Kyrsten Sinema Boyfriend's Ex Claims Drug Abuse Amid Bitter Custody Battle

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Kyrsten Sinema’s boyfriend, Matthew Ammel, is involved in a bitter court battle with his estranged wife -- and the ex claims Matthew abused narcotics and psychedelics ... TMZ has learned.

Matthew’s estranged wife, Heather Ammel, filed court docs in March 2025 seeking custody of their three kids and child support.

In seeking primary custody of the kids, she claims Matthew has a history of “uncontrolled bouts of anger" ... adding he oftentimes expresses his anger by punching the wall of their home and “breaking and destroying furniture and screaming at” Heather “in a fit of rage.”

Kyrsten Sinema Yes, I Banged My Bodyguard in Lots o' Places ... But His Ex Can't Sue Me

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Kyrsten Sinema says she did in fact sleep with her bodyguard while he was still married ... admitting as much in legal docs -- though she says his estranged wife shouldn't be allowed to sue her in North Carolina for it.

The former Arizona senator filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit in which she's being sued by her lover's estranged wife in North Carolina on Thursday. In the papers, she admits she and Matthew Ammel began an affair about five months before he separated from his wife, Heather Ammel. The filing was first reported on by an Arizona reporter named Brian Anderson.

Sinema says she and Ammel became "romantic and intimate" in late May 2024 ... engaging in physical intimacy for the first time on May 27 in Sonoma, California ... adding that they were also physically intimate in New York City, Washington, D.C., Aspen and Phoenix in subsequent months.

Kyrsten Sinema You Ruined My Marriage -- Now It's Time To Pay Up!

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Former U.S. Senator for Arizona Kyrsten Sinema is being sued by a woman who claims the ex-lawmaker had a relationship with her husband while in office ... and the woman claims Sinema used campaign funds to fund the affair.

A civil lawsuit filed in North Carolina by a woman named Heather Ammel claims Sinema destroyed Ammel's marriage with her estranged husband, Matthew, by carrying on an affair with him while he was part of Sinema's security detail.

Ammel claims Matthew began working for Sinema in 2022 ... who allegedly sent him "romantic and lascivious" messages in frequent communications on the Signal encryption app. Heather and Matthew were married for 14 years and share three children.