the Valley until I filed a slew of complaints with the federal government and then all was quiet for some time after. All the computer woes were just an extreme nuisance and inconvenience for me really. It wasn’t near as unsettling as a physical threat on my own personal health which had apparently happened to John Connolly proximate to the time of that Vanity Fair article’s publication. Could Tony have been valiantly trying to defend one of his ex-wives’ honor with his threat? That would at least have a noble ring to it, consistent with Kat now claiming that Tony had only wanted to convert to Judaism because he believed in Judaism more than his own faith and not just to please a man twenty years his senior, Bert Fields.
It’s not easy to understand why the Pellicanos are at war now with Connolly. After reading the Vanity Fair article, I was left with the impression that Burroughs and Connolly were being quite kind, especially to Kat Pellicano. I had also been left with many unanswered questions in fact. Since Kat Pellicano had been married to Tony during the height of his reign of terror in Tinseltown, did she know of any of the crimes that he has been accused of committing? Had she in any way colluded or participated in them? Had she benefited from Tony’s ill gotten fortunes? Since Kat and Tony are currently divorced, marital privilege would no longer apply legally and had she been called to testify before the Grand Jury?
Kat Pellicano’s communication with Finke got me wondering even more. Does that imply except for (1) Tony’s reason to convert to Judaism (2) Kat’s daughter telling her to call Tony “asshole” to make him go away (3) Tony demanding his children kiss his ring finger like Don Corleone and (4) Kat and Tony’s son being in Tony’s “war” room, that everything else mentioned in that lengthy Vanity Fair article was true? Hmmn…
