{"id":283367,"date":"2026-05-25T06:21:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T06:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/283367\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T06:21:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T06:21:39","slug":"florida-gov-candidate-james-fishback-marries-new-woman-months-after-breakup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/283367\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Gov. Candidate James Fishback Marries New Woman Months After Breakup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260524_9214ab51f4e345b19c3ddd86a1b58791\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:1318cf7d-466c-4d70-9324-f1731d79abf2\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/9214ab51f4e345b19c3ddd86a1b58791_md.jpg\" alt=\"main-james-fishback-ig-x-1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/james-fishback\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Fishback<\/a> &#8212; the controversial candidate in Florida&#8217;s gubernatorial race &#8212; is officially married &#8230; but his nuptials are raising eyebrows online.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the deal &#8230; Fishback shared photos from his wedding &#8212; arm in arm with his new wife.<\/p>\n<p>James writes &#8220;Mr &amp; Mrs. Fishback in the caption&#8221; &#8230; followed by a prayer hands emoji.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The woman&#8217;s name is reportedly Valeria &#8230; and the two apparently haven&#8217;t been dating long &#8212; beause people are pointing out Fishback was in a relationship with a different woman named Francesca Raine just a couple months ago.<\/p>\n<p>      &#8220;I always had a vision of us standing like this.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ewntPU3gil\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/ewntPU3gil<\/a><br \/>\n              <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/j_fishback\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">@j_fishback<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fishback referred to Raine &#8212; also known as &#8220;Crypto Barbie&#8221; &#8212; as his &#8220;wife&#8221; while on the campaign trail &#8230; but announced in February they broke up because he said he was using Tinder to meet young female voters.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260524_55c9811649e24f39955fdd35cfab6d1a\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:1318cf7d-466c-4d70-9324-f1731d79abf2\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/55c9811649e24f39955fdd35cfab6d1a_md.jpg\" alt=\"sub-james-fishback-x-1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear how he met Valeria &#8230; but, when <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/24\/us-news\/james-fishback-marries-mystery-woman-3-months-after-ditching-crypto-ex\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">New York Post<\/a> asked him about her and their relationship timeline he responded, &#8220;I\u2019m on my honeymoon with my wife, Valeria. I don\u2019t have time for your AIPAC-inspired fake news.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/8372749e454f4a42a82fc24dcede75a4_md.png\" alt=\"011326_james_fishback_kal\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>You may remember Fishback recently joined us on &#8220;TMZ Live&#8221; &#8230; during which he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/01\/13\/sophie-rain-sin-income-tax-florida\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">referred to OnlyFans Models<\/a> as &#8220;whores&#8221; and called for a &#8220;sin tax&#8221; on their earnings.<\/p>\n<p>      <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Fishback &#8212; the controversial candidate in Florida&#8217;s gubernatorial race &#8212; is officially married &#8230; but his nuptials&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,115,110,1237,10864],"class_list":["post-283367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tmz-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}