Two women filed a lawsuit Thursday against former U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, saying they were sexually exploited by him and other men in violation of a federal anti-trafficking law.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Orlando, comes nearly two years after the House Ethics Committee said the Florida Republican had regularly paid for sex, including once with a 17-year-old girl, purchased and used illicit drugs, and violated state laws while a member of Congress.

Gaetz had left office when the report was released and denied wrongdoing. But the report helped to tank his nomination to become attorney general in U.S. President Donald Trump’s second administration.

Two women said they were in their early 20s in 2017 when they met Gaetz through Joel Greenberg, who was a tax official in Seminole County and is now in prison for a raft of crimes, including a sex crime.

Gaetz provided drugs and paid the women for sex, out-of-state travel, lodging and other expenses, according to the lawsuit.

“Much of the conduct alleged against me is false,” Gaetz said in response.

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Published: October 15, 2026 at 4:24p.m. EDT


Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Republican from Florida. speaks at AmericaFest in Phoenix on Dec. 22, 2024. (Rick Scuteri / AP Photo)
Two women filed a lawsuit Thursday against former U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, saying they were sexually exploited by him and other men in violation of a federal anti-trafficking law.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Orlando, comes nearly two years after the House Ethics Committee said the Florida Republican had regularly paid for sex, including once with a 17-year-old girl, purchased and used illicit drugs, and violated state laws while a member of Congress.

Gaetz had left office when the report was released and denied wrongdoing. But the report helped to tank his nomination to become attorney general in U.S. President Donald Trump’s second administration.

Two women said they were in their early 20s in 2017 when they met Gaetz through Joel Greenberg, who was a tax official in Seminole County and is now in prison for a raft of crimes, including a sex crime.

Gaetz provided drugs and paid the women for sex, out-of-state travel, lodging and other expenses, according to the lawsuit.

“Much of the conduct alleged against me is false,” Gaetz said in response.

“The lawsuit relies almost exclusively on a Congressional Committee report that didn’t allow me to confront my accusers. Now I will finally have that chance,” he said in a statement.

Gaetz also appeared to mock the women on the social platform X, sharing a 2018 social media photo of the backs of three women in bathing suits looking at the ocean in the Bahamas.

“I’m shocked nobody responded to their repeated cries for help, posted to instagram,” he said Thursday.

The lawsuit also names Greenberg, another man and businesses tied to Greenberg’s family.

Every part of this venture ran on an exploitative power imbalance,” the women’s attorney, Spencer Kuvin, said in the lawsuit. “On one side stood a sitting congressman, an elected tax collector, and a former state legislator, men with public office, private homes, and money to spend. On the other stood young financially vulnerable women in their early twenties.”

Gaetz hosts a political talk show on One America News Network. He was recently appointed to the board of Triumph Gulf Coast, which oversees how Florida spends money recovered for damage from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

>>1543728
>Two women said they were in their early 20s
i wonder if this is too old for trump to pardon him. i know he'll be your best friend if you fuck children, but how has he treated the run-of-the-mill republican sex pests?

>>1543732
I thought trump already interfered in the criminal investigation of Gaetz, like he did with a lot of republicans, I.E. Susan Collins.
Either way, this is a civil case, so it can't be pardoned.
Similar to the case how trump lost to the woman he raped and then constantly defamed.

>>1543726
That picture made me gag…

Ol' Nestor Molester can't catch a break

>>1543726
sounds like a democrat typical false flagging losers

>>1543746
>democrat

Don't you mean 'liggeral'?

>>1543726
The saddest part here is that Gaetz couldn't even get local florida prostitutes to fuck him, he had to import them

>>1543747
Thanks for the correction friend.

1543746
Sounds like typical projection by MAGA Republicans that know they'll be losers.
Sane non-migger Americans will thank those who don't vote Republican after the midterms for the severe electoral correction they'll have given the GOP. Punished for the crime of allowing Trump to politically exist.
The message sent to the Republicans the next two years after this November will be a simple one: Kill MAGA or politically die.
Hey, miggers replying to this post: Dial it back a little bit, shills. You're making it way too obvious. They taught you better than this.
Everyone will be crying with laughter with the schizo migger shill humiliating itself.

>>1543726
Ok but the party of family values is in name only. Checkmate gaytheists

>>1543726
Why can't bitches just leave men alone to fuck who they want? If the woman's fine with it it's no ones fucking business jfc.

The only bitches are Republican men elected on the premise that the GOP are 'The Party of Law and Order', and claim to be morally 'superior' to those who aren't Republicans, because Republicans claim to be 'Christian', therefore morally 'superior' to those who aren't Republicans. These so-called 'Republicans' claim to be 'married', thus by their own rules are forced to be monogamous: so much as thinking of, least of all looking at other women is a big moral no-no. It's one of their religion's Big 10.
>that which leads the Republicans, claiming to be 'Christian' has broken most of the ol' Big 10
>like the orange turkey about to be stuffed early next month, these other red birds fuck... I mean flock together
That's why these 'moral Republican men' never had the right to be left alone in the first place, and so much as thinking of committing thoughtcrime, especially sexcrime, means they only have the right to be socio-politically, certainly electorally, destroyed.
Hypocrites don't have the right to have opinions, least of all against those they point the accusatory finger at and say 'You are morally inferior to me'. Accusations are more than admissions.
All Republican men that claim to be 'moral' and 'holier-than-thou'? J'accuse.
All Republicans only have the right to STFU in perpetuity. Like I say, and as since 20th January 2025, least of all from 20th January 2017 to 20th January 2021 proved, hypocrites don't have the right to have opinions. Ever.

