EXCLUSIVE: Former partner of accused Paul Pelosi attacker DePape reveals new details about suspect

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The former partner of the man accused of violently attacking Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband at their San Francisco home on Friday is revealing new details about the suspect.

"Hello this is Gypsy Taub. I am the ex-life partner of David DePape and the mother of his children," said Oxane Taub, calling from the Californian Institution For Women in Corona, California.

Taub -- better known as "Gypsy" -- is a well-known nudist activist who spoke with ABC7 in 2013 at a protest in San Francisco.

"We just wanted to test the waters to see how much the police department respected our first amendment rights," said Taub in 2013. Now she's revealing a longtime relationship with David DePape.

"He is mentally ill. He has been mentally ill for a long time," said Taub, who last year was found guilty on 20 counts, including the attempted abduction of a 14-year-old boy near his Berkeley high school.

Tara Campbell: "Did he ever show any aggression towards politicians, were his political beliefs extreme in your opinion?"

Taub: "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."

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Pelosi’s husband’s attacker supposedly molested his daughter and sons. There is a big NSFW thread on 4Chan (Due to all the nudist stuff) examining this guy’s connections in San Francisco, but it is difficult to tell what is significant and what is not. It is a depressing hole to look into, filled with fucked up people obsessed with nudity, seemingly scraping by doing porn shoots, abuse of children, and dragging their young kids to nudism protests naked, and forcing all this chaos on them. That said, there are rumors the attacker is an illegal immigrant from Canada. It is clear he is from Canada, and he seems like the kind of guy who would visit California and not maintain his immigration status, however I have not seen an authoritative source yet.

Interestingly, his right wing blog appears to have been backdated and inserted on the Wayback machine right after the attack. Obviously, two men in their underwear, having a lover’s quarrel at 3AM, in the Speaker’s foyer, right as we are about to have the midterms could drive the powers that be to do some crazy things to put down smoke and prevent the real story from coming out. I find it hard to believe any rando can get in the house of the husband of the Speaker, and a guy worth mid-nine figures, in a gated community with a security guard, without some service getting an alarm call and deploying immediate heavily armed security, on top of Cabal’s overwatch. Especially with a guy worth mid-nine figures in a crime-ridden shithole, who has to be concerned about security in general. Plus, if he broke in, my guess would be there would be surveillance camera video, and they would release it to maximize the dramatic narrative of a MAGA Trump-supporter breaking into Pelosi’s house. These days, there may even be surveillance camera footage inside the house. But we are seeing nothing. Seems much more likely Pelosi let this guy in, the question would be why.

Two far-right websites attributed to David DePape to smear conservatives were fabricated – they were created Friday and deleted Saturday.

Attacker was previously known as a lefty. Sounds like the group he was staying with was paranoid of the neighbors, which always makes me wonder if they are under surveillance, in which case you could assume they had infiltrators from the surveillance living there, making everyone there suspect as part of domestic intelligence, including this guy, who is an immigrant. From the link:

DePape lived with a notorious local nudist in a Berkeley home, complete with a Black Lives Matter sign in the window and an LGBT rainbow flag, emblazoned with a marijuana symbol, hanging from a tree. A closer look reveals the characteristics of a homeless encampment, or what Europeans call “an open drug scene.” In the driveway, there is a broken-down camper van. On the street is a yellow school bus, which neighbors said DePape occasionally stayed in. Both are filled with garbage typical of such structures in homeless encampments. People come and go from the house and the vehicles, neighbors say, in part to partake in the use of a potent psychedelic drug, ibogaine.

Neighbors described DePape as a homeless addict with a politics that was, until recently, left-wing, but of secondary importance to his psychotic and paranoid behavior. “What I know about the family is that they’re very radical activists,” said one of DePape’s neighbors, a woman who only gave her first name, Trish. “They seem very left. They are all about the Black Lives Matter movement. Gay pride. But they’re very detached from reality. They have called the cops on several of the neighbors, including us, claiming that we are plotting against them. It’s really weird to see that they are willing to be so aggressive toward somebody else who is also a lefty.”

Public nudity activist from Berkeley charged with attempted abduction, stalking of teenage boy
A “body freedom” activist who once shed her clothing in protest during a Berkeley City Council meeting is now facing felony charges for what authorities have called her ongoing “obsession” this year with a teenage boy.
By Emilie Raguso
Dec. 20, 2019, 4:48 p.m.
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Image: Gypsy Taub
A Bay Area “body freedom” activist who once shed her clothing in protest during a Berkeley City Council meeting is now facing felony charges for what authorities have called her ongoing “obsession” this year with a teenage boy.

Oxane “Gypsy” Taub, 50, of Berkeley was charged Thursday with attempted child abduction, stalking and child abuse — all felonies — in connection with allegations of behavior that began in February and continued through this week. Taub is also facing five misdemeanors for annoying a minor and disobeying court orders for her to stay away from the teenager, who is 14.

According to court documents, the boy, who is in ninth grade, used to be a friend of Taub’s son before they had a falling out. Taub maintained a connection with the boy and sent him numerous messages and emails to the point where the boy’s mother sought a restraining order against Taub in June. But, according to police, Taub did not stop contacting him — despite the filing of multiple misdemeanor charges in July, September and November.

