The investigation into GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz’s alleged sex trafficking has dragged on and produced a slew of lurid headlines about wild sex parties involving multiple women, a sex-fueled trip to the Bahamas and illegal drug use. Now a “sugar daddy” website has been thrown into the mix, Politico reports.
The website, SeekingArrangement, had been caught up in the Gaetz case because it had reportedly been used by the GOP lawmaker and another key player in the case to connect with an underage girl for sex, according to Politico.
As reported by Politico: SeekingArrangement, which helps “sugar babies” connect online with men, released a statement because of yet another odd twist in the case: The former mistress of golfer Tiger Woods sued the website claiming it wrongfully terminated her contract as the company’s spokesperson. The plaintiff, Rachel Uchitel, said she was fired because SeekingArrangement was in damage control due to the investigation into Gaetz.
Gaetz’ former friend and “wingman,” Joel Greenberg, a former Florida county tax collector who met a 17-year-old on SeekingArrangement admitted to prosecutors that Gaetz had sex with her in 2017.
Greenberg recently pleaded guilty to sex-trafficking the minor, among a host of other charges. In exchange for a lighter sentence, Greenberg is cooperating with federal prosecutors and has alleged that Gaetz also had sex with the minor in 2017. Gaetz has denied any and all wrongdoing and said he never even registered to use SeekingArrangement, a claim the company appeared to support in an unusual public statement.
“Seeking.com has no knowledge of Mr. Gaetz ever having an account on the website,” the company said in its statement.
As noted by Politico, “the mention of Gaetz in the lawsuit led to his name being splashed in tabloid headlines, starting with TMZ, followed by Page Six and Radar Online.”
In her lawsuit that SeekingArrangement disputes, Uchitel said that a company representative told her that “the Matt Gaetz scandal was a ‘serious crisis for the company’” and there was a “major crisis over the Matt Gaetz issue.”
A spokesperson for Gaetz, Harlan Hill, said the media is lying about her boss.
“The media’s lies about Rep. Gaetz have fallen like dominoes including the fake ‘SeekingArrangement’ claims,” Hill said in a written statement. “The new ploy for attention seekers seems to be name dropping a famous lawmaker for a few minutes of fame. From Greenberg to Uchitel – the new hotness is having Matt Gaetz in your legal drama to grift some news headlines. Sad!”
But Uchitel’s lawyer, Galen J. Criscione, said Gaetz was mentioned in the suit because the lawmaker’s scandal was used as a pretext to wrongfully terminate his client.
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