FBI Director Kash Patel’s girlfriend filed a $5 million defamation lawsuit against a special agent-turned-podcaster.
Kyle M. Seraphin is one of the many online voices suggesting a conspiracy theory that Patel’s girlfriend of three years, country music artist Alexis Wilkins, 26, is a ‘honey pot’ Israeli spy.
They think that it was Wilkins who somehow prevented Patel from releasing all of the files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
On the August 22 episode of his podcast, The Kyle Seraphin Show, the host mentioned that Patel ‘has had his own little ‘honeypot’ issue that’s been going on of late.’
‘He’s got a girlfriend that is half his age… and she’s also a former Mossad agent in what is like the equivalent of their NSA,’ he alleged before claiming that Patel is much less attractive than her.
‘Like it has nothing to do with the fact that uh we’re really close to the Trump administration,’ he sarcastically quipped. ‘Anyway, I’m sure that’s totally just like love. That’s what real love looks like.’
On Wednesday, Wilkins filed a lawsuit against Seraphin, claiming he ‘maliciously lied’ that she’s ‘an agent of a foreign government, assigned to manipulate and compromise the Director of the FBI.’
It claims that Seraphin ‘makes a living’ by ‘profiting on controversy and outrage.’
‘[Seraphin] is using this fabricated story as self-enriching clickbait and has spread it to his sizable audience that follows his daily broadcasts on X, Rumble, and YouTube,’ Wilkins’ lawyers wrote in the filing.
Alexis Wilkins (left) is suing former FBI agent and podcaster for claiming she is a ‘honey pot’ Israeli agent dating FBI Director Kash Patel (right)
Wilkins filed a $5 million defamation lawsuit against Kyle M. Seraphin (pictured)
Much of the discourse revolves around the 19-year age gap between the 26-year-old and Patel, 45, and Wilkins’ work with PragerU, whose CEO previously worked in Israeli military intelligence.
The claims about Wilkins really ramped up when Patel’s FBI released a memo in July claiming upon reviewing the Jeffrey Epstein case it found no client list and concluded that the child sex offender did commit suicide in prison.
While many have made the claims about Wilkins being a ‘honey pot,’ her lawyers say Seraphin’s claims hold more weight because he is a former FBI special agent in the counterterrorism division.
Wilkins defended herself against these honey pot attacks during an interview with the Daily Mail earlier this month.
She said it would have been a ‘huge long-game’ since she was dating Patel for more than two years before he became FBI director.
‘I think that it started with people wanting to find – and really scraping the bottom of the barrel to find – a justification for the fact that they don’t have this [Epstein] list in their hand and they will go find it with pitchforks,’ Wilkins speculated.
‘There are a lot of people in this administration with age differences. There are a lot of people out there with age differences,’ she added.
Before becoming FBI Director, Patel was a vocal critic of the handling of the Epstein case and promised he would release the unadulterated files once at the helm of the FBI.
In 2023, Patel spoke with right-wing media personality Glenn Beck and questioned why House Republicans had not obtained the so-called ‘client list.’ He pushed at the time for anyone involved in the sex trafficking crimes to be identified.
During his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on January 30, 2025, Patel committed to providing transparency in Epstein’s international sex trafficking network.
Conspiracy theorists claim that Wilkins somehow influenced his perspective and she’s to blame for the supposed change-in-heart from the FBI director.
But Patel insists he’s still committed to transparency.
As news broke of the multi-million-dollar lawsuit on Friday, Seraphin did not immediately respond to the Daily Mail’s request for comment.
Wilkins is a country music artist and conservative activists for gun rights and veterans
Seraphin posted multiple times to X on Friday with others pointing out their reasoning for why they think Wilkins is a Mossad agent with the same caption: ‘Oh’
He did, however, go onto X to double-down in a series of posts.
Seraphin reposted accounts that made similar claims about Wilkins being a ‘honey pot’ spy for the Israeli intelligence arm Mossad with the same repeating caption: ‘Oh.’
One account claimed that ‘Wilkins says she fully supports releasing the Epstein files—just as long as people stop calling her a spy.’
Another X user made a xenephobic argument by pointing to Wilkins’ faith and the ethnicities of her boyfriend and former employer.
‘Alexis Wilkins was a devout 24-yr old Christian when she met Kash Patel, a 42-yr old Hindu Muslim & started dating him. Now he’s the FBI director,’ the user wrote.
‘She’s also the press secretarty (sic) for Abraham Hamadeh, a Syrian Muslim member of the US House of Representatives from Arizona, and a ‘former’ member of US Military Intelligence,’ they added.
Patel, who is Indian-American, grew up in a Hindu household.
Wilkins, earlier this year worked for Rep. Hamadeh, who is the child of Syrian immigrants and grew up in a Muslim and Druze household. She no longer works for the Arizona congressman.
Wilkins defended herself against the ‘honey pot’ attacks in an interview with the Daily Mail, saying it would have been a ‘huge long-game’ since she was dating Patel for more than two years before he became FBI director
