Editor’s note: The below article contains graphic descriptions of sexual acts, and may be offensive to some readers.
Virginia House of Delegates candidate Susanna Gibson didn’t introduce herself to voters as “HotWifeExperience,” the name she used online for her sex-for-money exploits. Instead, she introduced herself as a nurse, touting it as her lead credential for office. The headline on her campaign website blares that she is a “Mom. Nurse Practitioner. Public Health Expert.”
But her nursing license lapsed last month, public records show, as she worked to sidestep her sex scandal, in which she was caught performing extreme — and in some cases unsanitary — sex acts live on camera with her husband at the request of customers who paid her in tokens. Since then, she’s repeatedly stated that she is a nurse, potentially running afoul of Virginia law.
Gibson’s licenses as a Registered Nurse and a Certified Nurse Practitioner both expired on September 30, according to the Virginia Department of Health Professions. She was originally licensed in 2008 under her maiden name Susanna Payne.
Even so, on October 6, she released a campaign ad centered solely on how being a nurse practitioner is why she should be elected.
Our latest ad makes it clear: politicians have no place interfering in women's healthcare.
I'm committed to protecting your rights. https://t.co/VVjqFvoIm1 pic.twitter.com/JfGBKk7XvF
— Susanna Gibson (@SusannaSGibson) October 6, 2023
“I’m a mom and a nurse practitioner. When I walk through this door it’s never about politics, it’s all about what’s best for my patients. But David Owen is trying to force his politics into your exam room. He wants to ban abortion in Virginia,” she says while wearing a medical outfit.
According to Virginia law, “It shall be a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to… Use in connection with his name any designation tending to imply that he is a professional nurse or a practical nurse unless duly licensed to practice under the provisions of this chapter.”
“Susanna Gibson could be in violation of code sections 54.1 – 3008 (A) 2, 4 and 5” if her license is expired, said T. Daniel Frith III, a partner with Frith & Ellerman Law Firm who specializes in medical malpractice.
Gibson’s website says, “My particular medical experiences have given me a unique insight into the intersectionality of health with economic stability, education, environmental justice, discrimination, social support systems, and more, all of which greatly impact Virginia’s policy and legislation needs.”
She is listed as an employee at a clinic helping people lose weight called Virginia Weight and Wellness, according to the practice’s website. Jeffrey Sicat, the doctor there, did not return a request for comment on her status.
In Virginia, the state legislature is a part-time job where someone would not typically quit their profession to take office — much less to run for the chance of taking office. Members of the Virginia House of Delegates are paid $17,640, and the body is in session only for two to three months per year.
Gibson and her attorney, Daniel Watkins, would not answer questions about her profession and license, despite it being crucial to her political identity. She has largely refused to answer questions since it came to light that during her campaign, she was filming herself performing graphic sex acts in order to raise money for a “good cause.”
Though a poll found that Democrats and women thought she should drop out of the race, she has not done so, and early voting is already underway.
The Daily Wire reported this week that although Gibson’s actions online appear to qualify as prostitution under Virginia law, emails obtained under public records laws show that the local prosecutor — Shannon Taylor, who is also on the ballot this year as a Democrat — may have improperly used government resources instead to help Gibson’s campaign, while stonewalling the public.
Prosecuting her for a professional licensing-related crime would also fall to Taylor, part of a band of “progressive prosecutors” whose members have boasted about ignoring laws that they don’t like.
Gibson is on the ballot in a swing district in a state where party control of the legislature hangs in the balance, but in addition to the secrecy around basic elements of her background, fellow Democrats have refused to say how they feel about someone selling their body for online donations and potentially breaking one of the laws that they help make.
According to campaign finance records, she shares office space with the campaigns of two Democrat incumbents, delegates Rod Willett and Schuyler VanValkenburg, and paid Willett for limited liability insurance and VanValkenburg for internet service. Neither returned a request for comment on Gibson’s fitness for office, pornography history, or professional license issues. Gibson scrubbed a list of endorsements from her campaign website to make it easier for other Democrats to distance themselves from her.
In videos filmed last year, Gibson said she has had sex with three men in one day, and “don’t tell my husband he was the third. I would say ethically nonmonogamous but I guess that three in one day was not.” She can be heard in the videos saying “he doesn’t like sharing” her with other men, with her husband saying, “Sometimes I have to though. She makes me.”
She said for enough money, she would order room service in a hotel and cause the delivery person to see her naked against his will, saying: “I’m definitely a slut… In order to leave the door cracked I need 500 tokens.”