What Does the Church of Scientology, Google, Yahoo and Tom Cruise Have In Common? Why did Paul Barresi Leak those Papers?
Posted by: Rose in All Things Anna Nicole Smith, Anna Nicole Smith, Anna Nicole's Nannies, Anthony Pellicano, Bert Fields, Celebrity Trials, Debra Opri, Geraldo - Live, Geraldo At Large, Geraldo FOX News, Howard K Stern, John J. Nazarian, John Nazarian, John Nazarian PI, John Travolta, Nazarian P. I., Paul Barresi, Rita Cosby, Tom Cruise, Wilma Vice, Wilma Vicedomine
The answer to the first question is that Peter Letterese is suing them all in the Southern District Federal Court in Florida for allegedly committing Civil RICO.
The answer to the second question is that this “bombshell” was brought to the world of media tabloidism by a “self-styled investigator”, shorthand for a PI without a license, Paul Barresi when he released some of the papers to the New York Daily News last month. Barresi was kind enough to offer us first option on his “exclusive statement” about the subject of the lawsuit, but we declined. I believe after you read it at Mediabistro.com you will see why Rose Speaks.com elected not to publish it for Baressi, [ADDITIONAL DISCLAIMER: Rose Speaks.com and its owners DO NOT AGREE with Mr. Baressi’s take on Tom Cruise or The Church of Scientology as Mr. Baressi stated to Mediabistro.com.] but hopefully he will keep our number handy for future takes on strange happenings Hollyweird style.
You might remember Paul Barresi, the “self-styled investigator” that appeared on Geraldo at Large with the nannies tapes or some sort of “evidence” on his way to his “buddy’s” office, A. G. Jerry Brown of California. I am not sure of the date or exactly what the evidence Barresi was traveling with but I do remember Geraldo introducing Barresi as “Geraldo’s investigator”, but could not pronounce his name. Barresi was very patient in correcting Geraldo’s faux pas by both spelling his last name and phonetically pronouncing it for Geraldo. There is an important saying in Hollyweird it appears of, “Just make sure you spell my name right”.
If you google Mr. Barresi he is allegedly the ex bagman/enforcer for Anthony Pellicano, something that Baressi vehemently denied to me. Mr. Barresi says he got that titled because; “There is only one article titled BAGMAN, written by Mark Ebner and Jack Cheevers and a book chapter I personally wrote with author Raymond Straight, titled PELLICANO’S ENFORCER. NOBODY and I mean NOBODY has ever “interviewed me” on these two subjects.” However, Bert Fields threatened to sue Barresi if the book was published.
Mr. Baressi did not discuss his alleged association with Anthony Pellicano when he contacted me last April 15 saying, “We should chat sometime. Please feel free to give me a call anytime. I am a fan of your site”. He did tell me back in April 2008, that Rita Cosby had not been honest about him and something about not being paid by Cosby so he turned over some records via a record subpoena to the attorneys for Howard K. Stern. Now do not misinterpret that as Baressi having a change of heart about Howard K. Stern, whom he still does not like. Baressi just did not like being stiffed more than his dislike for Stern, for money he says was owed him by Cosby.
Now about him meeting Debra Opri and Rita Cosby at the Michael Jackson trial in 1993, Baressi in a haughty email to me wanted to make sure we corrected the “supposition that he met Opri and Cosby during the Michael Jackson trial”. HE DID NOT “have sex with that woman” (1). Ooooooopppppppssssss wrong, HE DID NOT “meet Debra Opri and Rita Cosby at Michael Jackson’s trial in 1993”, they just seemed to have all been at the same place at the same time and Paul loves Debra Opri, just ask him. So consider that corrected Mr. Baressi.
However, with that correction I dived into my best friend these days google to find that Baressi was possibly being honest about that. He was around during the Michael Jackson trial in 1993, but was probably not with the “A-Team” of Cosby and Opri, but with the “D-Team” of “doing an end around” on his clients of the day, per an article by The Smoking Gun. They described Barresi as “a self-styled investigator, [short hand again for having no PI license], who often turns up on the periphery of the tawdriest tabloid stories (part snoop, snitch, and fixer, Barresi is the Zelig of Hollywood’s seamy underbelly).” The Smoking Gun goes on to say Barresi “attempted to broker a deal” for two of the prosecution’s witnesses, the Lamarques.” However, per The Smoking Gun’s article; “While it is unclear if the Lemarques ever consummated a tabloid deal, Barresi himself pulled an end-around on the couple, selling their story to the Globe after surreptitiously taping a meeting during which the pair laid out their charges against Jackson (the resulting piece was headlined “We Saw Michael Molesting Child Star”). Barresi made sure to have a photographer secretly memorialize an August 1993 chat with the Lemarques at an outdoor café”. So our apology to Mr. Barresi for thinking he was hobnobbing with Cosby and Opri, obviously he was hobnobbing instead with the National Enquirer, Globe, Splash news service and Ms. Cosby’s current employer, Inside Edition.
