Savannah Chrisley announced on Tuesday that she is pregnant and engaged, and the identity of her fiancé has turned a feel-good reveal into a far more complicated story. The man the reality star had previously only called “J” or “Jason” is Jason Galanis, a 56-year-old former financier who spent years in federal prison for securities fraud before President Donald Trump commuted his sentence.
Chrisley, 29, shared news of the pregnancy and engagement to her now-fiancé Jason on October 27, 2026, according to E! News. Us Weekly was the outlet to confirm that the man Chrisley had kept largely under wraps is Us Weekly identifies as Jason Galanis, noting that he is 56 years old, 27 years her senior. TMZ, which first connected Galanis to Chrisley's unnamed partner, reported that he dated her for more than a year and is the father of her unborn child, according to sources with direct knowledge cited by TMZ.
How the Relationship Began
Chrisley has said she and Jason met “in the world of politics” while she was fighting for pardons for her parents, Todd and Julie Chrisley, according to the same E! News account. Their romance reportedly began in July 2025, though she did not publicly confirm she was even dating someone until May 2026 — a gap of nearly a year before she went public, per the outlet's reporting. She has described the relationship in glowing terms, calling it, in her own words, “a dream relationship that anyone could ever hope to be in.”
TMZ's sourcing adds additional texture to that timeline, reporting that Galanis reached out to Chrisley in June 2025, that the pair began dating the following month, and that they were dating exclusively for several months while keeping the romance out of the spotlight, according to TMZ's sources. The outlet also reported that Todd Chrisley approved of the relationship but had reservations about the couple's significant age gap.
Galanis's Fraud Conviction and Clemency
Galanis is a former business partner of Hunter Biden, according to Us Weekly's reporting, and he testified before a Republican-led congressional impeachment inquiry into former President Joe Biden in March 2024. In written testimony submitted to that inquiry, Galanis stated plainly that he “was a business partner of Hunter Biden and Devon Archer, among” others, according to his written statement filed with the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability.
Years before that testimony, Galanis was convicted in connection with multimillion-dollar securities fraud schemes, including one involving a Native American tribal entity. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York announced that Galanis was sentenced to 189 months in prison for his participation in multiple securities-fraud schemes, according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Justice, Southern District of New York. Separately, prosecutors described Galanis as pleading guilty to defrauding a Native American tribe and investors of more than $60 million, per the Southern District of New York.
A Pattern Among Biden Associates
Trump commuted Galanis's sentence in March 2025, Us Weekly reported, cutting short a term that had been described elsewhere as more than 15 years behind bars for his role in the tribal bond scheme and a related scheme. Galanis is not the only former Hunter Biden associate to receive clemency from the president. Devon Archer, who the testimony identifies alongside Galanis as a Biden business partner, was convicted in 2018 for his connection to a scheme to fraudulently issue more than $60 million of tribal bonds, according to CBS News, which reported Archer was sentenced to one year and one day in prison.
For now, the headline out of the Chrisley camp remains the pregnancy and engagement themselves, with the family's long public fight for Todd and Julie Chrisley's own pardons forming the backdrop against which Savannah says she met her fiancé. How that relationship moves forward, and how the family's next chapter unfolds, is likely to stay a fixture of entertainment coverage in the weeks ahead.
