A few years ago, Vincent “Vinny” Parco was featured in his own TV show on Court TV titled Parco P.I. The reality show focused around private investigation cases that Mr. Parco received through his private firm. Vincent is also no stranger to celebrity cases. He’s worked on both sides of the isle for and against the well known.
With the media focused on Tiger Wood’s personal life, Parco says he’s seen this kind of behavior before. He states that no matter how beautiful your wife is, sometimes you want variety. He believes Woods should have known sooner rather than later that someone was going to come forward and try to get their 15 minutes of fame. He compares the Woods situation to the recent White House party crashers of Tareq and Michaele Salahi and how anyone with a little fame can cash in big with TV shows and book deals.
Parco is surprised that no media outlet has hired him yet to further investigate different angles in Wood’s personal life since this kind of thing that has been up his alley many times before.
Chris Yandek: What are your thoughts on the Tiger Woods situation?
Vinny Parco: “We do a lot of work for celebrities. We either help them out or catch them. Depends on who hires us. I won’t mention any names, but we’ve worked on a lot of front page stories. Sometimes we tell our clients what not to do so they don’t get caught. When you’re a celebrity, you’re always under the public eye. Ok?
Let’s face it. He’s a man. This guys a man. He wants to have fun sometimes. No matter how beautiful your wife is, sometimes you want vanilla, vanilla, vanilla and then some night you want strawberry chocolate. But they have to be a little bit more discreet about it. Apparently he wasn’t very discreet. That’s how he got caught. I think his wife must’ve found out about it and that’s how this accident occurred.”
CY: What kind of methods do you think law enforcement might use in Florida to look at this entire situation?
VP: “Well, first of all, law enforcement wouldn’t be involved because it’s a civil matter. He didn’t commit, break any laws unless you consider adulteration a violation of the law. I think those laws have been changed. There are laws on the book about adultery from 1829 that says you can’t have sex with another woman on a horse drawn carriage going through a cumberstone street. Seriously, there are laws like that in New York City. Only thing law enforcement would be involved is the car accident and reckless driving. I forgot what he got a citation for, reckless driving or something like that.”
CY: So in reality, they can’t further investigate the mistress claims on either side? Who would investigate that? Just his wife would hire somebody?
VP: “His wife would hire me or another investigator.”
CY: And that would be the only time that this matter would be investigated upon if someone hired someone to look further into this matter?
VP: “Correct.”
CY: With these different women saying, some say, ‘Yes. I did have an affair with him.’ Some say, ‘I didn’t have an affair with him.’ If a private investigator was hired by Mr. Wood’s wife, how would he go about trying to figure out who was telling the truth and who wasn’t?
VP: “First of all, you would find out the veracity of these people on other situations, talk to neighbors and you talk to people and say, ‘Hey! What do you know about this person? Previous employment?’ I think one of them was a cocktail waitress. You might want to go back to the bar and talk to people that worked with her, other waitress, ‘Yeah. She’s a pathological liar. She meets somebody right away. She says she has an affair.’
So you might want to get a feel for her veracity through other people. But then what happens if everyone says, ‘She’s a nice person. She always tells the truth. We saw her with Tiger Woods. We saw her with Warren Beatty. We saw her with so and so. One of the women, I think her name was Rachel Uchitel. She’s hot. Oh my God man.
She said, ‘I am an event coordinator. I’m with all these different people.’ Maybe she was with him, but in a social or professional matter and she had nothing to do with him. The other one says, ‘I had an affair with him.’ And she is showing the texts. Here is what I would tell a guy like Tiger Woods, you know eventually one of these people is going to come out and tell everybody, do a tell all book. They’re going to tell the media and they’re gonna become a celebrity for 15 minutes or maybe longer.
Nowadays it’s not hard to get on TV. You gatecrash the President’s White House Party and now all of a sudden you’re on every tabloid and every TV show. And they’re looking to get a reality show out of it. They might just get it. Who knows? They have a little cache there. He’s fooling around with a girl in Los Angeles, eventually it’s going to come out. They’re gonna blackmail him or a reverse type of blackmail where they don’t ask for money. They just ask for publicity.”
CY: Even if they deny it?
VP: “Even if they deny it. They’re going to go on TV. They’re gonna go on a newspaper. They’re gonna be on Access Hollywood. They’re gonna be on Entertainment Tonight. They’ll be on The Early Show. They’ll be on Tyra Banks and they’ll be on Oprah talking about how Tiger Woods got a hole in one with this girl.”
CY: Every major media outlet is now trying to dig up information on all these different women that either did have affairs with him or possibly had affairs with him or linked to him in any single way. Does a tabloid media person ever hired someone like you?
VP: “All the time. I’m surprised I haven’t been hired on this one.”
CY: What are they looking for when the media organization calls them? Where do they start? Where would you start if you were hired by a tabloid to just go look and find people related? Where would you start?
VP: “We have proprietary databases that we utilize. First thing I would do is run a database search on these people and that’s just the tool. From there, we would decide whether or not to do more investigation. Maybe follow up on neighbors and stuff like that. We have one database that tells us who the neighbors are and where they lived for the last ten years. So we might want to go to some neighbors and find out if this woman is truthful. Find out if she’s really ok.”
CY: Any final thoughts on this whole matter?
VP: “He’s a young guy. I like him. He’s a relatively humble guy. Opportunity came about and look, he’s married to a beautiful woman, but there is other beautiful women and in a moment of weakness he went for it. I’m not saying it’s right or wrong, but it’s common. One of the things we’re famous for – over the years we’ve had beautiful women work for us as decoys. I’ve been criticized by other investigators, ‘That’s not fair and it’s entrapment.’ My attitude is look, it’s not entrapment, we’re not forcing anybody to do anything.
But if you think about it, it’s very hard for a man, a regular red blooded American man to turn down a beautiful woman who happens to be in their company. Now we don’t have the girls enticing them. They just happen to be there. They’ll be in the restaurant where the wife says or the girlfriend says, ‘My husband is always going to this particular club and I’d like to know if he’s doing anything. Could you please send a girl in there?’ Ok. I’ll tell them the girl is not going to approach them. The girl is going to be there to see what goes on.
Now the girl could be sitting at the end of the bar and he might approach her. Say hi, ‘Hey. How you doing? My name is Bill and blah, blah.’ And then we find out that he’s interested in her. And then we tell the client, ‘Listen, your husband, he likes the women. He came over to the girl. He approached her and he asked for a date, this, that and the other. Is that good enough for you to feel that your husband is not being faithful or whatever?’ And sometimes they’ll say, ‘That’s all I needed. I don’t need anything else and that’s it.’”
