Is Alexis Wilkins—the girlfriend of F.B.I. director Kash Patel—a Mossad agent or a proud American? A seductress with an agenda or a Southern sweetheart? A small-town country girl—or the sinister product of an elite European boarding school?

At least two of those questions now rest at the center of a $5 million defamation lawsuit filed late last month by the 27-year-old country singer against a right-wing blowhard who accused her of being in cahoots with the Israeli intelligence service. It’s the third such lawsuit she has filed since August.