Ernst, a Republican who represents Iowa, said that during her 26-year marriage with Gail Ernst, she was the victim of verbal and mental abuse and a physical assault after which a victim's ...

Ernst, a Republican who represents Iowa in the U.S. Senate, said that during her 26-year marriage with Gail Ernst, she was the victim of verbal and mental abuse and a physical assault after ...

The Republican's husband Gail Ernst filed for divorce from the 48-year-old last summer and in newly unsealed court papers that were filed in October 2018, both Joni and Gail list allegations ...

In the court documents, Ernst's ex-husband, Gail Ernst, accused her of having an affair with one of her soldiers while she was deployed as a company commander. She said Wednesday that she cares ...

Sen. Joni Ernst was abused by her husband before their divorce, according to court filings. The Republican from Iowa alleged her husband, Gail, physically assaulted her when she confronted him ...

CEDAR FALLS, Ia. — Sen. Joni Ernst says allegations by her ex-husband that she had an affair with a subordinate while serving in the military are not true. "That is not accurate and I was a ...

Content warning: This article mentions of verbal, mental, and physical abuse. In December 2024, it was announced that ...

Democratic operatives took screen shots of the comments made by Republican Gail Ernst and shared them with The Des Moines Register today, a day after national news outlets reported Monday that he ...

“I continued to make sacrifices and not soar higher out of concern for Gail and our family.” Ernst and her ex-husband, Gail, had been married for 26 years, and announced their divorce last Augus ...

Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, has come forward with her story of being raped by a former boyfriend, saying she decided to do so after details of her divorce were made public earlier this week.

Ernst publicly disclosed the rape in an interview with Bloomberg News, which she decided to do after details of her divorce from husband Gail Ernst were reported this week. “I didn’t want to ...

She spoke out to Bloomberg News in the wake of intimate details incidentally disclosed as part of her divorce from Gail Ernst, which was finalized earlier that January. (The records, initially ...