‘Reprehensible’ Hollywood private eye jailed

HOLLYWOOD private investigator Anthony Pellicano once boasted he could bend the law to help his rich and famous clients get out of trouble.

But now a federal judge said the 64-year-old private eye went too far and broke it, sentencing him to 15 years in prison for heading a criminal enterprise that wiretapped the phones of such stars as Sylvester Stallone.

The former sleuth, who worked for lawyers representing Tom Cruise, Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Jackson, was convicted of 76 charges in May after a two-month trial that exposed the seamy side of the movie industry.