Santos ran his mpaign as an openly gay Republin. Sce he was elected, a number of key bgraphil tails have started to cmble. Here’s the latt one.
Contents:
- GEE SANTOS, OPENLY GAY REPUBLIN NGRSMAN-ELECT, WAS MARRIED TO A WOMAN UNTIL 2019
- JE SANTOS’ WIKI: IS CHRISTA AGUILERA’S EX-BOYIEND GAY? THE TTH ABOUT THE MAN “INFATUATN” IS REALLY ABOUT!
- DEMOCRATS ASK IF GEE SANTOS IS REALLY GAY AFTER REPORT HE MARRIED WOMAN
- IS GEE SANTOS GAY? CONFN OVER REPUBLIN REP’S MARRIED STAT
- ‘OPENLY GAY’ REP.-ELECT GEE SANTOS DIDN’T DISCLOSE DIVORCE WH WOMAN
- GEE SANTOS SAYS HE HASN'T ALWAYS BEEN GAY AND STUMBL OVER HIS ANNIVERSARY DATE A NEW TERVIEW WH PIERS MAN
- GAY MAGA REPUBLIN GEE SANTOS WS HOE RACE
- CHRISTA AGUILERA REVEALS WHICH 'STRIPPED' TRACK WAS ABOUT AN EX-GAY LOVER
- GOP REP-ELECT GEE SANTOS REPORTEDLY DIVORCED A WOMAN 2 WEEKS BEFORE NNG FOR OFFICE 2019 SPE SUGGTG HE'S BEEN 'OPENLY GAY' FOR A
- ‘OPENLY GAY’ REP.-ELECT GEE SANTOS DIDN’T DISCLOSE DIVORCE WH WOMANCATCH ME IF YOU CANSANTOS RAN HIS MPAIGN AS AN OPENLY GAY REPUBLIN. SCE HE WAS ELECTED, A NUMBER OF KEY BGRAPHIL TAILS HAVE STARTED TO CMBLE. HERE’S THE LATT ONE.ROGER SOLLENBERGERSENR POLIL REPORTERUPDATED DEC. 22, 2022 12:07PM EST EXCLIVEPHOTO ILLTRATN BY THOMAS LEVSON/THE DAILY BEAST/GETTYREPUBLIN NGRSMAN-ELECT GEE SANTOS IS UNR NEW SCTY AFTER A NEW YORK TIM REPORT EARLIER THIS WEEK UNVERED A STRG OF APPARENT OUTRIGHT FABRITNS AT THE HEART OF SOME OF THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL FACTS OF HIS LIFE, BUT THAT BACKSTORY MAY ALSO BE NOTABLE FOR WHAT SANTOS DID NOT CLU—A PUBLICLY UNDISCLOSED MARRIAGE.SANTOS, WHO CLAIMS HE HAS “NEVER EXPERIENCED DISCRIMATN THE REPUBLIN PARTY,” BROKE BARRIERS THIS YEAR WHEN HE BEME THE FIRST OPENLY GAY NON-CUMBENT GOP NDIDATE ELECTED TO CONGRS.BUT ACRDG TO URT RERDS OBTAED BY THE DAILY BEAST, SANTOS APPEARS TO BE THE SUBJECT OF A PREVLY UNACKNOWLEDGED SEPT. 2019 DIVORCE WH A WOMAN QUEENS COUNTY, NEW YORK. THE DIVORCE—WHICH SANTOS HAS NOT DISCSED PUBLICLY—ADDS NEW UNCERTATY TO HIS ALREADY SHAKY BGRAPHIL AND POLIL CLAIMS.“I AM OPENLY GAY, HAVE NEVER HAD AN ISSUE WH MY SEXUAL INTY THE PAST , AND I N TELL YOU AND ASSURE YOU, I WILL ALWAYS BE AN ADVOTE FOR LGBTQ FOLKS,” SANTOS TOLD USA TODAY OCTOBER, RPONDG TO CRICISM ABOUT HIS SUPPORT FOR FLORIDA’S SO-LLED “DON’T SAY GAY BILL” SIGNED TO LAW THIS YEAR BY GOP GOV. RON DESANTIS. LS THAN TWO WEEKS AFTER HIS DIVORCE WAS FALIZED, SANTOS FILED THE OFFICIAL PAPERWORK TO LNCH HIS 2020 MPAIGN. AND WHILE HIS 2022 MPAIGN B MENTNS HIS HBAND, WHO ACRDG TO SANTOS LIV WH HIM AND THEIR FOUR DOGS ON LONG ISLAND, HE’S KEPT THIS PREV MARRIAGE OUT OF THE PUBLIC EYE ENTIRELY.IT’S ENTIRELY POSSIBLE THAT SANTOS, WHO CLAIMS HE HAS “NEVER EXPERIENCED DISCRIMATN THE REPUBLIN PARTY,” HAS BEEN LIVG FORTABLY AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN FOR, AS HE