By GEOFF EARLE and RONNY REYES
The nudist longtime partner of the man accused of brutally attacking Paul Pelosi revealed in a jailhouse interview that suspect David DePape has been ‘mentally ill for a long time’ and had paranoid delusions.
Oxane ‘Gypsy’ Taub, 53, who was convicted in 2021 for trying to kidnap a 14-year-old boy, is also a longtime nudist activist. She says during her two decades with DePape says she saw him transform following a disappearance of more than a year.
‘He came back in very bad shape. He thought he was Jesus. He was constantly paranoid, thinking people were after him,’ Taub told Bay area affiliate ABC 7 in a phone call from prison. ‘And it took a good year or two to get back to, you know, being halfway normal.’
‘He is mentally ill. He has been mentally ill for a long time,’ she said from the Californian Institution For Women in Corona, California, where she is serving time. The two previously lived together in Berkeley.
Taub says she first met DePape two decades ago when he had political views like her own, although the ‘hemp jewelry maker’s’ more recent postings have contain anti-semitic themes and QAnon conspiracies as well as election fraud claims.
‘Well when I met him, he was only 20 years old, and he didn’t have any experience in politics, and he was very much in alignment with my views and I’ve always been very progressive. I absolutely admire Nancy Pelosi,’ said Taub.
The couple raised two sons and a daughter, and split seven years ago, she said.
Taub described herself as the ‘ex-life partner of David DePape and the mother of his children.’
DePape, 42, was carrying zip ties with him when he broke into the Paul and Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, calling out ‘Where’s Nancy’ – the same phrase used by Capitol rioters on January 6.
The San Francisco Police Department has also confirmed that there were just two people in the Pelosi home at the time of the attack – not three, as they had previously reported.
The incident, just days before the November elections, has renewed calls in Congress to beef up security in light of a growing threats against lawmakers. The speaker, who gets a security detail, was not home at the time of the incident.
U.S. Capitol Police Chief J. Thomas Manger said in a weekend memo to lawmakers that the attack ‘is a somber reminder of the threats elected officials and families face in 2022.’
Taub, 53, was convicted in 2021 for child abuse, and allegedly bought sex dolls for her sons to use.
Prosecutors said Taub, who once protested naked in front of San Francisco City Hall, had been stalking the boy, sending him emails and messages and trying to lure him to secretly meet with her.
Ryan La Coste, one of Taub and DePape’s neighbors, said he’s long complained about the family’s behavior and nudity while minors were around, noting that the family keeps several sex dolls, according to Michael Shellenberger’s Substack.
‘Before Gypsy got locked up, there were sex dolls drying on the back of their porch that I’m assuming she bought for her sons,’ La Coste said. ‘They’re off the wall.’
Following his attack on Pelosi, DePape has been accused by his daughter of sexually assaulting his three children when they were kids.
While DePape has been accused of abusing minors, Taub is the one convicted of the crime as police said she had an ‘obsession’ with a child, once writing to him that it would be legal for them to date in other states.
In 2019, police said Taub continued inappropriate behavior with a former friend of her son despite the boy’s family placing a restraining order on her.
Authorities said Taub was writing to the boy about dating him and once drove past his house trying to talk to profess ‘her love and desire’ to be with him.
According to police, Taub later had her son deliver a package to the boy, which included a letter pleading with him to meet with her without his phone.
‘This is our last chance to help you,’ the letter read. ‘Leave your bag and your regular cell phone in the locker.’
Police showed up at the time and place of the meeting Taub had set up and arrested her as she wore a ‘disguise.’
Along with stalking and endangering the boy, the court heard that he had suffered great ‘mental anguish’ over the repeated harassment.
Along with worries over Taub’s criminal record, neighbors told Shellenberger that she and DePape often used the psychedelic drug ibogaine.
A neighbor, who identified herself only as Tish, claimed the duo would buy the drugs from Mexico ‘and then they bring it back here and treat people’s mental health illnesses.’
She alleged that Taub and DePape would abuse the pills themselves, wailing at night and sweating profusely from trips that appeared to last three days.
Laura Hayes, another neighbor, told CNN that she’s seen similar odd behavior from the former couple. She said DePape once told her ‘he talks to angels and there will be a hard time coming.’
While reports indicate that DePape was an unhinged, far-right conspiracy theorist, neighbors noted he and Taub’s politics were much more muddied.
They told Shellenberger that the couple had Black Live Matter flags and an LGBT rainbow flag outside their home, but also said that any liberal leanings appeared to be shallow and performative.
Taub’s criminal record and the former couple’s alleged drug abuse paints the picture of a deeply troubled household as DePape’s daughter, Inti Gonzalez, claimed her father abused her and her two brothers.
Gonzalez blogged about DePape, 42, on Friday after it was reported that he broke into the Pelosi’s $6million San Francisco home at 2.27 am in his underwear and beat the 82-year-old Paul with a hammer while shouting ‘where’s Nancy?’
So do the Dumb-O-Crats still want to disarm us and release all those Criminals?
A product of the left, through and through.