March 16, 2008

Because You Haven’t Heard Any Juicy, Sleazy Jim and Dina Matos McGreevey Revelations Lately

While Dina Matos McGreevey makes the rounds of the talk-show circuit — to “express sympathy” for Mrs. Elliot Spitzer (Hey, Dina, if it’s such “a very personal matter,” as you told Matt Lauer, then why are you airing every last sordid little detail all over the airwaves?), while ever-so-conveniently plugging her book, Silent Partner: A Memoir of My Marriage — out comes one Theodore Pedersen, ex-aide to the down-low governor, to blow away Matos’ insistent claim that she was completely ignorant of Hubby Jim’s homosexuality:

McGreevey aide says he had sexual trysts with ex-governor, wife

A former aide to James E. McGreevey said today that he had three-way sexual trysts with the former governor and his wife before he took office, challenging Dina Matos McGreevey’s assertion that she was naive about her husband’s sexual exploits.

The aide, Theodore Pedersen, said he and the couple even had a nickname for the weekly romps, from 1999 to 2001, that typically began with dinner at T.G.I. Friday’s and ended with a threesome at McGreevey’s condo in Woodbridge.

They called them “Friday Night Specials,” according to Pedersen.

Pedersen described the encounters during an interview with The Star-Ledger. He said he wanted to refute the innocent image that Matos McGreevey has projected — both during the couple’s ongoing divorce battle and in interviews she gave after New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned last week in a sex scandal. He said he was also incensed by her portrayal of herself as an unsuspecting wife in her book: “Silent Partner: A Memoir of My Marriage.”

“I wanted to get this out now because it was so offensive to me that she goes on television playing the victim,” Pedersen said. “She’s trying to make this a payday for herself. She should have told the truth about the three of us.”

Pedersen did not say if he was gay or bisexual and only described having contact with Matos McGreevey during the trysts. He also said he never knew for sure if McGreevey was gay. …

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Pedersen, 29, served as a driver and traveling aide for McGreevey during his gubernatorial campaign and after he won office in 2001. McGreevey attended Pedersen’s graduation from Rutgers University in 2003 and Pedersen accompanied the governor and others in a trip to China last year. ..

Stay tuned — this should get… well, if not good, at least dicey. (And, LittleLordFauntleroy knows, we could use some good, old-fashioned, tabloid-style sleaze around here!)

Posted by: Sapphocrat