(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Daily Mail published more details on Friday about the sexual fetishes of Bryon Noem, the husband of former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem—revealing that Byron had a secret online relationship with a left-wing dominatrix for more than nine years.
Friday’s report follows the news that Byron’s a secret crossdresser who wore fake breasts and pink shorts while paying adult performers for explicit conversations.
According to the Daily Mail, one of those adult performers is Shy Sotomayor, a 5-foot-tall sex worker known as Raelynn Riley with extra-large 2500cc breast implants. Sotomayor shared a trove of messages and recordings with the Daily Mail, showing that she repeatedly dissed the Noem family, Byron fantasized about leaving Kristi, and also contemplated becoming a woman.
The Kristi Noem story keeps getting more incredible
The Daily Mail has obtained audio and messages of Bryon insulting his wife and worshipping a 5 foot tall, buxom dominatrix named Shy Sotomayor, while discussing his desire to transition into a woman.
He told the dominatrix he… pic.twitter.com/VKsNgQOHXp
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“Bryon was apparently so unfazed by Sotomayor ridiculing Kristi that he told the dominatrix she was ‘so much better’ than his wife and that he didn’t ‘think [his] family stands a chance compared to [her],’” the Daily Mail reported.
At one point, Byron asked Sotomayor: “Do you want me to be a woman?”
“Do you want to be a woman for me[?]” she asked.
“I think I do,” he replied.
National security analysts cautioned that his activities may have exposed the former DHS secretary to blackmail risks.
“If a media organization can find this out, you can assume with a high degree of confidence that a hostile intelligence service knows this as well,” warned former CIA officer Marc Polymeropoulos.
Jack Barsky, a former Soviet spy who became a US counterintelligence asset, told The Daily Mail the blackmail potential was disturbing.
Unearthed audio reveals Kristi Noem's husband professing his love to a dominatrix:
"I do love you… You're so much better [than my wife]. Would you ever marry me?" pic.twitter.com/hizwSzjKBc
— FactPost (@factpostnews) April 10, 2026
When the Daily Mail contacted Bryon by phone, he did not dispute having explicit exchanges or distributing photos of himself dressed as a woman. Asked whether he had made careless comments about his wife and potentially compromised national security, he answered, “Yeah, I made no comments like that, that would lead to that. I deny the second part of that.” He then ended the call.
“Mrs. Noem is devastated,” a spokesperson for the former DHS Secretary stated. “The family was blindsided by this. They ask for privacy and prayers at this time.”
Ken Silva is the editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/jd_cashless.
