Inti Gonzalez, who says she's stayed in touch with DePape since he left their home, tells the New York Times, "There is some part of him that is a good person even though he has been very consumed by darkness." But, she adds ominously, "the monster in him was always too strong for him to be safe to be around." Since then, she says, DePape has been seen getting free meals at the McGee Avenue Baptist Church in Berkeley, and she gathers he "completely lost his mind." (She separately told the New York Times that her romantic relationship with DePape only lasted "a few years," and he was mostly a roommate and caretaker for the kids.) She and Smith were married outside SF City Hall in December 2013, and it's not clear how much longer that relationship lasted - because Taub tells the Chronicle she broke up with DePape "for good" in 2015. Two years later, Taub, then 44, met 20-year-old Jaymz Smith at a Rainbow Gathering in Montana, brought him back to the Bay Area, and recruited him into her activism at the time protesting San Francisco's nudity ban. And after they got back together sometime in 2010, Taub tells the Chronicle he believed he was "Jesus for a year." Taub says that she broke up with DePape for about a year and a half in 2009, during which time he lived on the street and became increasingly paranoid. The timeline of their relationship includes some periods between 2000 to 2009 - a time in which Taub's daughter Inti Gonzalez describes DePape as the "man of the house" and her "stepfather." (Somewhere in there, another man fathered at least two of Taub's children, Inti, who was born in 2000, and Nebo, who was born several years later.) Talk of a "shadow government" is hardly the purview of just one end of the spectrum - and Taub says that she and DePape shared the view that 9/11 was an inside job. Here's where the conspiracy theories of the far left collide with the far right and conspiracists in general. "He was against the government, but if anything he was opposed to the shadow government, against the people who really run the government and use politicians as puppets. "I don’t think he became a Trump supporter," Taub tells the Chronicle. Taub says that both she and DePape are/were "against the shadow government." Taub says he was a fan of Obama and had agreed with many of her progressive viewpoints - and she says that they never argued about politics during their time together.īut where mental illness and the extreme vitriol of today's politics collide is where we likely find DePape and his motives. Taub says she met DePape in Hawaii in 2000, and said that he was a "shy and sweet" who "didn’t know anything about politics." As SFist surmised last week, he is hardly the picture of a right-wing radical, despite the parallels between his actions and the January 6th insurrection - he was reportedly shouting "Where's Nancy?" and carrying zip ties. legal system for her conviction, and said the charges stemmed from posting "non-sexual lover letters and music on blogs" directed at a 14-year-old whom she encouraged to run away from his mother.) This was a jailhouse interview, since Taub remains herself incarcerated at the California Institution For Women in Corona, in Riverside County, after a 2020 conviction for a confusing case in which she formed an inappropriate relationship with a teenage friend of her son. Taub, 53, has now clarified in an interview with the Chronicle that she and DePape were romantically involved in what sounds like an on-again, off-again relationship that began over 20 years ago, when DePape would have been around 20 years old and Taub around 31. And Taub's widely covered nude wedding outside City Hall in 2013 featured a clothed DePape serving as best man. We learned Friday that David DePape, the suspect in the attack that seriously injured Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul Pelosi, formerly lived with Berkeley-based nudist activist Gypsy Taub as well as her three children in the last decade and a half. It's both a surprising twist in the long narrative of Bay Area kooks and political dramas and an inevitable "of course" that an incident involving an unhinged attack on a national political figure in SF should somehow circle back to Gypsy Taub, but it has.
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