Alexis Wilkins Sues MS NOW Over Dec. 5 Report — Kash Patel Girlfriend Lawsuit
Alexis Wilkins filed a kash patel girlfriend lawsuit against MS NOW and Versant over a Dec. 5, 2025 report that said FBI agents drove one of her friends home after a night out. The suit says the story falsely portrayed the 27-year-old country singer as intoxicated and alleges the reporting caused reputational harm and personal humiliation.
The filing targets a report by Carol Leonnig and Ken Dilanian that said Patel had ordered the security detail protecting Wilkins to escort one of her allegedly inebriated friends home after partying in Nashville. Wilkins and her lawyers say that account is false, and the suit says no FBI agents have ever escorted any of her friends home.
Wilkins and Patel
Wilkins has been Patel’s girlfriend for more than three years and was provided an FBI protective detail toward the end of 2025 because she had been receiving threats tied to that relationship. Her legal team says the journalists knew the story was false and had obtained specific denials from the FBI before publication.
The lawsuit also says Dilanian contacted FBI spokesman Ben Williamson for comment, then misrepresented and diminished the FBI’s response. That claim is central to the filing because it turns the dispute from a simple disagreement over reporting into a fight over what the network knew and when it knew it.
MS NOW Response
Rebecca Kutler, the president of MS NOW, said the network stands by its reporting. She added, “We stand firmly behind MS NOW’s reporting. As a general matter of practice, we don’t comment on ongoing legal matters,”
Wilkins’ lawyers say the article went further than a mistaken description of events. In the suit, they wrote, “They falsely portrayed Ms. Wilkins as being intoxicated even knowing that she does not drink.”
False Portrayal Claim
The filing says, “This is entirely false. Director Patel has never ordered any FBI agent or member of Ms. Wilkins’ security detail to escort any of Ms. Wilkins’ friends home—inebriated or otherwise—nor did Ms. Wilkins ask any of them to do so,” and adds, “Not only did these supposed demands/orders never take place, but the entire scenario is fabricated,”
For Wilkins, the practical issue is no longer just the Dec. 5 article itself. The complaint turns the reporting into a legal dispute over whether the network and its parent company published a false account of her conduct and Patel’s role in the security arrangement around her.
