Monika Zsibrita: Chris Rock Pellicano Extort Trial from Planck's Constant

With the exception of Scarlett Johansson, I'm normally not too interested in celebrity news. I like Chris Rock. I watch his show on HBO because I view it more as a strong and witty social commentary on what is wrong with blacks than simply a comedy act. I believe that the black community would do well to pay more attention to celebrities like Bill Cosby and Chris Rock than to race-baiting, cop-hating, antisemitic, bigoted self-promoters like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.

But what brings me to write about Chris Rock being in court on Friday? Well, first here's what's being reported:

AM1150 News,
[original article no longer available], Chris Rock Testifies In Pellicano Extortion Trial
Funny man Chris Rock was not in a joking mood Friday (April 4th), when he appeared in a Los Angeles courtroom to testify in the Anthony Pellicano extortion trial. During 15 minutes of testimony, Rock told the judge that he'd hired indicted Hollywood private investigator Anthony Pellicano to dig into a since-discredited claim from a model that Rock had fathered her baby.

Rock, who seemed irritated by having to testify, according to Reuters, said that he had hired Pellicano in 1999, but was not aware of the investigator's alleged illegal methods of obtaining information on behalf of his clients.

"Someone who was not pregnant with my child, claimed to be pregnant with my child and requested large sums of money," the comedian explained about why he had hired Pellicano.

DNA tests later proved that the child was not his.

Rock was admonished by the judge for responding "Yup" instead of "I do" during the swearing in, and warned to speak clearly.

Pellicano, who is 64, is on trial for using unscrupulous and illegal tactics -- including illegal wiretaps and bribes -- to obtain information for his celebrity clients.

What's missing from this story is, "Who is the model and what does she look like?"

The name is the easy part: Monika Zsibrita. What she looks like is the hard part - her body can kill, if you are a male.

In 1999, she made headlines when she filed a paternity suit against Chris Rock. Later she claimed he raped her. I don't buy the rape claim and there is no evidence she actually filed charges (see Pellicano story below). But she did get pregnant and perhaps really thought that the child was his. Two DNA tests confirmed that he was not the father. But because he was told that Monika was crying rape, Chris did have her investigated to try to discredit her. Eventually Monika and Chris settled the case but had the results sealed to the public.

Sadly, I never get charged with paternity suits by models. I do not know what I am doing wrong.

Monika Zsibrita was born around 1973 in Hungary; did modeling in the 80s and 90s. She met Chris Rock when he was separated from his wife Malaak Compton.

As for the dope on Pellicano, he was probably behind the rape allegations in order to get more money out of Chris:

CeleBitchy,
5 Apr 2008,
Chris Rock likely set up by Anthony Pellicano on fake rape charge
Pellicano was a private investigator to the stars, including Michael Jackson, O.J. Simpson, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who now faces charges of racketeering and illegal wiretapping. Pellicano had contacts in the telephone and police department and would regularly run background checks and tap both his clients’ and their targets’ phones. Pellicano was also known to intimidate and harass anyone who got in his way and regularly fed stories to the tabloids on his clients, only to turn around and solicit their business. He’s been in Federal prison since 2002 on an illegal weapons conviction, and is stupidly representing himself in this case.

Rock was said to be accused of raping a woman he had a date and one night stand with during a time he was estranged from his wife in 1998. The woman initially tried to pin a pregnancy on Rock and extort money from him, but when that didn’t stick and DNA tests showed he wasn’t the father, Pellicano told Rock she went to the police and claimed he raped her.
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It was Pellicano who told Rock about the woman’s claims and thus secured his business, according to Rock’s testimony. That would meant that either Pellicano had an inside police source tell him the story, which never escalated to an actual charge against Rock because there wasn’t enough evidence, or that Pellicano fabricated the story based on dirt he knew about Rock. Rock was first a client of Pellicano’s in 1999 when the woman accused him of fathering a child, and again in 2001 when Pellicano informed him of this supposed rape charge.

Listen to a 31-minute conversation in 2001 between Chris Rock and Anthony Pellicano discussing Monika Zsibrita (from the Huffington Post):

During the call, Pellicano reads a police report with Zsbrita's side of the story and assures Rock the police aren't taking her seriously. No charges were every filed. As Pellicano reads, Rock can be heard interjecting with his side of the story, which contradicts hers. Highlights, in addition to Pellicano calling Rock terms like "honey," "brother," "buddy" and "babe" include:
8:15
CR: "I know the night we went to the Ivy she had on white pants. I only noticed cause my wife's real classy and subdued and I'm out with a girl with big tits and white pants. It's just, I know people were like, 'heeey'."

10:30
Pellicano excuses himself to "scream at my secretary."

14:00
Pellicano (reading from report): "He tried to pull out and ejaculated on her thighs. She immediately got up and went to the bathroom where she cleaned up with a Kleenex. She put the Kleenex in her pocket."

14:55
CR: I've been so set up...
AP: Did you come on her thighs?...
CR: I had a rubber on. I probably took it off right when I was getting ready to come. I probably came on her ass.

22:00
AP: Did you stick it in her? Without a rubber?
CR: No

24:45
AP: Now we got to go get this thing legally, which means we gotta subpoena it.

25:50
CR: It never stops
AP: It's gonna stop. I'm going to make it stop.

UPDATE 27 Feb 2009:

LA Times, Model's lawsuit against Chris Rock is unsealed
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge unsealed the suit, which was filed against Rock in August, at the request of the plaintiff, Monika Zsibrita, the model from the Four Seasons. Now 36 and a married stay-at-home mother, Zsibrita said she wanted the court papers made public so people, especially those in her native Hungary, would know her version of a story in which she is often portrayed as a gold digger.

"My side has never been out," she said outside the courtroom. "This has basically ruined my life."

The suit accuses the comedian of breach of contract and a host of other charges, and its overarching theme is that the comedian known for his caustic humor is, as Zsibrita called him in a conversation after the hearing, "a monster." She accuses him of first raping her, then siccing a criminal private investigator on her and finally raining potshots on her on Howard Stern's radio show.

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Her attorney, Neville Johnson, said Zsibrita initially filed the suit under seal because she did not want to run afoul of the confidentiality agreement contained in a 2000 settlement of the paternity case. He said that Zsibrita should not be bound by the agreement because Rock had talked about her during a 2004 appearance on Stern's show. According to a summary of the show included in court papers, the comedian said that his sexual liaison with Zsibrita was consensual and that he had been set up by a Nigerian hustler who was actually the father of her child.

A lawyer for Rock argued that the file should remain sealed, but Judge Peter Lichtman said it was "incongruous" to seal the file when details about the relationship between Rock and Zsibrita were available on the Internet.