Bob Packwood, Senator Forced to Quit in Sex Scandal, Dies at 93

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Bob Packwood, a moderate Republican senator from Oregon who championed women’s rights but was forced to resign in 1995 after his fellow senators threatened to expel him for making aggressive sexual advances toward more than 20 women, some of them his employees, died on Saturday in Rancho Mirage, Calif. He was 93.

His death, at a residential care facility, was confirmed by his wife, Elaine Franklin, in a statement. The couple often rented a vacation home in Rancho Mirage.

The case against Mr. Packwood, who had spent nearly half his life in the Senate, unfolded long before the #MeToo movement spurred society to take more seriously allegations of sexual misconduct against high-profile men. An inquiry by the bipartisan Senate Select Committee on Ethics dragged on for more than three years before the committee recommended unanimously that he be expelled.

That recommendation was based in part on Mr. Packwood’s diary, in which he detailed his predatory behavior, including toward women he supervised. “Twenty-two staff members I made love to,” he boasted, “and probably 75 others I’ve had a passionate relationship with.”



https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/us/politics/bob-packwood-dead.html