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OTASH Fred

 

Date of birth : January 7th 1922, Massachusetts.

Date of death : October 5th 1992, Los Angeles.

 

 
Practise : former investigator at the Los Angeles Police Department (vice squad).   
             private detective, Laurel Avenue, Hollywood.

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He worked with famous lawyers as F.Lee Bailey, Jerry Giesler and Melvin Belli.

He worked for many Hollywood stars, such as Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Anita Ekberg and Errol Flynn, as well as Mafia figures like Jimmy Hoffa.

 
Anthony Summers wrote that in 1954, Otash helped Sinatra to get rid of the accusations involving him in the "raid in the wrong door", as well as in the phone wiretaps in Marilyn's house, 5th Helena Drive, in 1961.

 
For the charges about the wiretaps, it has been said that he could have been in cahoots with the Mafia, either with Jimmy Hoffa, or with Joe DiMaggio.

 
Half-july 1962 Marilyn would have met him; she would have asked him to wiretap her phone; she ignored that her phone was already wiretapped.

Several years after Marilyn's death, he stated that Bernard Spindel had been hired to install some wiretaps at Marilyn and Peter Lawford. Spindel would have explained to him that Jimmy Hoffa looked for compromising informations about John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy.

Nothing proves that the taps had been asked by Jimmy Hoffa.

He retired in Cannes, south of France.

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