Nelthrope, who was not at the alleged event but learned about it the following day, "further stated that a fight ensued between Ms. Kilpatrick and a dancer, and that the dancer received injuries requiring medical attention." Nelthrope did not state who told him about the alleged events.
The dancer -- believed to be Greene -- was taken to a hospital, " . . . and the Executive Protection Unit confiscated all activity log sheets" from the police precinct that responded, Nelthrope said.
The mayor, who declined to comment for this story, has repeatedly denied that the party or any assault ever took place. Carlita Kilpatrick also declined to comment. So, too, have Detroit police officials -- at least publicly. A state investigation resulted in Michigan Atty. Gen. Mike Cox dismissing such claims as urban legend.
"They have no eyewitnesses, no caterers, not one person that said they were there that has been named," said attorney Mayer Morganroth, who is defending the city and the mayor in the lawsuit filed on behalf of Greene's son, Jonathan Bond.
Jonathan's attorney Norman Yatooma said, "The mayor is a proven liar and perjurer. Neither the party nor Tammy's murder are urban legend. It's another legendary cover-up."
Brown, a 25-year veteran of the force, was also looking into allegations that officers on the mayor's security team falsified overtime payroll, drank on the job and hid accidents in city cars.
He was unexpectedly fired after the 2003 memo -- in part, Brown claimed, for investigating the rumored party and because the mayor and Beatty feared their relationship would be exposed.
The investigation into Greene's slaying, meanwhile, was quietly being sabotaged, court documents allege.
In a 10-page affidavit filed earlier this month in connection with the son's lawsuit, former Detroit Police Lt. Alvin Bowman -- a 31-year police veteran who led the homicide unit looking into the Greene slaying -- said that top police officials derailed his investigation in order to avoid any inquiry into the party.
Bowman said files and case notes on the killing were deleted from homicide investigators' computers and reports were removed from the file. At one point, the file was placed in a combination-lock safe that Bowman and others couldn't get into. "The focus of our investigation was to solve Ms. Greene's murder, not to investigate the Manoogian Mansion party," Bowman stated in his affidavit. "However, because of the persistent and pervasive rumors concerning her appearance at that party and rumored assault by the Mayor's wife, Carlita Kilpatrick, my investigation required my [s]quad to follow up and investigate those rumors."
