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| '''Paul Barresi''' (born 1949<ref name="etremont">D'Entremont, Jim (March 1998). {{dead link|date=March 2013}} ''The Guide''</ref>){{dead link|date=March 2013}} is an American actor, pornographic film director, a former ],<ref name=holson03/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.dca.ca.gov/pls/wllpub/WLLQRYNA$LCEV2.QueryView?P_LICENSE_NUMBER=26529&P_LTE_ID=651|title=Hollywood Confidential Investigations|date=November 17, 2011|work=Private Investigator License Search|publisher=]|accessdate=November 18, 2011}}</ref> and media personality. |
'''Paul Barresi''' (born 1949<ref name="etremont">D'Entremont, Jim (March 1998). {{dead link|date=March 2013}} ''The Guide''</ref>){{dead link|date=March 2013}} is an American actor, pornographic film director, a former ],<ref name=holson03/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.dca.ca.gov/pls/wllpub/WLLQRYNA$LCEV2.QueryView?P_LICENSE_NUMBER=26529&P_LTE_ID=651|title=Hollywood Confidential Investigations|date=November 17, 2011|work=Private Investigator License Search|publisher=]|accessdate=November 18, 2011}}</ref> and media personality. | ||
| ==Early life and military career== | ==Early life and military career== | ||
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| The print modeling led to dozens of appearances in adult film,<ref name=nydn2005>{{cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/2005/04/09/2005-04-09_ex-aide__i_saw_grope___testi.html|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20101030003458/http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/2005/04/09/2005-04-09_ex-aide__i_saw_grope___testi.html|archivedate=2010-10-30|title=EX-AIDE: I SAW GROPE. Testifies Jacko went wacko on Culkin|last=Caruso|first=Michelle|date=April 9, 2005|work=]|accessdate=November 20, 2011}}</ref> starting with '']'' in 1979.<ref name=Ebner/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iafd.com/title.rme/title=coed+fever/year=1980/coed-fever.htm|title=Co-Ed Fever|work=IAFD|accessdate=November 19, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Advocate, Issues 561-566|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=VbYgAQAAMAAJ|date=1990-10|publisher=Liberation Publications|quote=...appeared in about 50 sex videos, including the very straight Coed Fever...}}</ref> | The print modeling led to dozens of appearances in adult film,<ref name=nydn2005>{{cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/2005/04/09/2005-04-09_ex-aide__i_saw_grope___testi.html|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20101030003458/http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/2005/04/09/2005-04-09_ex-aide__i_saw_grope___testi.html|archivedate=2010-10-30|title=EX-AIDE: I SAW GROPE. Testifies Jacko went wacko on Culkin|last=Caruso|first=Michelle|date=April 9, 2005|work=]|accessdate=November 20, 2011}}</ref> starting with '']'' in 1979.<ref name=Ebner/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iafd.com/title.rme/title=coed+fever/year=1980/coed-fever.htm|title=Co-Ed Fever|work=IAFD|accessdate=November 19, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Advocate, Issues 561-566|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=VbYgAQAAMAAJ|date=1990-10|publisher=Liberation Publications|quote=...appeared in about 50 sex videos, including the very straight Coed Fever...}}</ref> | ||
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Barresi wrote, produced and directed award-winning adult films. In 1992 Barresi, using the name "Joe Hammer", won the Gay Video Guide Award in the Best Specialty Release category for the fetish video, "Razor Close".<ref></ref> Barresi has been nominated for several other ], including 8 nominations for the 1998 gay ] ] which he wrote, directed, and produced, titled ''GoodFellas/BadFellas'', and featuring him in a non-sexual role.{{Citation needed|date=April 2011}} Barresi earned a 2003 ] nomination for "Best Non-Sex Performance — Gay or Bi" for ''Long Strokes'', noting he got the nod "just for taking my shirt off; if I knew they wanted more, I'd have done more."