Now he could afford to pick and choose his gigs. The prosecution attorneys agreed: “It’s unheard of for an employee to be harassed in this way after he’s been terminated.” Rider had lifted big money from Flynt’s bank account. And the jury found Flynt guilty of malice and oppression. He filed a harassment suit against the sex magazine peddler. Just tell the judge the tapes were leaked by an FBI mole. He told his loyal lieutenant Bill Rider to lie for him under oath. It was a freedom of speech thing, he said. Which meant Flynt was in trouble too now.įlynt refused to reveal how he got his hands on them. Trouble was Flynt had acquired these tapes illegally, stealing them from government offices. The tapes showed Feds telling DeLorean he had to proceed with their drug deal or else they’d nail him. The tapes showed Feds threatening to kill DeLorean’s daughter. The tapes showed Feds blackmailing DeLorean in interrogation rooms. It consisted of hours of video tapes shot by federal agents. Larry Flynt had the proof that would clear him. DeLorean had only one person who could help him. The coke scheme was a sting put together by Feds anxious to take down the auto king. And DeLorean had just got caught.īut it was government entrapment. DeLorean had been charged with cocaine trafficking. Maker of the ‘Back to the Future’ sportscar. Their beef was over John DeLorean, the car magnate. Rider had got into a scrap with the porn king himself. Then there was William Rider, Larry Flynt’s head of security, who’d hired Pascal and Bill Mentzer to protect Flynt. Dirty schemes earn more than straight job income streams, but they lower your life expectancy too. June’s transexual friend, Robin Taylor, disappeared, swallowed up by the lonely streets.Īrthur Michael Pascal, owner of the security company that had hired William Mentzer and Robert Lowe to tackle June Mack, retired his business. Christian Pierce, June’s devoted follower who’d been with her when she was shot, died of AIDS. Other players had less luck in the aftermath of the trial. Big money is big power, and big power gets used wrong. He couldn’t be tried for the same crime twice. Whether Greg Cavalli was guilty or not didn’t amount to a hill of beans. They were all connected to June in different ways. People like Bill Mentzer, the hitman who worked for Pascal, who was hired to protect Greg Cavalli and his family from supposed threats like June Mack.Īnd there was Laney, Bill Mentzer’s girlfriend who dealt cocaine to the stars – who also needed protection. Or William Rider, Larry Flynt’s head of security, who used Pascal’s guys to protect the porn king, and eliminate anyone who got in their way. security company, a collection of hitmen for hire. People like Arthur Michael Pascal, who ran a shady L.A. Sometimes to get to the heart of a story, you have to look at the outsides, the characters around the edges. He’d been fingered by the cops for June’s murder, and put on trial. And then girl is shot dead.īut Greg was officially not guilty. Before boy goes to girl’s house and finds there’s more to her than he expected. Then boy falls in love with girl over the phone. If boy meets girl when he buys phone sex. She made money, bought cars, and lived in clover.īut then June Mack crossed paths with Greg Cavalli. To start a new life – and she’d been a movie star, bared her charms in magazines, and shared her body in nightly schemes. Somehow being shot by Russ Meyer made her almost-famous, but being shot by a mystery killer made her almost-forgotten. And no one was on the hook for her murder.
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