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Rose speaks » What Does the Church of Scientology, Google, Yahoo and Tom Cruise Have In Common? Why did Paul Barresi Leak those Papers? 
Mon, Aug 11
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, 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. “Travolta waited until he was 37 to get married …Shortly after the Enquirer published claims by porn star Paul Barresi - who alleged he had a two-year affair with the actor - Barresi, who reportedly received $100,000 (U.S.) from the tabloid, later retracted his story after discussions with Travolta’s lawyer.” I was having a nervous breakdown,” Barresi told Jim D’Entremont of The Guide, a gay publication. “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.” Would that be classified as a retraction of a retraction? There are multiple mentions of the Barresi Travolta relationship. I found the following. “…later Paul Barresi (who appeared in the movie Perfect) claimed to be his male lover, which John supposedly ended in 1990. In The Guide, an article by Jim D’Entremont eludes that the Church of Scientology was forcing John to promote the “church” under threat of his sexual history. Rumors are rumors, but it did get Paul Barresi $100,000 from the National Enquire.” Then there is the statement on the IMD.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, I don’t talk off the record. The lawsuit has been reported all over the world since I gave the NY Daily News got the scoop. What I was willing to give to you has already been published. Next time, please do not preach to me that your readers are intelligent and put me up against the wall to level with you. It only puts me on defensive. Truth of the matter is, your readers don’t have a clue. I don’t give away the bank. Not to anybody. I got too much at stake and I have nothing to gain in doing that. You had your shot.” With that I predict Baressi will have a whole new following of a fan club, you know those people making fun and slapping around John Nazarian these days in their dumb tirades, Baressi sounds like someone they would like to cultivate, however Baressi has told me, “My good friend, John Nazarian … He agrees to a degree. Thanks for getting back. …Much continued success, Paul”, so perhaps Baressi will give us another chance and will not be so quick to jump on the lets’ bash Nazarian bandwagon that has recently taken root. ©Rose Turner August 11, 2008 (1) Written as a pun and take off of Clinton’s statement in the 1990’s. All Rights Reserved, do not reproduce in whole or in part without the express written consent of the author. This article is the sole property of Rose Speaks unless otherwise stated. This article as with other articles is based on the opinion of Rose Turner, or our guest authors if so indicated. 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