Disgraced New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez’s ex-girlfriend allegedly participated in orgies with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and underage girls, newly released court documents claim.
Gwendolyn Beck, 65, a longtime associate of Epstein who dated Menendez in 2010, was singled out by his victim Virginia Giuffre in a January 2016 deposition, a transcript of which was finally released to the public on Tuesday.
As part of the deposition, Giuffre was provided with a list of names and was asked which ones she was not trafficked to as a teenager.
“Number 7, Gwendolyn Beck,” she replies, according to the transcript. “I wasn’t trafficked to her, she was just part of some of the trafficking.”
An attorney asks Giuffre what Beck’s involvement was, to which the victim replies: “She was involved in some of the orgies.”
The attorney then asks Giuffre, “What gentlemen were involved in the orgies with you and Ms. Beck?”
“As far as I can recall, Jeffrey Epstein,” she replies.
It’s unclear when the orgies occurred but by the time Beck was linked to Menendez in 2010, Giuffre was married and living in Australia.
Beck did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Her relationship with Epstein has been well documented, though this is the first time she has been accused of any wrongdoing.
Beck was previously photographed with Epstein and his madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in 1995.
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She was also pictured five years later back at the Florida estate with Epstein, Prince Andrew and Trump’s then-girlfriend Melania Knauss.
Her 2014 campaign for Congress was even bolstered by a $12,600 donation from Epstein — his only political contribution that year, according to Arlington Now.
Beck said at the time she asked a number of billionaires in her Rolodex for donations, and accepted one from Epstein out of “forgiveness,” following the financier’s conviction for having sex with minors and subsequent jail time in Florida.
“I haven’t spoken with him personally in years,” she told the outlet.
“During my years at Morgan Stanley (started in 1995), I managed a portion of his investment funds (about $65 million) and knew him personally.
“While the press has tagged him ‘a man of mystery’ because they can’t explain how he made his money, it’s mostly a combination of real estate and complex derivatives,” Beck noted.
She continued: “At the time, he had a girlfriend he was very close to, and was a hard-working, thoughtful man (he comes from a poor background and made a lot of money really fast).
“I think he went off the deep end when she left (I left Morgan Stanley by this time and had no relationship with them), and got involved in very bad behaviors which he’s sought therapy for and paid his time in jail.”
Beck said she was “deeply opposed [to] and shocked by his behavior” but that he “paid his debt to society.
“Although humanly flawed, he can be a great asset to our nation because he understands finance on a level most people can’t comprehend,” she added.
What we know about the Jeffrey Epstein list of 170 associates
- On Wednesday, documents were released naming 170 associates of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. The list included Michael Jackson, magician David Copperfield, Stephen Hawking, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and former President Bill Clinton — who an Epstein victim said “likes them young, referring to girls.”
- Disgraced royal Prince Andrew, a known friend of Epstein, was named in the documents and was previously sued by Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre, who accused Andrew of sexual misconduct toward her. According to one royal family expert, the Firm “will stand beside” the Duke of York “no matter what.”
- Epstein’s former attorney and friend Alan Dershowitz defended the late multimillionaire sex offender’s associates, saying: “None of us knew about his private life that he kept so secret.” Dershowitz, who is on the list, added that no one should be automatically convicted in the court of public opinion simply for showing up in court documents.
- Epstein’s brother, Mark Epstein, told The Post that the ex-business mogul said he could have upended the 2016 election over what he knew about both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton: “Here’s a direct quote: ‘If I said what I know about both candidates, they’d have to cancel the election.’ That’s what Jeffrey told me in 2016.”
- Only some of the 170 names and their relationships to Epstein have been released. The remainder of the documents will likely become public record throughout the next week.
Beck, who ran on a platform of being “fiscally responsible, socially inclusive” and in favor of a “strong national defense,” wound up losing the Virginia race to Democrat Don Beyer after securing only 2.7% of the vote.
She had earlier worked as the vice president of investments for Morgan Stanley, according to her LinkedIn profile.
In May 2010, she began dating Menendez. The banker was photographed with him in the Dominican Republic in 2010 — a picture that would later be used in the senator’s 2015 corruption trial.
She also attended a 2010 White House State Dinner as his date.
It is unclear whether Menendez knew of Beck’s relationship with Epstein when they were dating.
Menendez was accused at the time of accepting lavish hospitality from a Medicare fraudster doctor who asked Menendez to secure visas for his bevy of young mistresses; to intervene in an audit that would have stopped him ripping off taxpayers; and to stop US Customs and Border Protection disrupting his side hustle screening cargo at the Dominican Republic’s ports.
Menendez denied the charges and called them a conspiracy by overreaching prosecutors.
But he is now facing charges of taking gold bars and bribes and stashing hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash around his house in return for using his “power and influence” — including his position as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — to benefit the Egyptian government and two local businessmen.
He has once again denied the charges.
