Defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth paid his sexual assault accuser $50,000 in a settlement agreement with the woman, identified only as Jane Doe, according to a source familiar with the matter.

Hegseth is accused of a 2017 sexual assault by Doe, who met him at a Republican conference in October of that year at a hotel in the California city of Monterey.

A settlement agreement was reached in 2020 after Hegseth sent the accuser a cease-and-desist........

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