WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:06.839 From Workhouse Connect and aj Benza fame. Uh, he'd liked 2 00:00:06.839 --> 00:00:09.119 to be walked on a leash and play really dirty, 3 00:00:09.279 --> 00:00:12.839 kinky sex games. Is the guy put the cock in 4 00:00:12.919 --> 00:00:17.839 the peacock network? Okay, bitch, Hey, everybody aj Ben's are 5 00:00:17.879 --> 00:00:19.760 here with fame? Is it? Bitch? This is your daily 6 00:00:19.839 --> 00:00:24.039 Unfiltered podcast for January twenty eighth, twenty twenty six. Oh 7 00:00:24.120 --> 00:00:29.160 one two seven, two oh two seventh. That's say twenty eighth. 8 00:00:29.199 --> 00:00:31.960 I'm in twenty seven? Sorry about that? Oh one two seven, 9 00:00:32.359 --> 00:00:35.000 two oh two six? What's wrong with me? I'm getting 10 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:38.679 the dates wrong. That twenty twenty six, idiot, not twenty 11 00:00:38.719 --> 00:00:43.880 twenty seven one twenty seven, twenty twenty six. Thank you 12 00:00:44.079 --> 00:00:50.399 Jesus Christ. It's been a crazy day. Taped relationships as 13 00:00:50.439 --> 00:00:53.880 a Bitch today with Mike and Arena. Kenny. Kenny has 14 00:00:53.920 --> 00:00:57.960 been a staple the last four shows or so. He's 15 00:00:58.359 --> 00:01:02.640 a little bored, wants to contribute, and I love his contributions. 16 00:01:02.679 --> 00:01:06.799 He's Kenny's one of a kind, says what's on his mind, 17 00:01:08.079 --> 00:01:14.400 and he's often never wrong. I gotta be honest with you. 18 00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:17.079 You know, me and him and Trump are all geminis. 19 00:01:17.359 --> 00:01:22.519 There's something too that I think. So yesterday. Oh by 20 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:26.400 the way, Rosalie made something new that those of you 21 00:01:26.439 --> 00:01:29.359 out there can definitely do. It's not hard at all. 22 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:34.439 We've had stuffed mushrooms many times here, which I love. 23 00:01:35.159 --> 00:01:38.439 But she made a stuffed auto choke heart. Okay, listen 24 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:40.480 to this. You can go to the store and get 25 00:01:40.519 --> 00:01:43.920 a can of auto choke hearts. The bottoms right, no leaves, 26 00:01:44.040 --> 00:01:46.840 nothing like that, Just the round disc that's the most 27 00:01:46.879 --> 00:01:49.519 tender part of the auto choke. Get him in the can. 28 00:01:49.560 --> 00:01:51.959 It's no problem. Can't get him fresh. You gotta get 29 00:01:51.959 --> 00:01:54.519 the whole auto choke. Get him in the can. And 30 00:01:54.560 --> 00:01:58.359 then she makes this mixture of bread crumb, olive, oil, garlic. 31 00:01:58.519 --> 00:02:01.159 She actually browned a little stage too. She put that 32 00:02:01.239 --> 00:02:06.760 in there, some grated cheese and fixed a little. It 33 00:02:06.799 --> 00:02:09.240 looked like a little tart, a nice auto truck cart, 34 00:02:09.319 --> 00:02:13.080 around two and a half inches wide, and she plopped 35 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:15.400 that stuffing on top baked it for a little bit. 36 00:02:16.439 --> 00:02:21.120 Oh my god, is that good. You pop me in 37 00:02:21.159 --> 00:02:23.120 your mouth like it takes two bites and they're gone. 38 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:29.080 It's so delicious. That was a Yesterday's treat in addition 39 00:02:29.159 --> 00:02:31.960 to other things. But I had to tell her stop cooking. 40 00:02:32.919 --> 00:02:36.080 She made some pasta. But I love fuzially. I haven't 41 00:02:36.120 --> 00:02:38.960 had long fewzillion years, and I love fuzially with the 42 00:02:39.000 --> 00:02:42.199 red sauce and regatta. You know, you take the red 43 00:02:42.199 --> 00:02:45.360 sauce and then you throw a nice, heaping spoonful of 44 00:02:45.879 --> 00:02:48.439 more than a spoonful of regatta on top of your bowl, 45 00:02:48.639 --> 00:02:50.639 and you mix it and the sauce almost becomes a 46 00:02:50.639 --> 00:02:55.639 pink color. It's more creamy. She made that with sun 47 00:02:55.719 --> 00:02:58.520 dried peppers, red peppers, not sun dried tomato. Sun dried 48 00:02:58.560 --> 00:03:00.680 red peppers not easy to find. She had to go 49 00:03:00.719 --> 00:03:06.120 through Amazon to get him Dynamite dish man. So I'm 50 00:03:06.120 --> 00:03:08.520 trying with the diet, but