FBI Director Kash Patel’s girlfriend has responded after MAGA supporters criticized the agency’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Alexis Wilkins, 26, is countering claims by conspiracy theorists who allege she is a ‘honeypot’ agent for Israeli intelligence, supposedly influencing her FBI Director boyfriend’s decisions.
“The idea that I’m manipulating the person I’m with and love is a terrible accusation,” Wilkins mentioned during Megyn Kelly’s podcast on Wednesday.
“That would have required a really long-term plan,” she quipped, reflecting on her over two-year relationship with Patel, 45, well before he became FBI Director.
A conservative country music singer and host on PragerU’s digital platform, Wilkins’ public profile grew when she attended Patel’s confirmation and swearing-in this year.
The Daily Mail reported at the time on their not-yet-reported relationship that quickly went public.
Nonetheless, Wilkins was astonished to find herself targeted by sections of the MAGA movement, who were particularly upset about the FBI and DOJ revelations regarding the Epstein files.
Conspiracies swirled online that she was an agent with Mossad, Israel’s national intelligence agency.
Alexis Wilkins is facing online accusations that she is an Israeli intelligence agent that is ‘honeypotting’ FBI Director Kash Patel into concealing the Jeffrey Epstein files
Wilkins, 26, and Patel, 45, have been dating for more than two-and-a-half-years – long before he became FBI Director
Wilkins is a country music singer and a conservative activists, she hosts a show on the right-wing digital content nonprofit PragerU
‘I knew that Prager – this is something the deep sides of the internet like to pick at when they can’t find out what else is wrong. So, some of it didn’t surprise me when it first started coming up,’ Wilkins told Megyn Kelly.
PragerU CEO Marissa Streit was an intelligence officer in the Israeli Defense Forces, which has fueled anti-Semitic attacks on the conservative nonprofit.
The latest attacks came after the Justice Department and FBI released a memo earlier this month concluding their review of the Epstein files and revealing nearly no new information.
The document confirmed that Epstein killed himself in prison on August 10, 2019 and claimed there was no so-called ‘client list’ of the sex traffickers’ accomplices.
Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi said they would not be targeting anyone else for prosecution.
They did release an 11-hour video of the area outside Epstein’s cell the night he was killed.
But this only caused more uproar after a ‘missing minute’ of footage that was initially described as an autonomic tech reset every night turned out to be footage that the FBI and DOJ had in their possessions but never released.
It’s still unknown what’s in that ‘missing minute,’ why it wasn’t included in the original release and whether it will ever be made public.
While that drama has unfolded over the last month, Wilkins has been facing her own issues with critics harassing her online and doxxing her family over claims she’s a foreign intelligence agent.
One account on X even misidentified Wilkins, who is Christian, as a ‘Jewish’ country singer.
Wilkins told conservative host Megyn Kelly on her show how surprised she was to find herself at the center of conspiracies regarding the Epstein files review
Wilkins has been in the public eye as a country music artist and conservative activists, but was was cast even further into the limelight this year when it became public that she was dating Patel. Pictured: Wilkins attends Patel’s swearing-in as FBI Director at the White House on February 21, 2025
Wilkins acknowledges where some of the spy claims are coming from, noting that people want answers and are trying to ‘piece’ things together.
‘They want to connect things, they want to justify, you know, some of the pain that they’ve been through watching the last four years, and there’s pieces of this that, you know, I can, I understand,’ she told Kelly.
‘But I think that they’ve taken just these pieces of evidence that you laid out and tie them together in all of the wrong ways.’
Wilkins and Patel’s 19-year age gap doesn’t help with claims she is ‘honeypotting’ the FBI Director.
But the singer and conservative activist says the gap never felt relevant.
‘I have always liked, when I met him, I just liked that he was so, so honest,’ Wilkins disclosed. ‘He’s exactly who he is all the time.’
‘And, you know, we both are very patriotic,’ she added. ‘So obviously there are things there that we definitely agree on, but he’s just the most honest, you know, most integrity I’ve really experienced in a person.’
