First on Fox: Former Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner received amazing donations from his ex-wife Huma Abedin and her sister Heba Abedin to his New York City Council campaign, although his ex-wife said in 2021 that Weiner’s sex scandal “almost killed her.”
Huma Abedin donated $175 to Weiner’s campaign on March 13, and her sister Heba Abedin donated $150 on December 29, 2024 New York City Campaign Financial Report reveal.
Weiner launches his latest campaign New York City Council, The position he held from 1992 to 1998 set out in December 2024 and was derailed amid the controversy. Weiner was elected to represent the 9th Congressional District of New York in 1998, and resigned in 2011 after posting photos of himself on his underwear on social media.
The incident was followed by years of sex scandals, with Weiner accused of transferring obscene materials to minors in May 2017 after separating a 15-year-old girl. He was sentenced to 21 months in jail.
Former Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner donated from ex-wife Huma Abedin and her sister Heba Abedin, according to the campaign financial report. (Getty)
Long-term Hillary Clinton assistant Huma Abedin told CBS “Sunday Morning” In 2021, anger at her husband’s sexual scandal almost killed her.
Anthony Weiner Dined with estranged wife Huma Abedin
“I can’t live in that space anymore. I tried,” Abedin told Norah O’Donnell.
Abedin said she filed for divorce the same day, Weiner pleaded guilty and was sentenced to jail. The former couple, who are their son’s co-parents, attended the Inner Circle Charity Show in 2023 at the Ziegfeld Theatre in Midtown Manhattan.
Right President Joe Biden presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom on behalf of his father George Soros, the highest civilian honor in the United States, in the East Room of the White House in Washington on January 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
By July 2024, Abedin announced on social media that she is engaged to Alex Soros, the son of Open Society Foundation Chairman and billionaire Megadonor George Soros. They are expected to get married this summer.
After resigning from Congress in 2011, Weiner continued to porn under the pseudonym “Carlos Danger”. Sydney Leather, the leading recipient at the time, claimed that the former MP called himself “a debated, permanent middle-aged man”.
Former Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner left federal court on September 25, 2017 after being sentenced to 21 months in prison for sexual intercourse with a 15-year-old girl. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images)
Weiner tried his first political comeback as mayor in 2013, but his reputation was damaging by the revelation of new photos Weiner sent under a pseudonym. Weiner was caught up in another sex scandal in 2016, leading to His prosecution. Weiner sent an image where he and his young son were lying in bed.
That year, more claims Weiner was caught in North Carolina by a six-year-old girl who was six years old in North Carolina. Investigators found that emails related to Clinton’s classification document scandal dominated the 2016 election.
Weiner later checked for his sexual addiction. In 2017, his federal prosecution ruined another bid for the mayor. He was released in 2019 and ordered to register as a sex offender.
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Abedin and Weiner did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment by the deadline for this article.
Michael Dorgan and Charles Creitz of Fox News Digital contributed to the report.
