Overview

• Henrico County records show Gibson Payne, 42, was charged on Sept. 22 with assault and battery of a family member, a misdemeanor.
• She turned herself in on the warrant and was released the same day, according to reporting that cites jail records.
• Gibson Payne alleges her husband assaulted her during a June 2025 custody exchange and later filed a false report leading to her arrest.
• Public records cited in coverage show her estranged husband, John David Gibson, was arrested multiple times last December for violating a protective order, extortion, and threatening language, with a protective order granted the following month.
• Her 2023 House of Delegates bid faltered after leaked recordings of intimate livestreams surfaced; she denies profiting from the videos and now leads MyOwn Image to push online privacy reforms.