Kash Patel girlfriend alleges MS Now defamed her

Alexis Wilkins, the girlfriend of FBI director Kash Patel filed a lawsuit this week against MS Now, arguing the outlet defamed her with a report it published last year alleging Patel directed a security detail to escort one of her friends home after a night of drinking.

The report, published in December by MS Now journalist Carol Leonnig and Ken Dilanian, claimed Patel told the security detail protecting Wilkins to “escort one of her allegedly inebriated friends home after a night of partying in Nashville.”

The MS Now story cited multiple anonymous sources.

A spokesperson for the FBI denied the reporting at the time saying “this is made up and did not happen.”

As part of her lawsuit, Wilkins, who is also a country music singer, wrote that journalists and the public are........

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