Anthony Pellicano Diaries--Research Compiled by Cheryl Shuman

January 1993: Anthony Pellicano's greatest strength lay in getting people not to talk. Larry Feldman charged that Jackson's side had deliberately used Pellicano in the 1993 Jackson sex scandal "to be out front and make slanderous charges about [Jamie] and his parents." He further states in court documents: "Muzzling independent witnesses, while allowing defendant's investigator to say anything he wants in a declaration for the press, is not justice."Cabell Bruce, a producer for Hard Copy, told of going up to the front porch of a woman who worked at Neverland and trying to talk to her. "She literally started shaking, her eyes filled with tears, and all she could say was 'Call Mr. Pellicano.'" Diane Dimond of Hard Copy complained that every time she found a source who had been close to Michael Jackson the response is "Mr. Pellicano has asked us not to say anything." Pellicano went as far as to offer to pay Kevin Smith to tell him who had leaked the Department of Children's Services report to Splash. When Smith refused, Pellicano pointedly said, "You're not even a citizen" and "I don't want anyone to get hurt in all this." There were also reports that Jamie's father had found a bug on his home phone, and was roughed up at his office. Pellicano denied that he had anything to do with this, saying, "If I had wanted him roughed up, he would have been roughed up." Diane Dimond, who along with local KNBC has broken more new developments in this case than anyone else, says she has received messages via other reporters from Pellicano: "Tell Diane Dimond I'm watching her." "Tell her I hope her health is good."