Matt Gaetz Welcomes First Baby with Wife Ginger and Reveals the Newborn's Unusual Name

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• Matt Gaetz welcomed his first child with wife Ginger Gaetz

• The disgraced former congressman's wife announced the news on her social media accounts

• In her posts on Instagram and X, she revealed the unusual name of her newborn

Matt Gaetz has welcomed his first child, a son named Luckey Louis Gaetz, with wife Ginger Gaetz.

The disgraced former congressman's wife announced the news via her Instagram and X accounts, as she shared a photo of her newborn son and revealed his unique name, which is a nod to her maiden name.

"Beyond grateful to introduce our son, Luckey Louis Gaetz ♥️," Ginger wrote in the caption of the post.

Before sharing the first snap of her newborn, Ginger posted a slow-motion video on X of Gaetz carrying their son out of the hospital.

Over the five-second video, the newly minted mom wrote, "D A D D Y."

The baby is Gaetz's first child. He has previously spoken of helping to raise Nestor Galban, who is now in his 20s and moved in with Gaetz when he was 12 years old after immigrating to the U.S. from Cuba.

"He is a part of my family story," Gaetz told PEOPLE in 2020. "My work with Nestor, our family, no element of my public service could compare to the joy that our family has brought me."

Gaetz did not formally adopt Nestor (and he declined to discuss Nestor's relationship with his biological family at the time of the interview). He re-framed the matter, saying, "Our relationship as a family is defined by our love for each other, not by any paperwork."

Nestor, he said, "is my son in every conceivable way, and I can't imagine loving him any more if he was my own flesh and blood."

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Gaetz has recently come under fire following the House Ethics Committee's bombshell report, made public in December 2024, claiming he paid for sex with a 17-year-old, in addition to illicit drug use and accepting improper gifts.

Those claims also pushed him to withdraw his name from consideration for a position in President Donald Trump's cabinet as attorney general. Gaetz has consistently denied any wrongdoing at the time of publication.

Just after his cabinet nomination, Gaetz resigned from his House seat. At the time, the House Ethics Committee was just weeks away from releasing the report. His resignation on Nov. 13 marked the end of his nearly eight-year tenure.

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