you know, I'm eating little 51 00:03:08.560 --> 00:03:10.680 bits here and there. You know, I said, tonight, Role, 52 00:03:10.680 --> 00:03:12.439 I'm having tuna fish. I can't deal with this, and 53 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:16.199 you're killing me. As we're eating dinner, She's like, tomorrow, 54 00:03:16.199 --> 00:03:19.319 do you want fried trip rope? I can't hear this, 55 00:03:20.759 --> 00:03:23.000 but she loves to create, loves to feed the men 56 00:03:23.039 --> 00:03:25.919 in her life. What can I tell you? So yesterday, 57 00:03:26.199 --> 00:03:32.759 excuse me, yesterday, christ we talked about this Hungarian model 58 00:03:32.759 --> 00:03:36.439 that I took out Monica Zabrita. I couldn't remember her 59 00:03:36.520 --> 00:03:38.680 name yesterday. Today I know it because I went back 60 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:40.960 and looked for her and put her picture on the 61 00:03:40.960 --> 00:03:45.919 Patreon page. Yesterday she was something else, and I talked 62 00:03:45.919 --> 00:03:48.000 about the whole Chris Rock thing and that she had 63 00:03:48.080 --> 00:03:53.919 Chris Rock's baby. Well, I I'm mistaken, because things happened 64 00:03:53.919 --> 00:03:56.280 between Chris Rock and Monica Zabrita, and it was a 65 00:03:56.360 --> 00:03:59.639 court case, and Chris had to hire a very famous 66 00:03:59.680 --> 00:04:03.520 private I named Anthony Pelicano. And let me just give 67 00:04:03.599 --> 00:04:09.680 you up to date about what exactly happened with this case. Eventually, 68 00:04:10.280 --> 00:04:13.479 these two reached the settlement, a confidential settlement of Chris 69 00:04:13.560 --> 00:04:19.560 Rock and Monica to end this lawsuit about paternity. And 70 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:22.040 it's all because apparently, well I'll get to that in 71 00:04:22.040 --> 00:04:25.879 a minute, but Monica was very savvy in how she 72 00:04:26.040 --> 00:04:30.240 wanted to trap him. Let's say, so she brought she 73 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:33.560 was pregnant, and she brought this paternity action suit against 74 00:04:33.639 --> 00:04:38.319 Chris Rock. But the DNA show, the DNA test showed 75 00:04:38.319 --> 00:04:41.319 that he was not the father of that little daughter 76 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:44.319 that I held in my arms at that dinner that night. 77 00:04:45.639 --> 00:04:48.800 I mean, the daughter was darker than a white white 78 00:04:48.920 --> 00:04:54.680 Hungarian model. But man, this girl had such a plan. 79 00:04:54.879 --> 00:04:56.879 She hacks to plan with a friend of hers. What 80 00:04:57.000 --> 00:05:02.920 a dangerous Chit unbelievable. This is nineteen ninety eight. Excuse me, 81 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:07.800 my voice is still not great. This is nineteen ninety eight. 82 00:05:08.319 --> 00:05:12.120 The same time I met her at the Four Seasons 83 00:05:12.120 --> 00:05:16.399 hotel where the publisher of the magazine called Perfect Ted, 84 00:05:16.439 --> 00:05:21.319 which featured all models who were real, no fake breasts, nothing, 85 00:05:21.839 --> 00:05:28.079 completely real. Most of them are from Europe. And norm 86 00:05:28.399 --> 00:05:31.639 Zeta was the guy who was the publisher of that magazine. 87 00:05:31.720 --> 00:05:35.319 He wanted to be the next Youugh Hefner, but for 88 00:05:35.399 --> 00:05:37.639 various reasons, didn't work out. He didn't have the same 89 00:05:37.720 --> 00:05:41.600 pinesh and style as Hefner did not many guys do 90 00:05:42.120 --> 00:05:45.600 when it comes to starting your own magazine. But I 91 00:05:45.600 --> 00:05:48.160 think Perfect Ted had about a year or two on 92 00:05:48.240 --> 00:05:52.160 the newsstands. The girls were gorgeous, but it wasn't like Playboy. 