Follow us on Google DiscoverErika Kirk has fiercely denied rumors that she is dating casino heir Blake Wynn, just eight months after Charlie Kirk was assassinated.
Online conspiracy theorist Collin Scott Campbell fueled the speculation after claiming that Kirk, 37, had been seen getting ‘very intimate’ and ‘kissing and embracing’ 26-year-old Blake Wynn, at the Beverly Hills Hotel this weekend.
Campbell further claimed that the pair had been spotted shopping earlier in the day.
But a furious Kirk – who has two children with late political activist Charlie – has issued a statement following the allegations, denying that anything of the sort happened.
“Every single word here is a lie,” she wrote on X.
“Charlie’s love will last me a lifetime. The Lord is the only one who can ever fill that most painful void.”
Erika Kirk fiercely denied claims that she has moved on from Charlie (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)
The Turning Point USA CEO added: “On May 14th I was home in Arizona celebrating my son’s second birthday.
“Blake (who is about to be engaged to his longtime gf) was a dear friend of my husband’s and I am grateful for his continued support, just like hundreds of others.”
She noted that Campbell’s ‘deranged obsession’ with her is ‘deeply disturbing’.
“I am praying you get the help you so clearly need,” she said.
Kirk concluded the statement: “Brush off the Dorito dust and go touch grass.”
Wynn denied the claims in a post on X, where he wrote: “Blake Wynn here… I hate to be the bearer of bad news to the cesspool of bots and X users that spend their entire day making things up under the guise of journalism, but I am not dating Erika Kirk.”
Blake Wynn has also addressed the rumors (Instagram/@blakewynn)
He also took to his Instagram Story to say: “What a way to wake up… WTF is wrong with people. This is an example though of a much larger problem we need to address as a country.
“If blatant lies can spread within minutes to huge amounts of people, how is anyone supposed to differentiate the truth from a lie.”
Who is Blake Wynn?
Blake Wynn is the nephew of casino mogul Steve Wynn. The 26-year-old entrepreneur is the founder of the Celebrity Poker Tour.
After Charlie Kirk was fatally shot in September 2025, Wynn shared a touching tribute, calling the 31-year-old his ‘brother’.
Erika called Blake Wynn a ‘dear friend’ of Charlie’s (Instagram/@blakewynn)
He wrote: “I don’t have any words, there are none. There has never been someone in my life I’ve been so proud to call a friend as you, and I really looked at you like a big brother – you constantly pushed me to be better, provided words of encouragement when I needed them most, and altered my perspective for the better.
“The countless memories we’ve shared together will remain among my fondest. I am devastated beyond what I can articulate that we won’t get to continue making more for the rest of our lives.”
Kirk’s response comes just after news broke that a man has been arrested for making threats to kill Kirk ahead of a TPUSA event in San Antonio on June 5.
Jacob Wenske, 26, faces two felony counts of making a terroristic threat causing public fear, according to court documents.
Another alleged threat tied to Wenske surfaced in a January 2026 email, in which he wrote: “Death to Erika Kirk and every single speaker there!!”
He continued: “America will live on without those scum on this earth.”
Investigators further allege that Wenske directly communicated with Turning Point USA, and made explicit threats of death against Kirk.
The mom-of-two was also in attendance at the White House correspondents’ dinner in April, when a gunman opened fire, marking the third assassination attempt on President Trump.
Erika Kirk addresses JD Vance hug blasted as ‘inappropriate’ as she points out his ‘similarities’ to Charlie Kirk
Erika Kirk has addressed all the noise after a hug between herself and Vice President JD Vance was blasted as ‘inappropriate’ by some people on the internet.
In September, Charlie Kirk was assassinated at an event organized by his company Turning Point USA at Utah Valley University.
Following the right-wing commentator’s passing, Erika pledged to ‘complete his vision’ for the non-profit organization as she became its new CEO.
As a result, Erika has been in the public eye, and is regularly seen with Vance at events.
One of these occasions came at last month at the University of Mississippi as part of the ‘This Is the Turning Point’ tour where Vance was invited.
The vice president came on stage at one point and hugged Erika before taking to the podium, with the whole interaction being a big talking point.
As they embraced, Erika put her hand on the back of Vance’s head in a rather intimate moment which has raised some eyebrows.
The hug broke the internet (Brad Vest/Getty Images)
Erika has since spoken out on the criticism as she sat down with Megyn Kelly over the weekend.
“Whoever is hating on a hug, that needs a hug themselves, I will give you a free hug anytime you want a hug,” Erika said.
Erika went on to say such a hug is her ‘love language’ and explained the context behind the hug that took place between herself and Vance, which seemingly broke the internet.
“I’m walking over, he’s walking over, I’m starting to cry, he says ‘he’s so proud of you,’ and I say ‘God bless you,’ and I touch the back of his head,” the 37-year-old recalled.
Erika continued: “Anyone who I’ve hugged, I’ve touched the back of your head when I hug you, I always say God bless you. That’s just me. If you want to take that out of context, go right ahead. Again, that to me shows that you need a hug more than anyone else.”
Following the JD Vance hug, another series of tight embraces from Erika took over the internet once more after she received the inaugural Charlie Kirk Legacy Award at the Fox Nation Patriot Awards earlier this month.
The 36-year-old was presented with the accolade by country singer Jason Aldean and his wife, Brittany, when an embrace similar to what happened with Vance took place.
Reacting to the embrace on X, formerly known as Twitter, one social media user wrote: “It’s not a healthy way to hug someone. It’s overly familiar. It’s intimate. She has poor boundaries.”
Other claimed Erika’s hugs to be too ‘touchy-feely’, though fellow social media users defended the Turning Point USA CEO.
