Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz attended drugged sex party with 17-year-old girl: court documents

Last June, Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz The GOP-controlled Ethics Committee announced in a press release that it is still investigating the Florida lawmaker, who was under investigation by the Justice Department in 2021 over whether he had sex with a minor and transported her across state lines. The committee was specifically looking at allegations that he “engaged in sexual misconduct and illegal drug use, accepted inappropriate gifts, distributed special privileges and favors to individuals with whom he had a personal relationship, and sought to obstruct government investigations into his conduct.” And this week, the bad news continued on that front!

On Friday, NOTUS reported that court documents filed the day before cited sworn statements from three eyewitnesses who said the congressman attended a heavily drugged sex party in 2017 with “the 17-year-old girl at the center of the alleged sex trafficking scandal.”

The minor, who was a high school freshman at the time, arrived in her mother’s car for a party on July 15, 2017, at the Florida home Chris Dorworth, a lobbyist and friend of Gaetz, according to a court filing prepared by defense attorneys who have interviewed witnesses in an ongoing civil lawsuit filed by Dorworth in 2023…. One eyewitness named in court records, a young woman named KM, provided a sworn statement saying the teen was naked, that the partygoers were there to “engage in sexual activity,” and that “alcohol, cocaine, ecstasy … and marijuana” were present. The teen was identified in the records only as AB

Dorworth told NOTUS in a text message that he had “never met” the 17-year-old girl, “not once in my life.” He also claimed, “She…is lying about Matt Gaetz.”

House ethics investigation into Gaetz began under former president Nancy Pelosi; The investigation was later suspended due to the Justice Department’s probe. (The congressman has repeatedly denied all allegations of wrongdoing.) In February 2023, prosecutors announced the decision not to indict the Florida lawmaker, and the House reopened its investigation shortly after. Earlier this year, The New York Times reported that Gaetz’s former ally Joel Greenberg, who pleaded guilty in 2021 to charges including sex trafficking, was cooperating with the ethics committee’s investigation. Vanity Fair reached out to Gaetz’s office for comment. The congressman did not appear to have commented on the most recent revelations.

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