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actress and previous Playmate Donna D'Errico Nikki Sixx and Nici in happier days

Y’all are always saying “proof” please which is what I love about the bloggers here. However once again as I unraveled “gossip” to find the truth I found questions.

The last few days I have been digging deeper into Nikki Sixx and his Madame “friend”, Nici a/k/a Michelle Braun, and I find as I often do that when I write an article I have more questions then answers.

So here, goes folks, in 2006-2007 with pen in hand, Nikki Sixx writes a New York Times bestseller autobiography of his drug haze days in the 1980’s. Nothing very different then many hard rockers, party bands went through. Sixx’s book covers a full year in his life back in the 80’s when he did everything to excess. Motley Crue together in 2001 wrote “The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band” this was followed by Tommyland by Tommy Lee, September 13, 2005. Then came September 2007, and Sixx released his book “The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star” and it skyrocketed up the charts. Even this holiday season [2008] many of you said you got his book for one of your gifts and found yourself lost in his “honesty”. I have to admit I have not read the book. However, if one of you want to send me a copy, I will read it and see if it can be debunked like Cosby’s New York Times best seller or if it stands on its on as an autobiography of Sixx.

Mean while back to the Playmate, the Rock Star and the Madame, in Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Thomas Trent Lewis’s court on November 8 and 9, 2007 Donna D’Errico and Sixx were back in court to resolve the final division of their assets. The couple had been in “court off and on since September 2007 to resolve the final division of their assets, with the proceedings being conducted in spurts to accommodate everyone’s busy schedule”. Donna D’Errico had waived the famed Hollyweird alimony during the divorce and after and wanted to get on with her life with her children some accounts have reported.

In what to me appears to have been sheer brilliance Nikki Sixx was able to convince the court to hell with the fires, which were worse then normal in the L. A. area in 2007. In addition to hell with an ex-wife whose voice both days had been so hoarse, she was barely audible in court, per local media following the final chapter in the courtroom. In fact, to hell that D’Errico did not have a lawyer and had asked the court to grant a brief recess in the court proceedings to retain a new lawyer. Which would have been nothing new or even a stretch for Sixx and his lawyers to have agreed and supported D’Errico, the mother of Sixx’s youngest child in her request for a couple of weeks to recover and find new counsel. Nope some how Sixx got the judge to order Donna D’Errico to represent herself. Only in Hollyweird folks can people manage these feats of magic.

Then it gets really good, the witnesses, we have one of Sixx’s friends, Jonathan Roberts, testified that he spied on D’Errico and photographed her extensively on the Sunday, [November 4, 2007], before the hearing date of November 8, 2007 at Sixx’s request. It is reported that Roberts testified, “He saw her go to church, a restaurant, and a sporting goods store and walk up a long stairway at a beach.” Then retired sheriff’s Sgt. Thomas Stephens testified “he spied on D’Errico on behalf of Sixx on Wednesday November 7, 2007 a day before the hearing and that she left her home for six hours. When she returned, she smiled at him when he said “Donna, National Enquirer” as she parked her SUV”. So here we have an ex-wife who goes to church on Sundays, eats, shops and takes a walk, it is not clear if the retired Sergeant lost D’Errico or if he was just suppose to sit in front of her home. However, she appears to have been friendly and perhaps, in my opinion, showing humor as a national rag’s name was hollered out to her.

On Friday, November 9, 2007 after D’Errico passed out in a restroom from being ill the judge granted a continuance until later in November 2007 for her to get a lawyer and to get well.

Folks here is where it really appears that Sixx was able to weave some magic in court. This confessed heroin addict, hard rocker, going to rehab repeatedly since the 80’s for heroin and cocaine addiction says he was shocked, that’s right shocked, when a “Madame” [note picture above of Braun] told him, that D’Errico his former wife had worked as a prostitute and a stripper. Albeit he was not able to say if that allegation was before his marriage to D’Errico or after the marriage had split up. However, Sixx is quoted as saying; “I heard she was doing high-end call girl work, I was freaking out. Your head starts to spin. We have a child together”.

Remember, in this trip down the rabbit hole folks, that D’Errico had waived alimony; so how worried about his youngest child could Sixx have been for over a year? This “Madame” had allegedly confided this to Sixx when Sixx was on tour in the fall of 2006, per his testimony. What would you do during that year if you felt the Madame’s comments were true?