SAYS, MORE THAN A . PEOPLE GET MARRIED FOR UNTLS REASONS. BUT SANTOS’ SUATN IS CUR BEE HE NEVER DISCLOSED HIS DIVORCE TO VOTERS, AND NEVER RENCILED HIS PRR MARRIAGE TO A WOMAN—WHICH END JT 12 DAYS BEFORE HE TABLISHED HIS FIRST NGRSNAL MPAIGN—WH HIS CLAIMS OF BEG AN OUT AND PROUD GAY REPUBLIN.SANTOS, 34, MA HIS FIRST BID FOR CONGRS 2020, LOSG TO REP. TOM SUOZZI (D-NY) BEFORE TOPPLG DEMOCRATIC OPPONENT ROBERT ZIMMERMAN THIS YEAR. BUT FOLLOWG A NEW YORK TIM VTIGATN THAT SUGGTED SANTOS HAD FICTNALIZED KEY ELEMENTS OF HIS RUME, HE’S ALREADY FACG LLS TO RIGN, AS WELL AS A POSSIBLE ETHICS VTIGATN.THE LLEG SANTOS SAYS HE ATTEND DON’T HAVE A RERD OF HIM; CIGROUP AND GOLDMAN SACHS DON’T EHER, THOUGH HE CLAIMED TO WORK THERE; THE IRS HAS NO RERD OF HIS NONPROF; HE STILL FAC “UNROLVED” LEGAL TROUBLE BRAZIL; HIS PAST BS VENTUR APPEAR FLIMSY; AND EVEN HIS ADDRS WAS LLED TO QUTN.IN RPONSE TO THE TIM REPORT, SANTOS’ ATTORNEY JOSEPH MURRAY RELEASED A STATEMENT THAT, WHILE STOPPG SHORT OF NYG THE ACCATNS, PATED HIS CLIENT AS A VICTIM, BEE HE “REPRENTS THE KD OF PROGRS THAT THE LEFT IS SO THREATENED BY—A GAY, LATO, IMMIGRANT AND REPUBLIN WHO WON A BIN DISTRICT OVERWHELMG FASHN BY SHOWG EVERYDAY VOTERS THAT THERE IS A BETTER OPTN THAN THE BROKEN PROMIS AND FAILED POLICI OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.” THE TIM STORY SET OFF A RAPID-FIRE ROUND OF CRICISM THAT EXTEND NOT JT TO THE NGRSMAN-ELECT, BUT TO DEMOCRATIC OPPOSN REARCHERS, REPUBLIN VETTERS, AND MEDIA WHO HAD NOT LLED ATTENTN TO THE NOW-GLARG HOL HIS STORY BEFORE THE ELECTN.WHILE THOSE TAILS WENT LARGELY UNNOTICED DURG THE MPAIGN, THE TIM VTIGATN PROMPTED REPORTERS AND TER SLTHS AROUND THE UNTRY TO DIG EPER TO SANTOS’ PAST—OR WHAT THEY ULD FD OF .IT’S UNCLEAR WHY SANTOS HAS NOT DISCLOSED HIS APPARENT MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE, BUT DON’T F WELL WH HIS CURRENT BGRAPHY.HE HAS PREVLY TOLD U.S. AND BRAZILIAN MEDIA THAT HE WAS ENGAGED TO A MAN, A FELLOW BRAZILIAN WHOM SANTOS HAS INTIFIED AS A PHARMACIST, AND HIS MPAIGN B CLAIMS HE LIV ON LONG ISLAND WH HIS HBAND. (THE DAILY BEAST ULD FD NO PUBLIC RERD OF THE MAN’S WORK THAT FIELD, NOR ULD WE FD A MARRIAGE RERD.)BUT NEW YORK URT RERDS SHOW THAT, 2019, SOMEONE NAMED GEE DEVOLR SANTOS, WH A SEND IAL OF “A,” FALIZED AN UNNTTED DIVORCE WH UADLA SANTOS VIEIRA SANTOS. PUBLIC RERDS SEARCH ONLY REVEAL ONE PERSON THE UNED STAT WH THAT NAME.UADLA SANTOS AND GEE SANTOS DID NOT REPLY TO LLS OR QUTNS SENT VIA TEXT MSAGE TO NUMBERS ASSOCIATED WH THEM. (A ED FOR A $750,000 HOE PURCHASE UNN COUNTY, NEW JERSEY, THIS JUNE LISTS UADLA SANTOS AS THE BUYER, AND SAYS SHE IS MARRIED; SHE IS THE ONLY PURCHASER LISTED ON THE PROPERTY DOCUMENTS.)GEE SANTOS, WHOSE MIDDLE NAME IS ANTHONY, SOMETIM DEVOLR, HIS LATE MOTHER’S MAIN NAME. HE RPORATED TO HIS MPAIGN—“DEVOLR SANTOS FOR CONGRS”—AS WELL AS HIS OWN