Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi raised eyebrows on Sunday night when she and her husband Paul crashed the red carpet at the swanky Vanity Fair Oscars afterparty.
The Pelosis unexpected appearance left plenty of people asking one obvious question: What is she doing there?
The elderly, 85-year-old Democrat, who is retiring when her term ends in 2027, arrived alongside her husband, Paul Pelosi, also 85, at the glitzy Hollywood A-list event held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art after the 98th Annual Academy Awards.
Pelosi strutted down the red carpet and wasted no time in making herself the center of attention.
“It was wonderful,” she told USA Today. “I’m so excited about it because we needed this very much tonight. It’s a time when the arts have a stronger role than ever to bring us all together to laugh, to cry, to be inspired, and the rest, and to see the excellence of it all.”
The couple then went inside the Hollywood party and talked with celebrities including “I Love LA” star Rachel Sennott and “Industry” actress Myha’la, according to Vanity Fair. It was not the Pelosis’ first appearance at the bash — they also crashed the Vanity Fair afterparty in 2023.
Social media did not exactly roll out the welcome mat.
Some accused Pelosi of being heavily intoxicated at the event.
Why was this POS troglodyte at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party!
Must have been an open bar because she's Drunk!
Nancy Pelosi needs to go back to her cave! pic.twitter.com/pI0xgIhyTD— michelle selaty (@michelle_selaty) March 16, 2026
Others said it was about the money and Pelosi being connected to the rich and powerful.
“Who sent her an invitation?” one Facebook user scoffed. Another asked simply, “Who paid her to go?”
“People need stock tips, my dude,” a user quipped.
And this is why nobody listens to people in Hollywood…they are in on the grift 😂
— Rob (@lib_taser) March 16, 2026
When Pelosi was first elected to Congress in 1987, she and her husband reported a net worth of roughly $3 million, with stock holdings between $610,000 and $785,000.
According to estimates from Quiver Quantitative, the Pelosi family’s stock portfolio has since ballooned to a jaw-dropping $133.7 million — a gain of roughly 17,000 percent, far outpacing the S&P and the Dow Jones’ increase over the same period.
In 2025 alone, Pelosi’s portfolio reportedly posted an estimated 54 percent return, massively outperforming every major hedge fund tracked by Bloomberg that year.
The Pelosis have never been criminally charged over their investments, though their suspicious insider trading has fueled repeated calls for a congressional stock trading ban.