The Other Players

Dino Graziano

The butt of watercooler jokes around the country, the self-described “crazy” actor, Dino Graziano, with his washboard stomach and a brain unfettered by education, has starred in dozens of feature films and has a recurring role in a TV series.

Having bounced in and out of rehab so many times that most folks have lost count, Dino is California’s glassy-eyed poster boy for the failed war on drugs. This hopeless junkie’s behavior turns self-destructive the night of the cop killing.

Jake Baldwin

A mid-forties active LAPD detective, Jake Baldwin, has a sacred loyalty to his ex-partner on the force, Grant Westmore. Never short on imagination in detective work, this highly decorated veteran detective contacts his valued confidant, Grant, for unanswered questions and assistance in successfully prosecuting Allie and Dino for the murder of his LAPD detective friend.

Fujiko “Fuji” Nakamora

Sporting a bowl-shaped haircut, Fuji Nakamora is Jake’s pudgy-faced, loyal partner. Third generation law enforcement and the first female detective of Japanese descent in the LAPD Robbery Homicide Division, Jake’s secret girlfriend hopes she will never have to face the wrath of her very proper Japanese father, should any one of Grant’s schemes to unearth the truth backfire in her face.

Ivanna Wolfe

A Harvard Law graduate, Ivanna Wolfe, is the high and mighty Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney prosecuting Allie and Dino for the cop murder. With a high society husband that comes from immense family wealth, the early-forties socialite DDA has more than a decade of service in the Los Angeles legal community. Even though there is a never-ending conflict between Ivanna and Grant regarding proper procedures and his ever-famous hunches, she knows that Grant is the only investigator that can keep her high profile case glued together.

Don Packard

While known for his skills on the job as the Los Angeles County Coroner, Don Packard is a heavy drinker and smoker who has never married but chases almost everything wearing a skirt.

It’s the salad-dodging forensic pathologist’s idea to bring in Paz Freeman, a toxicology scientist in the field of poisons, to substantiate Grant’s hunch that there’s a serial killer on the loose. Grant gets Packard and Freeman to analyze the substance found in the throats and tissues of all three victims and to check if it’s also in the vomit found at both crime scenes.

Noah Freeman

Although he really wants to be a stand-up comic, short, clean-cut Noah Freeman is going to medical school only to please his Noble Prize-winning doctor father. Allie’s sometimes-on-and-sometimes-off boyfriend likes to hang with the more wealthy kids even though his bland personality and white legs bore and frighten even hardened paparazzi. Noah genuinely loves Allie and is always there for her, no matter how the media spins the charges against her or what happens in the end.

Eddie Holloway

With Iowa in his background, Eddie Holloway, has something in common with John Wayne ­ pictures. The only difference is that this toupee-sporting Hollywood paparazzo takes the pictures.

Unfortunately, Holloway’s career always takes a back seat to that of his wife ­ Kanari, the curvaceous queen of adult films ­ until the night he captures exclusive photos of the two-person sleepover on the beach at Allie’s Malibu mansion.

Kanari Holloway

Her smoldering looks and incredible body account for Kanari Holloway’s meteoric rise to the top in mainstream porn. A former Penthouse magazine “Pet” and high fashion model, this sultry adult film goddess flunked out of high school in the Mid-west, and usually sports an attention-getting getup.

Never short in the bitch-venom department, the peek-a-boob expert’s exotic look is a never-ending favorite among the ranks of Hollywood’s paparazzi.

Kanari masterminds the scheme to profit from her husband’s exclusive photos of Allie and Lara on the beach at Allie’s Malibu mansion.

Paz Freeman

Father of Noah Freeman (the father of Allie’s unborn child) this Nobel Prize-winning toxicology scientist’s test results provide the key to proving up Grant’s hunch that Allie Dolanne is the serial killer responsible for the deaths of her BFF, Lara Tait, and paparazzo Eddie Holloway and his wife, Kanari.

Aidrian Brodie

Having earned his law degree from Columbia University, the former deputy mayor to Richard Riordan and an entertainment attorney for a powerhouse legal firm, Aidrian Brodie, is now the Los Angeles City Attorney.

Walking with a limp and cane, Brodie ran a tight ship until now. When Sheriff George Zahn releases Allie Dolanne, he accuses her of enjoying celebrity favoritism. Amid his argument that Dolanne should serve more time in jail for driving with a suspended license and an alcohol-related reckless driving charge, Brodie finds himself under investigation for his own scandalous conduct.

George Zahn

Rumored to have been an unfaithful former cop on the take in New York City, the hard-nosed jailer, Sheriff George Zahn, had mob connections, although never proven. Zahn was notorious for arranging special conditions, including allowing women to visit organized crime members overnight while in jail. Sheriff Zahn angrily defends his release of Allie Dolanne from jail to home detention only one day after she began serving a 15-day sentence in county jail.