“Sixx said that when he asked the madame for proof, she gave him names and other information that led him to believe she was telling the truth. One of the names was of a man who he knew to be a Las Vegas pimp.”

Sixx’s book about his own turbulent times in 1986-87 when he almost died and sought treatment had already hit the shelves in bookstores and on the internet for sell.

One article stated that; “Sixx said he went into rehab again in 1999 and did another stay for 28 days in 2001. In the fall of 2007 on the stand, Sixx swore he had been sobered for more than six years”; however, what about now?

Nikki Sixx also made the allegations that Donna D’Errico was using cocaine and alcohol with him, and after their “daughter was born resumed using cocaine to control her weight.” The accounts of that hearing does not say if Sixx offered any proof other than his “word” about these new salacious accusations of his in court in 2007.

Am I the only one here left scratching my head and wondering how Sixx admitted to a long history of heroin addiction, being in and out of rehab centers for close to 20 years, but was now totally believable about the Madame, because he knew a pimp in Las Vegas?

So as a favor, could Nici the Madame have been sharing the shell game “rules” of where are the assets with her friend Nikki? Like I said with the SEC still looking into the “Madame” and a host of others in New York for hiding assets, is it possible that Sixx took a play out of the Madame’s book? Remember Nikki Sixx’s own friend testified that Donna D’Errico had been to church the previous Sunday, did anyone ask where Sixx was on that same Sunday?

Another set of questions, Sixx not only admits to being down the rabbit hole and into rehab over and over again for 20 years. However, did anyone produce an arrest record for his ex-wife showing she was a hooker? Did the Madame or the pimp show up in court to verify this? Can anyone show us a stint into rehab for Sixx’s ex-wife turned user with Sixx? For that matter, how many tickets does this mother have? Why did Sixx testified to something that he knew his youngest child would read one day? Was Sixx successful at the shell game of hiding assets or was he busted so to say?

You see like in most cases where I begin to dig, I have more questions about Nikki Sixx then answers, and yes, I know he has devout followers, just like the “deadheads” for another famous Rock band going back in time all the way to Woodstock. The next article will deal with Sixx’s book; how he admits he found the “lost diaries” years later; and his ghostwriter for his book as I try to find more answers then questions as I do more digging.

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January 3, 2009
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Rose Speaks.com will be updating this weekend for the BLOG part only. The blog main data base will be rolled back and changed over at about midnight [Sunday December 28], IF the current theme works then all will go smoothly, if not it will be a tad bumpy through part of Monday. Yes we did not finish on Saturday night so it is being done tonight [Sunday] If the blog is down a few hours late at night never fear the full blog is always saved in a roll back database. We will also be adding some new features like a much easier category section, and a translation into several other languages we have been asked to add. We hope we keep improving and you keep stopping by to read.

We thought we might add this bit about cases, old and new ones you have told us you would like Rose Speaks.com to follow. If you want something added to this list, please post it here and let us know.

Casey Anthony – Caylee Anthony – George and Cindy Anthony – Lee Anthony - Anthony case.

The Mike Corona case out of Orange County California, and the interwoven cases that have all come from this case (I.E. Don Haidl and before Corona’s case how it relates to Haidls’ son’s case, And the tail of the two Debbies)

Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and his staff and family as they all began to lawyer up.

Dr. Cyril H. Wecht - Because you just can’t make this up, the government needs help in a change of venue to “convict” the doctor on the second go round, cause the people love him.

D. C. Madame, Deborah Palfrey and her Estate.

Henry T. Nicholas III - California Billionaire, just had to allegedly possess and with intent to distribute drugs, with secret rooms beneath his homes. You have to just love California and what they bring to us, last year Anthony Pellicano and this year Henry T. Nicholas III.

The Hogan family’s continued problems and associated lawsuits.

Michelle Braun, Millionaire Madame and her Client list you are not going to believe who all is included and those she intends or might take down with her unlike the D. C. Madame, Deborah Palfrey.

Lori Drew, the ultimate case of cyber bullying and what her conviction is going to do to the rest of the nation in new laws.

A couple of Rock Bands just to spice things up here on Rose Speaks.com with people who know them well and are willing to give us their take on the current woes a couple of these bands find themselves in.

