JUST IN: Democrat Senator Rocked By Scandal After Assistant Is Allegedly ‘Driven To Suicide’ By Kids

The family of a prominent Democratic U.S. senator is being targeted by the husband of a former assistant who he claims was “driven to suicide” by the malicious and discriminatory behavior of his children.

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), who sits on the powerful Budget and Finance Committees, is named in a lawsuit brought by the family of Brandon O’Brien, 35, who took his own life after working for the senator’s wife, Nancy Bass Wyden. O’Brien was employed as Bass Wyden’s personal assistant between June 2022 and September 2024, helping her manage the famed Strand Bookstore in Manhattan.

During that time, O’Brien’s family claims, he was “frequently tasked” with caring for the powerful couple’s kids, who were malicious in their torment of the gay young man.

Daily tasks included driving them to school or even Disneyland, where he would watch them on the weekends.

Within months, the lawsuit claims, Sen. Wyden’s 10-year-old daughter had exposed herself to O’Brien, made “sexually explicit” comments about his orientation, and asked about “intimate” parts of his life during rides to school.

The lawsuit was brought by O’Brien’s husband, Thomas Maltezos, against Bass Wyden and her company, Bass Real Estate LLC.

Maltezos contends that Bass Wyden did nothing to address her children’s behavior despite repeated complaints from her distressed aide.

The Wydens also have a teenage son who allegedly referred to O’Brien as a “f****t” and “zest kitten.” On another occasion, he threatened O’Brien by warning that “his football team would rape him,” the suit states.

The filings in Manhattan Supreme Court contain disturbing details about how Bass Wyden allegedly attempted to rein in her out-of-control son’s behavior, to no avail.

O’Brien’s husband recalls a time when Bass Wyden “maced her son to restrain him but inadvertently maced Mr. O’Brien.” The widower also claims to have seen some of the behavior firsthand while at Disneyland with O’Brien and the Wydens’ deranged offspring.

A lawyer for the Democratic senator and his wife is seeking dismissal of the suit, records show.

The lawsuit is “baseless and deeply misguided” and “riddled with false accusations,” a Bass Real Estate spokesperson said in a statement to the NY Post. “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.”

The breaking point occurred on September 30, 2024, when O’Brien quit his job. That same day, Bass Wyden filed a report with the NYPD accusing him of $650,000 in fraudulent credit card spending and other theft.

Bass Wyden went further, hiring a private investigator to “probe into Mr. O’Brien’s personal life and business dealings,” the suit states. She then “spread false rumors … to industry contacts and [his] professional colleagues,” leaving O’Brien distraught.

O’Brien committed suicide on May 26.

Authorities dropped a theft investigation into O’Brien after his death, which Maltezos dismissed at the time.

“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,” Maltezos’ attorneys, Eric Baum and Reyna Lubin, said in a statement.

Wyden, 81, is twice-married and was elected to the Senate in 1981. He married Bass Wyden in 2005.