Former Congresswoman Katie Hill Sues Ex Over Revenge Porn, Abuse

Former U.S. Congresswoman Katie Hill is taking her ex-husband to courtroom, claiming he is behind the leak of personal photographs and messages … which, she says, finally sunk her political profession.

The ex-Rep. from California filed swimsuit Tuesday towards Kenny Heslep — who she just lately divorced — for what she says was a years-long marketing campaign of creating her life depressing … as much as and together with the second she stepped down from her publish final yr amid scandal.

Within the swimsuit, obtained by TMZ, she says she’d been with Heslep since she was a teen … and that, for years, he subjected her to torment, ridicule, bodily and sexual abuse, in addition to a continuing setting of management and monitoring that carried over into their marriage.

Hill claims Heslep — amongst different issues — demanded her passwords for gadgets, pressured her to place her calls on speaker so he might hear, demanded to know her whereabouts, dictated her bodily look, choked her with out consent throughout intercourse, posted her nudes on-line … and advised her to kill herself throughout arguments.

Within the swimsuit, she additionally claims Heslep harmed pets of hers throughout their relationship — together with allegedly capturing and wounding her goat.

She says issues got here to a head in 2019 after she gained a seat in Congress, and labored up the nerve to depart Heslep. She claims his response was to launch a scorched earth effort to smear her by supplying embarrassing photographs and personal messages to right-wing websites and different media retailers. Heslep insists he was hacked, however Katie clearly is not shopping for that.

The barrage of headlines did not cease till Hill introduced she’d depart Congress … however even after that — and even after they’d divorced — Hill claims reporters continued to badger her. Now, she’s had sufficient … and desires a decide to step in.