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MCGREEVEY AIDE: DINA’S IN DENIAL

A one-time driver and aide to former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey declared today that Dina Matos McGreevey is still in denial after she blasted as false his claims that the couple and he had engaged in three-way sex.

“Dina is still in denial. It’s time for her to face the truth,” Teddy Pedersen – the self-professed man in the middle – told The Post after Matos McGreevey denied his claims that the trio indulged in consensual sexual trysts starting during their courtship and continuing into the marriage

“If Dina wants to take a lie detector test with me, I will sit down with her any time, any place. The only reason that I spoke to the media is because she dragged me into her divorce,” Pederson said.

McGreevey today confirmed Pedersen’s account – published in The Post – of three-way sexual romps including Pederson before he became governor.

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“This happened, this happened in the past and now we need to move on with our lives,” the former governor told the Associated Press in a prepared statement.

The McGreeveys are locked in a bitter divorce battle – and Pedersen said that Dina’s camp subpoenaed him. He said he spilled the beans on the menage a trois under oath in a deposition for the couple’s divorce battle.

Pedersen said that the trio’s consensual trysts started after he was hired as a campaign driver when McGreevey was mayor of Woodbridge, continued for about two years and ended by the time McGreevey was elected governor in November 2001.

Matos McGreevey’s central argument in the divorce war is that Jim McGreevey hid his homosexuality from her and tricked her into a loveless marriage.

Pedersen claims she must have always known her husband was gay – because he was the other man in bed with them.

Matos McGreevey told the Associated Press that Pedersen’s claims are “completely false and were prompted by Jim McGreevey.”

In reply, Pedersen told The Post: “I’m not gaining anything from this.”

“This has been the hardest time in my life. It’s not something I ever wanted to discuss with my family or anyone,” Pedersen said.

“What I have said publicly is nothing that I have not already said under oath in a court deposition. I have no reason to lie,” he declared.

“If she wasn’t worried about me or what I might say why would she have ever subpoenaed me? That’s the most important question. If she has nothing to hide why am I being subpoenaed?” Pedersen said.

The former McGreevey companion, who said he frequently traveled on business with the couple and shared a single hotel room with them, asked, “If nothing was going on, why am I traveling with them? Why am I always with them?

“All the pieces are there. And she just doesn’t want to admit it.”