SUPPOSED FANCIAL SERVIC PANY, THE DEVOLR ORGANIZATN. SANTOS HAS SHIFTED BETWEEN DIFFERENT BATNS OF THOSE FOUR NAM OVER THE YEARS, SOMETIM EMBRACG HIS FATHER’S SANTOS SURNAME, OTHER TIM GOG BY HIS MOTHER’S DEVOLR.SANTOS’ MOTHER DIED 2016, ACRDG TO AN ONLE CROWDFUNDG MPAIGN SANTOS LNCHED TO RAISE MONEY TO VER “THE STS OF THE WAKE.” THE GOFUNDME PAGE LISTS “ANTHONY D SANTOS” AS THE BENEFICIARY—AND ANTHONY DEVOLVER OF SUNNYSI, NEW YORK, AS THE ANIZER—AND THE FUNDRAISG MPAIGN REMAS OPEN.SANTOS’ MPAIGN B PAGE CLAIMS HIS MOTHER WAS “THE FIRST FEMALE EXECUTIVE AT A MAJOR FANCIAL STUTN,” THOUGH THE SPECIFIC STUTN IS UNNAMED. THE B ALSO SAYS “GEE’S MOTHER WAS HER OFFICE THE SOUTH TOWER” ON THE MORNG OF SEPT. 11, 2001.“SHE SURVIVED THE HORRIFIC EVENTS OF THAT DAY, BUT UNFORTUNATELY PASSED AWAY A FEW YEARS LATER”—ABOUT 15 YEARS LATER.AND ON WEDNDAY, JEWISH OUTLET THE FORWARD ADD STILL MORE TRIGUE, SUGGTG SANTOS MAY ALSO HAVE BEEN UNTTHFUL WHEN HE CLAIMED DURG THE MPAIGN—CLUDG ON HIS WEBSE—TO HAVE JEWISH ANCTRY. THE REPORT LED G HOE MORY LEAR HAKEEM JEFI TO CLARE HIS FUTURE LLEAGUE A “PLETE AND UTTER D.”BUT THE DIVORCE REVELATN, AND THE APPARENT SECRECY AROUND , PLIT A CENTRAL PIECE OF THE IMAGE SANTOS HAS BURNISHED AS A DYNAMIC AND CULTURALLY REVOLUTNARY FIGURE.IN AN ELECTN SEASON WHERE MANY OF HIS FELLOW NSERVATIV SPOUTED NONSENSIL ALLEGATNS OF PEDOPHILIA AMONG DEMOCRATS, TARGETED BENIGN DRAG BNCH AS EPICENTERS FOR “GROOMG,” AND FLAMED A HATEFUL ANTI-GAY AND ANTI-TRANS MOVEMENT—AS ATTACKS ON THE LGBTQ MUNY SKYROCKETED—SANTOS MA HISTORY AS THE FIRST NON-CUMBENT GAY REPUBLIN TO EVER BE ELECTED TO CONGRS.BUT AFTER ACHIEVG THAT VICTORY, AND JT TWO WEEKS BEFORE HIS BARRIER-BREAKG GURATN, SANTOS’ RELATNSHIP WH THE TTH IS FACG TTS HE SOMEHOW DODGED FOR TWO MPAIGNS.SUBSCRIBE TO THE PAY DIRT NEWSLETTER HERE TO FOLLOW THE MOVEMENT OF THE DIRTY DOLLARS FLUENCG OUR PUBLIC POLICY. ROGER SOLLENBERGER
GEE SANTOS, OPENLY GAY REPUBLIN NGRSMAN-ELECT, WAS MARRIED TO A WOMAN UNTIL 2019
The openly gay ngrsman-elect who is acced of lyg about his reer now appears to have ma up tails about his fay pg The Holot and his own sexual orientatn. * jorge santos gay *
The openly gay ngrsman-elect acced of lyg about his profsnal reer fance and his llege tn also failed to disclose his recent divorce om a woman and appears to have ma up tails about his fay pg the the 2022 electn cycle, Republin Gee Santos of New York scribed himself as beg gay and married to his pharmacist hband. It is unclear whether the child is was on the ballot agast Democratic bsman Robert Zimmerman, who is also gay, and beat him by eight pots November New York's 3rd ngrsnal district, which vers part of northern Long Island and northeast addn, The Forward earlier reported that Santos, who has prevly scribed himself as a non-observant Jew and Catholic, fabrited his fay history.
