Representative Gaetz’s date, for which she was paid between $500 and $1,000 per event.[1] She also stated that she did not feel pressured to have sex with Representative Gaetz, and only did so on some occasions.[2] She told the Committee that, in December 2019, Representative Gaetz had his congressional assistant arrange travel for her to Washington, D.C. for one night.[3] According to the woman, she attended a dinner with Representative Gaetz and a few other individuals.[4] She stayed overnight at a hotel with Representative Gaetz and had sex with him. Representative Gaetz sent the woman $1,000 around that time. The woman told the Committee she was paid to be his date and that sex was not necessarily an expectation.[5]
The other older woman, who was 27 years old when she met Representative Gaetz, was the only woman interviewed by the Committee who did not view their relationship as transactional in nature.[6] The first time she met Representative Gaetz, however, she had sex with him and was paid $1,000 by Mr. Greenberg, which she understood to have been at Representative Gaetz’s direction. She told the Committee that she viewed her relationship with Representative Gaetz as “more or less” dating, although “it was never anything serious.”[7] She said she was not familiar with his then-girlfriend, and said she was not aware that he was also having a sexual relationship with her friend, the 25-year-old woman. She frequently commented on his social media, and he still follows her on social media.
Most of the sex-for-money encounters that the Committee reviewed occurred in Florida, particularly around Orlando. Several of the women involved were students based in that area. On several occasions, however, Representative Gaetz did travel with women that he paid for sex.
On September 13, 2018, Representative Gaetz, two other men, and six women traveled to the Bahamas. Representative Gaetz arrived by commercial plane later than the others, who arrived on private planes. The group stayed at a vacation rental booked and paid for by one of the male travelers.[8] The attendees stated that this was a social trip—they sunbathed, chartered a boat, and went to dinners and to a casino as a group. Representative Gaetz engaged in sexual activity with at least four of the women on the trip.[9] Several of the women recalled that Representative Gaetz
- ↑ 18(a) Interview of Woman 6 (stating that the money was “pretty much to stand there, take pictures, and smile.”).
- ↑ Id.
- ↑ Personal CashApp Account #1.
- ↑ Representative Gaetz referenced this dinner in a March 30, 2021 media interview: “[Y]ou and I went to dinner about two years ago, your wife was there, and I brought a friend of mine, you’ll remember her . . . .” Teo Armus, Tucker Carlson Denies Gaetz Claim That He Met Witness in FBI Probes: ‘One of the Weirdest Interviews I’ve Ever Conducted, The Washington Post (Mar. 31, 2021) (hereinafter Carlson Interview), https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/31/tucker-carlson-matt-gaetz-17.
- ↑ 18(a) Interview of Woman 6.
- ↑ As one example, the Committee asked this woman about a $550 payment she received from Representative Gaetz in 2018, which occurred around the same time she attended an event with Representative Gaetz and had sex with him. The woman told the Committee that the $550 payment was reimbursement for a dress she purchased to wear to the event. 18(a) Interview of Woman 3.
- ↑ Id.
- ↑ Exhibit 7.
- ↑ 18(a) Interview of Woman 1 (stating that she was a “witness” to Representative Gaetz engaging in sexual activity with other women on the trip); 18(a) Interview of Woman 4 (“I had sex with [Representative Gaetz] at the Airbnb that we were staying in in the Bahamas.” However, in the civil litigation, Woman 4 stated that she did not
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