Country music artist Alexis Wilkins has filed a $5 million federal defamation lawsuit against former FBI agent Kyle Seraphin, accusing the podcaster of fabricating claims that she is an Israeli spy sent to manipulate her boyfriend, FBI Director Kash Patel.

The 26-year-old Tennessee-based singer, who also works with conservative media organization PragerU, filed the suit Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas in Austin. The case has been assigned to Judge David A. Ezra, who was appointed to the court by President Reagan.

The lawsuit centers on comments made by Seraphin during his August 22 podcast episode. On “The Kyle Seraphin Show,” the former counterterrorism agent claimed Patel “has had his own little ‘honeypot’ issue that’s been going on of late.”

Without naming Wilkins directly, Seraphin alleged that Patel’s girlfriend was “half his age” and “also a former Mossad agent in what is like the equivalent of their NSA.” He sarcastically suggested the relationship wasn’t genuine love, implying it was connected to Patel’s position in the Trump administration.

Seraphin, who left the FBI under disputed circumstances and now operates as a self-styled whistleblower with over 217,000 followers on X, has built his current career around government criticism and conspiracy theories.

In her complaint, Wilkins’ attorneys argue that Seraphin “has maliciously lied about Alexis Wilkins, falsely asserting that she—an American-born country singer—is an agent of...

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