Republican Rep. Corey Mills has been hit with a restraining order from his ex-girlfriend
A Florida judge issued a restraining order Tuesday against Republican Rep. Corey Mills of Florida to “protect against dating violence” after his ex-girlfriend accused him of threatening and harassing her.
In a petition filed in August, Lindsay Langston alleged that after their breakup, Mills threatened to blackmail her using nude photos and videos and physically harm anyone she dated.
“Corey continued to message me on the Instagram accounts I manage after I blocked him and asked him not to contact me,” Langston, a Republican State Committeewoman and Miss USA 2024, wrote. “The messages gradually became more threatening over time.”
The restraining order issued Tuesday by State Circuit Judge Fred Koberlin Jr. in the District of Columbia prohibits Mills from committing violent acts against Langston and prohibits him from contacting her until January 1.
The order says Mills cannot “directly tag the petitioner on social media, including, but not limited to, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, TikTok, or any other social media platform.”
Langston’s attorney, Bobby Frank, declined to comment. Neither Mills’ congressional office nor his attorney immediately responded to requests for comment.
Langston alleged in a police report she filed with Florida authorities in July that Mills contacted her repeatedly after their breakup. The complaint was referred to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, which confirmed it received the referral from the Sheriff’s Office in August, but declined to comment on the investigation.
Mills allegedly sent a series of harassing messages to Langston in May and June, which were mentioned in the ruling, Including a letter she wrote to Langston on May 15 stating that she “might want to tell everyone you date that if we ever meet each other.[.]”
In another message the same day, he also threatened to share Langston’s videos, writing: “I can send him some of your videos too.”[.] Oh, I still have them[.]”, according to the ruling.
Cooperline’s ruling also said Mills ignored 11 separate requests from Langston to leave her alone, and detailed some of Mills’ testimony at a hearing last month.
According to Koberlin, Mills testified that efforts to contact Langston stemmed from trying to determine whether he and Langston would reconcile or break up.
Mills also claimed during the hearing that he was only referring to the possibility of sending non-sexual videos to Langston, and said he deleted any intimate videos of her, Cooperline wrote.
Koberlin wrote that he doubted the veracity of Mills’ testimony.
“Even if respondent’s testimony was truthful, his response is irrelevant because there was no evidence presented indicating that petitioner knew that respondent no longer possessed his intimate videos,” Cooperline wrote.
This is not the first time Mills, who has represented Florida’s 7th Congressional District since January 2023, has faced legal trouble this year.
Police opened an investigation in February over a report of an alleged assault at an apartment building located on the same block as the property from which Mills faces eviction. Mills’ office said he “vehemently” denied any wrongdoing, and a police spokesman said at the time that Mills had not been arrested nor charged.
He also separately faced an eviction lawsuit over the summer in Washington, D.C., after a property management company accused him of owing $85,000 in unpaid rent. Mills told the Daytona Beach News Journal in August that he no longer faces eviction for not paying rent. says the paper“Everything is paid.”