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Nancy Mace Told Her She Was Assaulted, Then Talked About Suing for a Million Dollars

On her first recorded call with the alleged assault victim, April 6, 2024, Rep. Nancy Mace said: I believe you were assaulted. She said she would sue her ex fiance Patrick Bryant, and put the payout at 150K each, a million dollars, or whatever that number is, six times 150. The call offered no resource, advocate or option of any kind. Her filed Answer admits she told the alleged assault victim she had seen a video on Bryant's phone; no agency has produced or cited a video recording. The three men SLED charged in October 2026 deny wrongdoing and are presumed innocent, and Mace denies any conspiracy. Audio: FITSNews.

"I believe you were assaulted. And I believe that he filmed it."

That is Rep. Nancy Mace, seventeen minutes and forty seconds into her first recorded call with the alleged assault victim, a woman she had never met, on April 6, 2024. Two minutes earlier she had said: "I'm going to sue him. Okay. Civilly." Half an hour in: "Easily all of us can get 150K each." And: "if we had six women and he's hit in the pocketbook and it costs him a million dollars, or whatever that number is, six times 150, he won't be doing this again."

FITSNews published the full 44 minute audio on June 7, 2026 (full audio). This documentary plays the call in her own voice, with the real call clock on every clip shown out of order, and checks it line by line against the court record. The Short plays above; the full film is on the Maceopedia YouTube channel.

Chapters in the film:

  • 0:00 Cold open: the first call
  • 0:44 The money
  • 2:24 The man she named once
  • 3:58 What she offered, and what she never offered
  • 5:21 The video
  • 7:58 The timeline

The denials: SLED charged John Osborne, Eric Bowman and Patrick Bryant on October 14, 2026. These are accusations. All three deny wrongdoing and are presumed innocent. Mace denies any conspiracy.

SLED news release, Oct. 14, 2026: the three men charged.

The money

"Him" is Patrick Bryant, her ex fiance. Four days before the call, on Tuesday, April 2, 2024, she had sued him over real estate they owned together. On the call she says so: "I filed a suit against him on Tuesday of this week regarding our real estate."

Mace v. Bryant, e-filed April 2, 2024.

The numbers come in steps: a civil right "about $150,000," then "150K each," then six times 150. Six times 150,000 is 900,000; she rounds it, "or whatever that number is." No demand is made to anyone. "He can sell a building or two, settle, be done, move on." And: "it's not about the money. It's about making sure he never does it again."

The man she named once

In 44 minutes Mace says John Osborne's name once: "There's no way that you consented to what maybe I believe Osborne did to you." The alleged assault victim asks: "It was John?" Mace: "I don't know if it was him. I've been told it was him, but I don't know. It was not Patrick and it was not Eric." The alleged assault victim: "Yeah, it would have been John. I mean, we were kind of seeing each other." Mace: "And he did it in front of Patrick and Eric, and Patrick filmed it." The alleged assault victim: "I have no memory of any of that." Osborne's filed Answer denies the assault and any filming. Every consequence Mace names on the call is for Bryant; none is for Osborne.

What she offered, and what she never offered

She offered her cell phone ("This is my bat phone ... I cannot give you legal advice"), contingency lawyers ("there's no money up front"), and "you can call me anytime, any hour." She also said: "this isn't your fault." We searched two separate transcripts of the full call. Advocate: zero. Counselor: zero. Hotline: zero. Forensic exam: zero. Police report: zero.

South Carolina's Attorney General pays for forensic exams whether or not a victim reports, through the Department of Crime Victim Compensation, and the state coalition SCCADVASA works with 22 member organizations that provide confidential, direct services to survivors. RAINN's guidance is not to pressure anyone to report to police, and to offer resources. The call offered no resource of any kind.

The video

On the call Mace says she saw the video on Bryant's phone. Her filed Answer admits it:

Mace Answer to the Third-Party Complaint, Dec. 19, 2025, para. 51. The alleged victim's name is redacted.

On the House floor on February 10, 2025, she said: "I found photos and video of her assault on Patrick Bryant's phone."

Congressional Record, Feb. 10, 2025, p. H609.

In October 2025, at a hearing in the civil case against Bryant, the alleged assault victim's own lawyer told the judge she did not have the video and said it was with SLED; later that day the lawyer said she did not know whether SLED had it (hearing transcript, Oct. 22, 2025, filed Nov. 17, 2025). The warrants SLED swore on October 12, 2026 cite no video recording as evidence. They cite a witness watching a live home security feed, two still images from it, and a journal entry. That journal entry is an email from the witness, produced in a lawsuit in 2026, more than seven years after the October 26, 2018 night the warrants describe.

SLED affidavit (Osborne), sworn Oct. 12, 2026

Solicitor Scarlett Wilson wrote that SLED reviewed terabytes of data. No agency has produced or cited a video recording of the assault Mace described.

The timeline

On the call Mace says of Melissa Britton, Bowman's estranged wife: "She will bend over backwards for us." The order of events: Mace says she found the video in November 2023. SLED opened its investigation that December. Mace met Britton in early 2024. Then the call. Britton gave SLED her account later in 2024. Bryant alleges in his court filing that the meeting was a plot:

Bryant Amended Third-Party Complaint, para. 48: an allegation.

Mace denies it. Her filed Answer admits contact and a meeting with Britton in early 2024 and denies any conspiracy:

Mace Answer, Dec. 19, 2025, paras. 48 to 49.

SLED calls its witness unnamed. Brian Musgrave, the fourth man on her floor poster, was not charged, and three solicitors cleared him in writing.

The record

More than two years after this call, no agency has produced or cited a video recording of the assault Nancy Mace described. On her first call to the woman she said was assaulted, Mace offered a lawsuit, contingency lawyers and her cell phone, and not a single resource. The three men charged deny wrongdoing and are presumed innocent.

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Narration in the film is an AI-generated voice. Every quote plays in the speaker's own voice.

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