{"id":3074,"date":"2025-10-15T07:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T07:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/3074\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T07:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T07:55:07","slug":"florida-rep-cory-mills-restraining-order-from-miss-usa-lindsey-langston-sextortion-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/3074\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Rep Cory Mills restraining order from Miss USA Lindsey Langston sextortion case"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Florida judge slapped Rep. Cory Mills\u00a0(R-Fla.)\u00a0with a restraining order after his ex-girlfriend, reigning Miss United States\u00a0Lindsey Langston, <\/a>accused him of harassing her and threatening to leak sexually explicit videos of her.<\/p>\n

The decision issued Tuesday by state Circuit Judge Fred Koberlein Jr. in Columbia County will bar the lawmaker from acts of violence against Langston, as well as contacting or referring to her on any social media platform until January 2026, according to the judgment obtained by Politico.<\/a><\/p>\n

Koberlein Jr. sided with Langston\u2019s argument that Mills had caused her \u201csubstantial emotional distress\u201d and that he had \u201cno credible rebuttal\u201d to her testimony, according to the order.<\/p>\n

Rep. Cory Mills speaks during a hearing in Lake City court on Sept. 256, 2025. AP<\/p>\n

He also found that the beauty queen had reasonable cause to believe she was \u201cin imminent danger of becoming the victim of another act of dating violence,\u201d without proper precautions in place.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe court, considering the totality of the testimony and the circumstances, does not find [Mills\u2019] testimony concerning the intimate videos to be truthful,\u201d Koberlein wrote in the judgment.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven had the respondent\u2019s testimony been truthful, his response is irrelevant because there was no evidence presented suggesting [Langston] knew the respondent no longer had possession of their intimate videos,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The restraining order followed two court hearings in which the former couple testified on their past relationship and a hoard of texts, phone calls, and messages between them.<\/p>\n

Langston alleged in a police report in July that Mills, 45,<\/a> had threatened to release sex videos and nude pictures of her to the public, and \u201charm any men\u201d she went out with in the future, after she ended their relationship earlier this year upon finding out he\u00a0was seeing another woman<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lindsey Langston was crowned Miss USA 2024. Lindsey Langston \/ X<\/p>\n

Lindsey Langston speaks during a hearing in Third Judicial Circuit court in Lake City, Florida, on Sept. 26, 2025. AP<\/p>\n

Mills allegedly sent a series of harassing communications to Langston in May and June, including a message on May 15 where he told the pageant winner that she \u201cmay want to tell every guy you date that if we run into each other at any point. Strap up cowboy,\u201d according to NBC News. <\/a><\/p>\n

He also threatened in another message to share videos of Langston, writing, \u201cI can send him a few videos of you as well. Oh, I still have them,\u201d the outlet reported.<\/p>\n

Rep. Mills is shown evidence during a cross examination during his sextortion case. AP<\/p>\n

The lawmaker reportedly ignored over 10 requests from Langston to stop contacting her, Koberlein\u2019s judgment said, NBC reported.<\/p>\n

Mills and Langston, a GOP state committeewoman, had been dating since November 2021 and sharing a house in New Smyrna Beach, Fla., since May 2024 before they broke up.<\/p>\n

Mills was one of 409 House lawmakers who\u00a0voted<\/a>\u00a0in April to pass the Take It Down Act, which criminalized the online publication of \u201crevenge porn\u201d or AI-generated intimate visual depictions of others without their consent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Florida judge slapped Rep. Cory Mills\u00a0(R-Fla.)\u00a0with a restraining order after his ex-girlfriend, reigning Miss United States\u00a0Lindsey Langston,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3640,3641,9,11,10,3642,3643,3644,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-3074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-miss-usa","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-restraining-orders","14":"tag-revenge-porn","15":"tag-sexual-harassment","16":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}