FBI Director Kash Patel’s girlfriend, country music singer and actress Alexis Wilkins, made a rare public appearance Tuesday to support her beau at his hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The relationship between Patel, 46, and Wilkins, 27, has been heavily scrutinized since Patel took charge of the bureau in February 2025.
That August, Wilkins slapped former FBI agent–turned-podcaster Kyle Seraphin with a $5 million defamation lawsuit, accusing him of maliciously branding her an Israeli “honeypot” sent by the Mossad spy agency to seduce and manipulate Patel.
In November 2025, a bureau spokesperson confirmed Wilkins was receiving a protective detail after receiving “hundreds of credible death threats related to her relationship with Director Patel, whom she has been dating for three years.”
As Wilkins looked on, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) needled Patel over her security arrangements.
“In March, after Elizabeth Williamson [of the New York Times] reported that you used a SWAT detail to protect and drive your girlfriend, your agents interviewed your girlfriend about the reporting. Is that true?” Booker asked Patel at one point.
“Why are you talking about my loved ones?” Patel responded before warning Booker to “stop attacking me and my loved ones.”
Wilkins is also suing MS Now over a December report alleging that Patel ordered her security detail to escort one of her drunk friends home after a boozy night out in Nashville. Wilkins has vehemently denied that report and is seeking at least $75,000 in damages.
Patel himself is also suing The Atlantic for $250 million over a bombshell April article alleging he drank excessively and missed work briefings as a result.
“You have been so drunk that briefings have been rescheduled so you could sleep it off,” Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) noted at one point — drawing a glare from Patel, who insisted that he is “the most present, hardest-working FBI director” ever.
“My predecessors took an average of 33 days off a year — I’ve taken half that. I’ve taken four days off this year,” Patel claimed. “My predecessors utilized Reagan National [Airport] as their own lily pad for takeoff and landing, costing the American taxpayer $3.5 million. I changed that to codify [the use of] Andrews Air Force Base and government airfields, so the American taxpayer isn’t on the hook.”
