NYPD’s top cop Jeffrey Maddrey abruptly resigns after
allegedly demanding underling perform sexual favors for OT
Caution: graphic, vulgar language follows
The NYPD’s highest-ranking uniformed officer abruptly resigned late Friday night after The Post uncovered explosive allegations that he demanded sexual favors from a subordinate in exchange for massive amounts of overtime.
Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey stepped down soon after The Post contacted the NYPD about Lt. Quathisha Epps’ claims in an exclusive interview that he routinely preyed upon her, asking for sex in NYPD headquarters.
“He wanted to have anal sex, vaginal sex, oral sex,” Epps said. “He was always asking me to kiss his penis.”
Maddrey, a close friend of Mayor Adams, will be replaced on an interim basis by Chief of Patrol John Chell, the NYPD said.
“Police Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch accepted the resignation of Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey Friday night, effective immediately,” said a department spokesperson. “The NYPD takes all allegations of sexual misconduct seriously, and will thoroughly investigate this matter.”
Epps recently made headlines as the NYPD’s top earner, pulling in a whopping $400,000 — including roughly $204,000 in overtime alone last year for her administrative job in Maddrey’s office, payroll records show.
Epps and her lawyer Eric Sanders said they planned to file a notice of claim with the city comptroller’s office Saturday, outlining the scandalous allegations.
Epps, 51, worked for Maddrey as he moved up in the NYPD from Chief of Housing to Chief of Patrol, but said his sexual demands didn’t start until June 2023 when he landed as Chief of Department, the city’s top uniformed cop.
The married Maddrey allegedly first demanded sex from her in his 13th-floor office at One Police Plaza.
Maddrey was allegedly sitting at his desk with his uniform pants open and wearing a white undershirt while rubbing his chest when he first propositioned her, the unmarried mother of three said.
“He said he dreamed about f–king me in my a–,” Epps alleged. “I said, ‘But Chief, you’re the Chief of Department.’ He rubbed his chest. . . . His work pants were open. He was like but ‘I’m still a n—-r and you look good.”
Then he asked her to go to the back room in his office, where he has a couch and bathroom, she said.
“He bent me over the arm of the couch and when I tried to back away but he was telling me ‘Just let me put it in a little bit,’” she recalled, breaking down in sobs.
Next, he reached into a locker near the couch and pulled out a jar of K-Y Jelly from a top shelf in the back, she said. He rubbed it on himself, she claimed.
“He inserted himself, and he kept forcing it and forcing it,” she recalled. “And I kept asking him, ‘Can you please stop? Then I stopped asking him to stop, and I asked him to just slow down. ‘Can you please just slow down? You’re hurting me! You’re hurting me! ‘ ”
“‘I’m not trying to hurt you, baby. I’m not trying to hurt you,'” he said in a soft voice, she recalled.
The two had sexual intercourse about 10 times after that, she claimed.
Maddrey began being generous with overtime a couple years earlier, she said, when he was chief of patrol and she told him of financial problems.
“I told him I was about to lose my home,” she said, referencing a foreclosure. “He told me I could do whatever overtime I needed. He told me I was like his sister.”
But he would have her do things outside her job at headquarters, including helping another woman cop under his direction, Epps claimed.
“He would have me go apartment hunting with her,” said Epps, noting it was part of her overtime.
Maddrey would also have her buy things, like household items for the other woman, she said.
She claimed Maddrey would frequently text Epps a single phrase, “DAP” — meaning, “dat ain’t p—-y.”
It meant he expected anal sex, Epps said. Maddrey would also come into her office and “ask me to kiss it,” she said, meaning his genitalia.
Maddrey, who has a law degree and pulled down $292,070 in salary last fiscal year, would allegedly tell Epps he had “a wish and a command,” and that she would have to do what he said, she claimed.
“He’d say ‘Strip for me right now,’” when she was in her office, she recalled.
She once paid for a vacation to Miami for Maddrey and his wife, Epps claims.
“There was a trip that I paid for, for $2,700,” she recalled. “He said make it look like a gift. He has a whole script of what to say [to his wife].”
