The girlfriend of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel just brought a $5 million defamation lawsuit against podcaster Kyle Seraphin. 

This comes, according to the New York Post, after Seraphin accused Alexis Wilkins of being an Israeli spy.

This may prove to be a costly error by Seraphin, himself a former FBI agent.

Alexis Wilkins (Kash Patel’s girlfriend) has sued Kyle Seraphin for defamation.

She is asking for $5,000,000 pic.twitter.com/QbCOa3oWPI

— Jon Herold (@patel_patriot) August 28, 2025

Background

First, for those unfamiliar with Alexis Wilkins, she is a country music singer who has been in a relationship with Patel, the Trump administration's leader of the FBI, since January 2023.

The Post reports: 

Seraphin, once a counterterrorism agent in the FBI’s Washington field office, now makes a living as a self-styled whistleblower with more than 217,000 followers on X. On his Aug. 22 broadcast, he suggested Patel was being duped by a much younger girlfriend who was secretly an Israeli intelligence officer.

It is worth noting that Seraphin did not mention Wilkins by name.

It is also worth noting that it is not easy to succeed in a defamation case when a public figure is involved. This is because it must be shown that the person who allegedly perpetrated the defamation has to be shown to have acted with "actual malice," which usually means that the person knew that what he was saying was false, or that the person had a reckless disregard for the truth.

It remains unclear whether Wilkins will be able to meet this standard.

The lawsuit

Just the News reports on the legal complaint filed by Wilkins.

It quotes the complaint as stating:

He [Seraphin] is accusing Ms. Wilkins of being a spy for a foreign government, conducting espionage to undermine our national security and/or to manipulate federal law enforcement at the highest level and even committing treason. These accusations are all categorically false, and Defendant knows it.

The outlet goes on to report the complaint as alleging that Seraphin has "knowingly, or with reckless disregard for the truth, fabricated this accusation at the expense of Ms. Wilkins to obtain personal profit, generating outrage to drive up his viewership."

Wilkins is asking for $5 million in damages from Seraphin.

At the time of this writing, Seraphin has yet to release a public response to the lawsuit. The Post reports, "Seraphin, who left the FBI under disputed circumstances and has since cultivated a following as a crusader against government overreach, has not publicly responded to the lawsuit."