Will Pitbull Bert Fields Light Hollywood Ablaze?
Oct. 27 2008, Published 7:07 a.m. ET
TINSEL IN A TWIST Pellicano, Fields (inset) (Photo: Getty Images) It's chilling turn in the Anthony Pellicano case guaranteed to cause sleepless nights in the Hollywood Hills: Bertram Fields, the litigious attack-dog attorney known for burying the malodorous laundry of the rich and famous, might be the guy who brings down the accused wiretapper Anthony Pellicano—and half of A-list Tinseltown with him.
This morning in the Pellicano trial in L.A., before the jury came in, prosecutors told the judge and defense attorneys of a witness they planned to call who would invoke his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination. Asked who this potential witness was, prosecutors answered, "Bert Fields."
If this were a movie, someone would have audibly gasped. Some are speculating that prosecutors will offer Fields immunity in exchange for his testimony.
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Fields is the man Brad Grey, Tom Cruise, John Travolta, and virtually any industry titan going through divorce or A-lister with a closet full skeletons calls when he wants bad gossip and lawsuits to disappear. (Paramount honcho Grey, last week, testified that he didn't know about Pellicano's tactics—Fields handled him.)