Epps said she also has an apartment on the Lower East Side that he asked her to give to a fellow cop who worked for him. The home was in her children’s name.
Epps said she wanted to get away from Maddrey but was scared nobody would believe her.
“I think he’s a predator,” Epps said. “He’d say, ‘We’re going to save your house.’ Like he’s rescuing me. When he’s really just f—ing me.”
When she started to try to get away from Maddrey recently, Epps was outed on a list of high overtime earners in retaliation, Sanders said.
Epps was suspended for 30 days and is being investigated over the excessive overtime, police sources said.
Maddrey has been accused of sexual misconduct in the past.
Former Police Officer Tabitha Foster filed an unsuccessful 2016 civil suit alleging he took advantage of her by exchanging sex for job perks. A judge threw the case out and cleared Maddrey. Foster also accused Maddrey of hitting her.
Maddrey denied Epps’ allegations.
“What a convenient time to accuse somebody of misconduct after she’s caught stealing time,” said Maddrey attorney, Lambros Lambrou. “She’s obviously drowning and in the deep end of the pool without a lifesaver. She wants to take down as many people as she can. This is completely meritless, and we deny every aspect of it.”
If you have been sexually assaulted and live in New York, you can call 1-800-942-6906 for free and confidential crisis counseling. If you live outside the state, you can dial the 24/7 National Sexual Assault hotline at 1-800-656-4673.
Danny Masterson appeals 2023 rape convictions,
aims for ‘complete exoneration’
Former That ’70s Show actor Danny Masterson, through his lawyers, has appealed his 2023 rape convictions.
He had pleaded not guilty to the charges against him. The retrial was called after 2022’s original trial on the same three counts ended in a mistrial when a jury deadlocked, failing to reach unanimous verdicts.
Now, in a 242-page appellant’s opening brief filed on Dec. 18, Masterson’s lawyers allege that key witness testimonies morphed over time and “erroneous judicial rulings” skewed the jury’s view of the evidence against him.
In a statement posted to the Cliff Gardner law offices website, the lawyers said there were “two fundamental flaws” in Masterson’s convictions, one being the aforementioned skewed view and the second a “stunning amount” of alleged exculpatory evidence “never presented to the jury.”
His legal team goes on to say that these are only “one part” of their planned challenge to his convictions, and they are working towards Masterson’s “complete exoneration.”
Masterson originally filed a notice of appeal in November 2023. In January, the judge in his criminal case, Charlaine Olmedo, denied him bail pending his appeal, calling him a flight risk.
In June of 2023, Olmedo ruled Masterson’s ex-defence lawyers, Tom Mesereau and Sharon Appelbaum, leaked sensitive trial information to the Church of Scientology about the women who accused Masterson of rape, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The confidential discovery material from Masterson’s rape trial was sent to another Church of Scientology lawyer, Vicki Podberesky, and it contained police reports from the victims and their personal information, including home addresses and banking details.
The leak to Podberesky was exposed during Masterson’s retrial, when Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Reinhold Mueller said he received an email from Podberesky — who was not affiliated with the trial — that included an attachment of 570 pages of discovery material. It is unclear if the attachment was sent by accident.
Podberesky tried to claim prosecutors were soliciting false testimony from victims in order to wrongfully convict Masterson of rape. Olmedo said the allegation was “demonstrably false.”
The Church of Scientology has denied all accusations of wrongdoing and was not a party in Masterson’s trial. Podberesky told the Los Angeles Times she legally obtained the confidential trial documents but did not say how.
Mesereau and Applebaum represented Masterson in court until May 2022, when they were replaced by other Scientology-affiliated lawyers.
Masterson’s lawyers had also been accused by Mueller of unwanted contact with the jurors in his case. In September of 2023, Olmedo sent a letter to both legal teams stating that several jurors complained of “unwanted contact at their homes or work by members of the defense team,” according to a Los Angeles Times report.
