As dean of USC's Keck School of Medicine, Dr. Carmen A. Puliafito (left, at a benefit with Jay Leno) was a renowned eye surgeon with a knack for attracting money and talent to the university. And for abusing his position, a Los Angeles Times investigation found. Behind the scenes, he partied and got high with criminals and dopers. He left his $1.1-million-a-year post in March 2016, weeks after a 21-year-old woman OD'd in his presence in a Pasadena hotel.
From the Los Angeles Times:
The Times interviewed six people who partied with Puliafito in Pasadena, Huntington Beach and Las Vegas, as well as at USC. They ranged in age from late teens to late thirties. None were USC students.
One, Sarah Warren, was the woman who overdosed in the Pasadena hotel room. She told The Times she met Puliafito in early 2015 while working as a prostitute. She said they were constant companions for more than a year and a half, and that Puliafito used drugs with her and sometimes brought her and other members of their circle to the USC campus after hours to party.
“He would say, ‘They love me around here. The medical students think I am God,'” Warren said.
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