In a legal twist involving former senator Kyrsten Sinema, she is now requesting access to the therapy records of her former bodyguard’s ex-wife. This development comes amidst a lawsuit accusing Sinema of disrupting the marriage through seduction.
Once a Democrat and now an independent, Sinema faces a lawsuit for ‘alienation of affection’ from Heather Ammel, the estranged wife of her former bodyguard, Matthew Ammel. The case, which began in North Carolina but has since been transferred to federal court, alleges that Sinema’s involvement with Matthew led to the Ammels’ divorce.
The Ammels were married for 14 years and have three children. Their separation occurred in the fall of 2024, with the divorce finalized by March of the following year.
While Sinema acknowledges her romantic involvement with Matthew Ammel, she disputes the lawsuit’s claims, arguing that the marriage was already in decline before her affair. She maintains that their first intimate encounter took place during a work trip to California in May 2024, after the Ammels had begun their separation process.
Sinema does not deny her sexual relationship with Matthew Ammel, though she is fighting back against the lawsuit by claiming the couple’s relationship was already coming apart.
The former senator also argues that the tryst never happened in North Carolina while the Ammels were still together. ‘We were physically intimate for the first time,’ in May 2024, while on a work trip to California, Sinema has declared.
Now, Sinema’s legal team subpoenaed Heather Ammel’s therapist for all documents related to her from 2024.
The requested files included notes from the sessions, the dates when Heather Ammel went to therapy, invoices and all communications between the ex-wife and her therapist, the Phoenix New Times reported.
Former senator Kyrsten Sinema watches Matthew Ammel, her former bodyguard, with whom she had an affair, testify before the Arizona legislature in February 2024. They first became intimate in May of that year
The Democratic-turned-independent politician was sued for ‘alienation of affection’ by the ex-wife of the lawmaker’s ex-bodyguard
Heather Ammel’s legal team fought the request, arguing that it is outside the scope of the suit and is ‘completely unrelated to the issue of Defendant’s contacts with North Carolina.’
However, they were ‘intimate’ in Arizona, California, New York, and Washington, DC, the ex-senator shockingly reveals.
Sinema’s attorney argued in response that the former senator has a right to see the evidence.
The Ammels had an appointment with the ex-wife’s therapist, Chad Brown, in October 2024, in which the couple discussed the ‘process of separating.’
However, Sinema recently withdrew her subpoena and Heather Ammel withdrew her effort to stymie the request.
According to court documents, the ex-wife has since said she would ‘respond fully’ to the therapy document request and request them herself from Brown before turning them over to the former Senator’s team.
A unique North Carolina law allows for a plaintiff to sue for alienation of affection via ‘wrongful and malicious conduct’, for example, an affair.
According to allegations from the ex-wife in the initial lawsuit, the bisexual Senator asked Ammel to bring the party drug MDMA, also known as ecstasy, with him on work trips in 2023, so that ‘she could guide him through a psychedelic experience.’
Matthew Ammel in a family photo
Sinema alongside her former bodyguard Matthew Ammel at an event in October
The duo also allegedly messaged about having sex missionary style with the lights on, something Sinema stated was ‘Boring!’
Sinema asked Matthew Ammel to remove his wedding ring ‘so it wouldn’t look like she was putting her hands on a married man when they were out at concerts,’ the lawsuit claims.