93 00:05:52.199 --> 00:05:57.000 The articles weren't great. But Chris Rock met her at 94 00:05:57.040 --> 00:05:59.839 the Four Seasons as well as I did, same place, 95 00:06:00.439 --> 00:06:02.959 and I wonder if norm Zada got Chris Rock to 96 00:06:03.040 --> 00:06:05.319 come to one of those brunches that I went to. 97 00:06:07.079 --> 00:06:11.000 But according to Monica Zabrita. She says that Chris Rock 98 00:06:11.439 --> 00:06:15.199 attacked her an attempted to force her to perform oral 99 00:06:15.279 --> 00:06:18.439 sex on um. And then a week later, you know 100 00:06:18.439 --> 00:06:20.240 how it is with these girls in Hollywood, and they 101 00:06:20.240 --> 00:06:23.480 meet a fancy star. A week later, after she says 102 00:06:23.560 --> 00:06:26.319 he forced her to go down on him, she went 103 00:06:26.360 --> 00:06:29.680 on another day with him, and that's when she says 104 00:06:29.720 --> 00:06:34.279 he forced intercourse on her. Now, Chris Rock says he 105 00:06:34.360 --> 00:06:38.079 denies those allegations. Back then denied allegations of rape and 106 00:06:38.120 --> 00:06:42.839 other wrongdoings. But lo and behold. Monica Zabrita becomes pregnant 107 00:06:43.399 --> 00:06:46.560 and she believed the kid was from Chris Rock, but 108 00:06:46.680 --> 00:06:50.519 like I said, the paternity test showed it, it wasn't so. 109 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:58.120 During the paternity proceedings, Rock hires Anthony Pellicano, and what 110 00:06:58.160 --> 00:07:01.319 do you know, lo and behold. Few nights later, Zabrita 111 00:07:01.399 --> 00:07:04.639 says her house was broken into and pictures of her 112 00:07:04.720 --> 00:07:07.920 daughter were taken out of the house or the apartment. 113 00:07:09.560 --> 00:07:13.759 That's creepy, but that's nothing with respect to what Anthony 114 00:07:13.800 --> 00:07:18.279 Pelicano did in his career as Hollywood's main fixer. And 115 00:07:18.319 --> 00:07:22.439 I'll get to that in a minute. But Rock and 116 00:07:22.600 --> 00:07:28.839 Zabrita agree to confidentiality, but then it began to unravel 117 00:07:29.560 --> 00:07:32.279 because Chris Rocco's on the Howard Stearns Show, much like 118 00:07:32.399 --> 00:07:35.319 I did, and he tells Howard that he was scammed. 119 00:07:36.199 --> 00:07:38.839 He says he was approached by a woman saying she 120 00:07:38.920 --> 00:07:42.000 was a big fan, and he took her upstairs to 121 00:07:42.040 --> 00:07:44.959 her room. Obviously, he says he forgot to wear a condom. 122 00:07:45.680 --> 00:07:49.199 I don't believe that, and he stays he claims a 123 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:53.480 Nigerian guy got her pregnant and it was all a setup. 124 00:07:54.279 --> 00:07:56.480 I never saw a Nigerian man next to her, but 125 00:07:56.519 --> 00:08:00.360 I can completely understand this could be the case. I mean, 126 00:08:00.399 --> 00:08:05.480 these chicks come here from overseas with definite plans on 127 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:09.279 how to trap a rich, rich movie star. Wouldn't be 128 00:08:09.279 --> 00:08:13.040 the first time. So Pelicano is going to work for 129 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:16.600 Chris Rock. And Rock goes on the stand during this 130 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:20.920 case and he admitted to hiring Pelicano to investigate this model, 131 00:08:21.879 --> 00:08:27.680 and that disclosure violated the confidentiality agreement between her and him, 132 00:08:28.240 --> 00:08:32.039 so she sued him. She sued Pelicano. She sued Pacific 133 00:08:32.080 --> 00:08:36.720 Bell Telephone Company and some police officials for breach of 134 00:08:36.759 --> 00:08:41.559 written contract. Intrusion, invasion of privacy, wire tapping, trespass, and 135 00:08:41.559 --> 00:08:48.279 some other shit. But this complaint was very salacious. For instance, 136 00:08:49.600 --> 00:08:56.440 after Rock allegedly raped her, Monica was savvy enough to 137 00:08:56.559 --> 00:09:01.200 keep a kleenex of Chris Rock's seamen in a tissue 138 00:09:01.639 --> 00:09:06.679 in her freezer or refrigerator to keep it fresh. You know, 139 00:09:06.840 --> 00:09:11.120 I mean, that's just that's low down dirty ball right there. 140 00:09:12.840 --> 00:09:16.799 But the lawsuit also raised some doubts about some of 141 00:09:16.840 --> 00:09:21.919 those tests. A blood test from Rock and her was 142 00:09:21.960 --> 00:09:26.320 said to have been performed under peculiar circumstances quote unquote, 143 00:09:26.799 --> 00:09:30.559 and that an attorney prematurely jumped out of a car 144 00:09:30.720 --> 00:09:33.679 to deliver the blood samples to the lab, and that 145 00:09:33.799 --> 00:09:38.639 destroyed the chain of control and authenticity. It's just so 146 00:09:38.679 --> 00:09:41.440 many weird things happen here. Did he fucker? Of course 147 00:09:41.480 --> 00:09:45.559 he did? Is it his baby? Apparently not? The DNA 148 00:09:45.679 --> 00:09:50.039 test says no, it's the Nigerians. But don't tell me 