The woman who told the House Ethics Committee that she had sex with then-Rep. Matt Gaetz at a house party when she was 17 years old, all but ending his national political career, lived part-time at a Florida homeless shelter with one of her parents and turned to selling her “companionship” to buy braces for her teeth.

The still-unidentified woman’s circumstances were detailed for the first time by her lawyer to the New York Times after a federal judge unsealed documents in a related civil case that described the alleged victim as a “then-homeless 17-year-old high schooler.”

The attorney, Laura Wolf, told the Times that the girl’s parents were divorced and one of them was living in a homeless shelter, where the teen and her siblings would also stay when that parent had visitation rights

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