A lawyer named Jeremy Pitcock got fired last year, and his firm put a fine point on his dismissal: they issued a press release attributing his firing to "extremely inappropriate personal conduct." That's, uh, not considered a good thing to have on your resume in the legal world. Turns out that the law firm crafted…

Score one for power publicist Mike Sitrick: he's managed to get new client Joe"Girls Gone Wild" Francis profiled not entirely unsympathetically in the Sunday Style section. Joe's still stuck in jail, in spite of having a ton of money and also a ton of friends like Quincy Jones and Greta Van Susteren who don't think he…

You might wonder why that 2006 Forbes piece about supermarket king Ron Burkle was so gobsmackingly complimentary when the man himself isn't known to be all that nice. Here's why! "Burkle's spin doctor Mike Sitrick worked out a deal for them to go easy in exchange for the otherwise reclusive billionaire speaking at …

So magician David Copperfield is under investigation by the FBI for raping a woman in the Bahamas, where he owns a couple islands (one of which has the fountain of youth!). In the last week or so, lots of creepy details about his typical methods of "seduction" have come to light. He or his people would mark the…

Last we saw, reporter-assaulter and Page Six pal "Girls Gone Wild" porn king Joe Francis was retooling his image, thanks to the work of PR professional Ronn Torossian. (Ronn made him an insane website in an effort to rebrand Francis from rapist to nice guy. It is not working.) But what's this? Publicist Mike…

So much for Paris Hilton not being able to carry a cover, as Us Weekly's Janice Min says. (Wonder if cover placement was written into Paris's $300K deal? Mike Sitrick? Bueller? Anyone?) People's cover this week (on newsstands Friday) features an extremely demure-looking Hilton and the coverlines: "My Time Behind Bars:…

At the end of last week, as the chaos swirled over which network would land the post-jail interview with Paris Hilton, and for how much money, and which network was denying most stridently that it had offered her cash, Hilton's new "crisis manager" Mike Sitrick gave a statement to the press. "Contrary to media…