Former Democratic Candidate Targeted Over Porn Past Charged With Domestic Battery

Zachary Leeman Oct 3rd, 2025, 9:34 am

(AP Photo/Steve Helber)

A former Democratic candidate for the Virginia legislature, whose X-rated movies with her husband were exposed before the election, has been charged with domestic violence this week.

Susanna Gibson Payne , 42, was arrested on September 22 for “assault and battery” against a family member. Payne claimed that her husband, 44-year-old John David Gibson , has been harassing her amid their divorce since last year.

“After my estranged husband, arrested three times since I filed for divorce, assaulted me during a June 2025 custody exchange while I protected our son, he filed a retaliatory criminal complaint against me,” she said.

Payne said sh

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