MR. PELOSI’S ‘DUI’
Nancy hubby held in Porsche smash
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband crashed a new Porsche just five miles from their multimillion-dollar California vineyard when he was busted for allegedly driving drunk, police documents revealed Monday.
Paul Pelosi, 82, was in a 2021 Porsche when he tried to get across State Route-29 in Napa Valley from a country lane close to other vineyards just before 10:30 p.m. Saturday, his arrest report said.
As he tried to cross the main road, “his Porsche was struck” by a 2014 Jeep driven by a 48-year-old local man, the document said. The other driver was not arrested.
There were no reported injuries, and the police report did not assign blame for the crash.
However, photos of the junction show Pelosi would have had to have driven through a stop sign to get on SR-29.
Pelosi was busted at 11:44 p.m. and booked into the Napa County Detention Center, records show.
He was charged with one count of driving under the influence and another for driving with a blood alcohol content level of 0.08 or higher, the online booking report shows. Both charges are misdemeanors.
Pelosi was released at 7:26 a.m. Sunday, three hours after he was booked into jail, on $5,000 bail, the records show.
Drew Hammill, spokesperson for Nancy Pelosi, said Sunday that “the speaker will not be commenting on this private matter, which occurred while she was on the East Coast.”
The congresswoman was in Providence, RI, on Sunday to give the commencement speech at Brown University mere hours after her husband’s arrest.
“Graduates, you are our hope,” she told students. “We know this: Hope is the most powerful weapon against threats against democracy. We should have hope, because we believe in America.”
Close to home
Paul, a former venture capitalist, has been married to the 82-year-old House speaker since 1963, and the couple has five children together. They split their time between Washington, DC, and California, where she represents part of San Francisco.
The crash happened just five miles from where the Pelosis have a vineyard, River Run, in St. Helena, also just off RT-29.
They paid $2.35 million for it more than 30 years ago, and it is currently valued by California tax accessors at $4.6 million, records show. However, as far back as 2014, Nancy Pelosi listed its value as between $5 million and $25 million in official records she filed at the time, the Los Angeles Times previously noted.
It features a “Z” shaped infinity pool overlooking the vineyards, the architect who sold it to them has said of his work. The interior of the main house was inspired by Palladian villas and built to feel like an interior Zen Garden, the architect said.