This page supports After the Verdict. On the morning the jury was deliberating in her federal case, Wilson’s Instagram carried a card aimed at T.J., the father in an unrelated Montana family-court matter. It is reproduced below with private details redacted, followed by what the Montana courts found and how far back these posts go.
Every card and exhibit on this page comes from Instagram. Each one is a story Wilson published on her own public account, @lianashanti, and each still shows her account name at the top. Where she reshared someone else’s post or a web page, she did so on that same account, to her own followers.
The card
What the record says
The card is false. T.J. was not convicted of partner or family assault. The card sets a booking photograph and a list of arrest charges beside the words “domestic violence perpetrator” as though one proved the other. A list of charges is not a judgment, and the label is not true. The Montana courts reached the same place. The district court found that the abuse allegations against him “were reviewed by law enforcement and child and family services and ultimately found to be unsubstantiated,” and the Montana Supreme Court, affirming on August 4, 2026, recorded the finding that the allegations of “violent and abusive behavior on the part of [T.J.] have been repeatedly unsubstantiated” (2026 MT 178N, ¶¶ 23, 30).
The courts saw the wider pattern too. The June 2023 findings of fact, which the Supreme Court quotes and relies on, include that “Ms. Shanti’s followers have a high preponderance of claims against their spouses for abuse,” and that they “have a higher preponderance of suppressed memories and family systems with hallmarks of cult indicators (Behavior, Information, Thought, and Emotional Control)” (¶ 23). The accusations against T.J. were not an isolated dispute. A court had already identified them as part of a pattern among Wilson’s followers.
Why that morning
The timing matters. That opinion, which also records that Wilson had already posted T.J.’s mugshot and “multiple unfounded allegations” about him (¶ 36), was entered into evidence at the federal civil trial. Days later, with the jury still deliberating, the same mugshot was back on her account. The card reads less as news about T.J. than as a strike back at the man the ruling had vindicated, timed to the moment that ruling was before the jury. It was also the very conduct the jury was weighing. The defendants’ counterclaims accused Wilson of damaging them with false public accusations, and that afternoon, at 2:53 p.m., the jury found for them and awarded $40.1 million. Wilson was still posting this kind of accusation on the day she was held to account for it.
Four years of posts
Nor was the card a one-off. Wilson had been posting about T.J. since November 2022, when, early in the divorce, she published a run of “prayers” naming him in full as “satan’s soldier” and declaring “I BIND YOU” over him. Over the next four years the posts widened to the rest of the family, including the family of his former wife, Alihana, a Wilson follower since 2020 (n.1). Her own father, K.L., was attacked again and again from 2023 onward. One story in June 2023 called him part of a “SICK PEDO CULT” (). Within days the campaign had widened to the professionals in the case. In July 2023 Wilson reposted a collage of her own stories that put T.J., K.L., their church and T.J.’s lawyer side by side, asking why “would a lawyer want to intentionally block THE FACT” about the family (). The same weekend she turned on Dr. Sara Boilen, the court-appointed psychologist who evaluated the family: “The public needs to KNOW that while #SaraBoilen is out there posing as a meditation teacher in “mindfulness”…” (). In January 2024 she shared a new page about T.J. on the Exposing Family Abuse website, the site she would later deny creating (ECF 92 at 22–23), calling him a “domestic violence perpetrator” and K.L. “the man she exposes for SEXUALLY ABUSING HER as a child” (). On the night before the verdict, in stories still live as the jury deliberated, she named K.L. beside T.J. and went after the second court-appointed evaluator, claiming he “decides in one hour, she wasn’t abused” (). Another story the same night said the two men’s church was one whose “Members of the cult organize sex trips to poor countries” (). Four weeks after the verdict, she posted the attack on the psychologist again (). No proof was ever offered. The administrators of this website hold well over 100 images in which Wilson names T.J., his former wife or her father, posted between November 2022 and September 2026: original stories and her reposts of them alike, because each repost put the accusation in front of her followers again. That record is preserved, dated and still growing. The Montana courts heard the same accusation and rejected it: the court-appointed psychologist concluded that Alihana’s father “did not sexually abuse” her and that “there is no data showing he poses a risk of future sexual abuse” (¶ 31). The posts went on regardless, through the trial and beyond it. Like the rest of what this page records, they read as a narrative turned outward, aimed at the people a court had believed, at exactly the moments scrutiny turned toward her.
A new name
The pattern reaches past the posts. The Montana opinion records two names for her: the one she was married under, and the one she uses now. It introduces her by the first and then as “n/k/a Alihana Malakai,” now known as (¶ 2). Taking a new name and a new identity is a pattern that has come up again and again among the women in Wilson’s community. In this family it reached the children as well. The parenting plan the Montana Supreme Court upheld specifically bars them “from using any nicknames associated with” Wilson’s teachings and school (¶ 6).
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