<ref name=skee>Skee, Mickey (July 2003). {{dead link|date=March 2013}} Gay/Bi Gossip column on '']''</ref>{{dead link|date=March 2013}}<ref></ref> Barresi also won the 2007 GayVN award and a 2007 ] award for "Best Non-Sex Performance" for his work in Velvet Mafia (parts 1 and 2).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1066352/awards|title=The Velvet Mafia: Part 2 (2006) (V) - Awards|work=]|accessdate=November 20, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ci=108&ch=news&sc=glbt&sc2=news&sc3=&id=18431|title=Michael Lucas’ ’La Dolce Vita’ Sets GAYVN Record|date=February 26, 2007|work=]|accessdate=November 20, 2011}}</ref> And in 2008, Barresi was inducted into the GayVN Hall of Fame.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gayvnawards.avn.com/noms/hall-of-fame.html|title=Hall of Fame|publisher=]|accessdate=November 21, 2011}}</ref> | ||
| Barresi continued to direct adult films, including several popular titles for the gay market, and was particularly noted for his military themes. ''Adult Video News'' has said Barresi's directorial efforts make him "undisputedly the king of military-themed videos."<ref name=Spencer>Spencer, Jeremy (October 2002). (review). '']''.</ref> | Barresi continued to direct adult films, including several popular titles for the gay market, and was particularly noted for his military themes. ''Adult Video News'' has said Barresi's directorial efforts make him "undisputedly the king of military-themed videos."<ref name=Spencer>Spencer, Jeremy (October 2002). (review). '']''.</ref> | ||
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| ===John Travolta claim and retractions=== | ===John Travolta claim and retractions=== | ||
| In 1990, '']'' ran a front-page story describing Barresi's claim that he'd had a two-year love affair with ].<ref>{{cite book|title=People Weekly: Private Lives : The Year in Review : 1991|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=GZxgRwhVbB8C|date=1992-03|publisher=Oxmoor House, Incorporated|isbn=978-0-8487-1114-6|pages=10-}}</ref><ref name="Young2002">{{cite book|last=Young|first=Paul|title=L.A. Exposed: Strange Myths and Curious Legends in the City of Angels|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=BhLyj9PfMQoC&pg=PT114|accessdate=November 22, 2011|date=2002-05-03|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=978-1-4299-6327-5|pages=114–}}</ref><ref name="Rutledge1992">{{cite book|last=Rutledge|first=Leigh W.|title=The gay decades: from Stonewall to the present : the people and events that shaped gay lives|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=FpKHAAAAIAAJ|accessdate=November 22, 2011|date=1992-06-01|publisher=Plume|pages=343â}}</ref> Barresi told the tabloid he'd met Travolta in 1982 when the actor followed him into the shower room of an L.A. health club.<ref name="Young2002"/> Barresi |
In 1990, '']'' ran a front-page story describing Barresi's claim that he'd had a two-year love affair with ].<ref>{{cite book|title=People Weekly: Private Lives : The Year in Review : 1991|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=GZxgRwhVbB8C|date=1992-03|publisher=Oxmoor House, Incorporated|isbn=978-0-8487-1114-6|pages=10-}}</ref><ref name="Young2002">{{cite book|last=Young|first=Paul|title=L.A. Exposed: Strange Myths and Curious Legends in the City of Angels|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=BhLyj9PfMQoC&pg=PT114|accessdate=November 22, 2011|date=2002-05-03|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=978-1-4299-6327-5|pages=114–}}</ref><ref name="Rutledge1992">{{cite book|last=Rutledge|first=Leigh W.|title=The gay decades: from Stonewall to the present : the people and events that shaped gay lives|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=FpKHAAAAIAAJ|accessdate=November 22, 2011|date=1992-06-01|publisher=Plume|pages=343â}}</ref> Barresi told the tabloid he'd met Travolta in 1982 when the actor followed him into the shower room of an L.A. health club.<ref name="Young2002"/> Barresi received $100,000 from ''The Enquirer'' in exchange for the details of his relationship with Travolta.<ref name=Guide1998>D'Entremont, Jim (March 1998) {{dead link|date=March 2013}} ''The Guide''</ref>{{dead link|date=March 2013}} Several months later, Barresi retracted his story, saying in a letter to Travolta's attorney that he had never engaged in homosexual activity with Travolta.<ref name="Young2002"/> | ||
