The 59-year-old porn director, who worked through much of the 90s with disgraced celebrity private investigator Anthony Pellicano, had previously detailed how Pellicano would purchase celebrity stories from the tabloid reporters before the gossip was made public, spending tens of thousands of dollars on damage control.
While we have no idea how much a reversal headline—like last week's forced-sounding "Finally The Truth"—on In Touch Weekly goes for these days, we hope they held out for more than the $25,000 Pellicano reputedly spent on similar matters.

Barresi himself, of course, is no stranger to being in the company of a few good men, while not ever actually being publicly in their company.  While he’s shot numerous military movies and even appeared in gay porn, he’s never had sex with a man on camera. His alleged romantic relationship with Scientologist John Travolta garnered him plenty of unwanted attention when he sold the story to the National Enquirer in 1990.

Barresi won a GayVN Award for his non-sex role in Velvet Mafia, and we have to wonder if he wasn’t drawing on his private life when he found motivation for his role as mafia don Mason Avalon:



Velvet Mafia (Falcon Studios, 2006) (NakedSword)
Movies Directed by Paul Barresi (NakedSword)
Hollywood's biggest rumor answered (In Touch Weekly)
"Not Gay!"... For Pay? (boy culture)
You Have Tom Cruise Sexuality Questions. 'In Touch' Has Answers. (Defamer)
Tom Cruise's Lawyer: 'My Client Never Had Erotic Wrestling Encounter With Gay Hustler' (Defamer)
Paul Barresi (Answers.com)
John Travolta Caught Kissing Another Man (canada.com)
Barresi On Cruise: "Not Gay", (But Maybe He's Not Either) (Gay Porn Blog)