Paul Pelosi, the husband of Representative Nancy Pelosi, has been charged with a misdemeanor following an alleged hit-and-run near the same location where he was cited in a separate incident four years ago.
Pelosi, 86, is accused of striking an unoccupied parked vehicle on the shoulder of a road shortly after 2:30 p.m. Thursday in Yountville, a small community in California’s Wine Country.
The crash occurred near the expansive vineyard estate he shares with Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi in the affluent St. Helena area, according to reports.
Police said Pelosi did not stop immediately after the collision and instead continued driving his brown convertible until it became disabled and came to rest while blocking an intersection — the same area where he was arrested for DUI in 2022.
During an interview with investigators, Pelosi reportedly said he realized he had hit something but was unsure what it was, so he kept driving until the vehicle could no longer operate.
‘He drove until his car became disabled and was no longer able to continue driving,’ the Napa Valley Police Department said.
Napa Valley police sources told the Daily Mail that Pelosi’s vehicle suffered significant front-right damage, while the parked car, which was empty at the time, was left with substantial rear-end damage.
Authorities said the vehicle’s license plate was registered to Paul Pelosi. He now faces one count of hit-and-run involving a parked car, and his driver’s license will be referred to the DMV for re-evaluation because of his age, a routine step for older motorists.
Paul was not arrested, just charged with a misdemeanor.
Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul, was charged with a misdemeanor for an alleged crash in California on Thursday. The two are pictured above at the 2026 Vanity Fair Oscar Party in March
The sheriff’s department said Paul Pelosi’s brown colored convertible crashed into a parked car on a roadway in Yountville, California
The latest incident marks the second time Pelosi has been busted by cops in Yountville, having previously been busted for a DUI in the same spot in 2022.
On that occasion, he was hauled off to jail after crashing his 2021 Porsche on the way home from a dinner party in nearby Oakville.
The smash, which saw him collide with a vehicle driven by a man called Jesus Lopez, left him unharmed but did see him booked on charges of being over the legal limit.
He later pleaded guilty and was handed three years’ probation by a Napa County judge.
Pelosi’s checkered history of crashing cars also includes a more serious wreck when he was a teenager that killed his brother David, then 19.
Pelosi was just 16 and a high school sophomore when his sports car flipped over in February 1957.
A newspaper report at the time said Paul would be cited for misdemeanor manslaughter. In the end, there was no court case, and he was exonerated by a coroner’s jury.
His brother had urged him to drive slower before the fatal smash, according to a patrolman quoted by the San Francisco Examiner.
Police said that Paul was driving a brown convertible and smashed into an unoccupied vehicle in Napa Valley
Pelosi is pictured in 2022 when he was arrested for the DUI. He was not arrest on Saturday, but he was charged with a misdemeanor. He has also been recommended for his license to be re-evaluated due to his age, which is common for elderly drivers
Pelosi with his 2021 Porsche, which was damaged in the crash. The other driver was in a 2014 Heep, which sustained ‘major collision damage’
‘This is a bad stretch – better slow down,’ David is said to have told his younger brother as he approached a tight curve near the Crystal Springs Dam on the Skyline Highway – now California State Route 35.
Pelosi told Patrolman Thomas Ganley he tried to slow by shifting gears in the stick shift car, but lost control.
‘The car veered across the road, bounced back from a small embankment, climbed 20 feet up another, spun around and somersaulted simultaneously and ended upside down on the shoulder with both youths underneath,’ reported the Examiner.
Tragically, David was declared dead on arrival in hospital in San Mateo, with the coroner later finding his death was due to him being strangled by the neck brace he was wearing.
Despite the early tragedy, Pelosi went on to become a successful businessman – making his Democrat wife Nancy one of the richest members of Congress.
Along with the lavish $25million St Helena estate, the Pelosis also own a huge townhouse in San Francisco, as well as two commercial buildings, which rake in an income of between $100,000 and $1million per year in rental income on each one.
On top of that, the couple own a share in the $2,205-a-night Auberge du Solel – a five-star Napa Valley hotel, which is known for hosting famous guests, among them Sting, Bob Dylan and late greats Olivia Newton-John, and Robert Redford.
In total, the couple are believed to be worth between $114million and $400million – mostly driven by high performing property investments made by Paul and stocks in businesses ranging from Google parent company Alphabet to American Express.
