A former girlfriend of disgraced New Jersey senator Bob Menendez was accused by Virginia Giuffre of taking part in orgies together with her and Jeffrey Epstein, newly-unsealed court docket paperwork reveal.
Gwendolyn Beck, now 65, ran for Congress in 2014 as an impartial representing Arlington, Virginia, however had lengthy been referred to as an affiliate of Epstein’s.
She was photographed in 1995 with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Mar-a-Lago in 1995, and 5 years later, was again at Mar-a-Lago with Prince Andrew and Melania Knauss, Donald Trump’s girlfriend.
She had met Prince Andrew the yr earlier than: in 1999, she frolicked with him on Epstein’s Caribbean island, after which flew again with Andrew and several other others to Palm Seashore, Florida.
Gwendolyn Beck (far proper) is pictured with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Mar-a-Lago in 1995
Melania Knauss, Prince Andrew, Gwendolyn Beck and Jeffrey Epstein at Mar-a-Lago in February 2000
Prince Andrew accuser Virginia Giuffre claims she had intercourse with one other overseas royal within the South of France when she was 17, however she didn’t know his identify. She is proven with Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell in 2001
On the time, in line with her LinkedIn, she was the vp of investments for Morgan Stanley – one among Epstein’s banks.
In January 2016, Virginia Giuffre – who had been recruited by Maxwell to work for Epstein in 2000, and was taking authorized motion after years of sexual abuse by the pedophile financier – sat for a deposition.
The transcript was printed on Tuesday.
The lawyer offers Giuffre with a listing of names, and asks which of these she was not sexually trafficked to.
’Quantity 7, Gwendolyn Beck,’ she mentioned.
’I wasn’t trafficked to her. She was simply part of a number of the trafficking.’
The lawyer asks what her involvement was.
’She was concerned in a number of the orgies,’ Giuffre replies.
Requested by the lawyer ’what gents had been concerned within the orgies with you and Ms. Beck,’ Giuffre replies: ’So far as I can recall Jeffrey Epstein.’
Beck has not responded to DailyMail.com’s request for remark.
By Might 2010, Beck was relationship New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez, and was photographed eating with him within the Dominican Republic.
Beck is seen on the White Home with New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez, at a dinner in honor of Mexico’s president, Felipe Calderon
The pictures had been utilized in Menendez’s 2015 corruption trial.
Beck additionally accompanied Menendez to a State Dinner, hosted in honor of the president of Mexico by Barack and Michelle Obama.
It is unclear when their relationship ended. Final yr, Menendez was charged in connection to a bribery case. He has denied the allegations and stays in workplace.
Beck in 2014 ran for Congress on a platform of being ’fiscally accountable, socially inclusive’ and in favor of a ’robust nationwide protection.’
She wrote in an Arlington Now assertion: ’As a enterprise girl, I’ve had two profitable careers, one within the monetary trade and one in tourism.
’I rose to Supervisor of Nationwide Gross sales at Jap Airways, and once they ceased operations, moved into Finance in U.S. Authorities Debt — I perceive how our debt works.
’I’ve written a shopper monetary training e-book and appeared on PBS and Lifetime. I volunteer for the Arlington Company on Getting old, am on the Board of Administrators for ’Women America’ and ’We Will Survive Most cancers.”
She mentioned she was ’a first-generation American on my mom’s aspect, and about fifth-generation American on my father’s aspect.’
Beck’s e-book, printed in November 2008
Beck is seen campaigning for Congress in 2014
Epstein donated $12,600 to her 2014 marketing campaign for Congress, as an impartial
Beck is seen at an August 2017 get together within the Hamptons with Nancy Pearson, a Hamptons realtor
She received 5,420 votes, securing 2.7 % of the vote. The seat was received by Democrat Don Beyer, with 128,102 votes – 31.1 %.
Her marketing campaign was boosted by a $12,600 donation from Epstein – his solely political donation of 2014, in line with Arlington Now.
She defended the donation from the pedophile, who by then had been convicted of intercourse with minors and frolicked in a Florida jail.
’I did name each billionaire I do know to ask for marketing campaign funds, and Mr. Epstein despatched the donations,’ Beck mentioned through electronic mail.
’I have never spoken with him personally in years. Throughout my years at Morgan Stanley (began in 1995), I managed a portion of his funding funds (about $65 million), and knew him personally.
’Whereas the press has tagged him ’a person of thriller’ as a result of they can not clarify how he made his cash, it is largely a mix of actual property and complicated derivatives.’
Beck continued: ’On the time, he had a girlfriend he was very near, and was a hardworking, considerate man (he comes from a poor background and made some huge cash actually quick).
’I feel he went off the deep finish when she left (I left Morgan Stanley by this time and had no relationship with them), and acquired concerned in very unhealthy behaviors which he is sought remedy for and paid his time in jail.’
She mentioned she accepted his donation out of ’forgiveness’.
’I’m deeply opposed [to] and shocked by his conduct, however he has paid his debt to society,’ she instructed the paper.
’Though humanly flawed, he is usually a nice asset to our nation as a result of he understands finance on a stage most individuals cannot comprehend.’