Lindsey Langston, winner of the 2024 Miss United States contest, filed a police report in Florida, accusing Rep. Cory Mills of threatening to release nude videos of her after she ended their relationship. The allegations were reported to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement for review by a spokesperson for the Columbia County Sheriff’s Department, who noted the FDLE had not yet responded to a comment request.
The allegations, first reported by Blaze Media and Drop Site News, emerged after Langston told authorities on July 14 that Mills also threatened to harm any of her future romantic partners. Langston, a Florida Republican state committee member and 2024 winner of the Miss United States beauty pageant, described the relationship with Mills as lasting from November 2021 until February, when she terminated it after seeing media reports suggesting police in Washington had been called to investigate an alleged assault by the representative against a woman. Both Mills and the woman denied the assault, and Mills was not charged in the incident.
Langston told the sheriff’s department that she was in a relationship with Mills from November 2021 until February when she said she ended it after seeing media reports that police in Washington were called to investigate an alleged assault by the representative against a woman. Both Mills and the woman denied that any assault took place, and Mills was not charged in the incident.
Langston said that Mills told her he was separated from his wife at the time they started their relationship. The representative is still married. She told police that after she broke up with him, Mills contacted her multiple times threatening to release nude images and videos of them having sex, according to the report, which said she provided law enforcement with messages that allegedly backed up her claims.
Anthony Sabatini, Langston’s attorney and a Lake County, Florida commissioner who challenged Mills for Congress in 2022, said Langston also filed a restraining order against Mills. POLITICO has not independently confirmed the restraining order. In a statement, Mills told POLITICO he believes Sabatini is ‘weaponizing the legal system to launch a political attack.’