{"id":17759,"date":"2026-10-05T15:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T07:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=17759"},"modified":"2026-10-05T15:55:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T07:55:22","slug":"kash-patel-girlfriend-announce-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=17759","title":{"rendered":"Kash Patel, girlfriend announce engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"702\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/3.png 702w, https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/3-300x165.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FBI Director Kash Patel is engaged to Alexis Wilkins, the couple revealed Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWent and got the law involved,\u201d Wilkins wrote on social platform X, adding ring and heart emojis, tagging Patel and sharing a photo of the two featuring her wearing an engagement ring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The FBI director responded to Wilkins using his personal account, posting the same emojis his fianc\u00e9 did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Patel, 46, began dating 27-year-old Wilkins in early 2023. The FBI director\u2019s fianc\u00e9 is a country music singer who has appeared in a handful of TV shows and movies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democratic lawmakers have criticized Patel during his tenure leading the FBI for flying on government-owned planes for private travel, including when he attended sporting events with Wilkins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wilkins in May filed a lawsuit alleging MS NOW reporters Carol Leonnig and Ken Dilanian defamed her with a report they wrote last year claiming that Patel directed a security detail to escort one of her friends home after a night of drinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the report, which MS NOW published in December, Leonnig and Dilanian wrote Patel told the security detail protecting Wilkins to \u201cescort one of her allegedly inebriated friends home after a night of partying\u201d in Nashville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDefendants falsely asserted that Ms. Wilkins demanded, and Director Patel ordered, that federal agents assigned to her security detail \u2014 which did not even exist at the time \u2014 escort an intoxicated friend home after a \u2018night of partying,\u2019\u201d lawyers for Wilkins wrote in a 16-page complaint they filed in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey falsely portrayed Ms. Wilkins as being intoxicated even knowing that she does not drink,\u201d the complaint added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wilkins sought more than $75,000 in damages from MS NOW. Attorneys for Versant, the media outlet\u2019s parent company, filed a motion last month to move the case to federal court in Washington, D.C., and argued Wilkins has failed to make her case for why Leonnig and Dilanian defamed her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A day later, U.S. District Judge Eli Richardson, an appointee of President Trump to the Middle District of Tennessee, scheduled a jury trial in the case for May 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI Director Kash Patel is engaged to Alexis Wilkins, the couple revealed Sunday. \u201cWent and got the law involved,\u201d Wilkins wrote on social platform X, adding ring and heart emojis, tagging Patel and sharing a photo of the two featuring her wearing an engagement ring. 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