Jack Palladino. (YouTube image)
Famed San Francisco private investigator Jack Palladino has died after he became the victim of robbery attempt last week, police said.
The 76-year-old died following the attack late Thursday afternoon in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood where he reportedly lived.
Palladino was born on July 9, 1944. He gained widespread prominence in the early 1990s after he was hired by then presidential candidate Bill Clinton to challenge allegations of sexual misconduct aimed at denying Clinton the Democratic nomination.
Palladino also was involved in investigations related to the Patty Hearst kidnapping case in 1974, and Jonestown cult suicides in Guyana in 1978, according to a Wikipedia entry.