- Jason Miller, a Republican operative and former aide to President Donald Trump, said he had extramarital affairs, hired prostitutes, and visited massage parlors for hand jobs, court documents obtained by Mediaite say.
- He was deposed as a part of a defamation lawsuit he filed against the media company Gizmodo.
- In the deposition, Miller said he’d visited “Asian themed” massage parlors in several cities and hired prostitutes while he was married.
- Miller accused Gizmodo of defaming him in a report on an allegation from his former girlfriend AJ Delgado that he had given a dancer at a strip club in Florida abortion drugs after impregnating her.
- The story was based on a sealed court filing in a custody battle for Delgado and Miller’s son.
- Miller has strenuously denied the accusations and says the story was untrue.
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A former aide to President Donald Trump said in court documents unsealed last week that he hired prostitutes and visited “Asian themed” massage parlors for sexual services during his time on Trump’s staff.
Jason Miller made the statements in a deposition in Washington, DC, on May 30 as part of his defamation lawsuit against the media company Gizmodo. The deposition was first reported by Mediaite on Tuesday.
Miller accused Gizmodo of defaming him in a report on an allegation, made by Miller’s former girlfriend AJ Delgado last year in a sealed filing in a court battle over custody of their son, that he had given a dancer at a strip club in Florida abortion drugs in a smoothie after getting her pregnant.
He has strenuously denied the allegation and says the story was untrue.
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In the deposition, Miller said he had affairs with two campaign staffers, including Delgado, while on the campaign trail and while his wife was pregnant with their second child.
He described "other indiscretions," including visiting "Asian themed" massage parlors in New York, Washington, Miami, and Virginia.
When asked whether the visits were sexual, he said he'd gotten "a hand job at a massage parlor" four or five times.
In the deposition, Miller said he hired a prostitute in 2015 and again in 2017, shortly after trying to reconcile with his wife.
He said he last visited a massage parlor in New York "a couple of months" before his deposition testimony.
Miller also said he had visited strip clubs between 2000 and 2016 but did not have sex with strippers there.
In a statement to Mediaite, Miller said: "I am not commenting on the lawsuit. I know I am an imperfect person and have made a number of mistakes in my life.
"I love my family and have spent much of the past two years asking for forgiveness and working to prove my commitment to them and to become a better person for them. I'm extremely grateful we've been able to keep our family together.
"Others I've disappointed with my actions will see a pathway toward forgiveness and some may not, but that doesn't mean I'll stop trying."
Miller's attorney did not immediately respond to a request from Business Insider for further comment.
Miller, a senior communications adviser to the Trump campaign, was named White House communications director when Trump was waiting to take office in late 2016. He withdrew from the position before Trump's inauguration, following allegations of an affair.