>>1543869
i'm an atheist and we all know democrats are lying pieces of hypocritical crap that self-project 24/7 and border on mentally ill asylum patients. the fact that hasan is still platformed and allowed donations despite being a terrorist propaganda spokesperson is reason enough to never vote "democrat"

>>1543726
How seriously should we take this?
>Is there an election this year?
Not very it appears.

The only thing MAGA has ever ran on were fear mongering tactics over transsexuals. Same playbook as Bush did with gay marriage in the 2000s. No actual ideas brought forth, other than whatever deranged neurons firing around in Trumps head at 2 in the morning becomes law.

1543929
>we
Hi, esl shill.
I'm an atheist and everyone knows Republicans are lying pieces of hypocritical crap that project 24/7 and the likes of 1543929 are mentally ill asylum patients. The fact 1543929 the schizo bot exists in /news/ despite being a terrorist propaganda spokes(non)person is more than reason enough to never vote for MAGA republicans.
>Republicans Against Trump in 2020
>Republicans Against Trump still active
This kills the miggers.

>>1543935
Why did the Democrats in 2016 and 2024 lose to a guy who's only policy was fear mongering transexuals/

>>1543935
To be fair, the majority of transsexuals are violent and insane.

The fear mongering, projecting and sexually obsessed 1543953 1543957 are violent and insane.

>>1543935
I seem to remember a lot of shouting about "Closing The Border" and "Draining The Swamp".
Maybe I just imagined that OR maybe you're a liar.
I'll let others decide.

>>1543929
He in no way is a terrorist spokesperson what on Earth are you talking about. I have not seen him speak defending Hamas.

Produce any article claiming that he supports a terrorist organization. I'll wait.

>>1544041
https://www.foxnews.com/media/popular-video-platform-twitch-aimed-teens-young-adults-rife-terrorist-propaganda-extremism
he's literally platformed a houthi terrorist and actively shares terrorist propaganda to his viewers including dressing up as mao zadong and supporting terrorism.
Inb4 buh buh its fox well guess what your fucking pissbaby leftist network refuse to cover it because he's ruining the socialist democrat movement so I'm stucking referencing his livestream, fox or other political streamers who hate him so fuck off preemptively if you use that excuse. The first of which I am not subjecting myself to so fuck you for even supporting him.

>>1544041
https://www.foxnews.com/media/hasan-piker-calls-hamas-far-more-moderate-dismisses-terror-group-brutal-rule-gaza
it takes 10mins to find links about his opinions all of which directly reference his actual livestream, the guy's openly defended hamas and if that wasn't bad enough if you look at a minute bit of his content he's actively misinforming his audience and trying to downplay everything they do.
> I'll wait.
no you won't you're a fucking misinformed loser whose going to cry and make excuses for him just like all the rest of his cult. The fact that you can't be bothered to do the bare amount of research and be this ill-informed shows that.
The fact we have a nepobaby whose preaching about socialism is bad enough him supporting terrorist propaganda, unning cover for them by pushing misinformation on top of that and fucking losers like you defending him is disgusting. You are a wretched human being if you donate to him and idc if you go into denial mode you're one of the reasons people will never vote democrat ever again

>I'm stucking
>stucking
1544054 committing terrorist acts against the English language hasn't even done the barest amount of learning at English classes, >>1544041
I'd say "I'll wait" for you to become highly educated 1544054 1544059, but you never will.
The fact /news/ has a manbaby preaching about rightism is bad enough, but running for cover after pushing misinformation on top of that and being a fucking loser - especially after the midterms - defending an orange terrorist is worse than disgusting. 1544059 is a wretched excuse for a human being if you so much as think of supporting anyone other than the Democrats. Everyone doesn't care about you, that which is in a certain river in Egypt about the soon to be proven fact that so many Americans - especially those who weren't Democrats previously - will never vote Republican again Elections after late 2025 made sure of that.
>unning cover
>unning
It takes mere seconds to prove that 1544059 is the esl shill that'll be running for cover when others point and laugh at the illiterate pissbaby that proves itself to be educationally inferior to all other human beings who are educated.

>>1544071
>democrats squealing and hissing about ESL when they have no comeback and get evidence thrown in their face that they're direct terrorist supporters

>politician does drugs and prostitutes
Next you gonna tell me police kill people.

>projecting esl shill 1544075 squealing and hissing because it has no comeback when evidence of it being esl and a terrorist against the English language, and reduced to deflecting against democrats in a thread about Republicans committing sex crimes and there's plenty of evidence of their perverted terrorism