149 00:09:50.120 --> 00:09:53.879 these two didn't cook up a plan to ensnare Chris Rock. 150 00:09:57.279 --> 00:10:00.279 Of course they did. So there was some discus rush 151 00:10:00.480 --> 00:10:03.759 between Pelicano and Chris Rock, and they got pretty down 152 00:10:03.759 --> 00:10:07.799 and dirty in those discussions. Chris Rock admitted that he 153 00:10:07.879 --> 00:10:11.399 used the condom that it could have contained his DNA. 154 00:10:11.480 --> 00:10:14.080 Of course it containered DNA. Bro't give her a pre come, 155 00:10:14.879 --> 00:10:18.440 of course it did, if he even used one. He 156 00:10:18.519 --> 00:10:21.080 was still married to his wife Day was separated at 157 00:10:21.080 --> 00:10:25.919 that time for a brief separation. But the fact that 158 00:10:25.960 --> 00:10:30.120 she kept Kleanex with his seemen in the freezer on 159 00:10:30.159 --> 00:10:35.440 a tissue. Wow. So Rock was arguing that this case 160 00:10:35.440 --> 00:10:38.960 should be dismissed because it was filed too late, blah 161 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:42.039 blah blah, beyond the statue of limitations. So a judge 162 00:10:42.120 --> 00:10:44.759 ended up throwing out twelve of the thirteen claims on 163 00:10:44.840 --> 00:10:48.879 summary judgment, but allowed the breach of contract action to survive. 164 00:10:49.240 --> 00:10:51.600 So Rock was never charged with a crime, and he 165 00:10:51.679 --> 00:10:55.039 still denies that a rape never occurred. But look, I'm looking. 166 00:10:55.080 --> 00:10:57.159 I'm reading this story, and I forgot this is the 167 00:10:57.200 --> 00:10:59.120 way it went. I haven't read about this for years. 168 00:10:59.320 --> 00:11:02.000 But man, did I dodge a bullet or what what 169 00:11:02.200 --> 00:11:05.399 I mean? Obviously, when I met her and asked to 170 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:07.360 take her out, we have a little hanky panky in 171 00:11:07.399 --> 00:11:09.879 the car, and you know, it was all a green 172 00:11:09.960 --> 00:11:13.519 light until she brought the baby to dinner and then 173 00:11:13.720 --> 00:11:16.279 I called her one more time after that, and she 174 00:11:16.440 --> 00:11:19.639 told me she had to go back to Hungary to 175 00:11:19.759 --> 00:11:22.720 hire a nanny for that baby. She would only have 176 00:11:22.759 --> 00:11:25.360 a Hungarian nanny. I remember I was in the bathtub. 177 00:11:25.480 --> 00:11:27.120 I rarely take a bath, but I remember I was 178 00:11:27.120 --> 00:11:29.399 in the bathtub and I called her for another date 179 00:11:29.840 --> 00:11:31.759 and she said, I gotta call you when I get back. 180 00:11:31.799 --> 00:11:34.559 And I never called her again. So much for her 181 00:11:34.600 --> 00:11:36.960 saying I stalked her, But that's as far as it went. 182 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:39.559 But I mean, I had a picture of my refrigerator. 183 00:11:40.080 --> 00:11:42.960 I mean I was a single guy back then. Obviously 184 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:45.159 all my friends were like, who the fuck is this? Oh, 185 00:11:45.240 --> 00:11:49.600 that's a shick monica. She's a model from Hungary. She's insane. Yeah, 186 00:11:49.759 --> 00:11:52.919 I didn't know how insane she was. But Chris Rock 187 00:11:52.960 --> 00:11:55.879 has said repeatedly that he was hustled by some Nigerian 188 00:11:55.879 --> 00:11:59.519 guy who already got her pregnant and then pushed Rock 189 00:11:59.600 --> 00:12:02.480 to be with her. So it looks to me like 190 00:12:02.519 --> 00:12:06.440 the plan was for her the fuck Chris Rock and 191 00:12:06.519 --> 00:12:09.200 say she's pregnant even though she already was from the 192 00:12:09.279 --> 00:12:12.440 Nigerian and make believe it's Chris's baby, hoping that he'd say, 193 00:12:12.559 --> 00:12:15.080 oh shit, it's my baby, I'll pay you the money, 194 00:12:15.240 --> 00:12:19.919 blah blah blah. But he fought, you know, And I thought, 195 00:12:20.399 --> 00:12:22.600 I thought her lying to Howard sterned that I was 196 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:24.679 stalking her was the worst thing this girl could do. 197 00:12:24.759 --> 00:12:29.679 But no, you see what's out there fellas unbelievable, and 198 00:12:29.759 --> 00:12:32.639 she was beautiful and sexy enough that any guy would 199 00:12:32.639 --> 00:12:35.200 do anything to be with her, and not for nothing. 