Jacob Ogles
A transcript of a sex video provided by Christian Ziegler confirms details that ultimately undermined a rape accusation against him. But the same records batch also provides more context of a previous threesome between the woman, Ziegler and his wife, Sarasota County School Board member Bridget Ziegler.
The records were released to the Florida Center For Government Accountability, which has fought for the release of documents around the now-closed criminal investigation of Ziegler. The just-released video transcript confirms graphic details that police sources had previously relayed to the organization.
The recent batch of records includes the transcript of a 1-minute-and-44-second video Ziegler provided to police when he was accused of rape by a woman in Sarasota. “Police were able to authenticate that the video was taken on 10/2/23,” the police report said, referencing the date of a sexual encounter between Ziegler and the woman.
The woman, at the urging of her sister, had told police that Ziegler arranged an encounter in advance. But electronic communications previously showed that when she learned Bridget Ziegler would not be joining, the woman advised Ziegler not to show up. “Sorry I was mostly in for her,” the woman texted Christian Ziegler.
But he showed up anyway. The woman told police that Ziegler forced her to have sex with him. She also said she was drinking the day of the incident.
Ziegler has long maintained that the sexual encounter was consensual, and police ultimately reached the same conclusion. The video transcript indicates some of the factual evidence behind that.
The video of the sexual encounter is shot on Ziegler’s phone and never shows his face. It’s unclear from the transcript if the woman knew he was videoing the encounter on the phone, as it was shot from behind “where she could not see what was going on.”
Ziegler at one point during the short video laid the phone on a bed facedown, but it continues to record audio as Ziegler reaches a sexual climax. The woman asks if he would like to do so “in my mouth,” and later adds “just not on my shirt.”
Ziegler professes the under-two-minute encounter with the woman was the fastest he had reached orgasm “in 30 years.”
“I ain’t even that good,” the woman responds.
The evidence ultimately led police to deem the encounter was “likely consensual,” and detectives did not recommend that the former Sarasota County Commissioner be charged with rape.
But police did recommend Ziegler face a charge of video voyeurism for filming the sexual encounter without the woman’s knowledge.
Records released along with the transcript show further interviews with the woman as well. One inconsistency in the story had been she initially said she was assaulted at her breakfast bar before Ziegler left, but the video shows sex in a bedroom.
The woman in an interview with detectives when shown the video said she had no memory of sex occurring in her bedroom, and said she “would not consent to being videoed.” The woman said “she did not know he took a video, and that her memory was of everything happening in the kitchen,” the report said.
The State Attorney’s Office, though, decided not to prosecute based on the video and inconsistencies with the woman’s account.
“The Victim’s expressed inability to recall whether she consented to recording the sexual activity along with her inconsistencies pertaining to key details of the event leave the State unable to demonstrate beyond a reasonable doubt that the video in question was filmed without her knowledge or consent,” prosecutors wrote in a March memo.
She said she had no recollection of that happening in past encounters with Ziegler, whom she met at a bar 20 years prior.
The woman and the Zieglers have admitted to a past three-way sexual encounter, police records show. The police reports also include a series of texts in June 2021 between the Zieglers, where he talks about running into the woman at a bar some time after the encounter with the couple.
“C. Ziegler messaged that he should have filmed” the woman “and they could watch it later as pornography,” the report said.
The prior February, Christian Ziegler texted Bridget Ziegler that the woman thought she was “hot, and he believes she is only into her.” He then says Bridget should pick up the woman “to play again and be crazy.”
Bridget responds that she “prefers confident empowered people.” Christian said he liked the woman “was close and there was no drama which turns him on.”
Police ultimately seized more than 26,000 videos from Ziegler’s phone as part of the investigation.
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35 comments
hypocrits
April 18, 2024 at 11:46 am
26,000 videos from the husband of the women belonging to Moms for Liberty into banning books and telling us how to raise our children….Nice GOP Christian Values… Do as we say, not as we do in the closet…Oh no,, not in YOUR closet.
Jay Smif
April 18, 2024 at 3:56 pm
Yeah, MAGA/GQP “morality and family values” on full display here.
Impeach Biden
April 18, 2024 at 4:55 pm
Bill Clinton says hi and The Kennedy’s as well. Dirt bags exist in both parties. Ziegler is a dirt bag and he is done politically.
Dont Say FLA
April 19, 2024 at 12:22 pm
Why would Zielger be done politically? Feels more like he was qualifying for a Trump cabinet position.
I do agree about the Clintons and the Kennedys. Don’t vote for none of them! Never again! People who want to be in porn stars should get into porn, not the Oval Office.
Wanna get into a porn star? There’s a job for that. It’s porn!
Matt Gaetz Is Your Babysitter
April 19, 2024 at 4:51 pm
Went to the well for those names, Christian?
rick whitaker
April 19, 2024 at 5:07 pm
IMPEACH BIDEN AKA PEACHY, i told you that schoolyard bullies and juvenile delinquents, are frequent users of the ” what- about- ism ” ploy, yet you use it a LOT. now do you see why i thought you were a teenager when i read your posts. just one what-about-ism after another.
nail
April 18, 2024 at 6:35 pm
Fl,,,the most domestic terrorists in the country, the most morally repugnant GOPs, the most expensive insurance in the country, and the most politically corrupt in the country!
