The 21st century hasn’t been too kind to Peter Morton.
He remains one of the town’s richest people – but the one-time king of Hollywood’s social whirl has lost, or sold, almost everything that once made him who he was.
Now comes the worst blow yet. On Monday, the press-shy Morton is being taken to court by his ex-wife Tarlton, who claims that he defrauded her out of more than $10 million in stock in Vegas’ Hard Rock Hotel and Casino.
Moreover, she claims that after she cried foul, he hired private investigators including a disgraced ex-cop from L.A.’s scandal-ridden Rampart district to harass her, break into her house and rifle through her prescription drugs, Anthony Pellicano-style, in an effort to scare her into dropping the suit.