Democratic Virginia House of Delegates candidate Susanna Gibson blasted her opponents for engaging in “the worst gutter politics” after videos surfaced of her and her husband performing sex acts online for cash.
Gibson, a 40-year-old mother of two, who is running in a hotly contested race to represent the state’s District 57 hosted several live webcam shows on the adult streaming website Chaturbate, the Washington Post revealed in a bombshell report on Monday.
The nurse practitioner has since railed against her political opponents, accusing them of playing dirty politics. She called the controversy “an illegal invasion of my privacy designed to humiliate me.”
“My political opponents and their Republican allies have proven they’re willing to commit a sex crime to attack me and my family because there’s no line they won’t cross to silence women when they speak up,” Gibson told CNN in a statement on Tuesday.
“My opponent and his allies know that the people of this district are on our side on the issues, so they’re stooping to the worst gutter politics,” she added. “There’s too much at stake in this election and I’ll never stop fighting for our community.”
Her opponent in the battle for the seat in the House of Delegates, Republican businessman David Owen, said his campaign learned about the videos on Monday “like everyone else.”
“I’m sure this is a difficult time for Susanna and her family, and I’m remaining focused on my campaign,” Owen told The Post in a statement.
The videos were posted to a publicly accessible archive on the website Recurbate in September 2022 after Gibson declared her candidacy, the Washington Post first reported.
Gibson apparently maintained her Chaturbate profile, called “hotwifeexperience,” after having announced her campaign in July 2022 — uploading at least one image of herself on the sex streaming site a month later.
She garnered some 5,770 Chaturbate followers — whom she repeatedly pressed for more “tokens” in exchange for certain acts in “private” showings.
She told her fans that she was “raising money for a good cause.”
Gibson’s attorney, Daniel P. Watkins, said that the circulating videos are a violation of Virginia’s revenge porn law, which makes it a crime to “maliciously” disseminate or sell nude or sexual images of another person with the intent to “coerce, harass, or intimidate.”
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