Alina Habba's Husband Has Links to the Maduro Regime, Report Claims

Raymond Hall / GC Images Donald Trump’s former personal attorney’s new husband faced potential U.S. sanctions less than a year ago over his links to the Venezuelan regime, it has been claimed.

Alina Habba, 42, tied the knot last month with Turhan Mildon, 29, at a lavish ceremony in the ballroom at New York’s Waldorf Astoria hotel, attended by MAGAworld heavy-hitters like FBI Director Kash Patel, Attorney General Todd Blanche, and White House Chief Counsel Will Scharf.

Mildon, a Turkish businessman, has vast interests in Venezuela and deep connections to allies of the Latin American country’s former despot Nicolas Maduro, The New York Times now reports .

Trump, 80, had Maduro captured in Caracas by elite U.S. forces on Jan.

3 and brought to New York, where the dictator now faces narcoterrorism charges in federal court.

Sources familiar with the matter told the Times that the Trump administration shelved any plans to sanction Mildon after that operation, turning its attention to more powerful figures inside the regime.

Trump aides and officials within the U.S. intelligence community had raised concerns last year about attempts by Habba’s new husband to introduce Alex Saab, a trusted Maduro ally, to influential Republicans, according to the report.

Mildon had already secured lucrative deals with Maduro’s government, with Saab, who oversaw Venezuela’s industrial sector, awarding him a contract to operate state-owned cement factories in March 2025.

He similarly took over a shrimp export business the regime had confiscated from an entrepreneur jailed after being accused of financing the country’s opposition, nominally supported by the Trump administration.

Before Habba, Mildon was also engaged to the daughter of a Venezuelan admiral under U.S. sanctions for corruption and human rights violations related to his command of military operations under Maduro.

He began cultivating MAGA contacts through Richard Grenell while the Trump loyalist was serving as both envoy to Venezuela and head of the Kennedy Center in D.C., the Times reports.

Grenell introduced him to Republican insiders, and Mildon began dating Habba early this year after they met at a Kennedy Center party toward the end of 2025.

“In my grandfather’s time, know-how, (knowledge) was very important,” the investor told Forbes in an interview earlier this month.

“Now, know-who (who you know) is important.” Habba previously served as acting U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey and maintains close ties with Trump, reportedly visiting the president at the Oval Office last week.