Part of: Mace Federal Removal (Berg v. Bryant → D.S.C.) · House Ethics Committee Investigation of Rep. Nancy Mace (OCC Review 25-5681) · Berg v. Bryant (and Bryant's Third-Party Complaint against Mace) · Mace v. Bowman · Assignment Desk Works, LLC v. Alexis Berg · Musgrave v. Mace (2:25-cv-01823-RMG) · Mace v. Bryant · Litigation Overview & Court-Filing Index
Mace's own motion shows she signed a quitclaim deed to her ex-fiancé on Feb. 13, 2025, three days after accusing him of crimes on the House floor
Mace's June 27, 2025 motion to enforce her settlement with Brendan (Patrick) Bryant documents that she executed a quitclaim deed transferring the beach house to him on Feb. 13, 2025, days after her Feb. 10 floor speech, while their property settlement was still being carried out.
On June 27, 2025, Nancy Mace filed a Motion to Enforce Settlement Agreement in her partition case against Brendan Patrick Bryant (No. 2024-CP-10-01725). The motion recounts the deal the two reached at mediation and the paperwork that followed, and in doing so it lays out a striking sequence of dates.
Per Mace's own motion, the settlement gave the beach house to Bryant:
"Pursuant to the Settlement Agreement, Defendant agreed to accept sole and exclusive ownership interest in 3301 Palm Blvd. Isle of Palms, South Carolina and to release and hold harmless Claimant from any and all liability or obligations thereon."
The motion then states when Mace completed her part of the transfer:
"Plaintiff did execute and return a Quit Claim Deed to Defendant on February 13, 2025."
Why the date matters. February 13, 2025 is three days after Mace's February 10, 2025 House-floor speech accusing several men, including Bryant, her former fiancé, of sexual and other misconduct. Mace's own court filing thus places her signing and returning a property deed to Bryant within the same week she publicly accused him from the floor of Congress, as the two sides continued performing a negotiated real-estate settlement. The motion treats the relationship as an ordinary contract to be enforced, asking the court to compel performance and award the prevailing party its attorney's fees.
The filing makes no mention of the floor speech; the juxtaposition comes entirely from the dates Mace herself supplied. The motion was pending as of the docket entries reviewed, and the underlying accusations remain unadjudicated.
Source: Mace v. Bryant, No. 2024-CP-10-01725, Plaintiff's Motion to Enforce Settlement Agreement, filed June 27, 2025. Public record via the S.C. Judicial Branch Public Index. The Feb. 10, 2025 floor speech date is documented in the court's orders in GLT2, LLC v. Jane Doe, No. 2025-CP-10-00981.
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