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- The PI hired by Bill Clinton and Harvey Weinstein is on life support after an attempted robbery.
- Jack Palladino, 70, fell and hit his head on the sidewalk, causing a traumatic head injury.
- His stepson, Nick Chapman, told the San Francisco Chronicle that he is “not expected to survive.”
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Jack Palladino, the private investigator hired by Bill Clinton and movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, is on life support after an attempted robbery.
Palladino, 70, had just left his home in San Francisco on Thursday evening when a thief tried to steal his camera, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
His stepson, Nick Chapman, told the paper that the Palladino fell and hit his head on the sidewalk, causing a traumatic head injury. After undergoing surgery to try and stop subsequent bleeding, his stepfather is “not expected to survive,” Chapman said.
A suspect has now been arrested.
Police are searching for at least one more about the incident, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Born in Boston, Palladino moved to California to study law at UC Berkeley. He met his wife, Sandra Sutherland, in the 70s while investigating prisoner abuse in New York at the Long Island district attorney's request, the New York Post reported.
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The couple then began an agency from their home in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco with Palladino's earliest work, including the kidnapping of Patty Hearst and interviews with survivors of the Jonestown Massacre, the Associated Press noted.
However, he is most well known for his work for Bill Clinton and Harvey Weinstein. Clinton hired Palladino during his presidential run in 1992 to stop rumors of his extramarital affairs, AP added.
Other famous people who used Palladino's services included Courtney Love, Snoop Dogg, Kevin Costner, and Robin Williams.
Weinstein hired him to gather information from journalists working on the story of his sexual assaults on actresses and the women preparing to accuse of him of sexual misconduct publicly, the Independent reported.