Keith Carradine, 58, claims ex-wife had P.I. Anthony Pellicano harrass him

He plays an FBI agent on TV, but Keith Carradine took center stage Friday in a real-life federal wiretapping case against snooper-for-the-stars Anthony Pellicano.

Carradine, 58, described for jurors a ham-fisted harassment campaign allegedly conducted by the private investigator on behalf of the star's ex-wife, Sandra Carradine.

"I received a call on my cell phone [from] a gentleman with an odd, sort of fake accent who offered to help me with my divorce," said Carradine, an Oscar-winning songwriter and Broadway veteran who plays Special Agent Frank Lundy on Showtime's "Dexter."

"I said I was an upstanding person with nothing to hide and please do not call me."

He described service problems with his phone, allegedly because of a wiretap, and an attempted break-in of his Airstream trailer in 2001. He said the harassment also targeted his then-girlfriend and now-wife, Hayley DuMond, 33.

He said DuMond was "followed rather aggressively in her car," had her tires slashed and endured strange calls after midnight at relatives' homes.

When Pellicano, who is representing himself, asked the actor whether Sandra Carradine was a "vindictive person," Carradine answered "yes."

Pellicano, 63, is facing hundreds of years in prison on racketeering charges. He is accused of wiretapping phones, bribing police and telephone workers and intimidating the rivals of his deep-pocketed clients.

The indictment states Pellicano used a computer program to intercept Carradine's calls. Sandra Carradine has pleaded guilty to perjury in the case, admitting she lied to a grand jury to cover up Pellicano's tapping of her ex-husband's phone calls.

Suzan Hughes, the pillow-lipped ex-wife of Herbalife founder Mark Hughes, also took the stand Friday and admitted she paid Pellicano $150,000 to confirm her then-husband's suspected infidelity and help with her divorce.

She described listening to a wiretapped call of her husband in Pellicano's so-called "war room," and got emotional when prosecutors played a separate call that had Pellicano attributing Mark Hughes' 2000 death to piles of Viagra pills.

"I didn't do anything wrong," the former Miss Petite USA said tearfully outside court.

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