However, back to google since they are named in this Civil RICO suit also, continuing to search I found the following. There is the statement on the IMDB.com bio page for Barresi it states, “Sold a story to the “National Enquirer” in 1990 for $100,000 about his alleged longtime love affair with John Travolta.”
Finally there is, “Paul Barresi - This guy claimed he had an affair with John Travolta! Both men have had run-ins with the Church of Scientology over the years. Barresi, who once told the National Enquirer he had a two-year affair with actor John Travolta, was harassed by the sect’s army of private eyes until he recanted the story.”
That might explain why Paul Barresi seems to have a real beef with the Church of Scientology and perhaps his desire to educate the public is a sincere one. Our society has many “religions” referred to as “cults”. We have one that many refer to here in Texas known as the FLDS, which resulted in some indictments of men having children with underage girls. Few of us will forget the Branch Davidian Waco, Texas compound that resulted in the death many of the members not by the alleged “cult” but by a disastrous assault of the compound by the FBI and ATF, which resulted in the death of over 70 people with 21 of them children and 2 of them pregnant women. Then there is of course the most infamous and tragic result involving a “cult” called Jones Town in the late 70’s.
The problem in attempting to go after “religions” as “cults” is that we have that pesky First Amendment that gives us all the freedom of and from religion. However, because of this being filed in a federal court and a high profile case we will be following this latest lawsuit against the Church of Scientology. Mr. Letterese, however, has until August 22 to file the correct paperwork required in an allegation of CIVIL RICO or the suit will be dismissed from the Florida Federal Court and all of this will become a moot point.
We will have all of the paperwork filed in the Southern District Federal Court in Florida up today for you to download and read through.
On a side note, I have an observation here. No wonder Baressi has turned up in the Anna Nicole Smith saga, now what is the bet Baressi probably knows Wilma Vicedomine? For the record, Baressi neither confirmed nor denied any friendship with Wilma. For some reason the Globe, National Enquirer and Splash News continues to circle these cases so I guess with that comes Baressi automatically.
We will end with a final quote from Baressi. “Rose, why don’t you print this for your readers. COWARD
…IMPORTANT: May I have final approval to what you will print before you print it? Best Paul B. YOUR REPLY: Oh course you will Paul, I do that with everyone I talked with and do an interview and article on….I will send you a copy of the raw data I have bio wise on you, and we will go from there this weekend… Thanks, Rose.
I stand corrected and have added the email quote that Mr. Baressi requested I put here tonight, perhaps when he gets back from his three-week holiday he will grant us an update. Please note that I did say on his “bio” not on the article itself. Now the rest of the emails, well we will just save those as a token of appreciation between Baressi and me.
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August 11, 2008
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Bravo! A well-written, very informative article! I knew that Tom Cruise was married to Mimi Rogers but was surprised that she was a Scientologist first. I personally think that Mr. Barresi’s comments on the Church having a almost total control over Cruise seem to be a tad overstated, I think Cruise may sincerely believe in Scientology. I do not think he or anyone else in the Church is a ‘puppet on a string‘.
I am glad Mr. Barresi is a fan of the site, I do hope one day he will reconsider his views on Mr. Stern. I do wonder if he has ever met Howard in person? I believe there are very few people in the world that could have stayed with Anna for that many years, I feel in my heart that he truly did love her and only wanted the best for her from the time he first met her.
I concur, I also hope that Mr. Barresi will give the site another opportunity. I have the utmost respect for Mr. John Nazarian, I hope that Mr. Barresi knows what and who is behind that bashing bandwagon… talk about puppets on strings! > That might be one of the truest examples I have ever seen!
Beth, you are kind to a man who said we don’t have a clue and in so many words IMO called us stupid.
Yes Daisy, that is because I know that we really do have a clue and that we are far from stupid.
I feel if Rose will speak to him and possibly have future stories… then I will stand tall, and not disrespect him.
