India, Nov. 11 -- Alexis Wilkins, a country music singer and girlfriend of FBI director Kash Patel, has filed a $5 million defamation lawsuit against conservative podcaster Elijah Schaffer, alleging that his "wordless" post on X falsely implied she was an Israeli spy.

According to news site The Noticer, the lawsuit, filed on October 28 in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida, accuses Schaffer of exploiting Wilkins' relationship with Patel to drive online engagement. Wilkins is seeking "compensatory, special, and punitive damages in the sum of $5,000,000 or such greater amount as determined by the jury."

The dispute stems from a September 14 post on X, in which Schaffer retweeted a thread by X user Hen Mazzig descri...