South Carolina authorities charged Rep. Nancy Mace's ex-fiancé Brendan Patrick Bryant and associate Eric Bernard Bowman with voyeurism, alongside John Douglas Osborne who faces assault and sexual conduct charges over a 2018 incident. The arrests follow a February 2025 House floor speech where Mace publicly accused the men after discovering nonconsensual media on Bryant's phone. Bowman also faces obstruction charges for wiping evidence.
Voyeurism charges against Bryant and Bowman
- ▪Brendan Patrick Bryant, the ex-fiancé of U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, and Eric Bernard Bowman were arrested and charged with voyeurism on October 14, 2026
- ▪State Law Enforcement Division affidavits allege that Brendan Patrick Bryant and Eric Bernard Bowman watched, took photographs, and recorded while John Douglas Osborne assaulted an unconscious woman on October 26, 2018
John Douglas Osborne sexual assault charges
- ▪State Law Enforcement Division agents stated that John Douglas Osborne committed sex acts on an incapacitated and intoxicated 23-year-old woman at a Sullivan's Island home on October 26, 2018
- ▪The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division arrested and charged John Douglas Osborne with first-degree assault and battery and two counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct on October 14, 2026
Additional charges against Eric Bernard Bowman
- ▪Eric Bernard Bowman was charged on October 14, 2026, with publishing the name of a victim of criminal sexual conduct after allegedly posting her name and video on social media platform X
- ▪Eric Bernard Bowman was charged with obstruction of justice on October 14, 2026, after agents alleged he performed a factory reset on a cellphone sought in a search warrant
Nancy Mace's House floor speech
- ▪In a February 2025 House floor speech, U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace accused Brendan Patrick Bryant, John Douglas Osborne, Eric Bernard Bowman, and a fourth unnamed man of being sexual predators
- ▪During her February 2025 speech, Rep. Nancy Mace stated she accidentally uncovered thousands of nonconsensual photos and videos of women and underage girls on her then-fiancé Brendan Patrick Bryant's cellphone
Nancy Mace's legislative proposals
- ▪Rep. Nancy Mace introduced a legislative proposal requiring anyone who brings a losing retaliatory defamation lawsuit against a sexual assault accuser to pay the defendant's attorney fees
- ▪Following the arrests of Patrick Bryant and two other men on October 14, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace released a statement detailing 25 legislative bills introduced to protect victims of sexual assault and harassment
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