SYLVESTER STALLONE - STALLONE ANXIOUS TO TESTIFY AGAINST EX-PRIVATE EYE

Sylvester Stallone said Wednesday that he doesn't "want to be left out" of the court proceedings against former private eye Anthony Pellicano, who has been accused of illegally wiretapping several movie stars while they were involved in litigation. In an interview with the Associated Press, Stallone said that he was not surprised to learn that his phone conversations had been monitored. "In this town, nothing seems as it is," Stallone told the A.P. "There's so much skullduggery." The wire service says that Stallone's calls were intercepted in Feb. 2002 while he was involved in a $17.3-million lawsuit against his former business manager, who, he said, gave him bad advice to hold on to his stake in the Planet Hollywood restaurant chain. The suit was later settled.

21/02/2008