Form Sen. Christmas cinema shared intimate details about her alleged affair with her married former bodyguard, Matthew Ammel.
“We stayed in an Airbnb in Napa, California,” Sinema, 50, revealed during a July 31 deposition People. “We were outside. Matt kissed me. We went in and had sex.”
Sinema was deposed in July as part of a lawsuit brought by Matthew’s ex-wife. Heather Ammelunder North Carolina’s Alienation of Affection Law, which states that someone can be sued for intentionally destroying a marriage. Heather is seeking $75,000 in damages.
The former Arizona senator has sought to dismiss the lawsuit on the grounds that the alleged affair did not actually take place in North Carolina, where the Ammels lived.
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During deposition in July, Sinema admitted under oath that she was first intimate with Matthew around Memorial Day in 2024 in Napa, California.
She said they met a month later in New York City when she was in town for a wedding. Even though they had separate hotel rooms, Sinema recalled being “intimate” with Matthew in her room.
According to the former senator, they met several times between July and October 2024 at her apartment in Washington, D.C. and at her home in Phoenix, and they also took a trip to Aspen.
During the deposition, she was shown a text message she allegedly wrote to Matthew in October 2024 that said, “Put my hand on my heart. See you soon. I miss you.”
Opposing counsel asked Sinema if she could understand why “a woman reading this might be concerned about who is sending such a message to her husband.”
“Yes,” she replied.
Us Sinema had asked for comment.
Senator Kyrsten Sinema
Alex Wong/Getty ImagesSinema first admitted to having an affair with her married bodyguard in a filing in March Heather’s lawsuit thrown out. The politician admitted that she knew Matthew was married when they met.
Heather filed her lawsuit last year, arguing that Sinema intentionally interfered with “a good and loving marriage” where there is “real love and affection.” CBS News. Her lawsuit is based on her claim that Sinema made calls and sent text messages to Matthew while she knew he was in North Carolina with his wife and their children.
Sinema’s lawyers denied Heather’s accusation, insisting that she only communicated with Matthew while he was in North Carolina, “when the marriage was already over.”
“(Sinema’s) conduct related to her romantic relationship with Mr. Ammel does not meaningfully connect her to North Carolina,” Sinema’s attorney, Steven Epstein, wrote in March.
Sinema reportedly hired Matthew as her head of security after he retired from the US Army in 2022. Two years later, Heather is said to have found messages of a “romantic and lascivious nature” between Sinema and Matthew on the Signal app.
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An evidentiary hearing in the case will take place on Wednesday, August 19. (The lawsuit was originally filed in North Carolina state court but has since moved to federal court.)
From 2013 to 2019, Sinema represented Arizona’s 9th District in the House of Representatives before serving one term in the U.S. Senate from 2019 to 2025. Sinema caused controversy during her only term in the Senate when she left the Democratic Party to become an independent in December 2022.
Sinema announced in March 2024 that she would not run for re-election. (Democrat Ruben Gallego won Sinema’s vacant Senate seat by defeat Donald Trump Allies Kari Lake in the election in November 2024.)
“Because I choose civility, understanding, listening and working together to get things done, I will be leaving the Senate at the end of this year,” she said at the time.
Sinema now works as a senior consultant for the lobbying firm Hogan Lovells Cadwalader in Washington, DC.