200 00:12:35.240 --> 00:12:37.039 When I went to those brunches, there was a table 201 00:12:37.080 --> 00:12:40.639 of like fourteen fifteen of these models, and Norm would 202 00:12:40.639 --> 00:12:44.799 throw out lobster tails and shrimp and carving stations. It 203 00:12:44.840 --> 00:12:48.159 was like a small wedding, and he would say, pick 204 00:12:48.200 --> 00:12:50.919 whoever you on, go have a ball, talk to of 205 00:12:50.960 --> 00:12:54.000 you on like he was like a pimp. Not that 206 00:12:54.080 --> 00:12:57.240 we you pay him, but he presented those girls like 207 00:12:57.279 --> 00:13:00.360 a bounty to men. I remember Vin diesel into one 208 00:13:00.360 --> 00:13:04.840 of those lunches. Never saw Chris Rock there, but yeah, 209 00:13:05.279 --> 00:13:08.159 that's the kind of shit that goes on. So I 210 00:13:08.240 --> 00:13:11.519 really haven't spoken much about Anthony Pelicano over the years 211 00:13:11.840 --> 00:13:14.600 on this show, but he was a very famous and 212 00:13:14.720 --> 00:13:20.480 in demand private eye, extreme fixer to the stars who 213 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:22.600 I knew pretty well back in the day. We talked 214 00:13:22.639 --> 00:13:25.320 on the phone a lot. We did some talk shows together. 215 00:13:25.679 --> 00:13:28.480 One talk show I think it was Jenny Jones. He 216 00:13:28.559 --> 00:13:32.720 approached me once about maybe somehow working together because, as 217 00:13:32.759 --> 00:13:35.600 he said to me, something like, you know, everybody throw 218 00:13:35.720 --> 00:13:39.279 my name around. If anybody Hollywood, powells or having a problem, 219 00:13:39.559 --> 00:13:42.240 I'll make the troubles disappear in a pinch. I've been 220 00:13:42.240 --> 00:13:44.759 doing this since President Johnson was in office. In fact, 221 00:13:44.799 --> 00:13:48.600 he told me that President Johnson was the president who 222 00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:51.840 put recording devices in the White House, not Nixon. So 223 00:13:51.879 --> 00:13:54.279 this guy has been around for a long long time. 224 00:13:55.000 --> 00:13:57.600 And the way he talks, it's hard to walk away 225 00:13:57.639 --> 00:13:59.759 because he talks like a gum shoe. He talks like 226 00:13:59.840 --> 00:14:02.679 he run out of a nineteen forties film more with 227 00:14:02.759 --> 00:14:05.639 Humphrey Baulguard and Lauren McColl you know what I mean. 228 00:14:06.399 --> 00:14:08.559 But he was a well known private eye in Hollywood 229 00:14:08.559 --> 00:14:11.600 back in the nineties. The rich and powell will hired 230 00:14:11.639 --> 00:14:13.759 him whenever there was a problem in their lives. And 231 00:14:13.799 --> 00:14:17.879 in his heyday, I mean his clients included many many 232 00:14:17.960 --> 00:14:23.679 studio executives, lawyers, Chris Rock obviously, Michael Jackson, Don Simpson, 233 00:14:23.720 --> 00:14:28.399 the crazy producer who died, But this guy was asked 234 00:14:28.399 --> 00:14:32.919 to dig up dirt, cover up scandals, and if need be, 235 00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:39.679 intimidate those folks who posed problems to his clientele. And 236 00:14:39.720 --> 00:14:43.080 eventually his operation came to light. He was sentenced to 237 00:14:43.120 --> 00:14:48.639 fifteen years in federal prison for wire tapping, racketeering, conspiracy, wirefraud. 238 00:14:49.720 --> 00:14:53.120 He came out of jail in twenty nineteen. I'm not 239 00:14:53.159 --> 00:14:55.360 sure what he's doing now, but there was a I 240 00:14:55.360 --> 00:14:58.679 think there's a documentary on him on Hulu. I feel 241 00:14:58.720 --> 00:15:01.600 it's called What's It Cold? I know it's called I 242 00:15:01.840 --> 00:15:03.879 looked it up. I want to watch it tonight. It's 243 00:15:03.879 --> 00:15:08.240 called Sin Eater, Si n Eater, The Crimes of Anthony Pelican. 244 00:15:08.320 --> 00:15:10.559 I want to check that out if it's still streaming. 