| ===Michael Jackson allegations=== | ===Michael Jackson allegations=== | ||
| In the wake of ], Barresi |
In the wake of ], Barresi tried to sell ] gossip in 1994 after secretly taping two accusers in order to scoop them.<ref name=mjeol>MJEOL (March 31, 2005). {{dead link|date=March 2013}} ''MiniBullet #17''. Contains embedded clip from Cramer's 1994 ''Frontline'' piece.</ref>{{dead link|date=March 2013}}<ref name="Halperin2009">{{cite book|last=Halperin|first=Ian|title=Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=QWbFC7coiC4C&pg=PA82|accessdate=November 22, 2011|date=2009-10-27|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-1-4391-8348-9|pages=82–}}</ref> Barresi said he met and dated Stella LeMarque, then surnamed "Marcroft," before she and husband Philippe married. The LeMarques tried to sell their story after being dismissed in 1991 as workers at Jackson's ], saying they had witnessed Jackson inappropriately touching ].<ref name=Friedman>Friedman, Roger (April 11, 2005). '']''</ref> When their asking price was $100,000, Barresi said "'the hand was outside the kid's pants' ... As soon as their price went up to $500,000, the hand went inside the pants."<ref name=Fischer>Fischer, Mary A. (October 1994) Was Michael Jackson Framed? The Untold Story. ].</ref> | ||
| Barresi appeared in a PBS '']'' documentary {{Season needed|date=April 2011}} about the incident and described his involvement: | Barresi appeared in a PBS '']'' documentary {{Season needed|date=April 2011}} about the incident and described his involvement: | ||
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| :Barresi: Oh yeah, sure, and I could see that money coming too.<ref name="Frontline"/> | :Barresi: Oh yeah, sure, and I could see that money coming too.<ref name="Frontline"/> | ||
| According to ] of ''Vanity Fair'', Barresi had arranged the $15,000 deal with ''The Globe'', but he got impatient and contracted tabloid broker Kevin Smith of Splash News Service, who placed it with '']'' for $2,400. When the ''Globe'' deal came through, Smith |
According to ] of ''Vanity Fair'', Barresi had arranged the $15,000 deal with ''The Globe'', but he got impatient and contracted tabloid broker Kevin Smith of Splash News Service, who placed it with '']'' for $2,400. When the ''Globe'' deal came through, Smith could not undo the ''Mirror'' deal, and the ''Mirror'' scoop kept Barresi from getting paid by ''The Globe''. Smith claims Barresi came to his office "with a gun and a huge bodyguard," and Smith arranged for Barresi to get $1,000.<ref name=orth>Orth, Maureen (January 1994). {{dead link|date=March 2013}} '']''</ref>{{dead link|date=March 2013}} In the end, the DA decided that the stories of the LeMarques and that of the Quindoys (who also sold their story to the tabloids) could not be used. Barresi ended up making $30,000 in total on the Jackson story.<ref name="Frontline"/> | ||
| ===Eddie Murphy incident=== | |||
| Following a 1997 incident involving ] and a ] prostitute, Barresi collected statements from other ] alleging encounters with Murphy.<ref name=hustler/> With the exception of the person with whom Murphy was found, Barresi said, "In less than 10 days, I got them all to sign sworn, ] ], stating it wasn't Murphy himself, but rather a look-alike, who they'd encountered."<ref name=Wilson>Wilson, Chris (March 2, 2006). '']''</ref> | |||
| ===Involvement with Anthony Pellicano=== | ===Involvement with Anthony Pellicano=== | ||
| {{Update|inaccurate=yes|date=April 2011}} | |||
