As someone once wrote, you can choose your friends but you can’t choose your family, and for many people, that’s a fact of life they must grapple with daily. Sometimes you’re born to shitty parents. Other times, you’re saddled with a ne’er-do-well sibling. And in extremely specific cases, you wake up one day and find out Matt Gaetz proposed to your sister at Mar-a-Lago, and that the the Florida lawmaker, currently under investigation for allegedly paying women for sex and sleeping with a minor, is going to be your brother-in-law.
Fortunately for the vast majority of people, that’s a scenario that will never happen to them. Unfortunately for Roxanne Luckey—the sister of Gaetz’s fiancée, Ginger Luckey—it’s her reality. And she appears none too happy about it!
Per the The Daily Beast:
In her second video, posted Monday night, Luckey apologized for using the term “pedophilia,” and said the better word to use would be “ephebophilia,” i.e., attraction to mid-to-late adolescents. In another video, Luckey claimed that Gaetz pressured an older man to hit on her when she was 19, a move Luckey described as “weird and creepy,” saying Gaetz yelled at her and went “full lawyer” when she she confronted him about the incident at a family gathering. (According to Luckey, Gaetz “immediately got so defensive and started yelling at me and my mom. He called me a narcissist, was just a thousand percent gaslighting me…went full lawyer, [saying,] ‘I don’t have to listen to you, I don’t have to answer your questions.’”) She also claimed that while she was in D.C., she heard “through the grapevine” that Gaetz “had a reputation for prowling after college girls when he’s a grown man, and to me that’s just kind of weird.” (She added that “There’s two sides to every story and I acknowledge that. But this is what I experienced.”) “I saw the character and type of person he is, and when everything came out about him, I honestly, unfortunately, was not surprised,” Luckey said in one video. “As someone who has personally experienced a ton of creepy old politician men hitting on me when I was underage, and experiencing sexual assault at that age by people of power, it’s very disheartening and I have zero tolerance of people like [Gaetz],” adding that she is “tired of them getting away with this type of stuff.”
Roxanne Luckey did not respond to The Daily Beast’s request for comment. In a text message, Ginger Luckey said, “Matt and I are enjoying our engagement and are deeply in love. My estranged sister is mentally unwell. She has been in therapy for years and our family hopes that after receiving in-patient mental health treatment, she will overcome the tendency she has repeatedly shown to engage in destructive behavior.” A spokesperson for Gaetz, who had denied all wrongdoing, said the lawmaker supports his fiancée and her statement.