Santos was the first out gay Republin elected to the U. In October, Santos told USA Today an terview: 'I am openly gay, have never had an issue wh my sexual inty the past , and I n tell you and assure you, I will always be an advote for LGBTQ folks. 'Gee Santos reprents the kd of progrs that the Left is so threatened by - a gay, Lato, first-generatn Amerin and Republin who won a Bin district overwhelmg fashn by showg everyday voters that there is a better optn than the broken promis and failed polici of the Democratic Party, ' Murray said a statement tweeted out by Santos.
She didn’t mentn him by name, but many have already been puttg the piec together and are now askg, “Is Je Santos gay? She add that she found out that he was gay and he broke her heart.
JE SANTOS’ WIKI: IS CHRISTA AGUILERA’S EX-BOYIEND GAY? THE TTH ABOUT THE MAN “INFATUATN” IS REALLY ABOUT!
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Some Democrats are qutng whether or not Reprentative-elect Gee Santos, a New York Republin, is gay after a report emerged that he was married to a woman.
Democratic Reprentativ Rchie Torr of New York, who is openly gay, and Ted Li of California shared an article by the Daily Beast on Thursday that said Santos didn't publicly mentn a prev marriage to a woman. I may be the only actual openly gay member of Congrs New York the New Year, " Torr tweeted on ’ve got to be kiddg me.
I may be the only actual openly gay member of Congrs New York the New Year.
DEMOCRATS ASK IF GEE SANTOS IS REALLY GAY AFTER REPORT HE MARRIED WOMAN
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Santos appears to have been volved an undisclosed divorce om a woman September of 2019, acrdg to urt rerds obtaed by the Daily October, Santos vowed to advote for LGBTQ dividuals and told USA Today at the time: "I am openly gay, have never had an issue wh my sexual inty the past , and I n tell you and assure you, I will always be an advote for LGBTQ folks. Some Democrats are qutng whether or not Santos is gay after a report emerged statg that he was married to a woman.
IS GEE SANTOS GAY? CONFN OVER REPUBLIN REP’S MARRIED STAT
In a new terview, Piers Man asks Gee Santos if he's always been a gay man. "No, no," Santos said. "My life wasn't straightforward." * jorge santos gay *
"Listen, at this pot I'm hopg he lied about beg gay bee we don't want him, " Reprentative-elect Robert Garcia, who is also openly gay, tweeted on Wednday and shared the Daily Beast article on Thursday a tweeted ment. Meanwhile, Jewish Insir published an article that ced rerds showg discrepanci his claims about his Jewish herage and that he scend om people who fled the didn't ny any of the rmatn mentned by The New York Tim, but his attorney, Joseph Murray, said a statement on Monday that the "Left" is threatened by the electn of a gay nservative Lato, acrdg to Insir. So, is Gee Santos gay and what’s the nfn over his married stat?
‘OPENLY GAY’ REP.-ELECT GEE SANTOS DIDN’T DISCLOSE DIVORCE WH WOMAN
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CNN reports Santos as sayg he merely “embellished” his MORE: MICHAEL B JORDAN’S ‘HEAD TURNED’ BY BRITISH MODEL AFTER LORI HARVEY SPLITPhoto by WADE VANDERVORT/AFP via Getty ImagIs Gee Santos gay? Y, Gee Santos is gay.
