Former NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey’s alleged years-long sexual abuse and exploitation of women on the force was an “open secret,” according to police sources and accusers.
The sex scandal rocking One Police Plaza busted open Saturday, when The Post revealed salacious allegations from Lt. Quatisha Epps, 51, who accused Maddrey, 53, in a formal complaint of forcing her into a sexual relationship in exchange for staggering overtime windfalls.
At least two other department women have accused Maddrey of wrongdoing.
“He’s a predator,” a police source, who works at the NYPD headquarters, told The Post of Maddrey. “It’s an open secret. Everyone knows who he is.”
Maddrey abruptly resigned before Epps’ allegations were made public. He has denied all claims against him.
Ex-Police Officer Tabitha Foster
In 2016, former NYPD officer Tabitha Foster, 49, alleged in a federal lawsuit that Maddrey dragged her into a years-long affair that began while she was pregnant and he was her supervisor at the 75th Precinct in East New York. It descended into physical and mental abuse, she claimed in court documents.
Foster, who said she suffered from PTSD stemming from abuse when she was a child, claimed Maddrey used “knowledge of her martial problems and the traumas she suffered as a child” to take advantage of her, according to court docs. The charges are similar to the emotional manipulation Epps said she faced.
At one point, Maddrey even said, “crazy p—y is the best p—y,” according to Foster’s suit.
In December 2015, when the pair met at a Queens park, Maddrey beat her and shoved her to the ground, prompting her to pull a gun on him, she claimed in the litigation. After snatching the gun from her, Maddrey allegedly choked her before dismantling the firearm, according to court documents.
Foster went public with the affair soon after, accusing Maddrey on Facebook of “chasing pregnant married girls around the department,” prompting an Internal Affairs investigation.
Maddrey was ultimately disciplined internally for failing to alert a patrol supervisor that Foster pulled a firearm on him, with 45 vacation days docked. A Brooklyn federal judge dismissed Foster’s case in 2019 at her request following “irreconcilable differences” between the former cop and her attorney, according to court records. She refiled the case in Manhattan Supreme Court that year, but the case was tossed in November.
Foster could not be reached for comment.
Maddrey denied Foster’s allegations in court documents.
Capt. Gabrielle Walls
Just days before Maddrey’s Friday night resignation, NYPD Capt. Gabrielle Walls sought a judge’s okay to add Maddrey as a defendant in a sexual harassment suit she filed in July against another NYPD chief, according to court records.
“I prayed for this day every single day,” Walls, 53, told The Post Saturday, adding she felt “vindicated” by the news of Maddrey’s departure.
“There’s so many more of us that’s out there that hopefully will come forward.”
Between 2015 and 2022, Maddrey repeatedly harassed Walls, including drunkenly trying to kiss her at parties and police functions and stopping by her command at the 88th Precinct, she claimed in court records.
“He basically kissed me at the parties and he would make the comments, ‘I want you so bad, you smell so good,’” she told The Post.
When Maddrey would stop by the stationhouse, where Walls, then a lieutenant, was assigned, she would hide from the alleged predator, according to the court docs.
“I had to hide in my office and turn off the light and close the door,” she said.
After she filed her suit, the 24-year NYPD veteran was transferred from her command in the 79th Precinct to the 114th Precinct in Queens, she and her lawyer, John Scola, said, which they alleged was retaliation.
Maddrey’s attorney has not filed a response in court to the pending litigation.
Unnamed detective
Epps alleged Maddrey ordered her to “take care” of another officer in the chief of department’s office.
Epps had to help the female detective specialist with apartment hunting, during which she billed for overtime, the lieutenant said.
Maddrey also ordered Epps to splurge on household items and other goods for the cop, she claimed. The detective pulled down more than $150,000 in fiscal year 2024, according to the SeeThroughNY database.
Maddrey went so far as to instruct Epps to hand over to the detective, whose name The Post is withholding, the keys to a third-floor NYCHA apartment on Eldridge Street where the lieutenant once lived and later was occupied by other family members, Epps said.
A neighbor said the detective moved into Epps’ old apartment in October and had seen Maddrey in the building on several occasions.
A man at the building Saturday confirmed the detective lives there. The detective did not answer the apartment door.
Unidentified detective
Maddrey had an “inappropriate sexual relationship” with another woman in is office, Epps alleged in the EEOC complaint. The unidentified woman made north of $300,000 last year, according to records.
