March 16, 2008
Former Aide Claims Threesome with McGreeveys
The NY Post has an "explosive interview" with disgraced former NJ Governor James McGreevey's old driver and aide, who claims he had many "three-way sex romps" with McGreevey and his wife Dina Matos. Teddy Pederson is speaking out because Matos has been talking about Governor Spitzer's scandal, "It's frustrating to hear her call Gov. Spitzer a hypocrite while she's out there being as dishonest as anyone could be about her own life... She's framed herself as a victim - yet she was a willing participant, she had complete control over what happened in her relationship."
Back when McGreevey was mayor of Woodbridge, NJ, Pederson was hired as a driver. Soon, he says he and the couple were involved:
"We called it the Friday Night Special," Pedersen said. The "intense" end-of-the-work-week escapades, he said, usually began with a "couple of drinks" at a local T.G.I. Fridays and culminated in "a hard-core consensual sex orgy" among the three of them at McGreevey's Woodbridge condo...Matos and McGreevey were not yet married in the 1990s when the ménages à trois allegedly began, but they continued after their marriage up until McGreevey was elected governor, according to Pederson."He liked watching me, and she would watch me while she was [performing sex acts] with Jim," noted Pedersen. "In my opinion, me being a part of their sexual relationship enhanced it for both of them."
Pederson, who now has a girlfriend of seven years, tells the Post he's talking because Matos' lawyers subpoenaed him in the very messy divorce, "I would have kept my mouth shut about this forever, but she subpoenaed me, and now it's all going to come out at trial."
The Star-Ledger, which Pederson also contacted to tell his story, notes "At the core of the case is Matos McGreevey's claim that McGreevey defrauded her by hiding his homosexuality from her before and during their marriage," as well as "None of Pedersen's claims could be independently verified." However, Matos did mention Pederson in her book on - on the second page. From the Star-Ledger:
Matos McGreevey describes her surprise at arriving at McGreevey's condo before a romantic weekend getaway only to find Pedersen in the parking lot.This ended up being a trip where McGreevey proposed to Matos, and Pederson rationlizes it, ""I think she knew he was gonna propose, and she knew if I went, there was going to be a threesome. She had the decency to say, 'Let's make this sort of special' and just the two of them.""I turned to Jim. 'What's Teddy doing here?' Teddy Pedersen, a handsome college student at Rutgers University, was Jim's campaign driver, one of a crowd of guys in their twenties who always seemed to be around. I came to think of them as the Lost Boys," she writes.
"I dug my heels in. 'If Teddy is going, I'm not. It's that simple.' I was usually pretty accommodating, so Jim knew I meant it. 'OK, OK,' he said with a shrug. 'No Teddy.'"
Pederson claims that when on business trips, he, McGreevey and Matos shared one hotel room, puzzling other staffers. Plus, the Friday Night Specials turned into something else in 2000, when the three spent Saturday mornings together: "I'd go to the condo, and usually they'd still be in bed. I'd sometimes go up, sit on the edge of the bed, rub Dina's legs through the comforter and go from there. Saturdays were a lot more low-key."
McGreevey stepped down as NJ governor on August 13, 2004, citing his affair. He and Matos have each written books and made a number of media appearances. On Oprah, Matos said on the day McGreevey told her about his gay affair, right before the press conference, "He was telling me what to do, and he said, 'You have to be Jackie Kennedy today.' And I'm thinking, 'Jackie Kennedy—her husband was murdered. You lied and cheated on me, and I have to be Jackie Kennedy?'"
And Matos and McGreevey are scheduled to be back in divorce court this week, so it's not just a stroke of special scandal-of-governors timing. Or is it?




Oh My GOD! Not another revelation. If this keeps up the only people that should run for elective office are Catholic priests.
sorry, but this deserves an "LOL" tag to it.
Seriously, what's next?
WHOA! TMI!! (or is it??)
This proves New Jersey political scandals always top New York political scandals in terms of weirdness.
Sure, we get tons of revelations over perfectly reasonable sexual escapes and whatnot, but nothing about how the politically corrupt he is.
Gov. McSkeevey. This is so low-rent and tawdry. Stopping off for a few cocktails at the T.G.I. Fridays before heading back to the condo for a three-way with the wife and the driver. Even Spitzer must feel pretty good about himself in relation to the former NJ Gov.
I always had a suspicion that Dina Matos was a hypocrite. Playing the innocent spouse as she enjoyed the benefits of being first lady of NJ, I found her story hard to believe. I'd given her the benefit of the doubt, until I saw the photo of the third party. It's not hard to imagine the governor and his wife getting busy with this young stud!
"dear penthouse"....
my god...who cares?!?!? people have consensual three ways all the time. If it's true then she's a lying asshole who pretended to be a victim because he got caught and she didn't want to look like a douche.
This really isn't news, its gossip.
whats more lewd is that they went to T.G.I Fridays.
@ Dave Hogarty: 'Gov. McSkeevey' That's hysterical. I've never heard that one before. Was he a character from a Sid and Marty Kroft show?
In other news...OMG! Group sex! People are having it. Scarlet letters available free to NY State residents at your local post office and the 6 token booths left that actually have a person in them.
How many letters do you put on if you have group sex, and which letters?
Try as the may, they ONLY fooled themselves and NOT us!
http://osi-speaks.blogspot.com/2008/03/silent-partners-no-more-fooling-of.html#links
seriously who cares
Could've been worse. Could've been Olive Garden.
"When you're here, you're family."
Shouldn't it be "menages a trois" as opposed to "menage a trois's"? Where's Bill Safire when we need him???
where are the pictures??
i wonder if someone will come out and say that silda knew eliot was sleeping with whores for such a long time.
^^ I think that's why she stood by him, because she totally knew