Matt Gaetz and wife Ginger Luckey.Photo: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty
Also joining at the wedding was former Rand Paul and Trump campaign staffer Sergio Gor, who acted as both DJ and officiant.
The Republican representative’s wife, Ginger Luckey, shared a photo of the two to Twitter over the weekend, along with the hashtag, #GaetzGetsLuckey.
Gaetz himself shared the news that he was married with photos on Twitter onSaturdayandSunday.
The nuptials come as Gaetz — a staunch ally of former PresidentDonald Trumpand self-described “firebrand” — is currently embroiled in an investigation over sex trafficking claims.
In March,news brokethat he is under federal investigation for possibly paying a 17-year-old girl while having sex with her— a claim he denies, insisting to multiple media outlets that the case is “rooted in an extortion effort” against him.
TheNew York Timescited two sources that said the investigation was opened in the final months of the Trump administration, under then-Attorney General Bill Barr.
Sources told theTimesthat the investigation into Gaetz stems from a separate investigation into Joel Greenberg, an ex-GOP official from Seminole County, Florida, who wasindicted on a range of charges, including sex trafficking of a child, in 2020.
He subsequentlypleaded guiltyand agreed to cooperate with authorities.
Greenberg and Gaetz have beenphotographed togetherin the past, but the congressman previously insisted to theTimes, “No part of the allegations against me are true.”
Rep. Matt Gaetz.Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg via Getty
Gaetz and Luckey got engaged in Decemberat the Trump-owned Mar-a-Lago Clubin Palm Beach, Florida. (Fox News' Jeanine Pirro was also there.)
Luckey is an analyst whose brother is the founder of the virtual-reality company Oculus,according to thePensacola News Journal.
Speaking toVanity Fair, Gaetz — who is up for reelection in November of next year — described the relationship as love at first sight, at least, for him.
“For her it took six dates.”
source: people.com
