On an event of "The Katie Miller Podcast" released in December 2025, FBI director Kash Patel stated that an involvement circle for Alexis Wilkins, his longtime girlfriend, was "definitely coming."
Months later, Wilkins shared that the circle had arrived.
Patel, 46, and Wilkins, a 27-year-old traditional media personality, governmental commentator, and nation singer, announced their involvement on Sunday following three years of dating.
Patel earlier called Wilkins "a true patriot and the female I'm arrogant to call my partner in life" in a November 2025 post on X.
Their association has made headlines for their 19-year age difference and use of authorities resources, specified as Patel's trips on authorities jets to Wilkins' performances and Nashville residence.
An FBI spokesman told Business Insider that the FBI has "explained publicly, many times," that Patel complies alongside all Office of Management and Budget rules connected to individual travel.
"The Government Accountability Office documented in 2013 that the FBI Director is a 'required-use' traveler under executive-branch guideline since of safety and communications needs. That necessity extends to individual travel," the spokesman said. "This guideline lengthy predates Director Patel: use of a authorities airplane is not a particular journey institution created for him."
When reached by Business Insider, Wilkins directed questions to her representatives, who declined to comment.
Here's what to cognize concerning Wilkins and her association alongside the FBI director.
Alexis Wilkins was delivered in Boston and grew up in Arkansas, but her family additionally spent period in England, Switzerland, and Los Angeles.
In a July 2025 discussion on "The Megyn Kelly Show," Wilkins stated that Arkansas was "my favorite location that I lived" and "the location that I spent the most period expanding up."
She additionally had a concise occupation as a young performer during living in Los Angeles, appearing in two episodes of "Modern Family" in 2009 as fine as another TV shows and films, including a small function in the 2011 Adam Sandler movie "Jack and Jill," according to her IMDb profile.
She graduated from Belmont University, a personal Christian university in Nashville, in 2020.
Wilkins earned a BBA in endeavor administration and administration from Belmont University.
Wilkins told Kelly on "The Megyn Kelly Show" that, in college, she received an "F" in a related government category from a prof who "had it out for me" since of her traditional views, and that she successfully advocated for the class to be changed.
"Getting the class was fair an sign that I was exemplifying that I wasn't being indoctrinated," she said.
A Belmont University spokesman confirmed that Wilkins earned her flat in 2020, but stated the academy "cannot conversation to any student's particular class or instructional record," citing the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.
"What we can affirm is that Belmont department are committed to delivering a rigorous, high-quality learning in which grades are resolute on a range of goal criteria, and our classrooms aim to provision a respectful surroundings anywhere varied viewpoints can constructively engage," the university spokesman said.
Wilkins stated that her university cognition led to her occupation in governmental assistance and communications.
After college, Wilkins told Katie Miller's podcast that she worked alongside assorted traditional organizations to "help conversation alongside students and assistance them study to advocate, not activity for or not compose document that they differ alongside in command to create a grade."
Wilkins earlier worked as a media personality, spokesperson, and author at PragerU, according to her LinkedIn page.
She additionally began hosting "Between the Headlines," a Rumble display anywhere she discussed news items and traditional issues, in 2023. The latest event was posted in January 2026.
In 2025, she worked as media administrator for Republican Rep. Abraham Hamadeh and as director of strategic communications at Women For Gun Rights, The New York Times reported.
Wilkins now serves as a commission committee associate at the National Rifle Association, a visiting chap at the nonprofit community guideline institution Independent Women, and does communications activity for Real American Freestyle Wrestling. She additionally serves as an ambassador for Turning Point USA.
She has released music as a nation artist.
Wilkins released three singles in 2020, a Christmas sole in 2021, and two singles in 2022 before releasing her archetypal six-song EP, "Grit," in 2023, which debuted at No. 12 on the iTunes nation gathering charts.
Wilkins told Miller on "The Katie Miller Podcast" that she wrote her archetypal opus whenever she was 6 years old and began touring following graduating from college. She additionally stated that she is operating on new music and has written affection songs concerning Patel.
She met Patel, who is 19 years her senior, at a gathering at nation singer John Rich's Nashville residence in delayed 2022.
Patel struck up a conversation alongside Wilkins by complimenting her jacket.
