Anthony Pellicano was a Private Investigator who was hired by Bert Fields, Michael's lawyer. Here's some more information about Anthony Pellicano's deal with the Chandler's...
TAPE AIRED TO BACK CLAIMS OF EXTORTION ATTEMPT
Combined AP and UPI
Published: Thursday, Sept. 2 1993 12:00 a.m. MDT
Summary
Michael Jackson's representatives played a taped phone conversation they say supports their claim that the allegations against him of child-molesting resulted from an extortion attempt.
The pop star, meanwhile, took a breather Thursday by relaxing with some of his favorite companions - exotic animals - a day after wrapping up the two-concert Singapore leg of his ``Dangerous'' world tour.
Michael Jackson's representatives played a taped phone conversation they say supports their claim that the allegations against him of child-molesting resulted from an extortion attempt.
The pop star, meanwhile, took a breather Thursday by relaxing with some of his favorite companions - exotic animals - a day after wrapping up the two-concert Singapore leg of his "Dangerous" world tour.With close friend actress Elizabeth Taylor in tow, Jackson made a trip to the Mandai Zoo, billed as one of the world's stellar collections of animals.
Jackson came under investigation in Los Angeles after a 13-year-old reported he was molested by the singer during a four-month relationship. Jackson has denied any wrongdoing, and no charges have been filed.
The tape played for reporters on Wednesday was purported to be a recording of an Aug. 17 conversation between Jackson's private investigator, Anthony Pellicano, and Barry Rothman, a lawyer for the boy's father.
Jackson's lawyer, Howard Weitzman, said the tape "confirms what Mr. Pellicano has told you before with respect to the demands that were made" by the father.
Pellicano said the father, a prominent dentist and sometime screenwriter, wanted $20 million in the form of a film deal to keep quiet about the boy's allegations.
The 25-minute tape makes no mention of molestation and is dominated by heated and sometimes profanity-laced exchanges between Pellicano and the man said to be Rothman over the terms of a movie deal between Jackson and the boy's father.
The father had turned down a one-movie, $350,000 offer from Jackson and was angry because he felt Jackson's people had reneged on an earlier offer for a three-picture deal, according to the tape.
Pellicano presses the man said to be Rothman on why it was in Pellicano's interest to sweeten the $350,000 deal, according to the tape.
"I don't have to state the obvious, and I'm not prepared to do so in this conversation," says the man. He cites concerns that whatever he says could end up as evidence in court.
Calls to Rothman were not immediately returned. It wasn't clear whether he still represents the father. A private investigator who says he was hired by the father has denied the father tried to extort money from Jackson.
In Singapore, Jackson's physician, Dr. David Forcast, declared that the star's health is "great, really great," although he is taking medicine for migraines.
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Threats To Jackson On Released Tapes -- Singer Cancels 3Rd Show On Asian Tour
Tuesday, August 31, 1993 - Page updated at 12:00 AM
LOS ANGELES - As Michael Jackson postponed a sold-out concert in Singapore because of what his doctor called a "slow, recurring migraine," the soap opera surrounding the pop singer took an unexpected twist yesterday with the release of secretly recorded tapes that Jackson's advisers have used to allege an extortion plot against the entertainer.
The tapes contain purported comments from the father of a 13-year-old boy who has become the key figure in a police investigation of Jackson for alleged child molestation, sources said.
"There will be a massacre if I don't get what I want," the father said during 80 minutes of apparently edited telephone conversations with the boy's stepfather. Both were part of a custody battle. Sources said the tapes were recorded by the stepfather sometime in July.
At no point, however, did the boy's father spell out what he might want from Jackson or detail any allegations against Jackson. Throughout the tapes, the father demanded to meet with Jackson, the child and the boy's mother, from whom he was divorced at least seven years ago.
"I have the evidence (against Jackson)," the father said. "You'll hear it on tape recordings."
Police have said their investigation so far has not produced physical or medical evidence that would support a criminal filing.
Neither the father nor his attorney has responded to repeated phone calls, but the father has told friends the extortion allegations are untrue.
Jackson's advisers say they have turned over a copy of the tapes to the Los Angeles Police Department.
The tape recordings - together with the accounts of private investigator Anthony Pellicano and attorney Bertram Fields - portray a celebrity besieged for six weeks by demands from an insistent parent who alleged that his son was molested and wanted to be compensated through lucrative movie-development and screenwriting deals.
Throughout the tapes, the father appears to threaten going public with his allegations, saying he feels compelled to do what is best for his son.
He said he hired an attorney. "Once I make that phone call," the father said, "Michael's career will be over."
Meanwhile, a day after marking his 35th birthday, Jackson postponed his performance yesterday at Singapore's National Stadium minutes before he was to take the stage. His doctor told reporters at the Raffles Hotel that Jackson was suffering from a migraine headache. Witnesses said the singer was so weak he had to be helped into the hotel by aides who supported him under each arm.
The cancellation was the third in scarcely a week for Jackson, who canceled two dates on his "Dangerous" tour last week in Bangkok.
Some members of the Jackson family were planning to join him on tour "very soon," said the singer's brother Jermaine Jackson, who spoke at a news conference in North Hollywood yesterday.
"I'd like to let the world know that I'm behind my son," said Katherine Jackson, Michael's mother. "I don't believe any of this stuff that's being written . . . ."
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