San Francisco police have arrested a suspect in connection with a robbery and assault that left Jack Palladino, the famed private investigator who previously worked with former President Bill Clinton, on life support this week, according to local reports.
Authorities were also looking for at least one other attacker, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Saturday night, citing a source familiar with the investigation. The 70-year-old gum shoe allegedly cracked his head on the sidewalk outside his home in Haight-Ashbury when predators ripped a new camera around his neck on Thursday.
JACK PALLADINO, DETECTIVE REQUIRED BY BILL CLINTON TO DISCREDIATE WOMEN IN 1992, ON LIFE SUPPORT AFTER ROBBERY
Palladino’s stepson, Nick Chapman, had earlier said the known detective suffered a traumatic brain injury and was unlikely to survive his injuries.
This photo on August 12, 1982 shows the private investigator Jack Palladino. Palladino, who has worked on popular affairs, ranging from the Jonestown mass suicide to celebrity and political scandals, is life-supporting after sustaining a head injury during an attempted robbery. According to Palladino’s stepson, the 70-year-old PI is not expected to survive the injury sustained outside his home in San Francisco on Thursday, January 28, 2021, where Palladino and his wife Sandra Sutherland spent decades investigating on behalf of the famous and powerful as well as the underdogs. (Eric Luse / San Francisco Chronicle via AP)
It appears that the forecast did not improve on Saturday, according to the Chronicle report.
“He went out as he pleased, in a dramatic confrontation with the forces of evil,” his wife, Sandra Sutherland, told the newspaper.
Palladino and Sutherland became a private-eye team after meeting in the mid-1970s while allegedly investigating a district attorney in Long Island into alleged mistreatment of inmates in a New York jail.
Clinton hired Palladino in the early 1990s to discredit women who claimed to have engaged in extramarital affairs with them.
Palladino’s other well-known clients include Harvey Weinstein, Don Johnson, Kevin Costner, Robin Williams, Huey Newton and Snoop Dogg. He was earlier appointed by the Hearst family to help after their daughter Patty was abducted by the Symbionean Liberation Army and interrogated with survivors of the mass suicide of the Peoples Temple religious cult in 1978. He also helped build credibility. of a Big Tobacco whistleblower in the 1990s when the industry tried to smear him.
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Weinstein hired Palladino during his investigation into sexual misconduct to track down his accused and journalists investigating his abuse.
Fox News’ Brie Stimson contributed to this report.