A Florida county decide on Tuesday granted a restraining order in opposition to Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) requested by a girl who accused him of harassing and threatening her after their breakup earlier this yr.
Lindsey Langston, a Florida Republican state committeewoman who was topped Miss United States 2024, filed the emergency petition for injunction in August after individually telling legislation enforcement in July that Mills had threatened to launch specific photographs and movies of her and to hurt another males she could date.
The decide wrote Langston has “reasonable cause to believe she is in imminent danger of becoming the victim of another act of dating violence” — on this case, cyberstalking, as outlined by Florida statute — with out the injunction.
Till Jan. 1, Mills is prohibited from contacting Langston in any manner and is prohibited from going inside 500 toes of her residence or place of employment.
The decide discovered Mills’s communications to Langston “were all intended to cause … substantial emotional distress.”
Mills advised the courtroom he was not referring to sending others intimate movies of Langston, saying he had deleted them and that his iPhone was damaged after receiving them. He stated he meant he would have despatched a video of Langston baking with an apron of their kitchen to different potential suitors to display he was additionally seeing her on the similar time.
The courtroom stated it didn’t discover that testimony to be truthful, but additionally that the remarks had been irrelevant, as Langston didn’t know the movies had been deleted and didn’t interpret it that manner.
The choice comes after two days of in-person hearings final month, throughout which Langston broke down in tears whereas on the stand, in keeping with media stories.
A 14-page written determination goes into element concerning the messy, tumultuous relationships between Langston, Mills, his spouse and one other girlfriend of Mills’s whom he was courting similtaneously Langston, dubbed “GF2” as shorthand within the determination.
The 2 began courting in November 2021 when Langston was 22 and Mills was 41, residing other than his spouse. Langston moved in with Mills in Florida; she beforehand advised police she believed he had gotten a divorce.
Langston had suspected Mills was not being devoted when she noticed a photograph of one other girl in his Washington, D.C., residence. Mills had advised Langston that the girl was an individual who “became obsessed with him” and moved into his condo constructing, even forcing her manner into the condo on one event. In fact, the girl turned out to be his different girlfriend.
In February, Langston noticed information stories that police had been investigating a bodily altercation between Mills and one other girl in his Washington, D.C., residence. Each Mills and the alleged sufferer later denied {that a} bodily altercation happened; the police division transmitted a report back to the U.S. Legal professional’s workplace, however Mills was not prosecuted.
Whereas Langston ended the connection and moved out of Mills’s condo someday between late February and early March, Mills advised the courtroom “he was uncertain about the status” of the connection from Might via June after initially reconciling for a month and a half, and that he was contacting Langston “to determine whether the parties were reconciling or ‘unwinding’ the relationship.”
Columbia County, Fla., Circuit Decide James M. Swisher Jr. wrote that Mills’s rationalization was “difficult to comprehend and for the most part incomprehensible,” noting that “GF2 was, and had been, residing with the Respondent according to the Respondent’s own testimony.”
“Nonetheless, the Respondent continued to initiate and engage in a course of conduct to communicate directly with the Petitioner through the use of electronic communication serving no legitimate purpose,” Swisher wrote, and “ramped up such communications during May and June 2025, while he resided with GF2, causing the Petitioner substantial emotional distress.”
One Might 7 message stated: “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, I don’t care this week, this month, or this decade. They better damn well know it’s coming every time.”
A Might 15 message stated: “May want to tell every guy you date that if we run into each other at any point. Strap up cowboy.”
“I can send him a few videos of you as well[.] Oh, I still have them,” Mills despatched Might 15.
“Hope you hold your crown till the end,” he wrote on June 12.
Langston requested Mills to depart her alone on 11 separate events from Might via June.
Mills advised the courtroom a few of the communication was “for the purpose of ‘unwinding’ the relationship,” however the courtroom stated he “was unable to provide a logical or rational explanation” as to how.
Mills argued the delay between his final communication with Langston and her submitting a report with legislation enforcement confirmed a “lack of distress,” however the decide agreed the delay was solely a “perception” and that she had sought help from legislation enforcement earlier than the date on the preliminary report.
After Langston filed the restraining order Aug. 5, Mills used his second girlfriend’s cellphone to straight name and textual content Langston, in addition to her relations — and triggered his second girlfriend and one in every of his public staff to contact Langston, the decide wrote.
The Hill has reached out to Mills’s workplace for remark. An lawyer didn’t instantly present a remark from Langston.
