Legal fight escalates: Sinema questions jurisdiction in ex-wife case

Kyrsten Sinema believes it’s all about location, location, location when it comes to her homewrecking affair with a former bodyguard.

The ex-Arizona Senator, who claimed earlier this month in sworn statements that she’s didn’t know Matthew Joseph Ammel, the security guard she had an affair with, now has provided day and date details about her sexual encounters with him.

But she’s also claiming that since almost none of her relationship with him happened in North Carolina, the state where his ex-wife Heather is suing her, that the lawsuit should be dismissed.

The confession flip-flop is par for the course for the flamboyant Sinema. The end of her Senate time was marked by media calling her a “caricature” that experienced “one of the greatest political implosions of my lifetime,” as one columnist opined. Her spending, particularly the use of taxpayer-funded private jets, came under intense scrutiny.

Sinema decided against seeking reelection in Arizona's 2024 U.S. Senate race, the same year her sexual rendezvous with the guard allegedly began. Sinema revealed that she and guard became “romantic and intimate” in May 2024, and that they first had physical intimacy while in Sonoma, California, on May 27, per court documents cited by TMZ.

In the following months, the pair had sexual liasions in New York City, Washington, D.C., Aspen, and Phoenix, Sinema claimed. However, Sinema insists they were never intimate in North Carolina, so she can’t be sued there, according to TMZ.

Additionally, Sinema denied sending a graphic picture of herself to Matthew, as TMZ reported.

Matthew and Heather eventually separated in November 2024. Heather then filed for divorce from Matthew, with whom she shares three kids, in March 2025.

Heather’s initial complaint claimed the affair began when Matthew was hired to Sinema’s security team in 2022.

In Heather’s initial complaint, she claimed Sinema “began to willfully and intentionally seduce, entice, and alienate the affections of Mr. Ammel” after he was hired to her security team in 2022.

Matthew initially won joint custody of their children, but had his visits suspended after being arrested on felony charges of assault and strangulation.