Sylvester Stallone & other stars may testify at Anthony Pellicano trial

Apropos of its "only in L.A." plotline, Anthony Pellicano's trial could turn out to be a star-studded affair.

Chris Rock, Sylvester Stallone, Gary Shandling, Farrah Fawcett, Keith Carradine, Die Hard director John McTiernan and multiple studio executives and high-profile lawyers have made the list of potential prosecution witnesses made public on Wednesday.

A jury has been seated and opening statements are expected to kick off Thursday in Pellicano's trial on federal wiretapping and racketeering charges charges, with the former Hollywood dirt digger-upper planning to act as his own attorney.

Paramount Pictures chief executive Brad Grey, Universal Studios president Ron Meyer, erstwhile top talent agent Michael Ovitz and celebrity attorney Bert Fields are also among the 127 people who could be called to testify.

Rock has been identified as a former client of Pellicano's, having hired the private investigator to look into a paternity suit filed against him by model Monika Zsibrita in 1999.

The comedian admitted to employing Pellicano based on the detective's previously "excellent reputation," but he maintains he was unaware of the PI's allegedly unscrupulous tactics, which per authorities' accounts have included planting illegal wiretaps and utilizing insider contacts to comb trough the Los Angeles Police Department's confidential criminal database.

Stallone, Shandling and Carradine, meanwhile, have allegedly been on the receiving end of Pellicano's brand of hardball, targeted while the investigator was under the employ of others.

Carradine sued Pellicano in March 2006, accusing him of illicit eavesdropping while working for his ex-wife, Sandra Will Carradine, during their nasty divorce battle in the late 1990s, charging the duo were romantically involved at the time.

McTiernan remains free on $50,000 bail while he appeals his four-month prison sentence for lying to federal investigators in connection with their pursuit of Pellicano.

The filmmaker, one of 13 people charged in connection with Pellicano's alleged activities, originally claimed to have no knowledge of the private eye's illegal doings, but authorities later learned he had hired Pellicano specifically to listen in on a business associate's conversations.

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