Southlake lawmaker Giovanni Capriglione responds to story exposing affair
State Rep. Giovanni Capriglione, a Southlake Republican, says he had an affair, but is disputing other details of a video and article shared Friday by Current Revolt and is planning legal action.
The website on July 25 shared the post, where a woman named Alex Grace, who described herself a mother of four, a political news curator and a former exotic dancer, said she and Capriglione had an affair after they met in 2004, when she was 18. Current Revolt is a subscription-based website established in 2020 that describes itself as covering Texas political news.
“Years ago, I selfishly had an affair,” Capriglione said in a statement shared by his attorney Rogge Dunn. “I’m not proud of this. Thank God my wife and family forgave me, and we moved past it and have the strong marriage we do today. Their grace, and God’s, is something for which I am grateful every day. I’m a different man than I was because of it. The rest is categorically false and easily disproven.”
Capriglone, 52, announced he wasn’t seeking reelection in a July 22 Facebook post.
Grace, who has a TikTok following of 95,600, told Current Revolt that she and Capriglione met while she was working as an exotic dancer when he came in for lunch.
They would have one-on-one meetups and formed a close and intimate bond, she said. They’d initially meet at his office in Southlake, but eventually met at hotels. They also met at his home once or twice, she said.
Early on, they’d meet about once a month, but over time they’d meet about once every six months. It was also not uncommon for him to stand her up, Grace said. In turn when missing meetings, Capriglione would leave the money “that he would exchange with me during these meet ups,” including one time near a Dumpster behind a Chuck E. Cheese.
Grace also said Capriglione would take an annual trip to the Red Light District in Amsterdam and “funded several abortions for his own personal gain.”
During the interview, Grace agreed that she’s not happy with the way Capriglione is portraying himself politically compared to how he lives his personal life.
“While I do believe in keeping your personal life separate from your business life, again, there are a lot of dualities to him and it makes me suspect and concerned for his moves going forward and how he’s going to affect the lives of others,” she said.
Dunn confirmed the affair mentioned in Capriglione’s statement was with Grace. Capriglione denies ever visiting Amsterdam and said he would never pay for an abortion. Capriglione authored Texas’ so-called “trigger law,” criminalizing the performing of abortions after Roe v. Wade was overturned.
“I’m not above scrutiny, even for years-ago events that involved only my private life, not my public duties,” Capriglione said in the statement. “But going forward, there are two things I want to make very clear: Lying and defaming me, twisting and manipulating old events for political purposes, is wrong and I will be pursuing my legal remedies.”
Capriglione did not immediately return a call or text seeking comment.
The Star-Telegram reached out to Grace on TikTok but did not immediately receive a response.
In a video recently posted on the social media site, Grace addressed the coming news.
“Out of all of the videos I’ve ever made, I can say without a doubt this is my least favorite video,” Grace said. “I don’t want to do it, but I am, and it’s going to come out, so you’re going to find out one way or the other, so I may as well tell you myself. I know that Giovanni Capriglione has been having affairs since 2005, because it’s me. I’m her. I’m not proud of it. In fact, I’m ashamed of it. Hopefully you can keep in mind that we all have a past, and I wish I could say for him that, that was the worst of it. Due to legal reasons, I can’t divulge much more until tomorrow, and then I believe I’m free to divulge everything, as my understanding, so I have every intention of doing that. But um, yeah, so. Let the judgment begin.”
Tarrant County GOP Chair Bo French said in a post on X that Capriglione should resign. Tarrant County Democratic Chair Allison Compolo described Capriglione as hypocritical in a Facebook post.
Capriglione represents House District 98 and was first elected in 2012. The Tarrant County district includes Colleyville, Grapevine, Westlake and parts of Euless, Flower Mound, Southlake and Trophy Club.
Tony Ortiz, Current Revolt’s founder and publisher, declined to comment on Capriglione’s response, including the portion about seeking legal remedies. He directed the Star-Telegram to a post on X, where Ortiz notes the article has been updated with the lawmaker’s comment and that Current Revolt had previously reached out to Capriglione’s lawyer for comment before publication.
Read Capriglione’s full response
Here’s Capriglione’s full statement:
“In holding the wealthy, the powerful, the corporate elites, and the Austin insiders to account, I knew I would face serious blowback. I knew they’d attack me and come after me – after all, I was the one who exposed an out-of-state corporation hiring private investigators to go after patients, journalists, and legislators. I had no idea the depths to which they would sink, their appalling gutter politics, or the lies and defamation they would spread.
Unfortunately, this is the state of our world, and the price of serving in government.
Years ago, I selfishly had an affair. I’m not proud of this. Thank God my wife and family forgave me, and we moved past it and have the strong marriage we do today. Their grace, and God’s, is something for which I am grateful every day. I’m a different man than I was because of it.
The rest is categorically false and easily disproven. For example: I’ve never, ever set foot in Amsterdam. I have never, nor would I ever, pay for an abortion.
I’m not above scrutiny, even for years-ago events that involved only my private life, not my public duties. But going forward, there are two things I want to make very clear:
Lying and defaming me, twisting and manipulating old events for political purposes, is wrong and I will be pursuing my legal remedies. As the Fox-Dominion case demonstrated, media outlets cannot turn over their publications to those making false and defamatory claims and wash their hands of all responsibility. Those who perpetrated these falsehoods must be held accountable.
Second and more importantly, I will fight for the people I represent, the principles we share, and the things that make Texas great until I walk out the door of the legislature for the last time in January of 2027.
Anyone who thinks they are going to intimidate me or get me to back down from the work I was elected to do, is sadly mistaken. In fact, this campaign of smears and slander will have the opposite effect. I will fight even harder because I know I’m on the right track with the DOGE Committee and the work we have planned.
The issues are too big. The stakes for our state and our country are too high. I’ve learned that fear of false personal attacks must not deter us from doing our jobs. I will now return my fulltime attention to my legislative duties.
Thank you for the opportunity to serve, and God Bless Texas!”
This story was originally published July 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM.
