Alina Habba, the Trump loyalist who rose from personal attorney to counselor to the president, signed a separation agreement with her husband Gregg Reuben on February 2, just two days after the couple attended a wedding together at Trump's Doral golf course. The divorce documents were filed in New Jersey on February 12 on the grounds of irreconcilable differences, and sources have told the Daily Mail that the uncontested divorce has now been granted.

The split came barely a month after the couple hosted roughly 30 guests at their new $9.6 million Palm Beach mansion for a New Year's Eve party that doubled as a celebration of their fifth wedding anniversary. FBI director Kash Patel and his girlfriend, country singer Alexis Wilkins, were among the Trump administration officials in attendance.

Sources close to Habba told the Daily Mail that the couple had been separated for some time and had been living in different states for many months. Neither Habba nor Reuben responded to requests for comment.

The timeline tells the story

Whatever was happening behind closed doors, the public calendar showed no cracks. On January 13, 2025, Habba posted a photo on Instagram with Kellyanne Conway and a caption that radiated ambition:

"Just one week until I step into her shoes. Big heels to fill, but I'm ready!"

According to the Daily Mail. On January 31, Habba was at the wedding of Trump 2024 consultant Alex Bruesewitz, pictured alongside presidential assistant Meghan Bauer and Mike Tyson. Two days later, she called time on her own marriage.

The 41-year-old Habba and the 53-year-old Reuben, a Harvard Business School graduate and millionaire founder of a New York City parking management company, Centerpark, had married at Doral. Their split now lands in the middle of one of the busiest stretches of Habba's professional life.

A career built on proximity and persistence

Habba's rise inside Trump's orbit has been as rapid as it has been polarizing. In December 2024, Trump announced she would serve as counselor to the president, a role held in his first term by Kellyanne Conway. By July 2025, she was named acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey. By August, a court ruled the appointment unlawful. She resigned in December and returned to Washington as an assistant to Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Her husband was also drawn into the administration's gravity. Reuben was appointed chair of the newly created Department of Transportation Advisory Board, created that year by Trump.

Before any of that, Habba built her legal profile through a string of aggressive cases on Trump's behalf:

• She countersued former Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos, who had sued Trump for defamation in January 2017, alleging he kissed and groped her in 2007. Zervos dropped the case in November 2021.
• Trump hired Habba to sue The New York Times and his niece, Mary Trump, for $100 million. In January 2024, the claims against the paper and its three reporters were dismissed, and Trump was ordered to pay nearly $400,000 in legal fees. The case against Mary Trump remains ongoing.
• She filed suit against Hillary Clinton and the Department of Justice. A judge dismissed it as "completely frivolous" and ordered Trump and Habba to pay nearly $1 million in legal costs, a decision upheld on appeal in November 2025.
• She was part of the legal team in the E. Jean Carroll case, where Trump was ordered to pay $5 million and then $83 million in defamation damages. He is appealing both decisions.

The courtroom record is mixed, to put it generously. But Habba's value to Trump was never strictly about win-loss columns. A June 2025 Wall Street Journal profile noted that Trump "adores" her, and her public profile, her willingness to take the fight to hostile media, and her unshakable loyalty clearly count for something in a political world that rewards those qualities.

Critics versus the record

Not everyone inside the broader Trump universe has been supportive. Ty Cobb, a lawyer who worked for Trump on the Russia investigation during his first term, offered a blunt assessment of Habba's appointment:

"He hired her for his own amusement."

"This is not somebody who you get a résumé and you go, 'This person really deserves to be in a position of authority.' I wish her well, but she's so far out of her depth."

Cobb added that the issue was not personal animosity but fitness for the role, saying it was "not a question of hating her" but "a question of her being grossly unfit for the job."

Habba herself has never been shy about acknowledging the role image plays in her career. On The PBD Podcast in January 2024, she was characteristically blunt:

"I don't think I'd be on TV or sitting here if I didn't look the way I look."

On the same podcast, she said someone once asked whether she'd rather be pretty or smart. Her answer: "Oh, easy: pretty. I can fake being smart." Whether that's refreshing candor or a liability depends on who's listening.

The personal cost of political ambition

The divorce raises a question that Washington rarely pauses long enough to consider: what the proximity to power costs the people closest to it. Habba's two children from her first marriage, 12-year-old Luke and 10-year-old Chloe, are likely to remain in their current home through the end of the school year, living with their father, Matthew Eyet. Habba and Eyet married in September 2011 and split in 2019.

Habba's parents, Saad, a gastroenterologist, and Janan, left Iraq in the 1980s. Her siblings, Fuad, 46, who works in finance in New York City, and Nicole, 40, who works in insurance, round out a family story that is, in its broad strokes, a recognizable immigrant success narrative. The daughter of Iraqi immigrants who became one of the most visible lawyers in American politics. It's a good story. It just happens to be colliding with a messy personal chapter.

On the same podcast where she discussed her looks, Habba offered a window into how she saw herself at home:

"I'm not a feminist - I believe in strong women, but I want my door opened."

She continued, describing herself as "very much an old school woman," adding that when she's at home, she cooks, she has "a husband I respect," and she knows "how to turn it off."

That was January 2024. By February 2025, the marriage was over on paper.

What comes next

Habba is now working under Pam Bondi at the Department of Justice. Her seven-bedroom, 6,000-plus-square-foot Palm Beach mansion sits less than two miles from Mar-a-Lago. She remains embedded in the MAGA social circuit, close to the centers of power, and clearly uninterested in retreating from public life.

Her resignation statement from the U.S. attorney post carried the kind of energy that has made her a fixture of conservative media:

"Do not mistake compliance for surrender."

"Make no mistake, you can take the girl out of New Jersey, but you can't take New Jersey out of the girl."

The divorce is personal, and it's worth treating it that way. Marriages end. They end more often when one or both partners are consumed by high-stakes, high-visibility work that leaves little room for anything resembling normalcy. That's not a partisan observation. It's just true.

The question now is whether Habba's professional trajectory absorbs this without a ripple or whether the personal turbulence gives her critics new ammunition. If her career so far is any indication, she'll keep moving forward. Quietly has never been her style.