Here is a story to commemorate our 3rd year of DesperateExes.com and my 19th as a private investigator. If I was to take my last breath tonight and not awake in the morning, someone would have to ask, where did he come from? My influence on the P.I. world will be around long after I [...]

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Almost 19 years ago, I can remember vividly as if it were just yesterday, I was a new ticket-carrying private investigator (ticket was what the old timers called their license). I was working the panel for San Francisco Superior Court and worked for around $27 an hour. You would work with a court appointed attorney [...]

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Two family lawyers for whom I don’t really care were discussing the recent nuptials of Lamar Odom and Khloe Khardashian…To them, the only interesting angle was whether the pre-nup would pass muster. Naively, I thought that if it was in writing, it would be ironclad. Apparently, not so. “John,” they droned on, “It could be [...]

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Dropped in on attorney Jeffrey Sklan last week…after putting my feet up on his antique partner’s desk, we proceeded to share our thoughts on current events. It was unanimous about David Letterman: it was handled perfectly by the comedian and whoever advises him. The story is over, except for the sentencing of the fool that [...]

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Readers and fans you all know how I often report that as one grows older, the world gets smaller. Well I am down at the Stanley Mosk Tuesday on another matter and I was going to get something at one of the snack bars and ended up on the second floor…when out of nowhere comes [...]

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Have any of you ever noticed that the wealthy or famous get treated differently at restaurants, stores, amusement parks and yes, within the criminal justice system? (And did you know that if you are a celebrity and like Prada, Gucci, Louis Vuitton and other famous brands you can get 30% and more off the retail [...]

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