Alina Habba, the 41-year-old attorney and Trump adviser, quietly filed for divorce from her second husband, Gregg Reuben, in New Jersey Superior Court last month. The filing caps a five-year marriage that sources say ended amicably after the couple separated last year.
Habba has already moved to Florida, where she purchased a home in Palm Beach just down the road from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club. She christened the new residence by hosting a New Year's Eve party this year rather than attending Trump's bash at Mar-a-Lago.
Neither Habba nor Reuben offered public comment. A spokesperson for Habba declined to discuss the divorce when reached by the Daily Mail, and Reuben did not respond to a request for comment.
Habba and Reuben married on December 31, 2020, in New Jersey, just one year after her divorce from first husband Matthew Eyet, with whom she shares two children. That marriage lasted from 2011 to 2019. The timing of Habba's second marriage roughly coincided with the start of her work for Trump, whom she met at his Bedminster, New Jersey golf club.
Two sources familiar with the dissolved relationship told the Daily Mail that the couple separated last year. One source close to Habba said the split boiled down to the gravitational pull of her rising political career. Reuben, the millionaire founder of New York City-based parking management company Centerpark and a Harvard Business School graduate, "wasn't political," the source said. Habba, meanwhile, became "a star in her own right," and it was "hard to live in that shadow."
The divorce was reportedly settled quickly.
Habba's trajectory over the past several years has been nothing short of remarkable. She was a firebrand on the 2024 campaign trail, served a brief stint as Counselor to the President during the first few months of Trump's second term, and was then appointed interim Attorney for the District of New Jersey. When she was unable to secure the support from lawmakers needed to hold that position permanently, Trump placed her at the Justice Department, where she currently serves as Senior Advisor to Attorney General Pam Bondi for all US Attorneys.
That's a career arc that would strain any marriage, let alone one to a spouse rooted in a different world. Habba now splits her time between Florida, New Jersey, where her kids attend school, and Washington, D.C. Three cities, two kids, and a role at the center of federal law enforcement. The logistics alone would exhaust most people.
One source familiar with the divorce offered a characteristically blunt assessment:
If there's one thing I know about Alina Habba, it's that she doesn't take s**t from anyone.
The same source added:
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.
There's a version of this story that the left will try to tell, one that frames the personal toll of proximity to Trump as some kind of cautionary tale. Don't buy it. People in high-powered careers of every political stripe face marital strain. The difference is that when a conservative woman navigates it, the coverage arrives with a smirk.
What the facts actually show is a woman who made hard choices and kept moving. Habba built a legal career, raised two children, campaigned across the country, held a White House title, and now advises the Attorney General on the management of every US Attorney in the nation. The marriage didn't survive the velocity. That's not uncommon, and it's not a scandal.
The source's closing line landed well enough on its own:
"Until then, she's doing just fine being a boss."
Palm Beach has a new resident. Washington still has its adviser. And the work continues.