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Lawsuit Alleges Children Of Democrat Senator Drove Their Mother’s Former Personal Assistant To Suicide
A shocking lawsuit alleges the children of Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) drove their mother’s former gay personal assistant to suicide.
Brandon O’Brien, 35, Nancy Bass Wyden’s former personal assistant, committed suicide in May.
Bass Wyden is the owner of Manhattan’s Strand Bookstore.
According to the New York Post, O’Brien frequently had the task of caring for the couple’s young kids from June 2022 to September 2024.
Thomas Maltzeos, O’Brien’s husband, is suing Bass Wyden.
Kids of Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden drove assistant to suicide with ‘sexually explicit’ behavior, homophobic slurs: lawsuit https://t.co/daMkMZwIy6 pic.twitter.com/kuni4sYR2Y
— New York Post (@nypost) September 21, 2025
Further details from the New York Post:
The disturbing behavior began in September 2022 when the couple’s then-10-year-old daughter allegedly exposed herself to O’Brien, making “sexually explicit” comments and asking about his “intimate life” during school drop-offs, O’Brien’s husband, Thomas Maltezos, alleged in court papers he filed against Bass Wyden and her company, Bass Real Estate LLC.
But the mom — whose family founded the East Village bookshop nearly a century ago — allegedly did nothing about the behavior, Maltezos contended.
Meanwhile, the Wydens’ teenage son berated O’Brien with homophobic slurs such as “f—-t” and “zest kitten,” and the boy said “his football team ‘would rape him,”‘ the suit claimed.
The boy allegedly threw things at O’Brien and the mom once “maced her son to restrain him but inadvertently maced Mr. O’Brien,” according to the Manhattan Supreme Court papers.
Some of the alleged abuse took place at Disney in front of Maltezos and his mother, the widower claimed.
Lawyers for Bass Wyden have sought to have Maltezos’ lawsuit tossed, court records show.
The lawsuit is “baseless and deeply misguided” and “riddled with false accusations,” a Bass Real Estate spokesperson said in a statement. “It appears to be a continued effort to deflect attention from O’Brien’s own serious misconduct, including a documented pattern of theft from those he once worked for.”
O’Brien quit working for Bass Wyden in September 2024.
Daily Mail reports that Bass Wyden accused O’Brien of stealing $650,000, mostly from credit cards, from her.
She hired a private investigator to “try and bring down O’Brien,” Daily Mail stated.
Plaintiff alleges daughter of Nancy Bass Wyden and U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) accused Plaintiff's since-deceased husband of stealing from Bass Wyden, incl with this message reproduced in Complaint.
Bass Wyden accused P's husband/her former personal assistant of stealing $650k. https://t.co/UX931OJoZn pic.twitter.com/oWNP8gSJXO
— Jeff Eager (@Jeff_Eager) September 22, 2025
Daily Mail noted:
The suit alleges Bass Wyden trashed O’Brien’s reputation and stopped him from getting a new job, leaving him distraught.
After O’Brien’s suicide his husband Maltzeos made an emotional tribute post.
‘It is with a shattered heart that I announce my beloved husband… died by suicide,’ he said
‘Brandon worked as an executive assistant and made every space better with his quiet grace and unwavering loyalty. I am completely heartbroken without him.’
NYPD investigators dropped their theft case against O’Brien in the wake of his suicide.
Maltzeos’s lawyers Eric Baum and Reyna Lubin lambasted the wealthy family’s alleged behavior, saying: ‘The allegations against the senator’s wife are shocking, disturbing, and cruel — no person should ever be subject to this level of harassment, much less in the workplace.’
But Bass Wyden has denied the allegations made against her and her children, while again branding O’Brien a thief.