Alina Habba, the 41-year-old attorney and senior Trump adviser, quietly filed for divorce from her second husband, Gregg Reuben, in New Jersey Superior Court last month.
Sources familiar with the relationship say the couple separated last year and the divorce was quickly settled in what those close to the situation describe as an amicable split.
The Daily Mail reported that Habba has already moved to Florida, purchasing a home in Palm Beach just down the road from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club.
She now splits her time between Florida, New Jersey, where her two children attend school, and Washington, D.C., where she serves as Senior Advisor to Attorney General Pam Bondi for all U.S. Attorneys.
Habba married Reuben, the Harvard Business School graduate and millionaire founder of New York City-based parking management company Centerpark, on December 31, 2020.
That was just one year after her divorce from her first husband, Matthew Eyet, with whom she shares two children. The timing is notable: Habba began working for Trump around the same period she married Reuben, and her trajectory from that point was steep.
She became one of the most visible figures in Trump's legal orbit. She served a brief stint as Counselor to the President during the first few months of Trump's second term.
He appointed her to be interim Attorney for the District of New Jersey, though she was unable to secure the support from lawmakers needed to hold the position permanently. Trump then placed her at the Justice Department in her current advisory role under Bondi.
That kind of ascent demands something. Long hours, constant travel, a public profile that invites scrutiny from every direction. One source close to Habba told the Daily Mail that she had become "a star in her own right," and that it was "hard to live in that shadow." The same source added that the split "wasn't political."
Neither Habba nor Reuben commented publicly. A spokesperson for Habba declined to comment when reached by the Daily Mail. Reuben did not immediately respond to the outlet's request for comment.
The people who did talk painted a picture of a woman who isn't slowing down. One source familiar with the divorce offered this:
"If there's one thing I know about Alina Habba, it's that she doesn't take s**t from anyone."
"She's widely successful, a rockstar mom, and I have no doubt she'll eventually find someone who celebrates her sparkle instead of trying to dim it."
The same source added that "until then, she's doing just fine being a boss."
Habba and Reuben did not have children together during their five-year marriage. Reuben is separately described as a father of one and as chair of the Transportation Department's Advisory Board.
Divorce stories about political figures tend to follow a predictable script. The left reads them as evidence of personal dysfunction.
The media frames them as drama. The actual human reality is simpler and less entertaining: marriages end, especially when one spouse's career transforms beyond recognition in a compressed period of time.
What's worth noting is what Habba did next. She didn't retreat. She bought a house near the center of gravity of the political movement she's helped build. She kept her role advising the Attorney General. She hosted her own New Year's Eve party this year rather than attending Trump's bash at Mar-a-Lago.
That's not a woman in crisis. That's a woman reorganizing her life around her priorities.
Conservative women in the public eye face a peculiar double standard. When they succeed professionally, the coverage fixates on what they've supposedly sacrificed personally. When their personal lives hit turbulence, the coverage treats it as a referendum on their politics. The framing is never neutral.
Habba's career trajectory speaks for itself. From personal attorney to Counselor to the President to a senior Justice Department advisory role, all while raising two kids across multiple states.
The divorce is a private matter that became public because of who she is, not because of anything unusual about two people deciding a marriage isn't working.
The five-year marriage that began on New Year's Eve 2020 ended quietly, settled quickly, and without apparent acrimony. Sometimes that's the whole story.
Habba moved south. She's still working. The next chapter is hers to write.