245 00:15:11.679 --> 00:15:14.480 But you know, those of you who don't know him, 246 00:15:14.480 --> 00:15:16.759 I don't know what it's like in Hollywood, you may 247 00:15:16.799 --> 00:15:19.759 find it difficult to just understand what kind of a 248 00:15:19.799 --> 00:15:24.080 looming figure this guy was. Back It started back in 249 00:15:24.159 --> 00:15:27.240 the beginning of the eighties. He came to lad He 250 00:15:27.279 --> 00:15:31.240 came to La to help the auto executive John Doloorian 251 00:15:31.320 --> 00:15:34.960 on those cocaine distribution charges, and while he was here, 252 00:15:35.360 --> 00:15:39.159 he built an all star client roster, Michael Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor, 253 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:44.039 Tom Cruise, Sylvester Stallone, Rose and Barr, Gary Shandling Court, 254 00:15:44.080 --> 00:15:48.039 and he loved so many more people and eventually, you know, 255 00:15:48.679 --> 00:15:51.360 seventy eight counts of wire tapping. He ended up spending 256 00:15:51.399 --> 00:15:56.159 a lot of years in Terminal Island in California, but 257 00:15:57.679 --> 00:16:01.960 he worked with Brad Gray, lot of a list people. 258 00:16:02.039 --> 00:16:05.960 But let me tell you how insane some Hollywood heavyweights 259 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:08.440 can get and why a guy like Anthony Pellicanno was 260 00:16:08.559 --> 00:16:12.559 very much in demand. Here's a guy who fancies himself 261 00:16:12.639 --> 00:16:15.480 like an old school mobster. He loves the term omerta, 262 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:19.200 which is to stay silent and not talk. This vow 263 00:16:19.279 --> 00:16:22.200 of loyalty he took for his clients, and that's the 264 00:16:22.200 --> 00:16:24.919 same vow that cost him his freedom because he wouldn't 265 00:16:24.919 --> 00:16:29.080 mention any names, and that's why he went away. But 266 00:16:30.240 --> 00:16:33.799 I remember one thing he said to me that struck 267 00:16:33.879 --> 00:16:35.879 a nerve, and actually it did more than strike a nerve. 268 00:16:35.960 --> 00:16:39.440 It made me keep going on my quest to get 269 00:16:39.679 --> 00:16:42.639 Michael Jackson. I hate the way it sounds because I 270 00:16:42.639 --> 00:16:45.039 grew up loving Michael Jackson. I still love his music. 271 00:16:45.120 --> 00:16:47.960 I feel bad that he's dead. But like you guys know, 272 00:16:48.200 --> 00:16:50.480 I was the guy. My page was the page that 273 00:16:50.559 --> 00:16:54.360 began to take Michael Jackson down. We broke the sexual 274 00:16:54.440 --> 00:17:02.879 molestation story, and Pelicanno, to his credit, fired Michael Jackson 275 00:17:02.919 --> 00:17:05.319 as a client. Michael asked him to help mat with 276 00:17:05.319 --> 00:17:08.720 his molestation shit, and Pelicanna said, no, I'm stepping away, 277 00:17:09.359 --> 00:17:13.279 and Michael's like why, and he told me because, Aj, 278 00:17:13.559 --> 00:17:17.839 there was so many more disgusting truths, even darker shit 279 00:17:18.039 --> 00:17:21.559 than that's been alleged in the press about this molestation 280 00:17:21.680 --> 00:17:24.480 scandal that I don't I don't have the red conscience 281 00:17:24.519 --> 00:17:26.960 to continue to work with him. You know, the guy 282 00:17:27.039 --> 00:17:28.720 was offered a half a million dollars to tell his 283 00:17:28.799 --> 00:17:32.279 story by a tabloid. He said no. So he is 284 00:17:32.319 --> 00:17:36.000 an old school guy. He did need the money. He 285 00:17:36.039 --> 00:17:38.000 was in jail at the time. A tabloid offered it 286 00:17:38.039 --> 00:17:42.960 to him. He said no. But uh man, he did 287 00:17:43.000 --> 00:17:46.240 his part to help a lot of people get out 288 00:17:46.240 --> 00:17:49.279 of trouble, keep their heads above water, and take down 289 00:17:49.400 --> 00:17:52.319 other folks who were trying to take down their careers. 290 00:17:52.440 --> 00:17:55.079 I mean, at one point, when the Feds raided his offices, 291 00:17:55.119 --> 00:17:57.519 they found he had an office on Sunset Boulevard, a big, 292 00:17:57.559 --> 00:18:01.960 big building where a lot of talent agents there, and big, 293 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:05.319 big big building on Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills. But 294 00:18:05.759 --> 00:18:08.839 when they confiscated stuff from his office, they found, you know, 295 00:18:09.079 --> 00:18:14.319 c four hand grenades locked in evidence safes. I mean, 296 00:18:14.440 --> 00:18:18.319 just crazy shit. I don't know what kind of celebrities 297 00:18:18.359 --> 00:18:20.599 would need that kind of firepower, but that's the kind 298 00:18:20.640 --> 00:18:24.599 of stuff Pellicano had. The big story that made him 299 00:18:24.680 --> 00:18:29.920 really stand out was back in the early two thousands, 300 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:34.839 during that FBI raid. There was an incident that occurred 301 00:18:36.599 --> 00:18:41.920 about a reporter from the La Times named Anita Bush 302 00:18:42.079 --> 00:18:45.480 and she was writing something not too good about Steven Sagal, 303 00:18:46.319 --> 00:18:47.880 and one day she walked to it. She was writing 304 00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:51.359 about Steven Sagall's mafia's eyes, which, believe me, they're true. 305 00:18:51.599 --> 00:18:54.559 I worked for Segal and I worked for him for 306 00:18:54.640 --> 00:18:59.440 his producer friend Jules Nasso, who was a Gambino associate. 