The “self styled investigator”, shorthand for no P. I. license, Paul Barresi tells Fox News, that most of us try NOT to watch, that “he is working with federal authorities so they can understand how the tabloids work and gather “news.”” Do federal authorities like for you to be giving interviews about cases you are working on with them? Anyone know the answer to that perplexing question. Barresi allegedly just had to release a statement about his latest gig to Fox News this morning as they recycled the Edwards story.

He goes on to recall his past and the times he worked with his old boss Anthony Pellicano. ROSE SPEAKS.COM CORRECTION: Baressi, has those tapes of those calls, BUT DID NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE TAPIING OF THOSE CALLS. NOR HAS HE FELT THE DESIRE TO SHARE HOW HE CAME INTO POSSESSION OF THOSE TAPES. You might recall that Pellicano is in prison at the moment for wire taping. Barresi admits he HAS THE TAPES OF the late tabloid reporter Jim Mitteager with Pellicano. What is nice it seems to me is to talk about “HAVING THE TAPES” of the “late tabloid reporter” who cannot dispute you, like the poor reporter is DEAD, have you no shame??? However, not to let death get in his way of cashing in on the Edwards story of how the National Enquirer “works”, you know with payoffs for snitches, called “sources”. Seems Barresi seems to know a lot about selling “stories to rags”, remember Travolta and the Enquirer in 1990 and the Globe with the 1993 story during the Jackson trial?

Not to be deterred that he did not have this story to sell to a rag, Barresi has once again planted himself firmly in a scandal in which he has no roll about selling stories to his old friend the Enquirer. Barresi is not ashamed to tell Fox that he has the 1992 (in addition to the 1994 tapes of Jim Mitteager by Pellicano) tapes of tabloid reporter David Shoemacher about “running gags” on multiple famous people like Michael Douglas and his wife at that time. What are gags for money called to the Globe and Enquirer, would that be a scoop?

My question for today if you are working with the feds against the rags you have always sold your own stories too, while talking to Fox News about working with the feds; what does that make you? Perhaps a poll is in order here on Rose Speaks.com for that very question, feel free to email or send us your multiple choice words for this poll. I have to say with the flood (a/k/a felt kind of like spamming) of emails I received from Paul offering me his number, checking in before and after he went to dinner, telling me I better grab this exclusive while I could because he was leaving for 3 weeks etc. By the way, how is he traveling for 3 weeks while dialing into Fox with his “take” on the latest tabloid sensation? I am sure glad I never picked up the phone and let my fingers do any dialing. This guy seems to have a fetish for phone calls and then selling them and/or the story about them. Or was this perhaps not for a story but for his “friend” or is she a friend, Wilma?

However when I would not be bullied, the “self style investigator”, shorthand for not having a private investigator license, macho man, sent me an email before dawn yesterday morning. The equivalent, in my opinion, of what Barresi hope was the horse’s head in the God Father movie, perhaps with a little help from his newfound Texas buddy, you just have to ask, Oh Really? He was more then happy to share with me his friendship with Wilma Vicedomine (a/k/a Vice) and about them comparing “notes”. Makes you feel all warm to know Barresi is on duty with the feds to explain how tabloids gather news, while telling Fox News what he is doing with the feds, are we all lost yet in Barresi newest endeavor? I am how about you?

A final note, we did not bury Barresi at the end of an article like the one Fox News did, we gave him his own headline, anything to help a friend continue to climb in google ratings. Rose Speaks.com the blog that Barresi can count on. I also found all of my notes on Barresi’s life story from last fall, on a slow day; I will get an article up on the life and tales of Paul Barresi.

Please note Mr. Barressi, we do correct errors here at Rose Speaks.com once we are made aware of them, our apology for implying you did anything illegal like actually taping the calls instead of just HAVING the tapes. A special thanks to one of our favorite writers Mr. Nazarian for pointing that error out.

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August 14, 2008
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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.

©Rose Turner
August 11, 2008
(1) Written as a pun and take off of Clinton’s statement in the 1990’s.

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