Who is Matt Gaetz's wife, Ginger Luckey Gaetz?

Congressional scrutiny over President-elect Donald Trump's attorney general pick, former Florida U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz, continues as some Senate Republicans call the House Ethics Committee to share its investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct.

Gaetz, who has represented Florida's 1st Congressional District since 2017, has been the focus of several investigations into his conduct since taking office. The Justice Department, which he would lead if confirmed, conducted its own three-year investigation into allegations of sex trafficking by the then-lawmaker, which produced no criminal charges.

The presumptive AG nominee has the backing of Trump's allies and his wife, Ginger Luckey Gaetz, who posted on X, formerly Twitter, on Nov. 13 to congratulate her husband: “Attorney General will look good on you my love."

How did Matt and Ginger meet?

Gaetz and Luckey Gaetz first met at a fundraiser at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in 2020 when Luckey Gaetz was 26. The couple got engaged nine months later.

In an interview with the Daily Mail in December 2020, the then-fiancée said she was initially hesitant to attend the March gathering, as it coincided with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown. Despite their 12-year age gap, she immediately hit it off with the Republican congressman, accompanying him to a birthday party for Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is engaged to Donald Trump Jr.

They married in August 2021, eloping in a small ceremony on Catalina Island off the coast of Southern California.

Ginger Luckey Gaetz’s background

Raised in California, Luckey Gaetz studied accounting at UC Santa Barbara, according to her LinkedIn profile. She served as a skipper on the school’s varsity sailing team. After graduating in 2016, she went on to the University of California-Berkeley, to pursue business studies.

Luckey Gaetz also worked as a financial analyst for Apeel, a sustainable food technology company, and KPMG, a multinational accounting firm. She currently works as a manager of KPMG’s Enterprise Innovation, Partnerships, and Commercialization department.

She is the younger sister of Palmer Luckey, the billionaire founder of Oculus VR, which produces virtual reality headsets. Palmer sold the company to Facebook in 2014 for $2 billion, with an additional $1 billion going toward retention bonuses and other incentives.

Has Gaetz’s wife addressed his scandals?

To date, Luckey Gaetz has not spoken out about her husband’s scandals. In sharing her husband’s nomination for attorney general on X, she said: “A fantastic choice, Mr. President."

But her sister, Roxanne Luckey, has had plenty to say over the years about the allegations against her brother-in-law. In a series of Roxanne’s TikTok videos reviewed by The Daily Beast, she called the former congressman “weird and creepy” and a “literal pedophile.”

When discussing the investigations into Gaetz in another video, Roxanne said, “I saw the character and type of person he is, and when everything came out about him, I honestly, unfortunately, was not surprised.”

When asked for comment by The Daily Beast, Luckey Gaetz said that her sister was "unwell" and “estranged” from the family at the time, claiming: “She has been in therapy for years, and our family hopes that after receiving in-patient mental health treatment, she will overcome the tendency she has repeatedly shown to engage in destructive behavior.”

Gaetz has repeatedly denied all allegations against him.

Melissa Cruz is an elections reporting fellow who focuses on voter access issues for the USA TODAY Network. You can reach her at [email protected] or on X, formerly Twitter, at @MelissaWrites22.

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