Hollywood private eye knew who those tabloid 'sources' were...

[buttmunch]

Imprisoned Hollywood private eye Anthony Pellicano — who's under indictment on illegal wiretapping charges while serving 30 months for weapons possession — might have singled out Oprah Winfrey, Al Pacino, Paula Abdul, Whoopi Goldberg and other celebs for special scrutiny, according to just-surfaced audio tapes.
The tapes, which the FBI received a week ago from former Pellicano associate Paul Barresi, contain January 1994 conversations in which Pellicano was apparently seeking personal contact information on celebs and supermarket-publication types from tabloid journalist Jim Mitteager.

"Okay, here is one of the things I want you to do," Pellicano tells Mitteager on one of the tapes, which Barresi transcribed. "I'm going to give you a thousand dollars for this. I want you to give me the names and telephone numbers of all of the people that you know working with all the tabloids." Mitteager died in 1997 and bequeathed the material to Barresi.

The targeted celebrities names — along with those of intimates who allegedly dished on them — show up on the tapes and in notes that Barresi supplied for the U.S. attorney's investigation of the Hollywood scandal.

Alleged tabloid sources, according to Barresi's notes, included Winfrey's niece Alisha; Paula Abdul's unnamed massage therapist; Cher's daughter, Chastity Bono; Al Pacino's father, Sal; Sylvester Stallone's mother, Jackie; an unnamed assistant of Kirk Douglas; an unnamed girlfriend of Magic Johnson, and "insider" informants on Ted Danson and Whoopi Goldberg.

Yesterday, Pacino's rep Pat Kingsley told me: "His [late] father was not involved in Al's life in any way. They rarely saw one another."

None of the other celebrity reps contacted by Lowdown yesterday commented on Barresi's tapes — nor would the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles.

But Barresi told me that Pellicano likely wanted to know which snitch was ratting out which celebs in order to generate income for the Hollywood attorneys who paid him a handsome retainer.

nydailynews.com

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Hahahahah....Oprah's neice....

[teforde23]

Magic Johnson's girlfriend................hmmmm. that man never learns

[darksithbunny]

I really hope we hear some of the stuff he knows.

[sluce]

Ummmm Isn't Oprah an only kid who is not married? So how did she get a niece?

[Bellatheball]

Can someone tell me this story in a nutshell? I keep getting bits and pieces but can't make heads or tails of the whole thing.

[Wonderwoman]

Al Pacino's own father? What a jerk.