With the November election looming just weeks away, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) was once again tied to a party that included underage high school girls and drugs in a late-night filing made available to the public on Thursday.According to a report from Jose Pagliery at NOTUS, the specter of a sex scandal has once again bloomed for the controversial Florida Republican at the same the time the GOP is reeling over another sex scandal involving North Carolina gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson.
As Pagliery wrote, Gaetz is accused of attending “a drug-fueled sex party in 2017 with the 17-year-old girl at the center of the alleged sex trafficking scandal” in a court filing in Florida posted just before midnight in Florida.
The NOTUS report states, “The minor, who was a junior in high school at the time, arrived in her mother’s car for a July 15, 2017 party at the Florida home of Chris Dorworth, a lobbyist and friend of Gaetz’s, according to a court filing written by defense attorneys who interviewed witnesses as part of an ongoing civil lawsuit Dorworth brought in 2023.”While Dorworth dropped his lawsuit, his lawyers listed the allegations in the filing as part of their efforts to recoup legal fees still due to them.
This could create more problems for the Florida Republican who is already at the center of a House Ethics Committee investigation looking into allegations of sexual misconduct.
As for the new filing, NOTUS is reporting, “One eye witness cited in the court filings, a young woman referred to as K.M., provided a sworn affidavit that claimed the teenage girl was naked, partygoers were there to ‘engage in sexual activities,’ and ‘alcohol, cocaine, ecstasy… and marijuana’ were present. The teenage girl was identified in the filings only as A.B,” adding, “The defense lawyers filed testimonies from those three women — who the attorneys say placed Gaetz at Dorworth’s house that night — under seal pending a judge’s approval to make the records public.””This marks the first time that sworn testimony has been referenced in public court filings alleging that the congressman attended one of the long-rumored parties tied to an alleged underage sex scandal,” Pagliery added.
