Ex-Trump aide says he visited Orlando strip clubs
Former Trump campaign aide Jason Miller said he visited prostitutes and had sexual encounters at massage parlors in Florida, New York and Washington, D.C., in a taped deposition for his lawsuit against Gizmodo Media Group, according to a report by Mediaite.
Gizmodo site Splinter News had alleged based on court documents that Jason Miller, who was named the Trump campaign communications director in 2016 before stepping down over an affair with a fellow staffer, had drugged a woman he met at the Rachel’s strip club in Orlando with an abortion pill after he impregnated her. Jason Miller denies the allegations and has sued Gizmodo for defamation.
In the transcript from Thursday’s videotaped deposition in Washington, obtained by Mediaite, Jason Miller also said he visited strip clubs in the Orlando area, including Diamond Club and Rachel’s in Casselberry, with a friend Robert Mele Ribar that he had met through a “mutual friend, Mike Miller, a former state representative.”
He did not say he visited any clubs with Mike Miller.
In the transcript, Jason Miller said of Mike Miller and Ribar, listed as having a Longwood address with an office in Winter Park, “I haven’t seen them in some time, so I don’t talk to them regularly, but they’re still on the Christmas card list.”
“I don’t think I’ve had a conversation that involves strip clubs and Christmas cards before, Mr. Miller,” an attorney said, according to the transcript. “I think this is a first.”
Mike Miller and Ribar could not be reached for comment.
Jason Miller denied he had sex with anyone he met in a strip club, “whether it be a stripper or another attendee.” He also denied he impregnated the unnamed woman he met in Orlando, saying, “I mean, she would have told me.”
He said in the deposition that he visted “Asian themed” massage parlors in Miami, New York and the Washington area, where he received certain sexual favors “four or five” times. He said he visited one parlor as recently as a few months ago, adding, “I screwed up again this spring.”
He also said he had sex with “escorts” in 2015 and 2017 in Washington, according to the deposition.