(Reuters) – U.S. Representative Nancy Mace, in a graphic speech on the House floor, has accused her former fiancé and three other men of drugging and raping her and other women, and filming and photographing women and underage girls without their consent.
The Republican from South Carolina used her floor privileges late on Monday to level the accusations against the men, calling them “predators” as she described in detail what she said they did to her and other victims.
“You’ve booked yourself a one-way ticket to hell,” she said, addressing the men directly at one point during her almost one-hour speech. “It is nonstop. There are no connections. So I and all of your victims can watch you rot for an eternity.”
She said her former fiancé Patrick Bryant and two business associates drugged her in 2022, and that she was raped during that incident. She also said Bryant, a software entrepreneur, assaulted her in November 2023 before she left him.
Bryant was not immediately available for comment.
“I categorically deny these allegations. I take this matter seriously and will cooperate fully with any necessary legal processes to clear my name,” Bryant told the South Carolina Daily Gazette newspaper.
During her speech, Mace said she found more than 10,000 videos and photographs on Bryant’s cellphone, including lewd images of women who did not know they were being filmed. One video was of her naked, taken by a hidden camera, Mace said.
Mace said she had turned over all the evidence she had against the men to law enforcement in South Carolina, but that Attorney General Alan Wilson had failed to act.
Mace did not immediately respond to a request for comment about her accusations.
The State Law Enforcement Division in South Carolina told the Daily Gazette an investigation is ongoing.
Wilson’s office said in a statement the accusations against the attorney general were “categorically false.”
(Reporting by Brendan O’Brien in Chicago; Editing by Daniel Wallis)
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