NYC socialist honcho Gustavo Gordillo’s web of lies is unraveling fast after getting caught faking his address, his job, and apparently now — his own family’s immigration story.
Gordillo, 38, recently said his parents were poor immigrants from Peru.
“My parents came here, they had nothing,” he told the New York Times in a profile piece earlier this month, before lying in a follow up article about living in a Crown Heights rental.
“Their first jobs were in fast food and cleaning houses. They built success in this country. And they’re absolutely the exception.”
But an unearthed 2021 obituary about his paternal grandfather, Manuel Gordillo — the first of the family to move to the US –paints a considerably different picture of the family’s American roots.
“Manuel earned a medical degree from San Marcos University in Lima, Peru, and emigrated to the US in 1958 as a medical resident,” it reads. “He obtained his US citizenship in 1964. He built a long and respected career as a psychiatrist in the Cleveland area and reluctantly retired at 87 years old!”
In the US the elder Gordillo met his wife Ruth, a nurse with whom he had nine children, including the DSA leader’s father, also named Gustavo, according to the obituary — which lists his wife as Elizabeth.
Public records show only one Gustavo Gordillo married to a woman named Elizabeth in the US. The DSA co-chair’s parents live in Miami, where his father, an engineer, founded a $90 million telecommunication firm.
Yet Gordillo has repeatedly described his parents’ beginnings in America as decidedly humble.
“My dad, his first job in the United States was working at Wendy’s, my mom’s first job was a house cleaner, and they did make a living for themselves, and they had success,” Gordillo had whined on Fox News in July.
The family history is the latest question surrounding the socialist leader, who has made working-class credentials central to his political persona.
The embattled DSA leader lives in a $1.5 million Bed-Stuy row house bought by his parents, which is undergoing major renovations worth another $1.4 million that the community board had slammed as “not in alignment” with the historically black neighborhood, and felt like “a beach house in the Hamptons.”
He also lied about being a working union electrician, even though he never completed the apprenticeship and was kicked out of the union for not paying his dues.
The Post’s calls to Gordillo, as well as his parents, were not returned.
