In one recorded phone call, Pellicano is heard offering to read Chris Rock an illegally obtained police report, and laying out a plan to discredit the woman accusing the comedian of sexual abuse. With his sordid history and total lack of remorse, his appeal as a main character is obvious - so much so, he’s said to have been the inspiration behind Showtime’s Ray Donovan, which was created by a writer who’d previously been hired by Pellicano and his producer pal Brad Grey to work on a TV project that fell through.īut even as Sin Eater zeroes in on Pellicano’s unique place in the upper echelons of 1990s Hollywood, its interviewees (which include journalists Liz Day and Rachel Abrams of The New York Times, which produced the documentary) make the point that he did not exist in a vacuum - that the hotshot lawyers and A-list clients who employed his services are also culpable in the air of deceit and paranoia he cultivated. Pellicano’s portrait comes into focus through interviews with reporters and victims, archival photographs and footage, audio recordings of his phone calls and eventually a sit-down with the man himself, who was released from prison in 2019.
The second is loosely structured around his downfall in the 2000s as he’s arrested, convicted and imprisoned for his wiretapping and racketeering.
“If there was a high-profile scandal in the 1990s, there was a decent chance that Pellicano was involved,” one reporter explains Pellicano himself reportedly bragged about his involvement in the Monica Lewinsky, Gennifer Flowers and O.J. The first hourlong episode centers on the private investigator’s rise in the 1990s as the go-to guy for Hollywood’s powerful and embattled. Directed by John Pappas, Sin Eater is loosely split into two parts.
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