He beme the first openly gay non-cumbent Republin ndidate elected to has been cricized for supportg Florida’s so-lled Don’t Say Gay Bill, which was signed to law this year by Republin Governor Ron DeSantis. Speakg about the bill, Santos told USA Today October 2022: “I am openly gay, have never had an issue wh my sexual inty the past , and I n tell you and assure you, I will always be an advote for LGBTQ folks. Photo Illtratn by Thomas Levson/The Daily Beast/GettyRepublin ngrsman-elect Gee Santos is unr new scty after a New York Tim report earlier this week unvered a strg of apparent outright fabritns at the heart of some of the most fundamental facts of his life, but that backstory may also be notable for what Santos did not clu—a publicly undisclosed, who claims he has “never experienced discrimatn the Republin Party, ” broke barriers this year when he beme the first openly gay non-cumbent GOP ndidate elected to acrdg to urt rerds obtaed by The Daily Beast, Santos appears to be the subject of a prevly unacknowledged Sept.
“I am openly gay, have never had an issue wh my sexual inty the past , and I n tell you and assure you, I will always be an advote for LGBTQ folks, ” Santos told USA Today October, rpondg to cricism about his support for Florida’s so-lled “Don’t Say Gay Bill” signed to law this year by GOP Gov.
GEE SANTOS SAYS HE HASN'T ALWAYS BEEN GAY AND STUMBL OVER HIS ANNIVERSARY DATE A NEW TERVIEW WH PIERS MAN
Rep. Gee Santos, R-N.Y., the newly sworn- gay ngrsman who has sparked natnal outrage for fabritg parts of his rume, may have omted one of his job qualifitns om voters: drag queen. * jorge santos gay *
And while his 2022 mpaign b mentns his hband, who acrdg to Santos liv wh him and their four dogs on Long Island, he’s kept this prev marriage out of the public eye ’s entirely possible that Santos, who claims he has “never experienced discrimatn the Republin Party, ” has been livg fortably as an openly gay man for, as he says, more than a . But Santos’ suatn is cur bee he never disclosed his divorce to voters, and never renciled his prr marriage to a woman—which end jt 12 days before he tablished his first ngrsnal mpaign—wh his claims of beg an out and proud gay, 34, ma his first bid for Congrs 2020, losg to Rep. But followg a New York Tim vtigatn that suggted Santos had fictnalized key elements of his rume, he’s already facg lls to rign, as well as a possible ethics lleg Santos says he attend don’t have a rerd of him; Cigroup and Goldman Sachs don’t eher, though he claimed to work there; the IRS has no rerd of his nonprof; he still fac “unrolved” legal trouble Brazil; his past bs ventur appear flimsy; and even his addrs was lled to rponse to the Tim report, Santos’ attorney Joseph Murray released a statement that, while stoppg short of nyg the accatns, pated his client as a victim, bee he “reprents the kd of progrs that the Left is so threatened by—a gay, Lato, immigrant and Republin who won a Bin district overwhelmg fashn by showg everyday voters that there is a better optn than the broken promis and failed polici of the Democratic Party.
”But the divorce revelatn, and the apparent secrecy around , plit a central piece of the image Santos has burnished as a dynamic and culturally revolutnary an electn season where many of his fellow nservativ spouted nonsensil allegatns of pedophilia among Democrats, targeted benign drag bnch as epicenters for “groomg, ” and flamed a hateful anti-gay and anti-trans movement—as attacks on the LGBTQ muny skyrocketed—Santos ma history as the first non-cumbent gay Republin to ever be elected to after achievg that victory, and jt two weeks before his barrier-breakg guratn, Santos’ relatnship wh the tth is facg tts he somehow dodged for two mpaigns. Rochard, who liv Brazil, shared an image wh ABC News that Rochard said is a photo of Rochard wh Santos drsed drag as Kara Ravache, om a Brazilian newspaper, Gro Gay. Oh y, he was such a liar, " Rochard this 2008 photo om the Brazilian newspaper Gro Gay, drag queen Eula Rochard, left, appears drag wh a man who he says is Gee Santos, now a U.
Reprentative om New GayRochard did not rell Santos ever havg polil ambns when Rochard knew him. Acrdg to Rochard, Santos registered to be a part of a 2008 "Miss Gay R Janeiro" drag queen petn, but "he did not w Miss Drag Queen ntt.
GAY MAGA REPUBLIN GEE SANTOS WS HOE RACE
"Santos, who has been wily cricized for fabritg much of his rume, ran New York as an openly gay jog Congrs, Santos has aligned himself wh the far-right wg of the Republin Party, which has targeted the drag queen muny and phed polici that LGBTQ activists have voiced support as recently as last April for Florida Republins' Parental Rights Edutn bill, HB 1557, which was dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill by LGBTQ Gee Santos leav the Capol, Jan. As a gay man, I UNAPOLOGETICALLY support this law!