| Barresi began working with private investigator ] around the time of the 1994 Jackson incident. According to Barresi, Pellicano would purchase tabloid reporters' celebrity gossip before it became public. He then would offer to do damage control for $25,000 or more. "He says these people pursue him to hire him, when in fact, he pursues them," said Barresi.<ref name=Halbfinger>Halbfinger, David M. and Allison Hope Weiner (April 6, 2006). '']''</ref> Barresi says he also assisted Pellicano in a 1994 investigation of paternity claims involving ] and a porn actress.<ref name=NYDN2006>Rush, George and Joanna Molloy (April 5, 2006). {{dead link|date=March 2013}} '']''</ref>{{dead link|date=March 2013}} | |||
| Barresi told ABC News about his work with Pellicano, "Whenever there was a damaging story involving a celebrity client that involved sex, then I was involved." Barresi said that Pellicano hired him to "get dirt on" Pellicano's former client ].<ref name=holson03>*Holson, Laura M. and Bernard Weinraub (November 17, 2003). . '']'' | Barresi told ABC News about his work with Pellicano, "Whenever there was a damaging story involving a celebrity client that involved sex, then I was involved." Barresi said that Pellicano hired him to "get dirt on" Pellicano's former client ].<ref name=holson03>*Holson, Laura M. and Bernard Weinraub (November 17, 2003). . '']'' | ||
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| pages but could not say who requested the probe.<ref>Fields-Meyer, Thomas, Champ Clark, Frank Swertlow, and Sam Jemielity (December 8, 2003). L.A. Confidential. '']''</ref> | pages but could not say who requested the probe.<ref>Fields-Meyer, Thomas, Champ Clark, Frank Swertlow, and Sam Jemielity (December 8, 2003). L.A. Confidential. '']''</ref> | ||
| ⚫ | Barresi also says that he was sought out for comment by the press as the 2002-2008 Pellicano criminal-defense case unfolded. Barresi told the ''New York Times'' he has been aiding the defense team for ] Bertram Fields, a long-term client of Pellicano's who is now under investigation, in hopes of a later payday.<ref name=Halbfinger/> Barresi also reportedly worked with attorneys for producer ] in 2006. As part of a ], they seek Pellicano's wiretapped calls for any ] that ] ordered Pellicano to terrorize former '']'' reporter ]<ref name=NYDNseagal>Rush, George and Joanna Molloy (February 6, 2006). {{dead link|date=March 2013}} '']''</ref>{{dead link|date=March 2013}} In May 2006, Barresi turned over tapes from Mitteager with transcriptions to the ].<ref name=Grove0506>Grove, Lloyd (May 9, 2006). {{dead link|date=March 2013}} '']''</ref>{{dead link|date=March 2013}} | ||
| Barresi allegedly gave information to journalist and biographer, ], which alluded to an event of June 2001. According to Barresi, a male ] had approached him on the set in hopes to sell a story about a sexual encounter with ]. This encounter supposedly took place in London, UK in 1999. Barresi arranged a meeting for himself and said performer to review the matter in Pellicano’s office.<ref name="morton2008">Morton, Andrew R.. '']''. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-35986-1</ref><ref name=RushMolloy>Rush, George and Joanna Molloy (May 20, 2005). {{dead link|date=March 2013}} '']''</ref>{{dead link|date=March 2013}} Despite personally taking the performer to Pellicano and despite the fact that Pellicano demonstrated keen interest in the story, Barresi stated to Morton that he always felt the performer’s story was not a credible one.<ref name=Halbfinger/> Nevertheless, per Barresi’s words, Pellicano pressed the issue to a higher level and soon the ] followed-up with a report indicating that Pellicano had informed Cruise’s Lawyer, ].<ref name=Halbfinger/> The New York Times further stated that upon reviewing the narration of a personal memoir which said performer provided to Pellicano, Attorney Fields admonished the performer to drop the matter in a letter of ].<ref name="lasden">Lasden, Martin (2006). {{dead link|date=March 2013}} '']''.</ref>{{dead link|date=March 2013}} In the end, Barresi added a claim that he received a sum of $5,000 for his efforts in bringing this account to the attention of Attorney Fields; Barresi concluded this statement indicating that the pornographic performer had fled to Europe after being seriously advised, by Barresi himself, to go into hiding.<ref name=Halbfinger/><ref name="morton2008"/>{{dead link|date=March 2013}} | |||
