WASHINGTON — FBI Director Kash Patel’s girlfriend is receiving protection from some of the bureau’s most elite agents because of an uptick in death threats against her, a rep said Monday.
Alexis Wilkins, the 27-year-old country artist who is dating the 45-year-old FBI chief, is being watched by federal agents who are typically on a SWAT team, the representative said.
“Ms. Wilkins is receiving a protective detail because she has faced hundreds of credible death threats related to her relationship with Director Patel, whom she has been dating for three years,” the rep said.
“Out of respect for her safety, we will not be providing additional details.”
Wilkins’ FBI security detail were first reported by MS Now, the rebranded cable news network formerly known as MSNBC.
Agents assigned to Wilkins include ones who typically work on a SWAT team in the FBI’s Nashville field office, according to the outlet.
Wilkins and Patel first met in Nashville, where the country star works.
While it’s unclear if girlfriends of former FBI directors ever received similar protection, former FBI Director Christopher Wray’s wife had a security detail.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), who is rumored to be eyeing a run for governor in California, grumbled over the revelations, complaining that the FBI hasn’t given him adequate protection.
“I don’t want anything to happen to @FBIDirectorKash or his girlfriend,” Swalwell posted on X. “Protect her if she’s threatened.
“It’s just F’d up that he REFUSES to protect me and my kids from MULTIPLE specific death threats. Same for other Dem colleagues. Can only conclude he wants us dead.”
Patel and Wilkins first met at a friend’s event in Nashville in 2022 and began dating several months later, in early 2023.
She has grappled with wild conspiracy theories that she’s essentially honeypotting the FBI boss on behalf of a foreign government.
In response, Wilkins has begun firing off lawsuits against various podcasters and prominent figures who have peddled those claims.
“They want to connect things, they want to justify 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 understand,” she told the “Megyn Kelly Show” over the summer.
“I think that they’ve taken just these pieces of evidence that you laid out and tied them together in all of the wrong ways.”
