Texas Repuke Admits Affair, Denies hypocrisy

In 2021, Republican Texas state Rep. Giovanni Capriglione introduced the Human Life Protection Act, a trigger ban that turned Texas into one of the strictest anti-abortion states in the nation after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade the following summer.

The legislation almost totally stripped women in Texas of their reproductive autonomy. Maternal mortality has since spiked, and routine pregnancy complications have become more dangerous. But while Capriglione led the charge to restrict the rights of his constituents in his political career, in his personal life he allegedly paid for multiple abortions — according to Alex Grace, a former exotic dancer who says she had a long relationship with Capriglione.

In a lengthy interview published on Friday by Texas-based independent outlet Current Revolt, Grace alleged that she and Capriglione — a married father of three who was elected to the state legislature in 2012 — had been romantically involved for almost two decades. She said the two met in 2004, when she was 18 years old and working as a dancer. Grace said they would meet at a variety of locations, including his home and office, describing the representative’s behavior as paranoid to the point of absurdity.

Grace described one incident where, in order to avoid being seen together, Capriglione told her to “go to the back of [a Chuck E. Cheese] and next to the dumpster there would be a rubber mat. Look under it, and under this rubber mat was an envelope with money.” She added in the interview that Capriglione would use burner phones and emails to communicate with her, and often flaked on plans to meet for fear of being caught.

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