Bob Menendez Broke Up With Girlfriend Over ‘Too Much Drama’ (1)

The rift between Senator Bob Menendez and his wife at his bribery trial deepened when his lawyer suggested she schemed behind his back to secure a Mercedes-Benz and that the New Jersey Democrat broke up with her at one point over “too much drama.”

The 2018 split between Menendez and Nadine Arslanian was brief — they married in 2020 — but the senator’s lawyer revealed the breakup as he questioned the prosecution’s star witness at his New York corruption trial. Menendez is accused of accepting 13 gold bars, the car and almost $500,000 in cash for using his influence to ...