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How Traitors' Rob Rausch Is Apologizing to Maura Higgins After Season 4 Finale

Rob Rausch won $220,800 as The Traitors sole winner and pledged to buy Maura Higgins a $10,000 Hermès Birkin bag to make amends for betraying her.

  • On Feb. 26, Rob Rausch revealed he had been a Traitor and won the season, shocking Maura Higgins, while reunion host Andy Cohen pressed finalists about their chemistry.
  • Rob Rausch engineered the outcome by posing as a Faithful friend to Maura Higgins, manipulating alliances to vote out Tara Lipinski before betraying Eric Nam.
  • After winning the $220,800 prize, Rausch told Andy Cohen `I have to buy Maura a Birkin Bag` and plans to spend some of the winnings on the luxury gift, which Lisa Rinna noted costs at least $10,000.
  • Maura Higgins said she was embarrassed after trusting Rausch, who told Us Weekly he would buy her a Birkin, and she won't take the betrayal to heart.
  • Amateur counts show The Traitors have won 44 of 78 seasons, and Rausch's Love Island fame plus his professional snake wrangler occupation add unique appeal to his rare dominant run.
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E! News broke the news in United States on Friday, February 27, 2026.
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