Nadia Lockyer's ex-lover: 'There's a way bigger story than the sex tapes'

Posted: Published on February 29th, 2012

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The man at the center of the drug-infused, sex-laced scandal that has rocked the political careers and shaky marriage of state Treasurer Bill Lockyer and his wife, Nadia, strode into a San Jose courtroom Tuesday, his hair slick, his shirt untucked and told a reporter, "There's a way bigger story than the sex tapes."

Before he had a chance to explain much more, his private defense attorney interrupted: "Do you want me to be your lawyer?" It was Adrienne Dell, a no-nonsense lawyer in a St. John Knit, telling him to clam up.

Stephen Chikhani, 35, with wraparound dark glasses and a soul patch under his lip, stopped talking after that. It was the first comment from either Alameda County Supervisor Nadia Lockyer or Chikhani about the rumored existence of a sex tape.

Chikhani, who has faced drug charges a number times over the past decade, was in Santa Clara County Superior Court on Tuesday after a California Highway Patrol officer pulled him over on Stevens Creek Boulevard in San Jose in September and allegedly found a bag of methamphetamine in his maroon 2003 Nissan 350Z. He faces four charges: possession of methamphetamine, being under the influence of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and resisting arrest for refusing to get out of his car voluntarily.

"Man, I have been sober for over a year and I just relapsed tonight," he told the CHP officer that September night, a contention that conflicts with court records

Chikhani is free on $15,000 bail. His hearing was postponed until March 22.

But with a TV camera crew perched in the corner of the courtroom, Chikhani knew it wasn't the drug charges the media was here for.

Chikhani is the "other man" in the Lockyer marriage, a troubled union between 70-year-old Bill Lockyer and a woman 30 years his junior. Nadia Lockyer apparently met Chikhani in December 2010, a month after she was elected to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors. Chikhani was allegedly addicted to methamphetamine. She was addicted to alcohol.

Bill Lockyer publicly referred to Chikhani as his wife's "ex-boyfriend" after a still-under-investigation confrontation at a Newark motel earlier this month left her with head and neck injuries and Chikhani under suspicion. It also made public the Lockyers' personal turmoil.

Bill Lockyer's office had little to say Tuesday. Instead, his spokesman Tom Dresslar said "the treasurer and everybody in this office in focused on doing the job we're supposed to do for taxpayers. That's our comment."

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