I truly cannot or will not say I agree with him, but then he may not agree with me.
That does not make him right or me right, it does not make me stupid or him stupid.
To tell you the truth, I would rather have Mr. Barresi helping Anna’s side rather than the side that trashes Anna in a book of lies.
No Worries, Daisy.
You are more patient then me Beth
IMO this guy is another one of those PI want to be who does not get the game.
Rose, I know exactly what you mean about this guy and who will be his new BFF’s.
Him and Wilma have that ole want to be in common and not getting it right. Hey they can compare notes and come up with more theories. And him saying he gave you a chance, gotta love it Rose, you are the smartest women in this game.
Whose clueless now Mr. Baressi?
and does he actually think you didn’t know it was published?
He does need to go to the other side with these tales, they are the only ones who will buy it.
August 11, 2008 John O’Quinn and The O’Quinn Law Firm file DEFENDANTS’ MOTION AND NOTICE TO AMEND AND CERTIFY FOR IMMEDIATE APPEAL VENUE, PURSUANT TO 28 U.S.C. §1292(b) AND FED. R. APP. 5(a), THIS COURT’S JULY 11, 2008 INTERLOCUTORY ORDER DENYING DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO DISMISS PLAINTIFFS’ FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT FOR LACK OF PERSONAL JURISDICTION, FORUM NON CONVENIENS AND IMPROPER VENUE.
http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=863
Howard K. Stern’s Response is Due August 28.
Is this part of “Death by 1,000 Cuts”?
Some people will resort to extremes to get attention….but to take on the Church of Scientology is pretty stupid IMO and when he says bad things about one of my favorite people, being John Travolta, I will say to him HISSS.
I believe this guy was sent here by Wilma and the O’Quinn machine. I could be wrong but isn’t it funny that right after O’Quinn releases court papers with Rose’s email address and the website address, suddenly this guy is a fan and offering Rose a exclusive that trash the likes of Tom Cruise and the Church of Scientology? It’s to antiseptic. Seems to be a way in. In the bio I’ve seen that he originally wanted Rose to post was more of a “hey look at me. I’m the shit” kind of bio.
Now, Mr. Barresi we aren’t stupid. Women are pretty keen on picking up the bull. I even give a little credit on that to the “other side” in this whole ANS saga but….We do know for a fact everytime you have been to this site. We have very sophisticated software for this site because it has been hacked and all kinds of things.
Now, Mr. B, just when the hell did you become a source for RoseSpeaks? You contacted this site not the other way around. For someone who doesn’t care you sure do bitch in the repeated emails you send. You said “I never speak off the record and then you complain and say “that wasn’t on the record.” WTF? We don’t threaten Mr. Bagman or are you just a wanna be? I believe it’s probably a little more like that. What’s wrong porn industry keep you from being taken seriously or is it your way of selling out the people you work with?” What should we call you? Mr. Baressi, Jason Thorpe, Joe Hammer or Michael Franco? Now, I have no problem with porn. To each his own but your just a disgusting person. Threats and porn? Nice way to be known.
Golden opportunity huh? For you. You seem to want approval and recognition from RoseSpeaks and then go spitting crazy when we don’t jump. Fact is Mr. B we don’t give a damn about your allegations of the Church of Scientology and Tom Crusie. You are your own worst enemy. Your not important to anyone but yourself in your own mind. Blogger crap. You call yourself involved with “main stream media” but the paper you give as an example, The New York Daily News isn’t by a long shot “main stream.” It’s a mostly gossip rag sensationalizing bullshit that people like you sell. Such as your story a few years ago about a certain world known celebirty. How much money did you get from that? Did you have to give that money back along with your retraction?
Here’s your clue Mr.B and the reason your name makes people skin crawl..
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. [30]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Barresi
Here’s another clue
Look how many comments are on this article Mr. B. NO ONE GIVES A DAMN ABOUT YOUR CREEPY CRAWLY UNDERHANDED SHIT. Notice most people went right on past this article with few comments. Not to mention the password protected blog where you and your slimball shit is really being disgusted and all by a bunch of “dumb bloggers.”
Mr. B. I’m gonna quote you here, “The freedoms we enjoy in the United States are both a wonderful and a dangerous thing.” now kiss our ass Mr. B.
Roxanne [8] I agree and thought the same thing when I read this article last night. Why is he offering an exclusive now? Me personally I think its a set up by McCabe/O’Quinn
Morning all! again Rosespeaks count some points .Don’t forget to VOTE today ladys.