Thanks to Sprocket the ongoing Phil Spector trial in California, take two.

Roland Carnaby Civil Rights case from Houston Texas of an alleged CIA or FBI operative gun down, who died from gun shot wounds causing death due to blood lost, and why no one is standing trial for this death listed as a “homicide”.

Two Yale Law Students who decided to sue anonymous blog posters for defamation and what this also might generate in online defamation and/or law changes.

New Cases that catches the attention of John J. Nazarian P. I. – Security Consultant, whatever catches the fancy of Mr. Nazarian, we hope he will share with Rose Speaks.com.

All things Anna Nicole Smith related as many of those trials come to an end in 2009. Which by the way the New York Judge has granted Howard K. Stern’s legal team’s request for more time to answer Rita Cosby’s Motion for Summary Judgment. The new date due is February 6, 2009, based on that all of the paperwork filed by Elizabeth McNamara on December 15 was wrong and so had to be refiled on December 19, 2008.

If there is a case you would like to see us follow, let us know, and if we can we will. If you would like to follow a case and write articles for the blog, we welcome you, just drop us an email.

There will be a new article up on Casey Anthony today, and debunking of the blond ambitious, Cosby’s book will be up before the stroke of midnight on December 31.

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December 27, 2008
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John O'Quinn and Rita Cosby up close and personal

On the night of December 15 into the early morning of the 16th for about seven to nine hours, on PACER were the filings of Elizabeth McNamara’s Declaration in support of her client, Rita Cosby’s Motion for Summary Judgment with exhibits A – HH.

After the seven to nine hours that the documents were on PACER for the whole world or those of us with PACER accounts to download, Ms. McNamara filed a letter with the Court dated December 16. She was both advising the Court that the exhibits had been filed in error and requesting that she be allowed to file her Declaration corrected. Her letter went on to state she had contacted the other counsels in this case and had also contacted the Clerk of Court to remove the documents because some of them should have been filed under Seal. The Court granted this request on December 17, and Ms. McNamara got a “do over” on December 19, however, she also filed corrected versions of ALL of Rita Cosby’s filings that were due and had been filed with the Court on time by the Court’s Ordered due date of December 15. We have not yet completed rechecking those documents compared with the Originals filed on December 15 to see if any of them had been changed or redacted. However, all of those filings from both December 15 and December 19, minus the infamous document number 73 remain on PACER for everyone to download.

Rose Speaks.com did in fact download that now infamous filing of docket number 73, the Declaration of Ms. McNamara with all of the exhibits attached. We have struggled since the morning of December 16 as to whether to put up these documents including the Exhibits marked “confidential” or “highly confidential” filed with Ms. McNamara’s Declaration. We have pondered whether any of the other parties and/or their legal counsel involved in suits in other jurisdictions, (I. E. Texas both federal and state; California probate, South Carolina etc.), some of which have the same parties in those cases had downloaded the documents. Since they, [the papers], were put up in error by Ms. McNamara then that brings up the question of was any of the three versions of the Agreed Confidential Orders the Federal Court in New York had issued previously, each time tightening up the previously filed Agreed Order to protect the privacy of the parties? I have to say on a side note that what Ms. McNamara filed in error, makes those fourteen pages of Rita Cosby’s deposition filed by Lin Wood back in November 2007 look like a minor mistake and one hopefully that NOONE ever refers to in the future. Like with these papers, Rose Speaks.com had on November 29 - 30 downloaded those papers at 11 A. M. making Lin Wood releasing them to Art Harris after 5 PM on November 30 a moot point.

However, I regress to other days and other papers filed in error and not under Seal as the Federal Court in New York had intended and displayed by the additional Orders issued by the Court. The infamous document 73 with exhibits contained four of the eight excerpts of depositions referred to in Ms. McNamara’s Declaration. These excerpts of depositions were clearly marked confidential. I cannot begin to imagine the horror and personal violation that each of the four people whose excerpts were filed in error must feel. Some of the excerpts referred to delicate financial information with exhibits attached including one of the person’s social security number. The other filings that were marked confidential or highly confidential were multiple documents filed in the California Court regarding Dannielynn’s paternity in the fall of 2006. Clearly, both the California Family Court as well as Larry Birkhead never intended for any of these documents to be filed for the world to read. The documents ALL showed “highly confidential” marked on each of four exhibits of documents, including affidavits involving that suit filed under Seal as is my understanding required in Family Courts in California where a minor child is a subject of the suit. Mr. Birkhead’s attorney Michael Trope placed “highly confidential” on those documents before releasing them per a Court Order.

