Tara Reade, a former assistant to Senator Joe Biden, made serious allegations against Biden in 2019, accusing him of sexually assaulting her in 1993 when he was a senator from Delaware.
Wiki/Biography
Tara Reid (full name – Tara Reid Moulton) was born on Wednesday, February 26, 1964 (56 years old in 2020) in Monterey County, California, United States. When she was three months old, Reid and her family moved away from California. She grew up in Wisconsin and Georgia.
Tara Reid (left, as a child) with her mother, Janet Altimus, 1966
Reed spent most of her childhood in Wisconsin, where she received her early education and participated in sports such as skiing.
Tara Reid in Wisconsin in 1971
After her parents divorced, Tara Reid moved to Athens, Georgia with her mother and brother Colin. At the age of 17, she moved to California to pursue modeling and acting careers. Later, she moved to Washington, D.C., where in 1992 she was hired as a low-level staffer for then-Delaware Senator Joe Biden.
Tara Reid in Washington, D.C., 1992 or 1993
She also attended Pasadena City College, studying political science, before working as a congressional intern in the office of U.S. Representative Leon Panetta. At the same time, she also worked for Santa Barbara County Supervisor Gloria Ochoa, serving as field manager for Ochoa’s campaign against Representative Michael Huffington. Reed worked as an aide to Joe Biden from December 1992 to August 1993. Afterwards, she worked as an aide to California Senator Jack O’Connell.
Tara Reid, 1992
In 2004, Tara Reid graduated from Seattle University School of Law; but it was later revealed that she had never obtained the undergraduate degree required for law school admission.
Tara Reade, 2004 Law Graduate
In the mid-2000s, she moved to the Monterey Bay area. In 2007, she claimed discrimination and harassment in the workplace and filed a lawsuit against her employer, the YWCA of Monterey County. That same year, she joined the nonprofit Animal Friends Rescue Project in Pacific Grove, serving as executive director until she was fired in 2009. In 2009, she completed a 10-month training program, Leadership Monterey Peninsula. In the early 2010s, she co-hosted a weekly radio show, Soul Vibes, on the now-defunct local station KNRY. From 2010 to 2011, Reed worked as an education instructor at Hartnell College. In 2012, she filed for bankruptcy, and the list of companies she owed money to included Aladdin Bail Bonds in Salinas; Crossroads Animal Hospital, Central Coast Cardiology, Monterey Peninsula Community Hospital, Cottage Vet Care, Monterey Credit Bureau, Salinas Credit Counseling Services, Grove Market, Hartnell College Parking Enforcement, Monterey Bay Urgent Care, Monterey County Taxation Department and Oceanview Veterinary Hospital.
Family and Race
Tara Reade comes from a white American family.
Parents and siblings
Her late mother, Jeanette Altimus, was an artist on Cannery Row.
Tara Reid with her mother, Janet Altimos, in 1994
Her father, Robert Reade Moulton, was a sports reporter for the Wausau Daily Herald in the 1960s and later worked in public relations for a defense contractor in Minnesota.
Tara Reid’s father Robert Reid Moulton
Both her parents died in 2016. Her brother, Collin Moulton, is a stand-up comedian.
Tara Reid’s brother Colin Moulton
She has a half-brother, Michael Enterline.
Tara Reid with her half-brother Michael Enteling in 1989
Relationships, husbands and children
During her stay in Washington, D.C., Reid met Ted DeLorean, whom she described in a 2009 article:
A 6-foot-4 blond Nordic man with a smile on his face.”
Later, they got married in July 1994 and gave birth to a daughter in November of the same year.
Tara Reid at her daughter’s school in Seattle in 2001
Her ex-boyfriend, Cal Clements, worked with her in the Cedar Shoals High School production of the play Grease, where Reed played Kenickie and Cal played Rizzo.
Abuse in Childhood and Marriage
According to Reed, she had an abusive father; she told her husband this fact, and he later abused her as well. Describing her father’s physical and mental abuse, she once wrote:
My college dreams were thwarted to the point of being an understatement, but the rejections and personal attacks set me up to go out into the world.”
According to court records from 1996, her husband, Ted DeLorean, abused Reed and their then 15-month-old daughter. Reed described numerous violent incidents with her husband, one of which left her with bruises. In 1996, she obtained a temporary restraining order against her husband DeLorean. While DeLorean denied her allegations that he did not care about their daughter, he admitted that he was violent toward Tara Reed in February 1996. However, he refuted other incidents of violence that Reed mentioned in her testimony. According to Tara Reed, she fled her ex-husband after changing her name to Alexandra McCabe. She explained her experience with domestic violence by writing an article for a local online publication, Women’s International Perspectives; the article was published on February 13, 2009.
