Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

by Ronan Farrow

identifiable, like an NBC intern whose desk was adjacent to mine. A biographical section appeared to search for pressure points. It noted what it described as “family drama,” stirred by “his sister Dylan Farrow in her accusations of rape against their father Woody Allen.” The topic I’d spent years trying to outrun was coming back to haunt me. The email was sent by Sara Ness, a private investigator at a firm called PSOPS. Jack Palladino and Sandra Sutherland, a husband-and-wife team, operated the firm. A rare profile of the two in People magazine compared them to Nick and Nora Charles, the detective couple from The Thin Man, minus the glamour. During the 1992 presidential

Black Cube’s account, Filip and McGowan finally met face-to-face,

“There are things I’ve done that nobody

knows.”

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