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New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
... Kerkorian. At that time, a jury found, Mr. Christensen hired the private investigator Anthony Pellicano to tap Ms. Bonder Kerkorian’s telephone illegally. Mr. Christensen remains free pending an appeal. In May Mr. Pellicano was found guilty of 76 charges related to racketeering and unlawful wiretaps, and is awaiting sentencing.
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Fergie's Tech Blog (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
Joanna Lin writes in The Los Angeles Times : A prominent Los Angeles attorney was sentenced today to three years in federal prison and fined $250,000 for conspiring with Hollywood private investigator Anthony Pellicano to wiretap billionaire Kirk Kerkorian's former wife. Terry Christensen, 67, also was ordered by U.S. District Judge Dale S. Fischer to three years on supervised release after...
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Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
A revered Hollywood lawyer was sentenced to three years in jail on Monday (24Nov08) for his part in the wiretapping scheme involving the ex-wife of MGM studios mogul KIRK KERKORIAN.Terry Christensen and Hollywood private detective Anthony Pellicano were both convicted of breaking the law to get their high-profile clients information they needed for legal assaults.Pellicano was convicted...
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
Terry Christensen , the high-flying Hollywood attorney who hired disgraced PI Anthony Pellicano to wiretap a billionaire's wife, got a wrist-slap from federal authorities today. Christenen hired the mercurial PI-to-the-Stars Pellicano to carry off this brazen plan to get evidence for billionaire and former MGM owner Kirk Kerkorian in his divorce. Fact was he made a blatant error employing...
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LAist (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
More coming out today from the controversy surrounding Anthony Pellicano : "A prominent Los Angeles attorney was sentenced today to three years in federal prison and fined $250,000 for conspiring with Hollywood private eye Anthony Pellicano to wiretap billionaire Kirk Kerkorian’s ex-wife. Terry Christensen was found guilty by a federal jury in August." [ LA Times ]
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Patterico's Pontifications (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
Tonight I spoke with Chuck Philips for about an hour and a half, on topics ranging from Anthony Pellicano to Suge Knight to Waymond Anderson. Due to various demands on my time, I can’t immediately publish a post about my talk with Philips. For now, suffice it to say that he acknowledged writing the letters [...]
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Patterico's Pontifications (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
... of helping Suge Knight threaten Anderson . We talked about Philips’s relationships with Anthony Pellicano and Suge Knight. We discussed what Philips is doing nowadays. All of this will be revealed in future posts. Because the interview was long, I will split it up into several parts, starting in this post with Philips’s reaction to my post from Sunday night . In that post, I published letters...
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Deadline Hollywood Daily (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
It also looks as if the now disgraced uber-entertainment lawyer and convicted felon in the Pellicano scandal won't be doing his time under house detention, either. This morning, federal judge Dale Fischer sentenced Terry Christensen to 36 months, plus a $250,000 fine to be paid within 30 days. She is allowing him to stay out on [...]
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SoCal Sports Observed (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
... or why. Former Times reporter Chuck Philips talks about his coverage and relationship with Anthony Pellicano. Homeboy Industries, Father Gregory Boyle’s 20-year-old gang intervention program, is financially strapped and running mostly on fumes. The Studio City Neighborhood Council wants NBC Universal to scale back the big Universal City project. Los Feliz cancelled its annual holiday festival...
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
... better than he had in a previous letter about his remorse over working with private eye Anthony Pellicano.Pellicano and Christensen were accused of recording phone conversations of Lisa Bonder Kerkorian in her child support dispute with Kirk Kerkorian. Bonder Kerkorian, a former tennis pro, was married to Kerkorian, now 91, for 28 days in 1999. Christensen paid Pellicano $25,000...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
LOS ANGELES — A prominent Hollywood attorney was sentenced Monday to three years in prison in a wiretapping scheme that targeted the former wife of MGM mogul Kirk Kerkorian.Terry Christensen declined to make a statement in federal court, saying only that he couldn't express things any better than he had in a previous letter about his remorse over working with private eye Anthony Pellicano.Pellicano...
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Law Blog (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
Today was one of reckoning for prominent Los Angeles attorney Terry Christensen. He was sentenced to three years in federal prison and fined $250,000 for conspiring with Hollywood private investigator Anthony Pellicano (pictured) to wiretap billionaire Kirk Kerkorian’s former wife, for which Christensen was convicted in August. Click here for the LA Times story; here for all the LB coverage...
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
LOS ANGELES A prominent Hollywood attorney was sentenced Monday to three years in federal prison for his role in a wiretapping scheme orchestrated by a private investigator.
Lawyer Terry Christensen was sentenced for his convictions of conspiracy to commit wiretapping and aiding and abetting a wiretap.
Christensen and private eye Anthony Pellicano and Christensen were accused of...
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SoCal Sports Observed (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
It's not often you see Hollywood lawyers the prominence of Terry Christensen go to federal prison. He was to three years, plus a $250,000 fine, for conspiring with Anthony Pellicano to wiretap the wife of mogul Kirk Kerkorian. Christensen, who has already left Christensen, Glaser, Fink, Jacobs, Weil & Shapiro (), was allowed to remain free pending appeal.
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atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
Christensen and private eye Anthony Pellicano and Christensen were accused of recording phone conversations of Lisa Bonder Kerkorian, the ex-wife of MGM mogul Kirk Kerkorian. They were trying to disprove her claims that the studio magnate was the father of her young daughter.