Mueller and his team tried to paint Masterson as a serial rapist who has been protected by high-ranking officials in the Church of Scientology. They claimed Masterson, on separate occasions, put drugs into the drinks of a longtime girlfriend and two other women he knew through the church before he raped them.
After the retrial’s guilty verdict was announced, a shocked Masterson was led out of the courtroom in handcuffs and he remains in state custody.
Bijou Phillips, his wife of 12 years, filed for divorce from the actor in September of last year.
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Blake Lively sues ‘It Ends With Us’ co-star Justin Baldoni
for sexual harassment, campaign to ‘destroy’ her reputation
They starred in “It Ends With Us,” but their legal battle is only just beginning.
Blake Lively has filed a bombshell lawsuit against co-star Justin Baldoni alleging he sexually harassed her on the set of their hit film, TMZ reports.
According to the legal docs, the actress further accuses Baldoni — who also served as the director of the film — of “a coordinated effort to destroy her reputation” following the movie’s release.
She says the smear campaign caused harm to her business and led to her family experiencing “severe emotional distress.”
“It Ends With Us,” a domestic violence drama based on the bestselling book by Colleen Hoover, was released in theaters this past summer.
At the time, rumors swirled of a feud between Lively and Baldoni, who refused to appear together to promote the flick.
Lively also suffered a barrage of bad publicity upon the movie’s release, dubbed a “mean girl” after a journalist claimed an uncomfortable interview with the star led her to quit her job.
Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, has lashed out at Lively’s new lawsuit, telling The Post: “It is shameful that Ms. Lively and her representatives would make such serious and categorically false accusations against Mr. Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and its representatives, as yet another desperate attempt to ‘fix’ her negative reputation.”
He added that she was a “nightmare” on set.
However, according to the legal docs, Lively alleges it was Baldoni who made things untenable while filming the drama.
She alleges “things got so bad during filming, there was an all-hands-on-deck meeting to address what she claims was a hostile work environment.”
Her superstar husband, Ryan Reynolds, attended that meeting.
As part of the tense sit-down, Lively and Reynolds demanded there would be “no more showing nude videos or images of women to Lively, no more mention of Baldoni’s alleged previous ‘pornography addiction,’ and no more discussions about sexual conquests in front of Lively.”
They further stipulated that Baldoni “should not make inquiries about Lively’s weight” and make “no further mention of her dead father.”
Lively also demanded there be “no more adding of sex scenes, oral sex or on camera climaxing” outside the scope of the script she approved when signing onto the project.
According to the lawsuit, the claims the demands were approved by the studio that produced the film.
However, Lively and Baldoni later clashed over how the movie would be marketed.
TMZ reports that Lively “wanted a more upbeat pitch about her character’s resilience, whereas Baldoni wanted the focus to be on domestic violence.”
Lively subsequently claims Baldoni and his allies “engaged in a ‘social manipulation’ campaign to ‘destroy’ her reputation.”
As evidence, she includes texts from Baldoni’s publicist to a studio publicist saying the actor “wants to feel like [Ms. Lively] can be buried.”
Ironically the Lively/Baldoni feud rumors fueled interest in the film, which opened in the US in August.
Reports of their disdain for one another ultimately helped garner publicity for the movie, which went on to become a box-office smash, grossing more than $350 million worldwide.
Baldoni’s lawyer provided The Post and Page Six with a lengthy statement, hitting out at Lively and the lawsuit.
It reads: “It is shameful that Ms. Lively and her representatives would make such serious and categorically false accusations against Mr. Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and its representatives, as yet another desperate attempt to ‘fix’ her negative reputation which was garnered from her own remarks and actions during the campaign for the film; interviews and press activities that were observed publicly, in real time and unedited, which allowed for the internet to generate their own views and opinions.
“These claims are completely false, outrageous and intentionally salacious with an intent to publicly hurt and rehash a narrative in the media,” Freedman added.
Freedman claimed his client previously hired a crisis manager due to “multiple demands and threats” Lively allegedly made, including “threatening to not showing up to set, threatening to not promote the film, ultimately leading to its demise during release, if her demands were not met.”
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