Other documents filed in error included the copy of the Royal Bahamian Police Affidavit filed by Ford Shelley on November 17, 2006, after the fight about Horizons had become front and center both in the Bahamas Courts as well as the Court of public opinion. There is also a partial filing of Howard K. Stern’s Affidavit filed with the Royal Bahamian Police dated September 10, 2006.

Ms. McNamara, in her Declaration, has marked exhibit R as being filed under seal and showing it redacted on her declaration as to the contents of the exhibit, in actuality all ten exhibits marked as exhibit R were filed by Ms. McNamara, some filed on December 16 and the rest filed on December 19 with the “do-over”. Exhibit R refers to the Court Proceedings, in the Bahamas related to Daniel Smith’s death and inquest.

After almost a week of discussions between Ken and myself weighing the “right of the public to know” versus the “right of privacy of these individuals” we have made a decision as to what to put up from this infamous filing of document 73 and what not to put up. We will NOT put up any of the four excerpts of depositions with exhibits filed in error. We will NOT put up any of the documentation involving the filings under Seal in 2006 with the family courts in California marked “highly confidential” in the accidental filing by Ms. McNamara on December 15. We did upload those exhibits that referred only to the CDs filed with the Court that were marked either “confidential” or “highly confidential”. We are also making available to download exhibit X, which is a brief excerpt from the book “Big Beautiful Doll” by Eric Redding. Although that exhibit is marked confidential since anyone can buy the book we felt like nothing in the Stern vs. Cosby case would be compromised. Exhibits BB and CC are identical except for about 15 pages marked “confidential” or “highly confidential”. Since this appears to be hand written notes by either Rita Cosby or her ghost writer Bruce Littlefield, those pages have been redacted and removed from what is available for you to download.

We hope you understand what we have gone through this week as we struggled with what we felt was the appropriate documents to put up for all to read. We hope each of you understand those documents we elected not to put up was strictly based on the fact we firmly believe those person’s involved, especially Dannielynn, “rights to privacy” trumps you the public, “right to know”.

Lawyers make mistakes as this filing clearly demonstrates. Hopefully, throughout the rest of the lawsuits involving these same people and lawyers, Lin Wood included, instead of the “mantra” of, (fill in the blank with a lawyer’s or party’s name here), cannot be trusted will now change. Our hope is that based on this horrible accident that in the future, as exampled in the case where Wood released 14 pages of a deposition, that the “mantra” of not being able to trust a lawyer and/or party will now be replaced with a sincere apology. As well as to figure out how to avoid in the future damage done by this type of mass filing of confidential papers which were available to the world via PACER for seven to nine hours.

These documents are in our download section, opened to ALL, not just members of Rose Speaks.com.

There will be two more articles up today. One debunking either Hachette’s filing for Summary Judgment including declarations and exhibits or the debunking of Cosby’s filing for Summary Judgment including declarations and exhibits. The second article that will be put up today will be about Casey Anthony and what happens now in that sad saga since the remains of Caylee have now been found.

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December 21, 2008
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Phil Spector at trial

Prosecution Witnesses:

#28 James Carroll (LA Co. Sheriff’s Department firearms expert; examined murder weapon, as well as three other firearms found, the ammunition, performed firing tests, and examined the thumb latch; testimony complete)

#29 Dr. Louis Pena (LA Co. Deputy Coroner; performed the autopsy on Ms. Clarkson; under 1st cross examination)

Accredited Press inside the courtroom: Aphrodite Jones during the morning session.

Manner of Death
As a strategic move, the prosecution chose not to present evidence on manner of death in their case in chief. Under direct, Truc Do did not ask a single question of Dr. Pena on the manner of Ms. Clarkson’s death or what his final determination was on the autopsy report. …

To read the ongoing coverage of Sprocket on the Phil Spector retrial, take 2 visit Sprocket’s site.

http://sprocket-trials.blogspot.com/2008/12/phil-spector-retrial-day-eighteen-of.html.

