Greek-American accuses the children of a US senator in the US of pushing his husband to suicide with their homophobic comments

A suit against the institution of the woman of Oregon Senator Ron Wyden’s wife, Greek-American Thomas Maltezos, claims that it was his children’s homophobic comments that prompted his 35-year-old husband, Brandon O’Brien, to extremity his beingness connected May 26.

Maltezos announced the decease of his hubby with a touching connection connected societal media: ‘It is with a breached bosom that I denote that my beloved husband … has died by suicide. Brandon worked arsenic an enforcement adjunct and made each venue amended with his quiescent grace and unwavering faith. Without him, my bosom is wholly broken.”

O’Brien, arsenic described successful the lawsuit, worked arsenic an adjutant to the senator’s wife, Nancy Bass Wyden, and “frequently took care” of the couple’s young children, including taking them to schoolhouse successful New York City and supervising them during trips to Disney World.

According to the lawsuit, the “torture” for the 35-year-old began successful September 2022 erstwhile the couple’s past 10-year-old girl allegedly made intersexual comments to O’Brien, asking him astir his “personal life” portion helium was taking her to school. Meanwhile, her teenage member allegedly made homophobic comments against the 35-year-old, calling him a “faggot” and telling him, “My shot squad volition rape you.”

In different incident, the younker appears to person thrown objects astatine the 35-year-old with his mother, “using capsicum spray to restrain him, but accidentally threw the spray astatine O’Brien.”

Maltezos, successful his lawsuit, alleges that the parent of the 2 children, who owns the famed Strand Bookstore successful Manhattan, did thing to code this behaviour betwixt June 2022 and September 2024, successful which O’Brien worked arsenic her assistant. According to the lawsuit, immoderate of the alleged incidents of maltreatment took spot astatine Disneyland successful beforehand of Maltezos and his mother.

For their part, attorneys for Bass Wyden person called for Maltezos’ suit to beryllium dismissed, saying it is “baseless, false, and afloat of mendacious accusations.”

The Oregon senator’s wife’s broadside besides claims O’Brien was stealing from his employer. The time aft the 35-year-old resigned, connected September 30, 2024, a study was filed with the New York City Police Department for stealing $650,000 successful recognition cards and different thefts.

After O’Brien committed suicide, authorities dropped the theft case, with Maltezos’s lawyers insisting that the complaint against him was false.

“The allegations against the senator’s woman are shocking and cruel – nary 1 should beryllium subjected to this level of harassment, fto unsocial successful the workplace,” Maltese’s lawyers said successful a statement.