Matt Gaetz’s wife, Ginger Luckey, says the AG role will “look good” on him

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

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 sex-trafficking allegations by the then-lawmaker, which produced no criminal charges.

The presumptive AG nominee has the support of Trump allies and his wife, Ginger Luckey Gaetz, who published on Xpreviously Twitter, on November 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 became engaged nine months later.

In one 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 beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Despite their 12-year age difference, she immediately hit it off with the Republican congressman and accompanied him to a birthday party for Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is engaged to Donald Trump Jr.

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

Background of Ginger Luckey Gaetz

Raised in California, Luckey Gaetz studied accounting at UC Santa Barbara, according to her LinkedIn profile. She served as skipper of 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 head of KPMG’s corporate innovation, partnerships and commercialization practice.

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 for retention bonuses and other incentives.

Has Gaetz’s wife picked up on his scandals?

To date, Luckey Gaetz has not spoken out about her husband’s scandals. Sharing her husband’s nomination for Solicitor General on X, she said: “A great 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 Beastshe called the former congressman “weird and creepy” and a “literal pedophile.”

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

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

Gaetz has repeatedly denied all charges against him.

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