A shocking new tape of Chris Rock revealing the lurid details of a one-night stand in 1998 rocked the courtroom in the criminal trial of celebrity P.I. Anthony Pellicano.

The tape captures a phone conversation between Pellicano and Rock, after Rock and model Monika Zsibrita had first claimed to be pregnant with his child (which turned out to be false) and then accused him of raping her. No charges were ever filed.

Rock tells Pellicano he was scared s**tless of being accused of rape, and that he would rather be "caught with needles in my arm" than face a rape charge.

Rock’s alleged affair with Zsibrita made the rounds in the press and tabloids, right around the time Rock and his wife Malaak temporarily split. The two reconciled soon after.

It’s a surprise the phone tape recording was even allowed in court, since it is against the law in most states to record someone over the phone without their permission. It is embarrassing for Rock, but understandable that Pellicano would want to defend himself in his criminal trial. Both men are stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Some amazing digging by the New York Times duo, David M. Halbfinger and Allison Hope Weiner, has turned up a trove of recordings and transcripts from disgraced private investigator to the stars, Anthony Pellicano, star of the seemingly never-ending Hollywood wiretapping scandal.

In a taped conversation from April 2002, the telephonic tattler Pellicano tells Terry Christensen, lawyer to billionaire ex-MGM owner Kirk Kerkorian, that Kerokorian’s ex-wife, Lisa Bonder Kerkorian, has confided in her lawyers that she’d like to have Kerkorian killed, due to their fierce child-support and paternity battle.

Listen to the wiretapped recordings, in all their scheming splendor here.

For all her allegedly murderous rage, Bonder didn’t meet with much success. Per the NYT, "Mr. Pellicano heard Ms. Kerkorian talking to her lawyers, relatives and friends even as she and Mr. Kerkorian were wrangling over her demand for a $270,000 increase in monthly child-support payments. Ms. Kerkorian’s effort ultimately failed; a judge increased the payments by just $316."

Kerkorian, 88, ranked 53rd among the world’s richest people on Forbes’ 2006 list, with a net worth of nearly $9 billion. Pellicano is being held at the Federal Detention Center in Los Angeles, where he and six associates await an August trial on over a hundred counts of wiretapping, racketeering, witness tampering, identity theft and destruction of evidence. Terry Christensen has also been charged.

This will be all over the news in the next few days, in the trades as well as the L.A. Times.