307 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:02.599 I made a movie with them called Not Even the Trees, 308 00:19:02.640 --> 00:19:05.759 which went to the cann Film Festival. It's a terrible movie, 309 00:19:05.799 --> 00:19:08.759 but it went there. And Jewels was on set every day, 310 00:19:08.799 --> 00:19:11.200 and Cigal was there every day. That's those are the 311 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:13.480 two guys who told me when I needed a when 312 00:19:13.519 --> 00:19:16.039 they were gonna hire a girl, I played a drug 313 00:19:16.079 --> 00:19:18.599 dealing pimp kind of thing, and I needed a hot 314 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:21.200 shick to be my girlfriend. I went in the office 315 00:19:21.200 --> 00:19:24.400 one day. They led out three headshots of three different chicks. 316 00:19:24.680 --> 00:19:27.599 Picked the girl you want? I said, what about ca? 317 00:19:27.920 --> 00:19:31.079 There's no casting director, No, no, who do you want 318 00:19:31.079 --> 00:19:32.680 to Which one of these girls you want to be with? 319 00:19:33.079 --> 00:19:36.000 That's how blatant was. I'm like, oh, if it's gonna 320 00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:37.319 be that way, I want the one in the middle. 321 00:19:37.599 --> 00:19:40.039 She was the hottest one. They go, she's hired, and 322 00:19:40.079 --> 00:19:42.039 then I ended up having a fling with her. I mean, 323 00:19:42.559 --> 00:19:46.039 that's how dirty Hollywood can get at. I didn't care. 324 00:19:46.440 --> 00:19:49.599 It was a shitty movie, but yeah, it's crazy. So 325 00:19:49.640 --> 00:19:52.759 Anita Bush is walking to a car leaving the La 326 00:19:52.839 --> 00:19:56.160 Times and she finds a bullet hole through a windshield 327 00:19:56.759 --> 00:19:59.319 and a dead fish with a rose in its mouth. 328 00:20:00.119 --> 00:20:04.680 The words stop on a cardboard sign underneath the fish. 329 00:20:05.559 --> 00:20:08.640 All because she was working on Cigal's Mafia Tais and 330 00:20:08.720 --> 00:20:12.799 she also had written about Michael Ovitz, the Disney exact 331 00:20:12.839 --> 00:20:17.799 who was once Anthony Pellocanno's client, so he had methods 332 00:20:17.839 --> 00:20:23.079 that were not too uh not to not too nice, 333 00:20:23.240 --> 00:20:28.079 but things get pretty rough in Hollywood, just crazy stuff. 334 00:20:28.839 --> 00:20:33.079 But uh, this guy, I wish I could talk to him. Now. 335 00:20:33.119 --> 00:20:35.200 I gotta kind of track him down and know where 336 00:20:35.200 --> 00:20:37.319 he's at. But this is the kind of stuff like 337 00:20:37.400 --> 00:20:40.000 I call myself a fixer sometimes about the stuff I 338 00:20:40.039 --> 00:20:45.200 did for celebrities. Nothing to this extent, obviously, but can 339 00:20:45.279 --> 00:20:48.480 you imagine you know, you want your daughters to get 340 00:20:48.519 --> 00:20:51.039 involved in his business. I've been telling you, folks for 341 00:20:51.079 --> 00:20:53.640 a while, do not put your kids in Hollywood. I 342 00:20:53.640 --> 00:20:55.920 don't think any of you will, judging from all the 343 00:20:55.960 --> 00:21:03.240 stories we reread and rumors we hear. It's disgusting. But yeah, 344 00:21:03.400 --> 00:21:05.559 don't let your kids get involved in Hollywood. Do not 345 00:21:05.880 --> 00:21:08.640 do that, because there's people like this out there and 346 00:21:08.680 --> 00:21:12.279 it's disgusting. But that's the kind of guy Pelicanna was. 347 00:21:12.319 --> 00:21:13.799 Maybe one day I'll be able to talk to him 348 00:21:13.839 --> 00:21:16.000 before he dies. He must be eighty years old this 349 00:21:16.039 --> 00:21:17.960 point in the late seventies, I don't even know. But 350 00:21:19.079 --> 00:21:22.680 from that story we go to a very different, sordid 351 00:21:22.680 --> 00:21:27.799 affair concerning Hollywood. This is this makes me sick. The story. 