LOS ANGELES - Nine people have filed claims against the cities of Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, saying two police officers ran their names though government databases at the behest of a private investigator indicted in a wiretapping scandal.

Five of the claims, filed Wednesday, said Anthony Pellicano paid former Los Angeles police Detective Mark Arneson to check the criminal backgrounds of the claimants, violating their civil rights.

Four claims filed Thursday involved former Beverly Hills police Officer Craig Stevens, who has pleaded guilty to illegally accessing law enforcement databases.

The claims naming Stevens did not mention Pellicano. But attorney Neville Johnson, who filed all nine claims, accused Stevens of being paid by Pellicano to run the claimants' names.

Claims are often precursors to lawsuits.

One of the claimants in the Los Angeles case is Hungarian model Monika Zsibrita. The Los Angeles Times reported this week that comedian Chris Rock hired Pellicano to investigate Zsibrita after she claimed in 1999 that he was the father of her unborn child.

A representative for Rock has said the comedian never hired Pellicano to do anything illegal.

Rock was separated from his wife when he met Zsibrita. The outcome of the now concluded paternity case was unclear because it was sealed by a private judge.

The private detective was indicted in February in a federal wiretapping probe. He is accused of eavesdropping on Hollywood stars and using the information for threats, blackmail and in some cases to help clients gain advantages in legal disputes. Pellicano has pleaded not guilty.

Arneson has pleaded not guilty to charges related to using confidential police databases to search for information for Pellicano.

Frank Mateljan, a spokesman for the Los Angeles city attorney's office, said he had no comment because the office hadn't reviewed the claims.

Beverly Hills City Attorney Larry Wiener said he had not yet received a copy of the claims Thursday.

Besides the Zsibrita claim, the four claims filed against the city of Los Angeles said Arneson illegally searched the records of nanny Pamela Miller and three of her family members.

Miller was the nanny to Taylor Thomson, a member of a Canadian publishing empire, and later sued Thomson, who was represented by lawyers from the firm where Bert Fields works.

Fields, a prominent entertainment attorney, hired Pellicano as an investigator and has said he was questioned by federal agents. The attorney has denied any wrongdoing.

The four claims filed against Beverly Hills involved the family of film producer Aaron Russo. Johnson said Russo had been involved in a lawsuit in which the other side hired Pellicano, but declined to elaborate.

Meanwhile, a company that helped finance the yet-to-be released film "Crash Bandits" sued director John McTiernan for breach of contract, claiming he didn't disclose during the movie's pre-production that he was being investigated by federal prosecutors.

McTiernan, whose film credits include "Die Hard" and "Predator," pleaded guilty earlier this month to lying to the FBI about hiring Pellicano to wiretap film producer Charles Roven.

In other legal developments, Pellicano turned the tables on federal prosecutors this week by accusing them of spying on him in prison through a secret deal with his then-girlfriend.

Pellicano's attorney Steven Gruel said in court documents that the detective's ex-girlfriend, Sandra Wil Carradine, gave FBI agents and prosecutors a "fountain of information" about his legal strategy after visiting him in jail several times last year.

Pellicano accused the government of violating his attorney-client privilege.

Carradine, the ex-wife of actor Keith Carradine, met with Pellicano at the Taft Correctional Institute in Bakersfield, where Pellicano was completing a 2 1/2-year sentence for possession of explosives.

Pellicano did not know Carradine was secretly cooperating with the government in July or that he had already been indicted on wiretapping charges, according to Gruel's court documents.

Carradine's cooperation and the indictment were under seal until February. She plead guilty in January to lying to a grand jury about her knowledge that Pellicano had wiretapped Keith Carradine's home during a child support dispute.

"According to the indictment, the government alleges that Anthony Pellicano engaged in conduct for clients to gain an unfair advantage in litigation," Gruel said. "My initial review of the legal and factual landscape suggest that is what the government did here."