Former Trump attorney and ex-New Jersey U.S. Attorney Alina Habba is reportedly days away from marrying a 29-year-old Turkish billionaire, a match that surfaced publicly only months ago and marks her third marriage.
Habba, 42, and Turhan Mildon, CEO of Miller Holding, plan to wed Saturday at an undisclosed location, the New York Post reported. The independent outlet The Correspondent first broke news of the engagement on Tuesday. The Daily Mail separately spotted the couple outside the Polo Room restaurant in West Palm Beach, Florida, where Habba wore a diamond engagement ring estimated at 23 carats or more.
Mildon is 13 years younger than Habba. He runs Miller Holding, a multinational conglomerate his grandfather founded in 1967 that operates across energy, construction, and mining. He is also previously divorced, though details of that marriage have not been reported.
The couple met earlier this year at a Kennedy Center event in Washington. Their first public appearance together came in April at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, an evening cut short when a gunman attempted to rush the ballroom. They were seen again on the Fourth of July at the Executive Branch, a private club in Washington, D.C.
Habba's personal life has moved fast. She divorced her first husband, attorney Matthew Eyet, in 2019. President Trump hired her as his personal attorney in 2021, and she went on to serve in the West Wing as a counselor to the president before being picked to lead the New Jersey U.S. Attorney's Office.
She resigned from that post last December. Sometime afterward, she divorced her second husband, Gregg Reuben, described as a parking lot magnate. Mildon will be her third husband.
Even after leaving government, Habba remained a fixture in Trump-world speculation. She was floated as a potential successor to Karoline Leavitt as White House press secretary but denied any interest in the role.
Leavitt's departure from the podium set off a scramble inside the administration. The president himself weighed in on the vacancy, and the White House explored cabinet-led press briefings as an interim solution.
Leavitt has since moved on. She joined MAGA Inc. and has made media appearances, including a guest spot on ABC's "The View."
Mildon's business portfolio extends well beyond Turkey. The Correspondent reported that he has developed close ties to government leaders in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Venezuela, including Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodriguez. The nature and scope of those relationships have not been detailed publicly.
For a man about to marry a former senior U.S. government official who held a top federal law-enforcement post and served inside the West Wing, those foreign entanglements are worth watching. Neither Habba nor Mildon has commented publicly on the engagement or the wedding plans. The 23-carat ring estimate came from observation, and no one involved has confirmed the stone's size or value.
Several basic questions remain open. No one has disclosed who assessed the ring's carat weight. The specific government figures Mildon deals with in the Congo have not been named. And the timeline of Habba's divorce from Reuben, how quickly it was finalized relative to her resignation and the start of her relationship with Mildon, has not been reported.
Habba built her public profile as a combative advocate for the president during some of his most contentious legal battles. She carried that profile into government and then out of it again in under a year. Now she is stepping into a very different kind of spotlight, one that ties her personally to a young foreign billionaire with business interests in countries where American policy is far from settled.
Whatever comes next for Habba, the days of press-secretary speculation are over. The next chapter is personal, and it starts Saturday.
