“In 2023, Hegseth paid the complainant as part of a civil
confidential settlement agreement and maintains his innocence,” Timothy
Parlatore, Hegseth’s attorney, said in a statement.
He also denied that the encounter between Hegseth and an unnamed woman, which she alleges happened in 2017, was sexual assault. ...
Parlatore denied the allegation, saying, “This is a situation where a consensual encounter occurred and, unfortunately, the woman had to come up with a lie to explain why the woman had not come back to her husband’s room that night.”
His Wikipedia entry indicates he cheated on his second! wife sometime in 2016 with Fox executive producer Jennifer Rauchet who had his baby in August 2017. By October 2017 he's cheating on her! with a married woman! also supposedly conservative! referenced in the confidential settlement by CNBC:
Hegseth and his first wife, Meredith Schwarz, divorced in 2009.
He married his second wife, Samantha Deering, in 2010; they have three children.
In August 2017, while still married to Deering, Hegseth had a daughter with Fox executive producer Jennifer Rauchet, with whom he was having an extramarital relationship.[25] He and Deering divorced in August 2017.
Hegseth and Rauchet, who has three young children from her first marriage, married in August 2019.[69]
Hegseth lives in Tennessee. He is a member of Pilgrim Hill Reformed Fellowship,[70] a church in the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches.[71][72]
In October 2017, a 30-year-old conservative group staffer accused Hegseth of sexually assaulting her in a hotel room after he spoke at a California Federation of Republican Women event in Monterey, California.[73] She went to an emergency room the next day for a rape kit test.[74] Hegseth described the allegations as a "he-said, she-said" dispute about a consensual encounter.[75] No charges were filed in the case.[73] Hegseth paid the accuser as part of a non-disclosure agreement in 2020.[76]
