Kash Patel’s Girlfriend Speaks Out About Their 19-Year Age Gap

Alexis Wilkins' relationship with the FBI director has been at the epicenter of wild conspiracy theories involving Israel and Jeffrey Epstein.

Country musician Alexis Wilkins is defending her relationship with FBI Director Kash Patel, who is 19 years her senior.

Wilkins, 26, and Patel, 45, have been dating for more than two years, after being introduced by a mutual friend in Nashville, Tennessee. While the couple’s age gap has drawn a fair amount of commentary, Wilkins tells the Daily Mail that she doesn’t think of it as a big deal.

“There are a lot of people in this administration with age differences. There are a lot of people out there with age differences,” she said, before noting: “There’s really no need to justify things like that.”

Though Wilkins didn’t identify any of those couples by name, it’s worth noting that President Donald Trump, 79, and first lady Melania Trump, 55, have 24 years between them. Similarly, there’s a 32-year age gap between White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, 27, and her husband, Nicholas Riccio, 59.

“I feel like [within] a couple minutes talking to me, you probably couldn’t picture me dating a 26-year-old,” Wilkins said. “So it’s always made a lot of sense to us and our friends and everyone around us.”