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Who Is Gee Santos’s Gay Partner Now? It is no longer a secret that Santos is an openly gay polician.
CHRISTA AGUILERA REVEALS WHICH 'STRIPPED' TRACK WAS ABOUT AN EX-GAY LOVER
In fact, he is the first openly gay non-cumbent Republin elected to Congrs. Gee has talked about his gay partner as per the wiki sourc. PICTURED: Wife 'openly gay' US ngrsman-elect Gee Santos DIDN'T want you to know about – as 's revealed there is no rerd of marriage to his 'hband' and he ma up Jewish herage after lyg about fance reer and tn — IntoTheMystic (@Mystic_Sailor) December 23, 2022.
GOP REP-ELECT GEE SANTOS REPORTEDLY DIVORCED A WOMAN 2 WEEKS BEFORE NNG FOR OFFICE 2019 SPE SUGGTG HE'S BEEN 'OPENLY GAY' FOR A
Sue me for havg a life, " said is openly gay but has supported polici many nsir anti-LGBTQ, cludg Florida's so-lled "Don't Say Gay" law, which rtricts nversatns about sexualy schools. "As a gay man, I UNAPOLOGETICALLY support this law!
‘OPENLY GAY’ REP.-ELECT GEE SANTOS DIDN’T DISCLOSE DIVORCE WH WOMANCATCH ME IF YOU CANSANTOS RAN HIS MPAIGN AS AN OPENLY GAY REPUBLIN. SCE HE WAS ELECTED, A NUMBER OF KEY BGRAPHIL TAILS HAVE STARTED TO CMBLE. HERE’S THE LATT ONE.ROGER SOLLENBERGERSENR POLIL REPORTERUPDATED DEC. 22, 2022 12:07PM EST EXCLIVEPHOTO ILLTRATN BY THOMAS LEVSON/THE DAILY BEAST/GETTYREPUBLIN NGRSMAN-ELECT GEE SANTOS IS UNR NEW SCTY AFTER A NEW YORK TIM REPORT EARLIER THIS WEEK UNVERED A STRG OF APPARENT OUTRIGHT FABRITNS AT THE HEART OF SOME OF THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL FACTS OF HIS LIFE, BUT THAT BACKSTORY MAY ALSO BE NOTABLE FOR WHAT SANTOS DID NOT CLU—A PUBLICLY UNDISCLOSED MARRIAGE.SANTOS, WHO CLAIMS HE HAS “NEVER EXPERIENCED DISCRIMATN THE REPUBLIN PARTY,” BROKE BARRIERS THIS YEAR WHEN HE BEME THE FIRST OPENLY GAY NON-CUMBENT GOP NDIDATE ELECTED TO CONGRS.BUT ACRDG TO URT RERDS OBTAED BY THE DAILY BEAST, SANTOS APPEARS TO BE THE SUBJECT OF A PREVLY UNACKNOWLEDGED SEPT. 2019 DIVORCE WH A WOMAN QUEENS COUNTY, NEW YORK. THE DIVORCE—WHICH SANTOS HAS NOT DISCSED PUBLICLY—ADDS NEW UNCERTATY TO HIS ALREADY SHAKY BGRAPHIL AND POLIL CLAIMS.“I AM OPENLY GAY, HAVE NEVER HAD AN ISSUE WH MY SEXUAL INTY THE PAST , AND I N TELL YOU AND ASSURE YOU, I WILL ALWAYS BE AN ADVOTE FOR LGBTQ FOLKS,” SANTOS TOLD USA TODAY OCTOBER, RPONDG TO CRICISM ABOUT HIS SUPPORT FOR FLORIDA’S SO-LLED “DON’T SAY GAY BILL” SIGNED TO LAW THIS YEAR BY GOP GOV. RON DESANTIS. LS THAN TWO WEEKS AFTER HIS DIVORCE WAS FALIZED, SANTOS FILED THE OFFICIAL PAPERWORK TO LNCH HIS 2020 MPAIGN. AND WHILE HIS 2022 MPAIGN B MENTNS HIS HBAND, WHO ACRDG TO SANTOS LIV WH HIM AND THEIR FOUR DOGS ON LONG ISLAND, HE’S KEPT THIS PREV MARRIAGE OUT OF THE PUBLIC EYE