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December 13, 2008
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Rita Cosby, reduced to just another paparazzi

In the Howard K. Stern vs. Rita Cosby and Hachette Books, on December 11, 2008, there was a letter addressed to Judge Denny Chin from Elizabeth A. McNamara requesting the Court for permission to file Motion for Summary Judgment for Rita Cosby and Hachette Books under seal. The Court DENIED the request to file the papers under seal “except that the parties may file a set of papers publicly, with confidential exhibits omitted and references to any confidential matters redacted, with a second complete and unredacted set that will be filed under sealed”.

Looks like the New York Court is going to allow us to see publicly some of the information that Cosby and Hachette is attempting to show in the Motions for Summary Judgment due to the Court by December 15.

What do you think we will be allowed to see and gleam for the filings due on Monday? Debunking chapter 13 will be up this weekend, lot’s to discuss in this case as well as several others we are following.

Remember that ALL documents filed in this case are in our download section, opened to ALL not just members of Rose Speaks.com.

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December 13, 2008
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Lana Clarkson, Phil Spector on trial for 2nd degree murder AGAIN

Prosecution Witnesses:

#27 Steve Renteria (LA Co. Sheriff’s Dept. DNA technical leader and expert; examined several items recovered at the scene for DNA; testimony completed)

Accredited Press inside the courtroom: None

It’s all in the DNA
Absence of Evidence is not Evidence of Absence. Do any of you remember that from the first trial? It was a very long and grueling cross examination and redirect and cross and redirect and cross of DNA expert criminalist Steve Renteria today but all in all I think he stood up well under cross. Renteria eloquently said, “Every contact leaves a trace but not all trace [evidence] is detectable.”

The points Weinberg tried to make today in his cross examination were that Spector’s DNA was not found on the murder weapon and all the individuals working on the investigation from the lead detectives to the group of criminalists working on testing the evidence, even the prosecutors involved in the case, directed or specifically chose not to test the weapon for “handler” (aka touch) DNA. The problem with this argument is, it is a known scientific fact that “touch DNA” does not contain a significant amount of DNA compared to the amount contained within blood. To test for touch DNA, Renteria states criminalists specifically look for areas of the evidence that do not have blood on them; the gun had quite a bit of surface area with blood on it. Renteria testified that when there is a large amount of DNA from a blood source [on a piece of evidence] it can easily over power, cover, or drown out any touch DNA that might be there so that it is undetectable. Just because Spector’s DNA is not detected on the weapon does not mean that you can make a conclusion that he did not fire or handle the weapon.

However, in the gallery, that’s not the conclusion Rachelle reached at the end of the morning session. It was right after Weinberg was asking Renteria about the DNA evidence he found on the weapon, “other than that [single] Y type [allele]?” (Weinberg keeps pressing that this Y allele could have come from any male.) Renteria says, “It’s a negative result. I can’t tell you why it [the DNA] wasn’t there.”

To read the ongoing coverage of Sprocket on the Phil Spector retrial, take 2 visit Sprocket’s site.

http://sprocket-trials.blogspot.com/2008/12/phil-spector-retrial-day-seventeen-of.html.

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December 11, 2008
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John J. Nazarian and Charlee his partner on the job

Typhoid Mary and Anthony Pellicano, can it get any more serious than that? Well it is reported that Fiorentino is writing a screenplay about Anthony Pellicano…hmm, all I can say is that you are a little late, “Miss Thing.” Linda, you may want to go on the speaking circuit, you know, go to police and federal training academies and tell them how you single-handedly brought one of their own…DOWN! There could also be a sequel, “THUD”, how I dropped my F.B.I. boyfriend! Ol’ hot cakes, aka X-Special Agent Rossini, has plead guilty and taken a deal. Here folks is a smart one! Da Sarge should have read the same book he did as to “How to Make a Deal.” He has already lost his career, and will get probation and a fine…the embarrassment for Mr. Rossini will be like a death sentence and again kids, FOR WHAT? Going against his own agency to come to the defense of Anthony Pellicano? The defense of Anthony Pellicano…as futile as rearranging the deck chairs on the S.S. Titanic! Defense? What defense was worth a Special Agent’s career?

Read the rest of Mr. Nazarian’s take on the “Last Seductress” at the below link:

http://desperateexes.com/2008/12/10/pellicano-trial-the-pelican-and-the-last-seductress/.

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December 11, 2008
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