Palm Beach Pete
American social media personality
Palm Beach Pete, whose name is Peter Simel (born 1955), is an American social media personality based in Palm Beach, Florida, and a former college tennis player and commercial real estate executive. He became known in March 2026, when a video of him driving on I-95 spread online with claims that he was Jeffrey Epstein; in his own videos and in interviews he said he was not, and he has since posted as Palm Beach Pete on TikTok and Instagram.
Palm Beach Pete’s social media accounts
About Palm Beach Pete
He studied at Syracuse University until 1977 and has also stood as a political candidate.
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