On Monday, according to police, Taub had her son ask a friend to give the 14-year-old a package on her behalf. The package included a letter urging the boy to meet her: “This is our last chance to help you,” the letter read. “Leave your bag and your regular cell phone in the locker.” The letter included a location and time to meet on Tuesday, police wrote in court papers.

At the time of the meeting, police who were monitoring the situation saw Taub’s son in the area, they wrote in court documents. When he left, police followed him to Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Channing Way, where he met “with an individual who was wearing clothing covering their head, in what appeared to be a manner to disguise oneself.” Officers identified that person as Taub, and arrested her a few blocks away.

According to court documents, police arrested Taub on suspicion of stalking “for repeatedly harassing” the boy and then sending him the letter “which caused him to fear for his safety.” The child abuse allegation stemmed from “the mental anguish” the boy had experienced as Taub “continues to violate court orders that have been in place since June,” police wrote.

The boy and his family initially reported the situation to police in February and said Taub was emailing and calling the teenager against his will. In June, the boy’s mother told police “the emails had increased in frequency.” In their investigation at that time, police found 44 emails from Taub to the boy over about four months.

In some of the emails, according to court papers, Taub accused the boy of betraying her. In others, she wrote about having feelings for him.

In June, according to police, Taub sent the boy a letter that discussed the legal age of consent in other states and wrote to him that, “the law makes clear that dating is not illegal as long as there is no sexual intercourse.” Several days later, the boy’s family served Taub with a restraining order.

In September, according to police, Taub parked briefly outside the boy’s home in violation of the restraining order against her. Police found a blog post online from just prior to that incident where Taub had written about “driving by the victim’s house in hopes of communicating with him and expressing her obsession with him.”

Police also described “two blog postings of communications that appear to be from” Taub where she is “professing her love and desire” to be with him.

Later in the month, according to police, Taub drove by the boy’s home “at a slow and ‘crawl-like’ speed almost coming to a stop on several occasions as she peered and stared” at the boy’s bedroom window.

As part of the ongoing investigation, police said they found more than 20 emails from Taub to the boy over about three weeks during the fall.

The charges against Taub have been amended repeatedly since July as a result of the new allegations.

In a Dec. 12 email to her body freedom followers, Taub addressed the issue of the criminal case against her. She blamed the criminal allegations on the boy’s mother and said the accusations against her were false.

“I had no idea how utterly corrupt to the core our legal system is,” she wrote. “I will follow up with more details and post some documents for you to look at. In terms of human rights violations it’s way worse than communist Russia was, at least when I was growing up there.”

She wrote that one of the charges against her stemmed from having written the words “I love you” in an email, while another message that had been attributed to her, she wrote, had actually been written by her son.

“I will post their so-called probable cause for that. It’s worthy of a movie,” she wrote in the email. “I plan on making a documentary about all this crap and getting the media involved.”

Taub also wrote that she had been “raising hell in court and have some very fun audio recordings to share.” It is illegal for the public to record anything that takes place in Alameda County criminal courtrooms according to the posted rules.

Taub also wrote that, after initially handling some of her own legal work, she had retained an attorney. She asked anyone who wanted to support her case to send her money via PayPal.

A 2015 profile of Taub in SF Weekly described Taub as “a seasoned 9/11 truther, aficionado of psychedelics, and sexual free spirit who, in 2008, created a cable access show called My Naked Truth, which still airs every Sunday night on Channel 29 in San Francisco.”

According to her Wikipedia page, she once attended the City College of San Francisco as a pre-med student but “dropped out after 18 months as she believed the amount of studying she had to do got in the way of her spiritual growth.” In 1995, she changed her name from Olessia to Gypsy and became a Deadhead. Taub once ran an amateur pornography website out of her home in Berkeley, according to SF Weekly.

Gypsy Taub protesting a nudity ban at a San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting in 2012. Photo: Steve Rhodes
By 2012, according to the Weekly, Taub had become a leader in the “body freedom” movement, undressing during her remarks at a public hearing in San Francisco about that city’s nudity ban. The next year, she and her fiancé staged a nude wedding at SF’s City Hall. She has also organized numerous nude parades in the city.

When Taub’s children were growing up, she regularly included them in her activist activities, the Weekly wrote.

“They often appear naked alongside their mother at public protests,” reporter Jeremy Lybarger wrote in the Weekly. “A trio of nude kids — two of whom are visibly pubescent — is taboo enough to make some observers question Taub’s parental ethics.”

The article continued: “Taub, frankly, doesn’t give a shit what anyone thinks about her parenting skills. ‘It’s okay to be nude until you’re five, so how’s it different if you’re 10? I don’t see any reason why this is wrong. Abuse doesn’t happen in the middle of downtown San Francisco.’”

In 2015, Taub brought the fight for body freedom to the Berkeley City Council when officials declined to sign onto a “free the nipple” proposal that came out of then-Councilman Kriss Worthington’s office. At the end of the night, Taub stripped down and jumped all over the dais for approximately five minutes as she excoriated city officials for their lack of vision. The room was nearly empty, but Taub’s protest was captured on video.

As of Friday, Taub remained in custody at Santa Rita Jail with a bail of $60,000. She is set for an attorney and plea hearing Jan. 2, 2020, at the René C. Davidson Courthouse in Oakland.

Update, Jan. 3: Taub’s bail has actually been set at $345,000, her daughter Inti Gonzalez told Berkeleyside this week. County records online show the bail as $60,000. That number is not accurate, according to Gonzalez.

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