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11:22 AM, August 8th, 2011

Pellicano reveals that when he agreed to work for [Michael] Jackson during the star’s 1993 child-molestation case, he warned Jackson that he’d better not be guilty. “I said, ‘You don’t have to worry about cops or lawyers. If I find out anything, I will f--k you over.’” The detective took the assignment, but says, “I quit because I found out some truths…He did something far worse to young boys than molest them.” But he refuses to say anything more about it. It’s as if Pellicano wants to send Hollywood a reminder: I know which closets hold the skeletons.

Anthony Pellicano, the private eye and master phone hacker that stars feared (and used) most. Maybe you can see why from the quote above.

9:22 AM, July 27th, 2011

To be honest with you...when I first started I was 28. I was carefree. I didn’t really give things much thought....I think that brought with it a bravado, courage, and daring that you wouldn’t get if you were 40. But it also brought a sense of slight abandonment about the reality of what you were doing to people.

Piers Morgan in a 2009 BBC interview, speaking about tabloid tactics when he was editor of News of the World, and later the Daily Mirror.

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