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The magazine's most notorious period was from 1954-1958, when the publication was sued for [[criminal libel]] by the Los Angeles District Attorney and the then-California Attorney General [[Pat Brown]], who then ran for and became [[Governor]] of [[California]]. The trial was ultimately a mistrial, and featured testimony against Publisher Harrison by former Editor Rushmore. There were allegations that jurors were being bribed.<ref>"Map New Confidential Case Action, Mistrial is Declared", Valley News, Oct 3, 1957, Page 52 | https://www.newspapers.com/image/30324078/</ref>
The magazine's most notorious period was from 1954-1958, when the publication was sued for [[criminal libel]] by the Los Angeles District Attorney and the then-California Attorney General [[Pat Brown]], who then ran for and became [[Governor]] of [[California]]. The trial was ultimately a mistrial, and featured testimony against Publisher Harrison by former Editor Rushmore. There were allegations that jurors were being bribed.<ref>"Map New Confidential Case Action, Mistrial is Declared", Valley News, Oct 3, 1957, Page 52 | https://www.newspapers.com/image/30324078/</ref>
Hollywood fought back against Confidential with an anti-Confidential propaganda film, ''Slander'' (1956). In the movie, the Publisher is killed by his own mother. Hollywood again featured a clone of Confidential in 1997's "L.A. Confidential" where the name of the publication is featured as "''Hush Hush''."
Mike Wallace interviewed Confidential's Private Investigator Fred Otash in 1957.<ref>"
Mike Wallace interviewed Confidential's Private Investigator Fred Otash in 1957.<ref>"