| Barresi was bequeathed illegally taped phone conversations made by ], the Los Angeles bureau chief of tabloid '']''. after Mitteager died of ] in 1997.<ref name=Finke2006>Finke, Nikki (March 14, 2006). . ''LA Weekly''</ref> Barresi told reporter ] "<nowiki></nowiki> indicated to the person who gave them to me that I would know what to do with them," and Barresi arranged for ] to air them in a multi-part series in 2004.<ref name=KCBS>Drew Griffin (February 12, 2004). The Real Source. CBS 2 Special Assignment, KCBS-TV</ref> The tapes aired by KCBS include a conversation where Pellicano offers Mitteager a story about his new client ] in return for Mitteager's dropping one about client ].<ref name=Whoopi>Studio Briefing (February 25, 2004). {{dead link|date=March 2013}} via movieweb.com</ref>{{dead link|date=March 2013}} | |||
| In 1999, Barresi says he was assigned by Pellicano to investigate a model who named ] in a ] suit.<ref name=Rock>Krikorian, Greg, Chuck Philips and Robert Welkos (April 25, 2006). {{dead link|date=March 2013}} '']''</ref>{{dead link|date=March 2013}} Barresi also says he was hired to look into the ] of ], a successful security consultant of whom Pellicano was jealous.<ref>Rush, George and Joanna Molloy (March 17, 2006). {{dead link|date=March 2013}} '']''</ref>{{dead link|date=March 2013}} | |||
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| Pellicano was sentenced in December 2008 to 15 additional years in prison for wire taping and racketeering. He had previously served for illegal firearms and homemade grenades. Pelicano was further ordered (with two other defendants) to forfeit $2 million.<ref>{{cite news |title=15 Years for Hollywood Investigator |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/business/30pellicano.html | agency=Associated Press | date=2008-12-15 |accessdate=2008-12-15 | first=Brooks | last=Barnes}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/16/business/media/16pellicano.html|title=Pellicano Sentenced To 15 Years In Prison|last=Barnes|first=Brooks|date=December 16, 2008|work=The New York Times|page=3|accessdate=November 22, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/24/national/24PELL.html|title=Hollywood Investigator Gets 30-Month Term in Weapons Case|last=Weinraub|first=Bernard|date=January 24, 2004|work=]|accessdate=November 22, 2011}}</ref> | Pellicano was sentenced in December 2008 to 15 additional years in prison for wire taping and racketeering. He had previously served for illegal firearms and homemade grenades. Pelicano was further ordered (with two other defendants) to forfeit $2 million.<ref>{{cite news |title=15 Years for Hollywood Investigator |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/business/30pellicano.html | agency=Associated Press | date=2008-12-15 |accessdate=2008-12-15 | first=Brooks | last=Barnes}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/16/business/media/16pellicano.html|title=Pellicano Sentenced To 15 Years In Prison|last=Barnes|first=Brooks|date=December 16, 2008|work=The New York Times|page=3|accessdate=November 22, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/24/national/24PELL.html|title=Hollywood Investigator Gets 30-Month Term in Weapons Case|last=Weinraub|first=Bernard|date=January 24, 2004|work=]|accessdate=November 22, 2011}}</ref> | ||
| ===Barresi After Pellicano=== | |||
| CNN also reports that Barresi filed for ] ] in 2010.<ref> http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/03/showbiz/michael-jackson-files/index.html </ref> On January 7, 2012 Paul Barresi had his private detective license revoked by the State of California due to falsification of evidence.<ref> http://www2.dca.ca.gov/pls/wllpub/WLLQRYNA$LCEV2.QueryView?P_LICENSE_NUMBER=26529&P_LTE_ID=651 </ref> | |||
| == References == | == References == | ||
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Paul Barresi (born 1949) is an American actor, pornographic film director, a former private investigator, and media personality.