ENTIRELY.IT’S ENTIRELY POSSIBLE THAT SANTOS, WHO CLAIMS HE HAS “NEVER EXPERIENCED DISCRIMATN THE REPUBLIN PARTY,” HAS BEEN LIVG FORTABLY AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN FOR, AS HE SAYS, MORE THAN A . PEOPLE GET MARRIED FOR UNTLS REASONS. BUT SANTOS’ SUATN IS CUR BEE HE NEVER DISCLOSED HIS DIVORCE TO VOTERS, AND NEVER RENCILED HIS PRR MARRIAGE TO A WOMAN—WHICH END JT 12 DAYS BEFORE HE TABLISHED HIS FIRST NGRSNAL MPAIGN—WH HIS CLAIMS OF BEG AN OUT AND PROUD GAY REPUBLIN.SANTOS, 34, MA HIS FIRST BID FOR CONGRS 2020, LOSG TO REP. TOM SUOZZI (D-NY) BEFORE TOPPLG DEMOCRATIC OPPONENT ROBERT ZIMMERMAN THIS YEAR. BUT FOLLOWG A NEW YORK TIM VTIGATN THAT SUGGTED SANTOS HAD FICTNALIZED KEY ELEMENTS OF HIS RUME, HE’S ALREADY FACG LLS TO RIGN, AS WELL AS A POSSIBLE ETHICS VTIGATN.THE LLEG SANTOS SAYS HE ATTEND DON’T HAVE A RERD OF HIM; CIGROUP AND GOLDMAN SACHS DON’T EHER, THOUGH HE CLAIMED TO WORK THERE; THE IRS HAS NO RERD OF HIS NONPROF; HE STILL FAC “UNROLVED” LEGAL TROUBLE BRAZIL; HIS PAST BS VENTUR APPEAR FLIMSY; AND EVEN HIS ADDRS WAS LLED TO QUTN.IN RPONSE TO THE TIM REPORT, SANTOS’ ATTORNEY JOSEPH MURRAY RELEASED A STATEMENT THAT, WHILE STOPPG SHORT OF NYG THE ACCATNS, PATED HIS CLIENT AS A VICTIM, BEE HE “REPRENTS THE KD OF PROGRS THAT THE LEFT IS SO THREATENED BY—A GAY, LATO, IMMIGRANT AND REPUBLIN WHO WON A BIN DISTRICT OVERWHELMG FASHN BY SHOWG EVERYDAY VOTERS THAT THERE IS A BETTER OPTN THAN THE BROKEN PROMIS AND FAILED POLICI OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.” THE TIM STORY SET OFF A RAPID-FIRE ROUND OF CRICISM THAT EXTEND NOT JT TO THE NGRSMAN-ELECT, BUT TO DEMOCRATIC OPPOSN REARCHERS, REPUBLIN VETTERS, AND MEDIA WHO HAD NOT LLED ATTENTN TO THE NOW-GLARG HOL HIS STORY BEFORE THE ELECTN.WHILE THOSE TAILS WENT LARGELY UNNOTICED DURG THE MPAIGN, THE TIM VTIGATN PROMPTED REPORTERS AND TER SLTHS AROUND THE UNTRY TO DIG EPER TO SANTOS’ PAST—OR WHAT THEY ULD FD OF .IT’S UNCLEAR WHY SANTOS HAS NOT DISCLOSED HIS APPARENT MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE, BUT DON’T F WELL WH HIS CURRENT BGRAPHY.HE HAS PREVLY TOLD U.S. AND BRAZILIAN MEDIA THAT HE WAS ENGAGED TO A MAN, A FELLOW BRAZILIAN WHOM SANTOS HAS INTIFIED AS A PHARMACIST, AND HIS MPAIGN B CLAIMS HE LIV ON LONG ISLAND WH HIS HBAND. (THE DAILY BEAST ULD FD NO PUBLIC RERD OF THE MAN’S WORK THAT FIELD, NOR ULD WE FD A MARRIAGE RERD.)BUT NEW YORK URT RERDS SHOW THAT, 2019, SOMEONE NAMED GEE DEVOLR SANTOS, WH A SEND IAL OF “A,” FALIZED AN UNNTTED DIVORCE WH UADLA SANTOS VIEIRA SANTOS. PUBLIC RERDS SEARCH ONLY REVEAL ONE PERSON THE UNED STAT WH THAT NAME.UADLA SANTOS AND GEE SANTOS DID NOT REPLY TO LLS OR QUTNS SENT VIA TEXT MSAGE TO NUMBERS ASSOCIATED WH THEM. (A ED FOR A $750,000 