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Movie Stars Name in Magazine Inquiry. t iSources of . ' Lurid Tales Revealed t It was disclosed that Ro “ne Quillan, faded veteran numerous Hollywood esca-! pades, freely admitted that | she marketed love and that’ she took money fideniial to get. from other prostitutes which, involved male film stars in: i from Con-, affidavits! Names of such high-, “lewd and colorful situa’ priced Hollywood talent as’ Ava-neeettiner, las, Kim. Novak, Desinder- naz, Sonny Dutts, Lizabeth Scott, Herb=deffries, Mick- Spoons ‘ChatTieg AT t, Anitia.Beberg and | Mar- Kirk @6ug-, : tions.” Miss Quillan said she first. “that was true.” contacted Confidential to pro- _ test about a story concerning | her and Singer Billy Daniels completely un-, Although Harrison said he, wasn't interested in the “true _lypatfontoe | “sprinkle ‘the: facts” of that episode, Ron- ‘ounty grand jury Confi- jential magazine inquiry: ‘ranscript which was filed | in Superior Court yester- | od , day. The 142-page document is — tress Maureen O'Hara, ; berace, Playgirl Ronnie Quik) ian and others which on May} 15 led to the secret indict-| ment of Magazine Publisher} Robert Harrison, ex-Actress Francesca de Scaffa, nine oth-:, er persons and five corpora- | tions. ‘The indictment was on ‘charges of ,criminal conspir- lacy to pudlish libel and ob- iscene material. | Bears Out Statement The transcript bore out! statements by both Miss jO’Hara and Liberace that ‘they had told the jurors Con- fidential_articles ahout them Herb Jeffries. had Private nie testified, he put her to work digging up dirt on other; ‘ Hollywood figures. Received $1600 | | “| She said she sol tie mig- She said she ilestified, ' azine a story about Desi Ar- naz “which dealt with my a record of testimony by Ac- having gone around Li- him 10 years prior.” said Confidential's published ‘larticle made the incident ap- pear to be a recent one. with She paid $1600 by Harrison for stories. ion Ava Gardner and Singer’ Harrison, she’ De-, 'tective Jack Holcomb tap her! tain “verification” stories. of her But, she said, she never i followed through on an as- signment to substantiate. an' article about Actress Liza- beth scotcyShe r at | sile was to try to have Ny ch with Miss Scott, recording \ conversation on a mcr. phone-wrist watch. But she didn’t call the actress, she eaid, and was even told by Private Detective Virginia Lee that there appeared to) be no truth in the article Con- fidential wanted to print. Harrison ran it anyway! and subsequently was) slapped with a lawsuit which! is still pending in New Yorki ' courts. i ‘Episode Smelled’ Virginia Lee, also known as Joan Morgan, testified that, she did not know the nature! of the work she was doing for. her boss, Private Detective’ H. L. Von Wittenberg, until: after she was told_to get to get af- ftavits trom two prostiiittes “about Desi Arnaz.” Von Wittenberg, also a witness during the two-day hearing, said he quit work-, ing for Harrison after the! Arnaz investigation. He said} “the episode smelled. I told) Harrison this was not for’ me.’ Von Wittenberg, operator, of Hollywood Detective! . mt “ges er ei Ry 9 LN he qoe7 fa) _ —_— s t net nt £8 Rf en ks Agency, said he also was “INDEXED - on signed by Confidential to check out a story about Kirk Douglas that was offered the magazine by “Diana Man- ners, a former moving-pic- ture personage.” Information on Tufts It was Frank J. Goldberg,| an unemployed Hollywo writer, who testified he solff the smear magazine informq- ut Sonny _Tufts, He NOT RECORDED 46 JUN 5 1987