Exclusive: Man accused as 'predator' by Rep. Nancy Mace breaks his silence

"Absolutely not. No, no.", Brian Musgrave to CNN, when asked if he had done any of the things Rep. Nancy Mace alleged

CNN national correspondent Randi Kaye landed the first on-camera interview with Brian Musgrave, one of the four South Carolina men Rep. Nancy Mace named in her February 2025 House floor speech. The exclusive aired the evening of March 10, 2025 as a segment on Anderson Cooper 360°.

Video: Brian Musgrave's on-camera CNN interview, in which he denies Rep. Mace's allegations ("Absolutely not. No, no."). It plays from The Daily Beast's video player, the same CNN footage The Daily Beast embedded in its report, which notes Musgrave "denied the allegations on an interview with CNN." CNN does not permit its own player to be embedded off-site; the CNN segment is linked below.

Musgrave told CNN he could not place himself anywhere in Mace's account:

"I couldn't think of a context where I would be named in a floor speech by Nancy Mace at all.", Brian Musgrave

He described what the public accusation had already cost him:

"For the rest of my life, when someone Googles 'Brian Musgrave' this is going to be the thing.", Brian Musgrave

His wife, Jen Musgrave, also spoke to CNN, saying her husband was "nowhere near any of those things that she was accusing him of." Musgrave's attorneys at Bland Richter, LLP, Eric Bland and Ronnie Richter, framed the appearance around the limits of congressional privilege. "You can't use the House floor as a bullhorn to destroy people," Bland told CNN.

Mace has denied wrongdoing. The allegations she made against Musgrave are contested and unproven, and the dispute is the subject of ongoing civil litigation. Musgrave filed a federal defamation suit against Mace days later; it was dismissed in August 2025 on Speech or Debate Clause grounds, not on the merits of any underlying allegation.

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