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Kyrsten Sinema pleads for dismissal in ‘homewrecker’ lawsuit

Kyrsten Sinema is pleading with a judge to dismiss the ‘homewrecker’ case against her, according to new documents featuring deleted Signal messages, a local winery, and way too many details about their “physically intimate” relationship.

The lawsuit was filed in Moore County Superior Court by a North Carolina woman (the ex-wife of Sinema’s bodyguard) who accused her of destroying their “good and loving marriage.” The former U.S. senator’s attorneys removed the proceedings to U.S. District Court in early 2026 and requested more time to respond on January 16, and the judge granted her ~30 days. Then she requested another extension on February 16, so the judge had to grant her another ~30 days.

Today, Sinema’s attorneys finally filed their paperwork. It contains a motion to dismiss (3 pages), a declaration from Sinema (14 pages), a declaration from her bodyguard (28 pages), excerpts from the deposition of the ex-wife (9 pages), and a memorandum from Sinema (23 pages).

The former U.S. senator admits that she met her bodyguard’s wife in December 2023 “following a U2 concert I acquired tickets for them to attend” and that “my relationship with [her security guard] became romantic” in May 2024. She then details (in truly bizarre fashion) all of the times that “we were physically intimate,” including specific dates and locations.

However, her legal argument hinges on the claim that the “arguably romantic Signal messages” cited by the ex-wife were sent to him when he “was not in North Carolina” and that the lawsuit should be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction.

Sinema notified the court that she is “not attaching” her “cellphone and email communications” with the bodyguard because “they are voluminous and are private records that would require some form of protection both from the public court file and from further dissemination.”

Interesting, she also noted: “As a Senator, I was trained to communicate using the Signal Messenger LLC (‘Signal’) messaging app for communications related to my public service or governmental activities … I routinely used the Signal messaging app during the time period I was a Senator …”

A few months ago, FOIAzona obtained internal emails revealing that Sinema was secretly working as a lobbyist. We covered another high-profile sex scandal here.

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