A state you don’t even want to fly over for fear of catching Measles or where Covid deaths are still florishing
JD
April 19, 2024 at 9:34 am
What-about-ism and those were how long ago? Didn’t Clinton get impeach over that?
But his wife isn’t and is still on that school board.
The “morality and family values” sarcasm quip applies to the MAGA King more than anyone.
Dont Say FLA
April 19, 2024 at 12:19 pm
Let’s hope the Moms For Libertines make absotively, posilutely certain that NO kids read these transcripts!
arizona
April 19, 2024 at 2:46 pm
fan fukin tastic ~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! now back to the real issues pls
arizona
April 19, 2024 at 2:49 pm
gotta love the cum shot part though it really makes the case!!!!
ps—– *****NOBODY GIVES A FUK***********
arizona
April 19, 2024 at 2:53 pm
lessons and precedents my friends….. always snap that evidence lol just in case hahaha fukkkkk yuuuu
arizona
April 19, 2024 at 2:55 pm
you people really are so fukin pathetic by the way and nobody even cares
arizona
April 19, 2024 at 3:01 pm
big man Z with the no draama ——- psykkkeee
arizona
April 19, 2024 at 3:01 pm
screw moms for liberty
we want milfs for america
arizona
April 19, 2024 at 3:02 pm
PETE _ by the way – quick q – do you love my commentary or are you going to have me handcuffed for blowing you up? lol jw since we’re talking precedents……
ARIZONA
April 19, 2024 at 3:04 pm
time to get back to life being gag free and such lolz thanks for the beautiful reporting XOXOXO
arizona
April 19, 2024 at 3:07 pm
WOOOP
she had more to say…
next time consider in your reporting, PETE, keeping personal sep from politics though.
😉
Mike Cumstain
April 19, 2024 at 4:57 pm
She had more to say:
“Don’t cum on my shirt”
ARIZONA
April 19, 2024 at 6:56 pm
she had more to say…. all over my face and rub it in plz
arizona
April 19, 2024 at 3:15 pm
TBH – I’m proud for that man’s exoneration against his false “victim”!fuk all of yu haterzzzzzz
Cucked On Video
April 19, 2024 at 4:55 pm
He came in 90 seconds, typical incel.
arizona
April 19, 2024 at 7:01 pm
he must have been so happy but not happy enough to keep going. that is, if he is able to.
lolz—-> and by the way, SURE it never happens 😉
never heard that before ! haha
arizona
April 19, 2024 at 3:25 pm
i know it was a mouthful, PETE, but i really just wanted you to know how i feel
especially bc by the end of this weekend i might find myself in solitary confinement lol
i’ll check in wiht you later to let you know if i’m still free.
hahahah
Speedy Cumstein
April 19, 2024 at 4:54 pm
“The fastest I ever finished”
BWAHAHAHA AHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA 😂🤣😂🤣😂😅😂
rick whitaker
April 19, 2024 at 6:34 pm
NAIL, florida is a hellhole. i moved.
ARIZONA
April 19, 2024 at 7:08 pm
fuk the hippocrites who say the zeiglers are hippocrites —- can’t you raise a great family and stand for family values and still have a private sex life wtf is wrong w ppl this is fukin AMERICA
rick whitaker
April 20, 2024 at 12:06 pm
ARIZONA, no mention of the holier-than- thou faux religious campaign the zeiglers’ were involved in. taken out of context, your post was kind of right. in context ,you are completely wrong. so an out of context comment on this is very ingenious and deceptive. typical gop remark.
Arizona
April 21, 2024 at 5:14 pm
Oh wow Rick u must be finding me out …. bravo …. def schooled me right there… haha…ha…ha………. .
arizona
April 19, 2024 at 7:55 pm
shit — the EX is not gonna be happy if he finds out about this commentary. i’m living minute to minute now. i might even have to change my alias again. PETE – I’m chekin in w u tomorrow
My Take
April 20, 2024 at 4:51 am
Wasn’t DeSantis described by his wife as a chronic “rapid shooter” too?
Dont Say FLA
April 20, 2024 at 3:32 pm
I do remember people saying something along those lines. I suspect it might be true for every “control the females” MAGA. It would explain a lot.
Arizona
April 21, 2024 at 12:13 am
Nobody controls me
Speedy Gonzalez
April 21, 2024 at 7:10 pm
So many american want to be commenting.
SloPoke and me dont understand and will have to ask Earl America what this is all about. It just feels pervey. Speedy and SloPoke
Speedy Gonzalez
April 21, 2024 at 7:31 pm
SloPoke says these maybe those homertestes mariposas Mr. Earl warns america about. Speedy and SloPoke dont want those new america friends.