San Francisco police arrested a suspect in connection with a robbery and assault that left Jack Palladino, the famous private investigator who once worked for former President Bill Clinton, on life support devices this week, according to local reports.
Authorities were also on the hunt for at least one other attacker, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Saturday night, citing a source familiar with the investigation. The 70-year-old shoemaker reportedly cracked his head on the sidewalk outside his Haight-Ashbury home when burglars snatched a new camera from his neck on Thursday.
JACK PALLADINO, DETECTIVE EMPLOYED BY BILL CLINTON TO DISCREDITATE WOMEN IN 1992, ON LIFE SUPPORT AFTER THEFT
Palladino’s stepson, Nick Chapman, said earlier that the well-known detective suffered a traumatic brain injury and was unlikely to survive the injuries.
This August 12, 1982 photo shows private investigator Jack Palladino. Palladino, who has worked on high profile cases ranging from Jonestown’s mass suicides to celebrities and political scandals, is on life support after suffering a head injury during an attempted robbery. Palladino’s stepson says the 70-year-old detective must not survive the injury sustained on Thursday, January 28, 2021, outside his home in San Francisco, where for decades Palladino and his wife Sandra Sutherland conducted investigations on behalf of famous and powerful, as well as underdogs. (Eric Luse / San Francisco Chronicle via AP)
The prognosis did not appear to have improved on Saturday, according to the Chronicle report.
“He came out the way he wanted to, in a dramatic confrontation with the forces of evil,” his wife, Sandra Sutherland, told the newspaper.
Palladino and Sutherland became a team of private investigators after they met in the mid-1970s, while investigating the alleged abuse of prisoners in a New York prison at the request of a Long Island public prosecutor.
Clinton hired Palladino in the early 1990s to discredit women who claimed he had extramarital relations with them.
Other famous Palladino customers include Harvey Weinstein, Don Johnson, Kevin Costner, Robin Williams, Huey Newton and Snoop Dogg. He had already been hired by the Hearst family to help after his daughter Patty was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army and interviewed survivors of the mass suicide of the People’s Temple religious cult in 1978. He also helped protect the credibility of a whistleblower. Big Tobacco in the 1990s, when the industry tried to report it.
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Weinstein hired Palladino during his investigation of sexual misconduct to keep track of his accusers and journalists investigating his abuse.
Brie Stimson of Fox News contributed to this report.