CHARLESTON COUNTY, S.C. (WCBD) – The ex-fiancé of Rep. Nancy Mace (R - S.C.) filed a civil lawsuit on Thursday against her, claiming she and others conspired to fabricate sexual assault allegations against him.

Patrick Bryant claims that a lawsuit accusing him and two other defendants - John Osborne and Eric Bowman – of raping an unidentified woman who had worked for Bryant at the time on Oct. 26, 2018, when the alleged assault happened, was fabricated by Mace and Bowman's estranged wife, Melissa Britton.

The men accused in the May 29 complaint in Charleston County were three of the four men named by Mace (R-S.C.) in an explosive February 10 speech on the House floor during which she detailed how she said she accidentally found evidence of “rape, nonconsensual photos and videos of women

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