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Topics: Charlie Kirk, JD Vance, Social Media, Twitter, US News, Erika Kirk
Callum Jones
Erika Kirk makes unexpected admission on moment she learned husband Charlie was assassinated
The grief-stricken widow of Charlie Kirk has shared one of the first things to run through her mind after her husband was shot dead at a speaking event in an interview for The Megyn Kelly Show.
Erika Kirk, 37, who has previously described her sadness at not getting to kiss her husband goodbye before the 31-year-old conservative commentator was shot in the neck, has told the former Fox host that she was ‘praying to God’ for something in the moments after Charlie fell.
That day, September 10, Charlie had left early to go to the campus debate, while Erika headed to a hospital in Phoenix that was caring for her mother. But then, at 11.23am, a call came in from her husband’s assistant to tell her the bad news, but Erika has said she could already tell something disastrous had happened.
In a preview of the show posted on X, Kelly pressed Turning Points USA’s new CEO on the couple’s hopes for a larger family, asking her: “You told me this in private — How many kids did you want to have?”
Erika Kirk takes the stage at Megyn Kelly’s tour stop in Glendale, AZ.
Megyn surprised her with Charlie’s favorite, sparklers on stage, a small touch he always loved and requested at events. pic.twitter.com/QoxLHZixy5
— Mikey McCoy (@Michael_McCoyy) November 23, 2025
To which Kirk revealed that they ‘wanted to have four,’ before sharing that, the moment she heard her husband had been shot, she hoped for a surprise ray of light.
“And I was praying to God that I was pregnant when he got murdered,” she told Kelly.
This was also something the independent podcaster had been considering after Kirk was shot, while police and federal agents hunted his alleged 22-year-old assassin Tyler Robinson.
Kelly said: “Oh, wow. I thought of that once… Whether it was meant to be or whether we’d get news like that.”
With less than two months since the fatal shooting, Kirk began to get emotional as she considered the loss of their hopes for a larger family.
“I know,” she said, wiping tears from her eyes.
“I was like, ‘oh, goodness, that was going to be the ultimate blessing out of this catastrophe’. So, now when I see young couples, I tell them, ‘Please, don’t put it off.’”
Erika and Charlie’s children were front and centre at the memorial (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Kirk’s widow added with urgency: “Especially if you’re a young woman. Don’t put it off, you can always have a career, you can always, you know, go back to work. You can never just go back to having children. And they grow so fast and so quickly, but I just, I was praying. Both of us were. We were just excited to just expand our family.”
Referencing her two young children, Kelly said: “Thank God you’ve got two.”
“A boy and a girl,” Kirk replied, as she thought about her one-year-old and three-year-old.
“One day, they’ll find out. Right now they’re just little loves. But one day they’ll find out that they’re Charlie Kirk’s children and they’ll know what that means,” she said, triggering applause from the crowd.
In another section of the emotive interview, Catholic Kelly asked if the tragedy in Orem, Utah, ever made her angry at God.
To which Erika said: “The enemy would love for me to be angry.”
Adding: “He would love it because it would distract me from building what Charlie entrusted to me.
“Raising our babies, Turning Point, being there for the team, being there for what the future holds.”
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Topics: Charlie Kirk, US News, Erika Kirk
William Morgan
Erika Kirk shares handwritten note from husband Charlie with one wish she has about him
The widow of Charlie Kirk has shared a heartwrenching note from her late husband, as well as one final wish, just a month after he was shot dead while debating students at Utah Valley University.
It was on September 10 when Kirk was fatally shot while debating students in Utah. His suspected assassin, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, has since been charged with seven offences, including aggravated murder and obstruction of justice.
Over a month on, Kirk’s widow has shared an intimate note he wrote on Instagram, with her saying her slain husband, the founder of Trump-aligned Turning Points USA (TPUSA), would write her a love letter every Saturday while enjoying a relaxed Sabbath.
Scrawled in black handwriting, the note from 31-year-old Kirk reveals the tenderness and intimacy he practised at home, in contrast to his often fiery and confrontational public persona.
Despite living with a packed schedule of college campus debates and Republican campaigning events across the nation, Kirk seemingly always made time to appreciate his wife with a romantic letter.
Charlie Kirk’s campaigning brought him into Donald Trump’s inner circle (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
In her post, Erika, 36, penned: “He never missed one. I share this with you… not to make anyone feel like they need to do the same for their spouse, but to encourage you. To show that when your husband loves you as Christ loved the church you have a deeper respect for him, a deeper love.”
The final love note left for Erika by deeply religious Kirk reads: “Oh Jesus is so inspiring and uplifting. I am so thrilled to be on this journey with you. I am humbled by God’s grace and passion for TPUSA, and also for our lives.”
After sharing his thoughts about his organization, he turns to his wife and his country, as he appears to write: “As you like to say ‘This is not normal!’ Boy is that right! I am so touched by your support of my mission and my dreams.
“I pray God saves America and that we can play a small role in this in some way. I know things can get very hard with kids at home but you do an amazing job balancing it.
“I am so in love with you and want to serve you in any way I can. I love you!”
Following the death of Kirk, Erika has been announced as Turning Points USA’s new leader. However, the former Miss Arizona received online backlash for her glamorous and public displays of grieving – including her appearance at Kirk’s memorial service at State Farm Stadium in Arizona, where she stood by President Donald Trump.
Erika addressed this on Saturday by telling the public: “There is no linear blueprint for grief,” something she further stressed when sharing the love note by telling her fans on Instagram: “I share this with you not to prove a point.
“So I share this in hopes that today, husbands are encouraged to be even better husbands and wives are encouraged to be even better wives.
“I’d give anything to have a Saturday breakfast with my husband asking how we can better serve one another for the week ahead…so if you’re reading this, and you have that blessing, please take advantage of it for me.”