Early life and military career
Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, when Barresi was 12 his family moved to Annapolis, Maryland for his father's job at the United States Naval Academy. Barresi was offered a wrestling scholarship to the University of Maryland but opted to instead enlist in the United States Air Force during the height of the Vietnam War. Barresi served at bases in the United States and the Philippines, and he was honorably discharged as a sergeant in 1973 after completing his tour at March Air Force Base. Upon returning to civilian life, he soon began working as a fitness trainer at a gym in nearby Riverside, California.
Work in modeling, theater and film
Barresi appeared in the 1972 experimental porn film LA Plays Itself. In March 1974, Barresi appeared with Cassandra Peterson in a Playgirl pictorial. Barresi was selected by Rip Colt as an early Colt model, and was featured on the cover of the November 1975 Mandate. During filming in Riverside, Barresi worked as an production assistant for Raquel Welch and had a small role as a bartender in The Wild Party, released in 1975. Barresi was featured on the December 1978 cover of Hustler, making him "the first man ever to appear on the cover of Hustler."
The print modeling led to dozens of appearances in adult film, starting with L.A. Tool & Die in 1979.
Barresi wrote, produced and directed award-winning adult films. In 1992 Barresi, using the name "Joe Hammer", won the Gay Video Guide Award in the Best Specialty Release category for the fetish video, "Razor Close". Barresi has been nominated for several other AVN Awards, including 8 nominations for the 1998 gay mafia epic which he wrote, directed, and produced, titled GoodFellas/BadFellas, and featuring him in a non-sexual role. Barresi earned a 2003 GayVN Awards nomination for "Best Non-Sex Performance — Gay or Bi" for Long Strokes, noting he got the nod "just for taking my shirt off; if I knew they wanted more, I'd have done more." Barresi also won the 2007 GayVN award and a 2007 Grabby award for "Best Non-Sex Performance" for his work in Velvet Mafia (parts 1 and 2). And in 2008, Barresi was inducted into the GayVN Hall of Fame.
Barresi continued to direct adult films, including several popular titles for the gay market, and was particularly noted for his military themes. Adult Video News has said Barresi's directorial efforts make him "undisputedly the king of military-themed videos."
In addition to his work in pornographic film and video, Barresi toured in a 1980 summer stock suite of scenes from Neil Simon plays, headlined by Paul Lynde. Barresi had several roles in mainstream film and television projects, including Perfect, Spontaneous Combustion, JAG and Father Dowling Mysteries. Barresi told Entertainment Tonight of the difficulty crossing over into mainstream film: "No one really takes a porn actor seriously ... and no one really respects a porn actor."
Involvement with tabloids and celebrity scandals
John Travolta claim and retractions
In 1990, The National Enquirer ran a front-page story describing Barresi's claim that he'd had a two-year love affair with John Travolta. Barresi told the tabloid he'd met Travolta in 1982 when the actor followed him into the shower room of an L.A. health club. Barresi received $100,000 from The Enquirer in exchange for the details of his relationship with Travolta. Several months later, Barresi retracted his story, saying in a letter to Travolta's attorney that he had never engaged in homosexual activity with Travolta.
Michael Jackson allegations
In the wake of 1993 child sexual abuse accusations against Michael Jackson, Barresi tried to sell tabloid gossip in 1994 after secretly taping two accusers in order to scoop them. Barresi said he met and dated Stella LeMarque, then surnamed "Marcroft," before she and husband Philippe married. The LeMarques tried to sell their story after being dismissed in 1991 as workers at Jackson's Neverland Ranch, saying they had witnessed Jackson inappropriately touching Macaulay Culkin. When their asking price was $100,000, Barresi said "'the hand was outside the kid's pants' ... As soon as their price went up to $500,000, the hand went inside the pants."