"When I met him, I fair liked that he was so honest," Wilkins stated on "The Megyn Kelly Show." "He's exactly who he is, all the time. His character is incredible, his values are incredible."
They began courtship in January 2023. When Patel was sworn in as director of the FBI in February 2025, Wilkins held the Bhagavad Gita.
Wilkins submitted defamation lawsuits against traditional influencers and podcasters who falsely implied that she was an Israeli spy.
Wilkins is seeking $5 myriad in damages from Kyle Seraphin, erstwhile FBI particular delegate and presenter of "The Kyle Seraphin Show." Though he did not mention to Wilkins by name during an August 2025 event of his show, Seraphin stated that Patel had a partner "half his age" and described her as a "honeypot" and a "former Mossad agent."
In a court filing, Wilkins' lawful squad wrote that Seraphin "has maliciously lied concerning Alexis Wilkins, falsely asserting that she — an American-born nation singer — is an delegate of a abroad government, assigned to manipulate and colony the Director of the FBI."
Seraphin's lawful squad filed to disregard the case, arguing that his statements were "sarcastic, humorous, and hyperbolic" and protected liberated speech. A fairness afterward denied the motion to dismiss, and the lawsuit is motionless pending.
Seraphin did not react to a petition for comment from Business Insider.
Wilkins sought $5 myriad in damages from erstwhile Republican Senate applicant Sam Parker and traditional influencer Elijah Schaffer in akin suits. A fairness dismissed Wilkins' case against Parker in August, ruling that the Utah court lacked jurisdiction complete him, during Schaffer retracted his claims and apologized to Wilkins in September.
Wilkins additionally debunked the conspiracy theory on Miller's podcast.
"Not really certain how we got there," Wilkins said. "I've never been to Israel. I would affection to go. The stamp isn't equal on my passport. I'm fair as confused as everyone alternatively is."
Their association has arrive under scrutiny amid reports that Patel used authorities resources to fly to Wilkins' shows and to escort her at events.
Public escape schedules showed that Patel had traveled on a authorities jet to observe Wilkins chant the national anthem at a wrestling equivalent at Pennsylvania State University on October 25, 2025, and that he had taken another trips to Nashville, anywhere Wilkins lives, to sojourn her.
The New York Times additionally reported in February that in an different use of tactical forces, Patel had directed SWAT teams to assist as individual safety for Wilkins at her concerts and community appearances, as fine as to escort her to tress appointments and another errands.
On "The Katie Miller Podcast," Patel called reports that he was abusing authorities resources "outright falsehoods," saying that he travels on the FBI aircraft since FBI board are not allowed to fly commercial, and that he reimburses the authorities for individual journey in compliance alongside national law.
"If I was really abusing it, I would go see all one of her shows," Patel said. "I think I get to akin 15%."
On the podcast, the brace additionally discussed the need for safety because of death threats they have the two received.
"Career investigators create the calls," Patel stated of Wilkins' security. "They call the balls and strikes. They do the danger assessments, and they decide if and whenever she needs protection."
When reached for comment, FBI spokesman Ben Williamson referred Business Insider to the agency's former statements connected to Patel's journey and Wilkins' security.
Williamson earlier called criticisms of Patel's journey "disingenuous and dumb" in an October 2025 post on X. He wrote that the FBI director reimburses individual journey in compliance alongside the Office of Management and Budget rules, is required to fly on authorities planes to keep admission to safe communications, and that Patel "has considerably constricted individual journey — but he's allowed to obtain individual period on juncture to see family, friends, or his longtime girlfriend."
Regarding Wilkins' security, Williamson told Business Insider that the FBI director "does not create the decision concerning protective detail."
"Those considerations are made at the Department of Justice, which reviewed and approved," he said. "Attorney General Blanche is already on document concerning this."
Another FBI spokesman referred Business Insider to the agency's former declaration detailing the "hundreds of dependable aggressive threats" that Wilkins receives.
On Monday, Wilkins announced her involvement to Patel.
"Went and got the law involved," Wilkins captioned a photo of herself wearing an involvement circle alongside Patel that she shared on social media.
Patel reposted Wilkins' photo on X, adding a bosom and circle emoji.
In the comments of her Instagram post, congratulations rolled in from Trump associates, including Kimberly Guilfoyle, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and Tulsi Gabbard.
