Miss United States Files for Restraining Order Against GOP Congressman Ex-Boyfriend, Says He Threatened to Release Nude Pics and Video

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Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) found his name in headlines for unflattering reasons again Tuesday evening, after his ex-girlfriend filed a petition for a restraining order against him containing a slew of allegations both serious and salacious, including that he threatened to release nude photos and videos of her to derail her beauty pageant title and professional reputation.

If the 45-year-old congressman’s name is familiar, it might be due to reports from May of multiple on-the-record stolen valor accusations from soldiers who served with him in combat.

Or perhaps last month’s report that Mills was being evicted from his D.C. penthouse, accused by his landlord of owing $85,000 — the same penthouse apartment where 27-year-old Sarah Raviani said he had assaulted her in February. Raviani told police that Mills was her “significant other for over a year,” and the report said officers observed “bruises on her arm which appeared fresh” and described her as “physically shaking and scared.” A warrant was issued for Mills’ arrest but he was not arrested after Raviani recanted her accusations.

The news reports about the alleged assault of Raviani knocked over two more dominoes: revealing that Mills had not yet finalized his divorce from his wife, Rana Al Saadi, and alerted his Florida girlfriend to the existence of a D.C. girlfriend, triggering another breakup and even more troubling allegations.

Lindsey Langston, the current reigning Miss United States and a Florida GOP state committeewoman, filed the restraining order petition against Mills, following a police report she filed last month against him, reported Roger Sollenberger at Drop Site News.

Langston told Sollenberger that she started dating Mills in November 2021 and moved in with him last summer at his New Smyrna Beach home in his district in central Florida. She “learned he had a second girlfriend” in D.C. after the news broke in February about Raviani’s accusations and broke up with him.

According to Langston, Mills continued to aggressively pursue and harass her, ignoring her repeated rejections and requests to leave her alone. She filed a police report on July 14, giving investigators “timestamped digital evidence to support her allegations, which she also shared with Drop Site,” wrote Sollenberger.

“The threats from Cory intensified over time,” Langston said. “From emotional manipulation, to physical violence against whoever I date in the future, to threats of having me stripped of the Miss United States crown… something I worked extremely hard for and a dream that was placed in my heart long before I even knew who Cory Mills was.”

Mills harassed Langston for months, the police report says, contacting her “numerous times on numerous different accounts,” and allegedly warning her he would harm anyone she tried to date in the future:

One text, obtained by Drop Site, reads, “You want to date or be with someone else. Be my guest. But they need to know well in advance that if we cross paths, l don’t care this week, this month, or this decade. They better damn well know it’s coming every time.”

Another message, this one from a Mills Instagram account, reads, “P.S. still waiting on your boy’s text or does he only act tough in front of you? Florida is a small place and my cousin…just moved to Lake City.”

The police report states that Mills was “threatening to release nude images and videos of [Langston], to include recorded videos of her and Cory engaging in sexual acts.”

The “Code of Conduct” for the Miss United States pageant includes “[being] of good moral character” and “[n]ever posed nude in print or any other medium; past or present,” according to the organization’s website.

Sollenberger interviewed three other women who had romantic relationships with Mills, who shared their own disturbing stories about his conduct with them and threats to discourage them from speaking publicly about him.

“He’s a legit psychopath,” one woman said, describing him as someone who lies and makes threats with ease in a way that scared her. “Another former romantic partner also independently described Mills as a ‘psychopath,'” Sollenberger noted.

There were also allegations of Mills treating at least one woman like a “sex slave”:

On at least one occasion, Mills sent a woman to a male friend’s home—a male friend this woman had never met—to have sex, according to texts and audio messages obtained by Drop Site. The male friend described his experience as humiliating, likening his role in them to “sex slavery.”

Courtney Weil and Jill Savage at Blaze Media reported additional details about Langston’s accusations against Mills, including that he lied to her– telling her his divorce was final– to get her to move in with him, pushed her to get married and have children, and more details about the “bags of cash.” Langston said she saw unknown people bring him “bags of cash.”

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