A senior Pentagon official engaged in a year-long affair with a “professional astrologer” that’s led to an impending clash in a Florida courtroom.

On August 22, Anthony Tata filed a 17-page lawsuit against Amy Tripp—the self-proclaimed “internet’s most notorious astrologer”—in Palm County Circuit Court alleging that Tripp engaged in a sustained harassment and defamation campaign after the affair ended.

Though the plaintiff is named as “John Doe,” the filing asserts that he is “an official in the United States Department of Defense” and a novelist who was learning about astrology for one of his books.

The Cut reported that those details fit Tata, the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness. Tata is a retired Army general and the author of 13 military thrillers who lives i

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