HOE PURCHASE UNN COUNTY, NEW JERSEY, THIS JUNE LISTS UADLA SANTOS AS THE BUYER, AND SAYS SHE IS MARRIED; SHE IS THE ONLY PURCHASER LISTED ON THE PROPERTY DOCUMENTS.)GEE SANTOS, WHOSE MIDDLE NAME IS ANTHONY, SOMETIM DEVOLR, HIS LATE MOTHER’S MAIN NAME. HE RPORATED TO HIS MPAIGN—“DEVOLR SANTOS FOR CONGRS”—AS WELL AS HIS OWN SUPPOSED FANCIAL SERVIC PANY, THE DEVOLR ORGANIZATN. SANTOS HAS SHIFTED BETWEEN DIFFERENT BATNS OF THOSE FOUR NAM OVER THE YEARS, SOMETIM EMBRACG HIS FATHER’S SANTOS SURNAME, OTHER TIM GOG BY HIS MOTHER’S DEVOLR.SANTOS’ MOTHER DIED 2016, ACRDG TO AN ONLE CROWDFUNDG MPAIGN SANTOS LNCHED TO RAISE MONEY TO VER “THE STS OF THE WAKE.” THE GOFUNDME PAGE LISTS “ANTHONY D SANTOS” AS THE BENEFICIARY—AND ANTHONY DEVOLVER OF SUNNYSI, NEW YORK, AS THE ANIZER—AND THE FUNDRAISG MPAIGN REMAS OPEN.SANTOS’ MPAIGN B PAGE CLAIMS HIS MOTHER WAS “THE FIRST FEMALE EXECUTIVE AT A MAJOR FANCIAL STUTN,” THOUGH THE SPECIFIC STUTN IS UNNAMED. THE B ALSO SAYS “GEE’S MOTHER WAS HER OFFICE THE SOUTH TOWER” ON THE MORNG OF SEPT. 11, 2001.“SHE SURVIVED THE HORRIFIC EVENTS OF THAT DAY, BUT UNFORTUNATELY PASSED AWAY A FEW YEARS LATER”—ABOUT 15 YEARS LATER.AND ON WEDNDAY, JEWISH OUTLET THE FORWARD ADD STILL MORE TRIGUE, SUGGTG SANTOS MAY ALSO HAVE BEEN UNTTHFUL WHEN HE CLAIMED DURG THE MPAIGN—CLUDG ON HIS WEBSE—TO HAVE JEWISH ANCTRY. THE REPORT LED G HOE MORY LEAR HAKEEM JEFI TO CLARE HIS FUTURE LLEAGUE A “PLETE AND UTTER D.”BUT THE DIVORCE REVELATN, AND THE APPARENT SECRECY AROUND , PLIT A CENTRAL PIECE OF THE IMAGE SANTOS HAS BURNISHED AS A DYNAMIC AND CULTURALLY REVOLUTNARY FIGURE.IN AN ELECTN SEASON WHERE MANY OF HIS FELLOW NSERVATIV SPOUTED NONSENSIL ALLEGATNS OF PEDOPHILIA AMONG DEMOCRATS, TARGETED BENIGN DRAG BNCH AS EPICENTERS FOR “GROOMG,” AND FLAMED A HATEFUL ANTI-GAY AND ANTI-TRANS MOVEMENT—AS ATTACKS ON THE LGBTQ MUNY SKYROCKETED—SANTOS MA HISTORY AS THE FIRST NON-CUMBENT GAY REPUBLIN TO EVER BE ELECTED TO CONGRS.BUT AFTER ACHIEVG THAT VICTORY, AND JT TWO WEEKS BEFORE HIS BARRIER-BREAKG GURATN, SANTOS’ RELATNSHIP WH THE TTH IS FACG TTS HE SOMEHOW DODGED FOR TWO MPAIGNS.SUBSCRIBE TO THE PAY DIRT NEWSLETTER HERE TO FOLLOW THE MOVEMENT OF THE DIRTY DOLLARS FLUENCG OUR PUBLIC POLICY. ROGER SOLLENBERGER
Man asked if Santos felt he's always been gay, and he said "No.
"I never mpaigned on that, on beg gay, " Santos said.
Then Man asked Santos if he feels like he's "always been a gay man. " "Did she know that you might be gay? “Santos reprents the kd of progrs that the Left is so threatened by - a gay, Lato, immigrant and Republin who won a Bin district overwhelmg fashn by showg everyday voters that there is a better optn than the broken promis and failed polici of the Democratic Party, ” Murray said.