Remove by request…remove by request! If you are not able to show your face something fishing….Baressi.
First think ,he doesn’t like Howard. Mean everything to me. Howard K Stern is not an easy man. A lot of poeples doesn’t like him. Maybe it is one of the many resons why I like HKS so much. He seem to see clear.He is into the bisness since quiet bit no????
Baressi is out!! He have nothing to compare with the Big of this world right now. A ruin of America. Soory Baressi better try something else!
Mr. B
WE TOLD YOU WE’RE NOT STUPID.
GOTCHA!!
Ladies, Mr. B’s stories aren’t adding up. Let’s let Google be our friend. Ladies, let’s find out who this guy really is. We know he was on Geraldo saying that “he was on his way to the AG of California with evidence in hand.” Can anyone find the Fox transcript when he was on Geraldo? There is all kinds of information on him and the things he’s done, people he has sold out, etc… Let’s find this stuff. The debunking of Mr. B. Sound fun? I thought so.
He wanted to slam Scientology and Tom Cruise and he wanted to use RoseSpeaks to do it. I truly believe this was supposed to be his way in the front door. Talk about sneaky, slimy, underhanded people. Tx. is over run with em’.
LOL Removed by request…who asked us or him.
You are still cracking me up Rose.
Spill the beans and then retracting. Seems to be a pattern huh?
Still looking for that 60K?
Ditto Roxanne!!
Soooooooo……………………….there was no evidence he was on his way with?
Pattern - no evidence on the way - no sex tape, anything else?
Let’s not forget this so called affair with John Travolta.
Now good ole wilma has got to be embarrassed by now doesn’t she? Maybe not, she might actually believe it.
Roxanne, #14 I thought he was smarter than that (per him).
I am thinking here but QV was hell bent on connecting Rosespeaks to porn. Now I find out this guy produces Pornographic films. I ask is this where they got the idea from?
Paul Barresi (born 12 January 1949 [1]) is an American film director and media personality who has appeared in and directed pornographic movies under his own name, as well as under Jason Thorpe, Joe Hammer, and Michael Franco. Barresi has also been involved in various capacities in several high-profile celebrity scandals.
Heck it seems no one is interested in debunking paul
Daisy
I am. Just having to work and come in and check in between. He gave himself away big time. Although, I believe he did it on purpose as a veiled threat to Rose. Can you find the transcript from Geraldo’s show?
Lucky
He said somethings to Rose after making the statement “I never speak off the record.” Then when Rose did her article he came in and asked that certain aspects be removed because they weren’t “on the record.” WTF? Now, how would you take a statement like “I never speak off the record.”? He said somethings and then retracted what he said. He did the same thing with John Travolta. He sold a story to a rag mag. saying he had an affair with JT and then later he had to recant the story. There is a pattern here. This is the same guy who was on Geraldo (I believe when FS was) and said he was on his way to the AG of California offie with “evidence” in the ANS case. He also said some interesting things about Rita Cosby that he then said he didn’t say.
This has TX written all over it. No he’s not from TX. he comes out of upper Cali.
** I edited the above post to correctly say “I never speak OFF the record.”
Well, he is kind of a bore ya know and I understand no one giving a damn what he says
I got what you meant when you said ”
Spill the beans and then retracting”
Barresi for a personal trainer job. Barresi asked for and received $100,000 from The Enquirer in exchange for the details of his relationship with Travolta. [22] The issue was published on May 8, 1990, [23] but several months later, Barresi retracted his story, saying in a letter to Travolta’s attorney that he’d never engaged in homosexual activity with Travolta. [24] Barresi told The Guide’s Jim D’Etremont that he did so with assurances from Travolta’s attorney that the affair could be brought “to a soft landing” if he issued a retraction and an apology: “I was having a nervous breakdown… I just wanted it to be over. But when the dust settled, I regretted the retraction a lot more than I regretted that initial call to the Enquirer.” [22][25]
Also
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0056947/bio
Is this the guy Hollywood hires to mess up someone career or reputation? I am seeing a clear pattern here and OQ has got caught red handed hasn’t he?
Okay ladies I was having fun before but I think we need to take this more serious. See you all in the PW thread.
