A judiciary official has issued a restraining order against a Florida congressman after his former girlfriend alleged harassment following their breakup, which occurred when she discovered he was involved with another woman in Washington, D.C.
Lindsey Langston, a 26-year-old state Republican committee representative and the current Miss United States, accused US Rep. Cory Mills, 45, of threatening to release intimate videos of her and warned against her dating anyone else, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
Mills, who has served in Congress since 2022, refuted Langston’s claims, but Circuit Judge Fred Koberlein Jr. deemed Langston’s account reliable while finding Mills’ testimony lacking in credibility, labeling it as largely “incomprehensible.”
The judge ordered Mills to stay at least 500 feet away from Langston and forbade any form of contact or social media mention involving her.
The restraining order is in effect until January 1, he ruled.
During the proceedings, it emerged that Langston and Mills started their relationship in November 2021. Mills is married with a young child, though he and his wife have been living apart since 2019.
Langston informed the court of her increasing doubts about Mills’ “commitment and fidelity to their relationship” after learning about a “second girlfriend,” referred to as Sarah Raviani in legal documents. She said she discovered Mills’ involvement with Raviani in December 2024 and later found out about a police visit to a DC residence due to a domestic incident between Raviani and Mills.
At that point, Langston moved out of Mills’ home in Volusia County, Florida, and broke off their relationship, but Mills continued to call and text her repeatedly through June, even though he was living with Raviani in DC. Langston said the calls and texts caused her “substantial emotional distress” and that the congressman ignored her requests to leave her alone.
Court documents provided some of those messages
“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,” he wrote on May 7, according to WTLV, followed a week later by, “May want to tell every guy you date that if we run into each other at any point. Strap up cowboy.”
That same day, he wrote, “I can send him a few videos of you as well[.] Oh, I still have them.”
The judge noted 11 documented requests from Langston asked for Mills to leave her alone, all of which were ignored.
Mills testified that he had deleted such video and that his phone was damaged and he couldn’t access them anyway, the Sentinel reported.
Mills is an Army veteran and co-founder of a number of defense contracting and security companies that have come under scrutiny by the House Ethics Committee, which is investigating whether he may have benefitted from federal contracts while in office.