352 00:21:28.079 --> 00:21:32.200 It concerns the two brothers who had been the IT brothers, 353 00:21:32.240 --> 00:21:36.279 the IT directors of the moment, Josh and Benny Safti. 354 00:21:38.200 --> 00:21:41.359 These guys have made some movies that are up for 355 00:21:41.400 --> 00:21:44.839 rewards starring big stars. They made big names for themselves 356 00:21:44.920 --> 00:21:47.759 recently in the last five years or so, and they 357 00:21:47.799 --> 00:21:50.480 were directing movies together for a while. Now they're doing 358 00:21:50.680 --> 00:21:53.640 movies on their own. And there's a reason for the split. 359 00:21:54.759 --> 00:21:58.240 So the breakup between these two, it's been reported, happened 360 00:21:58.279 --> 00:22:03.960 because of well, some Hollywood and sires are saying that 361 00:22:04.960 --> 00:22:09.759 one brother don't know who went full maga and that 362 00:22:09.799 --> 00:22:14.200 created tensions with the other brother. That could be true, 363 00:22:14.240 --> 00:22:18.599 who knows. There's also some other speculation of why they split. 364 00:22:19.039 --> 00:22:24.519 Josh has nabbed four OSCAR nominations for directing Marty Supreme. 365 00:22:25.319 --> 00:22:29.000 Benny came up empty handed for his directing The Smashing 366 00:22:29.079 --> 00:22:33.039 Machine with Dwayne the Rock Johnson, which is a shit movie. 367 00:22:33.200 --> 00:22:36.359 Don't ever see it. But the root of the fight, 368 00:22:36.480 --> 00:22:39.079 the root of the quarrel comes from a much darker 369 00:22:39.119 --> 00:22:42.519 incident that happened back in twenty seventeen, the old me 370 00:22:42.599 --> 00:22:52.799 Too era, Remember something called good Time. Benny cut ties 371 00:22:52.839 --> 00:22:55.359 with his brother back in twenty twenty three, after he 372 00:22:55.480 --> 00:22:59.960 learned exactly what went down in twenty seventeen. So was 373 00:23:00.000 --> 00:23:02.480 this seventeen year old girl who was cast to play 374 00:23:02.559 --> 00:23:07.400 a prostitute in this crime thriller, and once on set, 375 00:23:08.000 --> 00:23:11.720 this girl was put into a scene that involved nudity 376 00:23:12.319 --> 00:23:16.200 and simulated sex with an actor named Buddy Duress. This 377 00:23:16.319 --> 00:23:20.319 happened in New York and as part of their verite style, 378 00:23:21.279 --> 00:23:24.799 the Safdies have always been known for using a mix 379 00:23:24.880 --> 00:23:29.759 of a real actors that star as the film's lead 380 00:23:30.519 --> 00:23:34.480 and also some other non actors who just seem authentic right. 381 00:23:35.119 --> 00:23:38.000 Some of the directors do that as well, But this 382 00:23:38.039 --> 00:23:44.000 particular movie starred Robert Pattinson and this other actor, Buddy Duress, 383 00:23:44.160 --> 00:23:46.720 was the person who wasn't an actor but had just 384 00:23:46.759 --> 00:23:52.480 been released from prison. I'd went to jail a bunch 385 00:23:52.480 --> 00:23:56.200 of times, going back to two thousand and nine. Drug chargers, 386 00:23:56.240 --> 00:24:00.920 weapons violations, fencing, stolen property, steal a car. I mean, 387 00:24:00.920 --> 00:24:04.640 he's a bad guy. So Josh is watching the action 388 00:24:04.799 --> 00:24:08.200 unfold on his monitor and Benny's standing in the corner 389 00:24:08.359 --> 00:24:12.680 holding the boom mic and this actor Buddy Duress, who 390 00:24:12.720 --> 00:24:15.440 was high as a kite at the time, he pulls 391 00:24:15.519 --> 00:24:18.079 down his pants and found this seventeen year old girl, 392 00:24:18.400 --> 00:24:21.759 exposed himself and asked the girl if he could stick 393 00:24:21.799 --> 00:24:26.680 it in, and the cameras are rolling by the way. 394 00:24:27.119 --> 00:24:29.839 Thank god, this guy duress out of a heroin overdose 395 00:24:30.240 --> 00:24:33.920 two years ago or three years ago November. Sorry about 396 00:24:33.920 --> 00:24:37.759 the throat, damn it. So it's a bad dude. You 397 00:24:37.799 --> 00:24:39.640 don't need guys like this on a movie set. Let 398 00:24:39.680 --> 00:24:42.359 alone with a seventeen year old girl in a nude scene. 399 00:24:42.880 --> 00:24:46.319 She's under age, for Christ's sake. So Josh is watching 400 00:24:46.359 --> 00:24:48.799 the action unfold. Benny's in the corner with the boon MIC. 401 00:24:49.319 --> 00:24:53.359