#3 Beth I can PROMISE you I will not be speaking to Barresi again, I will probably do future stories about him as I untangle a very complex person that seems to feed off tabloid sensationalism. I find that part of Barresi a tad fascinating. However, no Barresi will NOT be making any contributions to this site, we cannot handle what I felt was very defamatory towards Mr. Cruise and his religious preferences. Not to mention the Travolta story that was sold… So feel free to type what you feel about all of this, I promise you will not offend me or anyone at Rose Speaks.com
Barresi also had something to do with OJ getting caught in vegas,by setting up a sting..The man is really not thinking right if he is going after the church of scientology.Greta and her husband are also both members and the church is worth as much if not more than the catholic church.NO offence to anyone just trying to make a point.From what I have read they have a bunch of very good attorneys and do not give up..Maybe Barresi does not want his picture up for a reason,so noe knows hin how he looks now.
Barresi also had something to do with OJ getting caught in vegas,by setting up a sting..The man is really not thinking right if he is going after the church of scientology.Greta and her husband are also both members and the church is worth as much if not more than the catholic church.NO offence to anyone just trying to make a point.From what I have read they have a bunch of very good attorneys and do not give up..Maybe Barresi does not want his picture up for a reason,sono one knows hin how he looks now.
Thanks Rose,
I understand now - I also agree wholeheartedly about the fact that each and every person has a right to their own Religious beliefs.
(along with the freedom of speech, sexual orientation, ect…) > Without Judgment from Others! Even God said to; “Judge Not…”
Hey, I heard on Showbiz tonight that Tom C. turned down a new movie, a international spy movie… [not sure if because of other work conflicts or why] the part was offered to Angelina Jolie. If she accepts the part, the writers and producers will rewrite the script for her. I am anxious to see her new movie ‘Wanted’.
As for what I feel > I feel that Tom C. and John T. truly seem to be good fathers to their children, they have both helped society in giving to charities for children and towards cures for diseases… they surely appear to have worked very hard for many years. They both have done these feats without ’selling out’ another individual for personal gain. They have worked hard and in turn have not ruined anyone elses reputation in the process.
ps - if it is accurate that this Mr. Barresi is friends with Wilma V. then he truly must be a complex person. A person that holds NO CANDLE to any achievements of the likes of Mr. C or Mr. T.
Thanks again for making it a little more clear to me, you and Ken take care. I am so proud of both of you and your achievements for society. ~B~
Did ya’ll see this little comment? “Sadly, unless there is some divine intervention, in my opinion, Cruise will be lost in shallow and in misery for the rest of his life.”
Mr. Cruise and his wife seem quite happy to me! I don’t believe in their church anymore than they believe in mine! But come on.
This guy is a effing joke. When I read Roxanne’s comment, I was just gonna write “Ditto”. Glad everyone else sees it too! What a effin moron. LOL, what a tough guy, huh? Who does he think we are here? Surely he has us confused with the “Dark side”? LOL.
I guess Rose was supposed to scare a little easier. LOL. Better go hide Rose!!! Hahaha!
I don’t think HE knew what he was getting into. All I can say is research at its best.
I have to add:
All I keep seeing in my mind is the lot of em sitting around an office, like in a “B” movie saying “Damn, foiled again!” LOL
#29
ROTF
I got a mental picture of that. Thanks for the laugh.
Was anyone ever able to find the transcripts? I found a synopsis type thing but no mention of Mr. B. and his comments.
I just found all of my notes from last fall after he was going to break the ANS case “for sure” said in my best valley girl take off, to his good friend Geraldo who could not mention his name right… on Paul Barssi had the “goods”, I guess like he has done most of his life with the “goods”….
Yea he did tell me on the record he spoke to Wilma Vice on a regular basis and she was “courteous” and the “compared notes”… brought up pictures of a viper pit to me… but hey that is just me… and since I have been accused of selling porn and not have and this guy made a living of allegedly being bi-sexual and bonking for money…. how come the dark side loves him and calls him a “respectable private investigator” guess they missed the memo of he is NOT licensed, just seems to be a tail gater determined to land right in the middle of this story and then sell his “thoughts” or what is the guy doing for Wilma???
Rose, he sounds like Ms Marples, (now there is one clear thinking person full of so many facts).
That is so funny they compared notes….I would have loved to hear all they came up with. Oh, never mind, read the comments on topix.
I still would like to know where QV came up with the idea to use porn to slam Rosespeaks, it just seems very weird.
IMO the dark side only see what they want to see and forget all the rest.I know I can google someone and see both sides the good and the bad to bad thew dark side can’t!!!!