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...Enquirer's Los Angeles office. "You guys are the ones who did the O.J. Simpson case," the caller said as he divulged information about a man who had admitted shooting an African American with a .38-cal. gun in the same area where Cosby was killed. "The tipster was afraid," says Enquirer editor Steve Coz, but "he was interested in the money...
...Enquirer had given police the name and beeper number of the tipster, who led investigators to a field off Cold Water Canyon Road, about five miles from the crime scene. There they found a gun that ballistics experts have reportedly linked to the murder, and a knit cap believed to have been worn by the killer. The trail also led to Markhasev, who was arrested at his North Hollywood apartment...
...National Enquirer's role in the case has been a tumultuous one. Not being able to print the tipster's tale while cooperating with the police demanded unusual discipline. "We were sitting here with a blockbuster dynamite story that we could have splashed," says Coz. In the interim, however, the paper incurred the wrath of the Cosby family by printing the story of Bill Cosby's affair with the mother of Autumn Jackson, the 22-year-old woman who claimed to be his illegitimate daughter in an attempt to extract money from him and who is facing federal extortion charges...
DIED. HERB CAEN, 80, classic newspaper columnist; in San Francisco. In the brightly written rat-a-tat of the daily column he produced for 58 years, mostly in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Pulitzer-prizewinning Caen was raconteur, funnyman, tipster, nightclubber, friend of the powerful and tireless chronicler of "Baghdad by the Bay," the city he loved and that loved him back...
...celebrity with a new lover to about $5,000 for a drunken or angry star to $10,000 for, say, Julia Roberts' birthday party. But even when a photographer gets a big score, he often has to kick back some of it to a tipster. Tips on a celebrity's whereabouts, says Zanger, come "from people in the family, people who work for them--they all squeal for money." There's no business like show business...