Working for Joe Biden and the sexual assault allegations against him
In 1992, Tara Reade received an interview call from Biden. In an interview with the Associated Press in 2019, Reade recalled her invitation to work for Biden and said:
I just always wanted to work for Biden. Because at the time he was a champion for women’s legislation, women’s rights legislation.”
Joe Biden in 1992
According to Reade, when she was interviewed by Biden’s executive assistant, Maryann Baker, Joe Biden walked in, smiled at her and said “hire her.” In 2019, Tara Reade was one of several women who accused Biden of inappropriate touching, such as standing too close, kissing on the head, and unwanted hugs. On April 4, 2019, she contacted The Union, a local newspaper in Grass Valley, California, alleging that Joe Biden had openly touched her neck, tangled his fingers in her hair, and touched her in ways that made her uncomfortable while she was working in the U.S. Senate office. Speaking about her experience working for Biden, she said that the Senator’s office reduced her duties after she refused to serve drinks in the office, even though Biden liked her legs. Later, when she felt excluded, she left Biden’s office in August 1993. Speaking about Biden’s inappropriate touching, she said,
“He used to put his hands on my shoulders and run his fingers along my neck,” Reed said. “I would freeze and wait for him to stop.”
On March 25, 2020, Reade provided more details about Biden’s sexual assault on her. She said that in the spring of 1993, when she went to hand over a sports bag to Biden, Biden pushed her against a cold wall and began kissing her and even penetrated her with his fingers. Recalling the incident, she said,
Everything happened so fast. He was talking to me, his hands were everywhere, everything happened so fast. He was kissing me and whispering, “Do you want to go somewhere else?”
As she drove off, Biden pulled over, according to Reade.
He looked at me, almost a little confused or shocked. He said, “Come on, man, I heard you liked me.” He pointed his finger at me and said, “You’re nothing to me. Nothing.” Then, he grabbed my shoulders and said, “You’re okay, you’re good.”
Biden later denied sexually assaulting Tara Reade and said,
This never happened. While the details of these allegations of sexual harassment and assault are complicated, two things are not. One is that women should be treated with dignity and respect, and when they come forward, they should be heard, not silenced. Two, their stories should be properly investigated and scrutinized.”
On May 7, 2020, she was interviewed by Megyn Kelly on YouTube, in which Reade revealed more details about her sexual assault by Biden.
dispute
- From 2014 to 2016, she volunteered with the Pregnant Mare Rescue in Watsonville; however, she had to leave due to allegations of inappropriate behavior.
- The IRS revoked the nonprofit status of her business, Gracie’s Pet Food Pantry, due to three consecutive years of violations in filing Form 990 (which is filed by nonprofits).
- Reade faced a wave of criticism and death threats after her initial complaint about sexual assault by Biden was reported by the local California newspaper The Union. She was also touted as a Russian agent.
Facts/Trivia
- She was an accomplished skier and qualified for the Wisconsin Junior Olympic Alpine Ski Team at age 12, according to Reed.
- Reed said in an interview that while growing up she was a nature lover and fell in love with horseback riding.
Tara Reid plays with her horse
- With a desire to perform, she began to perform in school theater, community theater and regional theater. Tara Reade played a dancer in the American biographical film “La Bamba” (1987). She also filmed some radio and television commercials.
Tara Reade dance clip
- Although she claimed she had been offered an audition for the exclusive acting program at the Juilliard School in New York, the school refused to confirm whether she had been selected for the audition.
- Her friends described her as a kind, outgoing person in childhood who loved performing and animals.
- Before she became interested in politics, she dreamed of becoming an Olympic skier and studied acting at the Juilliard School.
- Reed runs a local nonprofit, Gracie’s Pet Food Pantry, and in 2013 launched a GoFundMe campaign for it.
- While in Congress, she enjoyed browsing antique shops or attending ball games with her friend Stacey Lentz, who worked in the office of North Dakota Sen. Kent Conrad.
- According to Reade, her mother was one of the few people she confided in about Biden’s alleged sexual assaults.
- According to her ex-husband, Dronen, her mother kicked her out of the house during an argument in the fall of 1994 when Reed was in the late stages of her pregnancy.
- In October 2019, Tara Reade testified as an expert witness in Monterey County Superior Court in the trial of a man convicted of beating his wife.
Tara Reade testifies for prosecution in domestic violence case
- According to Savage, Reade’s former colleague, Reade left Biden’s office in August 2019 due to health problems. Savage said,
Reed attributed her firing to her health issues – she believed she was discriminated against because of her health problems.
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