The girlfriend of FBI Director Kash Patel, country singer Alexis Wilkins, has filed a defamation lawsuit against MS Now for a report the outlet published alleging Patel had ordered Wilkins’s security detail to give her friends a ride home.The outlet, formerly MSNBC, published a report in December 2025 based on three anonymous sources that Patel had, more than once, called the members of Wilkins’s security detail and requested they give rides home to her friends after nights of drinking in Nashville, Tennessee. The FBI vehemently denied the report’s allegations, calling them made-up.Wilkins is now suing MS Now and the story’s two reporters, Carol Leonnig and Ken Dilanian, filing the 16-page complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, alleging defamation and false-light invasion of privacy against the defendants. Wilkins’s lawyers wrote in the complaint that MS Now published the piece “using sham ‘anonymous’ sources to push knowingly or recklessly false allegations.”
“This was hogwash and they knew it,” Wilkins’s lawyers wrote in the complaint. “Journalists cannot avoid accountability by hiding behind fabricated ‘anonymous’ sources. This lawsuit seeks to bring accountability for Defendants’ egregious lies.”
