PREACH IT! Are we the only ones who haven't been interviewed about Mel Gibson?

Let’s be honest: Among schadenfreude enthusiasts, the Mel Gibson story is the gift that keeps on giving. First there were the meltdown recordings -- possibly doctored, possibly deliberately leaked, but undoubtedly mesmerizing no matter how you slice it.

Then came the second wave: The dramatic appearance of Gibson’s supportive ex-wife in family court, whisperings of criminal investigations against both Gibson and former girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva. And now comes a third phase. It’s devoid of the astoundingly creative verbal abuse that made Phase I so irresistible, but it’s got its charm nonetheless. It’s more about creeping paranoia, on both sides of the blowout.

Over at Team Grigorieva, the musician reportedly has asked "experts" to sweep her house for hidden listening devices. Per TMZ, "Oksana is worried either Mel or the media has planted ...

 

... cameras or wiretapping devices," and wants them cleaned out.

Planet Gibson, meanwhile, reportedly has deployed goons investigators to visit certain key witnesses in the case to see whether Grigorieva may have lied about her alleged abuse.

Simultaneously, law enforcement officials are expected to wrap up their twin investigations -- Gibson’s alleged domestic violence, Grigorieva’s alleged extortion -- in the next few days and turn them over to the district attorney.

Before they do that, though, investigators are pretty much beating every bush and roping in every person who's had even the most tenuous connection to the mess. Take publicist Howard Bragman, who represented Grigorieva for about five minutes. Per the Hollywood Reporter, investigators want to ask Bragman about where Grigorieva may have gotten the cash to pay him -- say, whether that cash came from, you know, selling access to certain audio recordings.

In a way, we’re offended. At this hour, we here at Preach It! appear to be the only ones who've not been contacted by investigators.

-- Leslie Gornstein

Photos: Oksana Grigorieva in April 2010, left, publicist Howard Bragman in May 2006, and Mel Gibson in January 2010. Credits, from left: Mikhail Metzel / Associated Press; Los Angeles Times file; Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times

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Comments

[whatever]

Your article made me laugh. I want to be interviewed too! Not that I have direct knowledge of the situation, but the way oksana's camp leaks some crap into public consciousness via ROL on a daily basis has made me start to wonder about her character and to dig into her past. She has an interesting track record with men starting from her first marriage at age 19, which her former mother-in-law is still bitterly discussing with the media. Google tranlator does not do it justice but I am told by someone who speaks Russian that the gist is correct: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zhizn.ru%2Farticles%2Fshow%2F303

BTW, I am pretty sure that the whole debugging issue is a way to deflect responsibility for the daily leaks of confidential info from Oksana sources to ROL. Oksana has to find someone else's bug to blame or Judge Gordon is going to be mighty annoyed with her...again.

[cdz from the ministry]

@whatever -- Christie D'Zurilla here from the blog. Typically we don't publish comments that include links, but that link made me laugh.

//cdz