Did Police Tap Hollywood Celebrities' Phones?

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LOS ANGELES -- A bumbling attempt to scare a newspaper reporter off a story last year has led to a mushrooming federal investigation that has left some of Hollywood's most prominent celebrities along with their lawyers and agents wondering if their phones were tapped.

The affair began June 20, 2002, with a scene that could have been scripted for a B-movie: Los Angeles Times reporter Anita Busch found a dead fish and a rose on the hood of her car, along with a cardboard sign with the word "Stop" taped to her windshield.

Seventeen months later, an ex-convict is awaiting trial in connection with the threats, while the man he says hired him to make them, celebrity private eye Anthony Pellicano, is about to begin a prison sentence for illegally possessing military-style explosives and hand grenades.

But the tale that has Hollywood talking is that the FBI is investigating whether some of the entertainment capital's most prominent people and their lawyers and agents were wiretapped by Pellicano.

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