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...cheat investors in ABC's Charlie's Angels, chiefly Actor Robert Wagner, 50, and his actress-wife Natalie Wood, 42, by siphoning off at least $660,000 of Angels 'profits to Starsky and Hutch, a show that the producers owned a larger percentage of. Only slightly less elated were executives at ABC who had approved the transfer of funds and ABC President Elton Rule, 63, a close friend of the two producers. If Van De Kamp failed to make the criminal charges stick, he did provide the closest look out siders have ever had into the wheeling...
...money-lots and lots of money. But when Los Angeles County District Attorney John Van De Kamp released his long-awaited report on the Charlie's Angels case last week, what had been billed as television's scandal of the decade turned out to be something less than many had expected. "We have determined after careful evaluation of the evidence," said the D.A., "that there are insufficient grounds to institute criminal charges...
...writers involved, who together have 12½% of the profits, were less pleased. Ben Roberts said the decision not to prosecute was "shady" and added that he and Ivan Goff may file a civil suit to get all the money owed them by Spelling and Goldberg. Nor can ABC totally relax...
Their social philosophy was neither Communist nor capitalist-nor overly lucid. Among its elements: rigid pacifism opposition to the revolutionary class struggle, acceptance of private property but with industry owned by workers and generally, the less government the better. Day and Maurin called it Christian "anarchism...
Federal investigators are still trying to determine how much was raised by other Osserman ventures, like the diamond mine in Namibia. A geologist sent to Africa by the IRS learned that in two years of operation the mine had produced five diamonds the size of pinheads. Total market value: less than...