Barresi appeared in a PBS Frontline documentary about the incident and described his involvement:
- Barresi: So I called the editor at The Globe and I said, 'I have a tape, I'm on the way down town to hand it to the District Attorney.' And his words were, 'let us come with you.' And then I knew I had him. The next thought in my mind was I'm going to ask for $30,000. You always ask for twice as much as what you hope to get. He put me on hold, and within less than a minute he came back and he said 'well, we can't give you thirty, we'll give you ten.' I said 'make if fifteen,' he said 'you have a deal.'
- Reporter: Could you see the headlines coming?
- Barresi: Oh yeah, sure, and I could see that money coming too.
According to Maureen Orth of Vanity Fair, Barresi had arranged the $15,000 deal with The Globe, but he got impatient and contracted tabloid broker Kevin Smith of Splash News Service, who placed it with The Daily Mirror for $2,400. When the Globe deal came through, Smith could not undo the Mirror deal, and the Mirror scoop kept Barresi from getting paid by The Globe. Smith claims Barresi came to his office "with a gun and a huge bodyguard," and Smith arranged for Barresi to get $1,000. In the end, the DA decided that the stories of the LeMarques and that of the Quindoys (who also sold their story to the tabloids) could not be used. Barresi ended up making $30,000 in total on the Jackson story.
Involvement with Anthony Pellicano
Barresi told ABC News about his work with Pellicano, "Whenever there was a damaging story involving a celebrity client that involved sex, then I was involved." Barresi said that Pellicano hired him to "get dirt on" Pellicano's former client Sylvester Stallone. The actor's phone was allegedly bugged by Pellicano during a lawsuit over Planet Hollywood. Barresi told Vanity Fair that Pellicano had a vendetta against Stallone after the two had a falling-out: "Pellicano hired me on two occasions to find dirt on Stallone.The first time was in 1995 or '96 and then again in late 2001."
Barresi told LA Weekly that Pellicano hired him when Arnold Schwarzenegger was considering running for governor in 2001, "to look for information that may be of good use to Schwarzenegger’s detractors," so Schwartzenegger's team could prepare for any damage control. Barresi submitted 27 pages but could not say who requested the probe.
Barresi also says that he was sought out for comment by the press as the 2002-2008 Pellicano criminal-defense case unfolded. Barresi told the New York Times he has been aiding the defense team for entertainment lawyer Bertram Fields, a long-term client of Pellicano's who is now under investigation, in hopes of a later payday. Barresi also reportedly worked with attorneys for producer Jules Nasso in 2006. As part of a lawsuit, they seek Pellicano's wiretapped calls for any evidence that Steven Seagal ordered Pellicano to terrorize former Variety reporter Anita Busch In May 2006, Barresi turned over tapes from Mitteager with transcriptions to the FBI.
Pellicano was sentenced in December 2008 to 15 additional years in prison for wire taping and racketeering. He had previously served for illegal firearms and homemade grenades. Pelicano was further ordered (with two other defendants) to forfeit $2 million.
References
- D'Entremont, Jim (March 1998). "Profiled: Paul Barresi." The Guide
- ^ *Holson, Laura M. and Bernard Weinraub (November 17, 2003). Hollywood's Investigator To the Stars Heads to Jail. New York Times
- "Hollywood Confidential Investigations". Private Investigator License Search. California Department of Consumer Affairs. November 17, 2011. Retrieved November 18, 2011.
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...appeared in about 50 sex videos, including the very straight Coed Fever...
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External links
- Official website
- Paul Barresi at IMDb
- Paul Barresi at Adultfilmdatabase.com
- "Paul Barresi". SexTV, Episode 7-19, May 14, 2005.
- Paul Barresi at Internet Adult Film Database