{"id":283655,"date":"2026-05-25T13:58:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T13:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/283655\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T13:58:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T13:58:28","slug":"florida-gov-candidate-james-fishback-marries-new-woman-months-after-breakup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/283655\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Gov. Candidate James Fishback Marries New Woman Months After Breakup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/james-fishback\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:James Fishback;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;James Fishback&quot;}\" class=\"link \">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Here&#8217;s the deal &#8230; Fishback shared photos from his wedding &#8212; arm in arm with his new wife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">James writes &#8220;Mr &amp; Mrs. Fishback in the caption&#8221; &#8230; followed by a prayer hands emoji.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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><img alt=\"TMZ\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/e6677cb3839d4c548d2801400283a3d3.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>TMZ<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:New York Post;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;New York Post&quot;}\" class=\"link \">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">You may remember Fishback recently joined us on &#8220;TMZ Live&#8221; &#8230; during which he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/florida-candidate-seeks-sin-tax-211526219.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:referred to OnlyFans Models;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;referred to OnlyFans Models&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"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","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":283656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,28909,28912],"class_list":["post-283655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-gubernatorial-race","tag-james-fishback"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283655","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=283655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}