One of Donald Trump‘s most trusted female diplomats has reportedly split from her husband and started a new romance with a Lebanese banking tycoon, England’s Daily Mail first reported.
Morgan Ortagus – Counselor at the US Mission to the UN and a former deputy to Middle East special envoy Steve Witkoff – separated from Jonathan Weinberger in November, according to filings in Nashville courts where their ongoing divorce is pending. Weinberger’s legal counsel are Lauren Moss and Phil Newman in Franklin, Tennessee. Ortagus has not yet filed a response with the court, and it appears that service has not yet been obtained upon her, according to court records.
Sources told the Daily Mail that Ortegus, 43, quickly moved on with globetrotting financier and film producer Antoun Sehnaoui, 53, who chairs banks in Lebanon, Cyprus, Jordan, and Monaco, after the divorce filing was initiated.
Their split was confirmed when Weinberger filed for divorce in Circuit Court in Nashville, Tennessee, where the couple had previously shared a $2.25 million home with their young daughter, Adina, and pet dog Ozzy. Ortagus made a brief run for the US Congress in the Nashville area but soon withdrew, despite having Donald Trump’s endorsement. Ortagus had moved to the Nashville area only about a year prior to seeking the congressional seat and had not voted in a sufficient number of Republican primaries to qualify as a “bona fide“ Republican under GOP party rules.
Ortagus was hampered by several glaring media missteps soon after announcing her campaign for the fifth district congressional seat, including being unaware of the three major interstates that intersect in her district and claiming, “I don’t drive anywhere.”
She also denied being a “carpetbagger,” saying she was not a politician, despite running for public office.
Weinbergers’s November 7 petition for divorce lists the date of their separation as ‘date of filing’ and blames it on ‘irreconcilable differences.’
A source close to Ortagus said this was when Weinberger ‘decided to divorce’ rather than including a definitive date for the breakup of the 12-year marriage, which was ‘well prior’ to the filing.
Sehnaoui has been accused of having significant financial dealings with operatives of Hezbollah, which he has denied.
Steve Gill is editor and publisher of TriStar Daily.
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