A Florida county judge issued a restraining order on Tuesday against Representative Cory Mills, a Republican from Florida. The order was granted following a petition from Lindsey Langston, who accused Mills of harassment and threats after their relationship ended earlier this year.

Langston, a prominent figure in Florida’s Republican circles and the reigning Miss United States 2024, initiated the emergency injunction in August. Her decision followed a report to law enforcement in July, in which she claimed Mills threatened to release explicit photos and videos of her and warned of harm to any future partners she might have.

The judge’s ruling stated that Langston has “reasonable cause to believe she is in imminent danger of becoming the victim of another act of dating violence” without the protection of the injunction. This potential threat includes cyberstalking, as classified under Florida law.

A Florida county judge on Tuesday granted a restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) requested by a woman who accused him of harassing and threatening her after their break-up earlier this year.

Lindsey Langston, a Florida Republican state committeewoman who was crowned Miss United States 2024, filed the emergency petition for injunction in August after separately telling law enforcement in July that Mills had threatened to release explicit photos and videos of her and to harm any other men she may date.

The judge wrote Langtson has “reasonable cause to believe she is in imminent danger of becoming the victim of another act of dating violence” — in this case, cyberstalking, as defined by Florida statute — without the injunction.

Until January 1, Mills is prohibited from contacting Langston in any way and is prohibited from going within 500 feet of her residence or place of employment.

The judge found that Mills’s communications to Langston “were all intended to cause … substantial emotional distress.”

Mills told the court he was not referring to sending others intimate videos of Langston, saying he had deleted them and that his iPhone was broken after receiving them. He said he meant he would have sent a video of Langston baking with an apron in their kitchen to other potential suitors to demonstrate he was also seeing her at the same time.

The court said it did not find that testimony to be truthful, but also that the remarks were irrelevant, as Langston did not know the videos had been deleted and did not interpret it that way.

The decision comes after two days of in-person hearings last month, during which Langston broke down in tears while on the stand, local outlets reported.

A 14-page written decision goes into detail about the messy, tumultuous relationships between Langston, Mills, his wife and another girlfriend of Mills’s whom he was dating at the same time as Langston, dubbed “GF2” as shorthand in the decision.

The two started dating in November 2021 when Langston was 22 and Mills was 41, living apart from his wife. Langston moved in with Mills in Florida; she previously told police she believed he had gotten a divorce.

Langston had suspected Mills was not being faithful when she saw a photo of another woman in his Washington, D.C. residence. Mills had told Langston that the woman was a person who “became obsessed with him” and moved into his apartment building, even forcing her way into the apartment on one occasion. In truth, the woman turned out to be his other girlfriend.

In February, Langston saw news reports that police were investigating a physical altercation between Mills and another woman in his Washington, D.C. residence. Both Mills and the alleged victim later denied that a physical altercation took place; the police department transmitted a report to the U.S. Attorney’s office, but Mills was not prosecuted.

While Langston ended the relationship and moved out of Mills’s apartment in late February to early March, Mills told the court “he was uncertain about the status” of the relationship from May through 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 Court Judge James M. Swisher, Jr. wrote that Mills’s explanation 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 May 7 message said: “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 May 15 message said: “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 sent on May 15.

“Hope you hold your crown till the end,” he wrote on June 12.

Langston asked Mills to leave her alone on 11 separate occasions from May through June.

Mills told the court some of the communication was “for the purpose of ‘unwinding’ the relationship,” but the court said he “was unable to provide a logical or rational explanation” as to how.

Mills argued that the delay between his last communication with Langston and her filing a report with law enforcement showed a “lack of distress,” but the judge agreed the delay was only a “perception” and that she had sought assistance from law enforcement before the date on the initial report.

After Langston filed the restraining order on Aug. 5, Mills used his second girlfriend’s phone to directly call and text Langston, as well as her family members — and caused his second girlfriend and one of his public employees to contact Langston, the judge wrote.

The Hill has reached out to Mills’s office for comment. An attorney did not immediately provide a comment from Langston.