Alexis Wilkins Tells Vanity Fair She Lives Under Full-Time Protection Amid Death Threats And Online Conspiracies

Alexis Wilkins, the 27-year-old partner of former Pentagon official Kash Patel, told Vanity Fair she is living with constant threats and full-time security after her relationship drew intense online scrutiny and conspiracy theories.

Vanity Fair’s White House correspondent Aidan McLaughlin, formerly editor in chief at Mediaite, met Wilkins for lunch to discuss her daily life, the harassment she receives, and how she and Patel are coping with the public attention.

Wilkins opened the conversation by recounting a recent holiday that was overshadowed by a threatening incident: "We had a beautiful Christmas with family, which was wonderful and normal and good to make some normal, great family memories. Then someone got arrested for threatening to execute me." Those threats, she said, prompted authorities to assign her round-the-clock protection.

On living with security: "It’s definitely strange," Wilkins told McLaughlin. "Everyone’s doing their best to make it as normal as possible because, contrary to what seems to get reported, it’s not the most comfortable thing, especially when you’re not someone who…I’m not doing a job that warrants it. It was determined—outside of Kash and I, agents who are experts at this stuff—that that was necessary. And so here we are." Wilkins also performs as a country singer and described adjusting to constant protection while trying to maintain a semblance of normal life.

The profile includes personal details — for example, Wilkins attended the same Swiss boarding school as TV personality Tucker Carlson — and turns to the wave of online conspiracy theories that have targeted her since she and Patel became public. Many of those theories focus on their nearly 19-year age gap and have at times escalated into direct threats.

Conspiracy Claims And Legal Responses

One persistent allegation circulating online alleges Wilkins is a Mossad "honeypot" sent to entrap Patel. A six-minute video with more than 200,000 views on YouTube advances that claim. Other posts have offered bizarre pseudo-forensic analyses; one account on X asserted she showed "Bio Male European skull fit and male gaits." Another smear called her a "homewrecker," despite Patel never having been married.

"People assume that because you’re already public, absolutely everything about you is fair game. The input is unimaginable," Wilkins told McLaughlin, describing the barrage of falsehoods and harassment.

Wilkins has filed defamation lawsuits against some influencers spreading these claims and called the attacks "widespread character assassination." She denied the Israel-linked allegations outright: "I’ve never been to Israel. There’s not a stamp in my passport," and suggested the rumor may have stemmed from a past work connection at PragerU with an American-Israel activist.

Asked whether the misinformation surrounding her and Patel is tied to the broader political movement they are associated with, Wilkins pushed back on a direct causal link to former President Trump’s rise. "I don’t think it’s a straight line back to Trump or his ascent or his presidency," she said. "I think that we have arrived at a unique time in politics where people have so much information, they can look up anything." (Wilkins, the interview notes, has herself shared claims about the 2020 election and January 6th that critics describe as conspiratorial.)

The Vanity Fair interview portrays a woman trying to navigate sudden public exposure: legally fighting false claims, living with protective detail, and coping with the personal costs of online misinformation.