Ex-wife says Georgia prosecutor filed for divorce a day after being hired by Fani Willis as affair rumors swirl

Nathan Wade’s ex-wife claims he filed to divorce her just one day after he was hired by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis – his alleged paramour – to be lead prosecutor in the Georgia election fraud case against former President Donald Trump, according to court documents filed Friday. 

Wade then immediately moved to have records related to the breakup sealed by the court handling the proceedings, Joycelyn Wade alleged in a 19-page filing with the Cobb County Superior Court.

“Plaintiff [Nathan Wade] was appointed as a special prosecutor by Ms. Willis on November 1, 2021. Plaintiff filed for divorce on November 2, 2021. Defendant [Joycelyn Wade] was served by process server on November 3, 2021,” the document submitted by attorney Andrea Dyer Hastings states.  

“Before Defendant even filed her Answer and Counterclaim, Plaintiff filed a motion asking the court to seal the record in this divorce action,” the filing continues. 

Nathan Wade and Willis have been accused by Trump co-defendant Michael Roman of having an “improper” and “clandestine” relationship that Roman argues is grounds for having criminal charges against him dismissed. 

Roman’s bombshell filing accused Nathan Wade — a private attorney with Atlanta-based Wade & Campbell — of using some of the nearly $654,000 in legal fees he’s raked in from the Fulton County DA’s Office for his work on the Trump case to take Willis on lavish trips. 

Willis is also accused of hiring Wade to help prosecute the Trump case despite him not being properly qualified or experienced in handling criminal matters.

Joycelyn Wade claimed Friday that her now-former husband never told her he was working for Willis on the Trump case, or how much money he was making as a result of the appointment, and left her with “little means of financial support” while he shelled out on trips to “California, Florida and the Caribbean” with Willis. 

The filing includes bank records detailing Nathan Wade’s travel expenses, including spends of over $800 at the Doubletree Napa Valley American Canyon hotel in May of last year and $3,172.20 on Norwegian Cruise Line the previous November — as well as $370.88 at the Hyatt Regency Aruba around the same time.

Joycelyn’s filing comes one day after attorneys for Willis filed a motion to get the Atlanta DA out of sitting for a Jan. 23 deposition in the Wade divorce case.

Willis’ legal team argued that the subpoena should be dismissed, since she wouldn’t be able to offer relevant testimony, and claimed that the Wades’ marriage was already over by 2017 — before Willis met Nathan – when Joycelyn allegedly cheated on him. 

Hastings responded that Willis’ claim of a full-blown affair by Joycelyn was “false,” arguing that her client “was experiencing a profound sense of disconnection in her marriage” after prior infidelity by Nathan Wade.

Joycelyn Wade “regrettably reconnected with an old friend through social media and text messages were the sole extent of their contact,” wrote Hastings, who argued that her client never met in person with the former flame and the couple “successfully worked through this issue, as evidenced by the fact that it was not until four (4) years later that [Nathan] filed for divorce.”

The DA’s allegations, Hastings added, “[raise] the question of whether Ms. Wills possesses equal intimate knowledge of any marital discord involving any other of her special prosecutors.”

“Her public inquiry of ‘why the one’ seems to be met with a response that suggests, ‘because you, Ms. Wills, are having an affair with him and not them.’”

Meanwhile, the Fulton County Board of Commissioners announced Friday that it was investigating whether Willis misused county funds and “accepted valuable gifts and personal benefits” from Nathan Wade, giving the Atlanta DA until Feb. 2 to respond.