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Just when it seemed the Jim McGreevey scandal — governor's gay affair with a top aide, nasty divorce court hearings, child custody spats — couldn't get any more tawdry, it does.
McGreevey's now estranged wife, Dina Matos McGreevey, heatedly denied to ABCNews.com today the latest allegation — that she took part in numerous sexual threesomes that included McGreevey and his driver.
Matos McGreevey also rejected the claim by the former driver, Ted Pedersen, that she was aware that her husband was gay when she married him.
Pedersen claimed over the weekend that he has filed a sworn deposition as part of the McGreevey's brawling divorce proceedings that the three of them frequently engaged in what they called "Friday Night Specials." They occurred before and after her marriage, he claims, but stopped before McGreevey became governor.
The allegation prompted a furious denial from Matos McGreevey, who said Pedersen's claims were "completely false."
In an email to ABCNews.com, she claimed that McGreevey had set up Pedersen, one of his "cronies," to spread the tale because her former husband "cannot stand it when I am receiving attention in the media rather than him."
Matos McGreevey was interviewed by numerous media outlets in recent days for her perspective on the sex scandal involving New York's disgraced ex-governor, Eliot Spitzer.
She allleged to ABCNews.com that her former husband had "arranged jobs for Pedersen" since his time in office, and that McGreevey and his new domestic partner Mark O'Donnell "funded Pedersen's vacation to China, along with Jim, O'Donnell and other members of Jim's inner circle." The trip occurred in August 2007.
"This was obviously payback time for Pedersen," Matos McGreevey wrote in her email to ABCNews.com.
Pedersen told the Newark Star-Ledger that he had sex with Matos McGreevey while her husband watched at the couple's condo in Woodridge, N.J. The sex often took place after dinner at a local T.G.I. Friday's, he said.
The one-time driver said that Matos McGreevey's claim that she didn't know her husband was gay when she married him was false.
Pedersen, 29, who lives with his longtime girlfriend, claims that he never knew the former governor was gay.
"In hindsight there might have been light interest [in me] but it didn't seem like he was gay. It did enhance their sexual relationship having me be a part of it," he told the paper.
The former driver says he made the same allegations in a sworn deposition after he was subpoenaed by Matos McGreevey in her divorce procedings. She has always maintained that she did not know McGreevey was gay and claims that McGreevey married her to advance his political career.
Matos McGreevey would not respond to follow-up questions.
Stephen Haller, Jim McGreevey's lawyer, wouldn't comment on Pedersen's claims, but did confirm that Pedersen has submitted a sworn deposition to the court.
Driver Claims Trysts With Ex-Gov, Wife
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Before Spitzer and "Kristen", there was gay Gov. Jim McGreevey and Theodore Pedersen.
Former aide Pedersen says that he, McGreevey, and wife Dina Matos McGreevey had weekly trysts from 1999 to 2001. They would begin the evening at T.G.I. Friday's (you can't make this stuff up) and conclude at McGreevey's condo. These encounters were called "Friday Night Specials."
This contradicts Dina Matos McGreevey's portrayal as an unsuspecting wife:
Matos McGreevey claims the onetime Woodbridge mayor duped her into marriage in 2000 to further his political career, and that she had no clue about his sexual preference until just before he resigned in August 2004, when he announced he was gay and had an affair with an aide.
To bolster her claims that she was unaware he was gay, she writes in her book "Silent Partner: A Memoir of My Marriage" that "the sex was good."
Matos McGreevey also recounts a surreal conversation before McGreevey's resignation speech:
Two days later, Dina writes, he went further, using a certain three-letter word for the first time: "I think I might be gay."
She didn't learn he was certain he was gay - "a gay American" - until she read a draft of his speech a few hours before he delivered it.
"You have to smile," he reportedly reminded her on the way to the announcement.
"And if reporters ask you why you're here, you should tell them, 'I'm here because he's my husband and I love him.'
"And if the reporters ask you what you think of gay marriage, you should say, 'I'm sensitive to the issue.'"
"Make sure you smile a little more when I ask for forgiveness and thank you for bringing joy to my life," he added.
