Embattled former Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum can’t seem to catch a break. Following a scandal involving a male prostitute and a friend overdosing, Gillum checked into rehab. Now photos of the crime scene have leaked, including one of Gillum nude.
The photos–leaked on both Instagram and in the British newspaper The Daily Mail–show the hotel room stocked with bags of white powder and prescription pills. The powder is said to be cocaine or crystal meth.
Distribution of the images sent Maimi Beach police scrambling, with the department denying that any crime scene photos had originated with their office. Further, a leak of the official police report also embarrassed the department.
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“It’s unknown how the report was shared,” Miami Beach Police spokesperson Ernesto Rodriguez said in an email, “and yes it is being looked at.”
Police arrived at the Mondrian Hotel in Miami on March 13 after a 911 call about a possible overdose. There, they discovered an inebriated Gillum along with 56-year-old Aldo Mijas and gay prostitute Travis Dyson. Mijas had called police after arriving on the scene and finding Gillum vomiting in the bathroom, and Dyson collapsed, apparently having trouble breathing. Dyson was rushed to a hospital, where he is said to be in recovery. Gillum was released, and police confiscated the drugs without making any arrests.
Following the incident, Gillum checked into rehab for alcohol and depression but denies using any crystal meth. “This has been a wake-up call for me,” Gillum said in his statement. “Since my race for governor ended, I fell into a depression that has led to alcohol abuse. “I also know that alcoholism is often a symptom of deeper struggles. I am committed to doing the personal work to heal fully and show up in the world as a more complete person.”
Both Mijas and Dyston identify as gay. Gillum, age 40, is married to a woman. They have three children together.
boymikefl
It’s 100% fake. If it’s not, it shouldn’t be sensationalized. It’s nobody’s business..
Mundo
Exacto.
Inspector 57
What is “fake” about this? The police accounts? The witness accounts?
And do you truly believe that a politician’s behavior is “nobody’s business”???
madhatter090
I would agree with you if he was just another ordinary person, but he is an elected official. They all need to be exposed for all the wrong doing they do.
James Hart
Andrew Gillum is another closet case and his wife, I’m guessing, already knows about his sexual, drug-fueled proclivities.
cubcmh
Mondrian? (“I am not a drain.”)
frapachino
To think that this creep cane within a feather of being governor!
Cam
As opposed to the guy now who just caused a few thousand more people to become infected by not shutting down the beaches.
Chrisk
Better that then the Medicare thief Rick Scott.
jayceecook
To think that our government still allows that trash state to exist!
pfcnaples
Yes we get to hear from the gay racist again!! I find it incredible that your not even smart enough to try to hide it……
frapachino
PF “ racism “ has lost all meaning and impact because of people like you who try to use it as a way to shut down others because they’ve said something that caused you to ground your pearls down to dust! 🙂
pfcnaples
Oh Frappy sweetie speaking of getting your parties in a wad ????!
Your response for everyone who calls you out for exactly what you are is cute! It’s always everyone else with the issues!! While your retorts may seem amusing to you, the rest of us not at all! Now move along Trixie nobody likes a racist!
t
You do realize, don’t you, that all we have to do is follow your responses to these Queerty posts to conclude that you ARE indeed a racist? Claiming to be gay does not make you exempt from being a racist., ie. Log Cabin members.
Harley
Pictures please Queerty.
buzzy58
I agree. Where the heck are the pictures everyone is talking about?
Donston
The photos have already been confirmed as legit. They are fairly off-putting. Drugs, blood and “anal juice” all over the place. That had to have been one hell of a night. While one of the dudes appears to have been his steady side piece and supplier. Definitely is not going to recover from this as far as his political career. Of course, many black women are attacking him for being “DL”. But I highly doubt his wife didn’t know what was up, either to some extent or the fullest extent. When politicians get caught up in stuff like this it tends to read as megalomania to me. Yet, we have one of the biggest megalomaniacs ever currently in the White House. Wherever Mr. Gillum is in the romantic, sexual, affection, emotional fulfillment, relationship contentment spectrum, whatever fluidity or confusions he might have gone through, and whatever struggles he might have from a psychological, sociological, family, addiction standpoint, I do wish him luck. It ultimately ain’t my business or my life. And these stories are becoming a dime a dozen. I do hope that these stories will stop some of these “queers” from being obsessed with guys who are married to women, are on the “DL”, or are “straight”/overall hetero-leaning. There ain’t nothing “sexy” or “subversive” about this story.
frapachino
You’d be calling for his head if he were white and /or republican! If he were muscular, white and republican you’d be calling for him and his family to be hung and quartered!
Heywood Jablowme
@frapachino: Uh, yeah, a lot of us probably WOULD be calling for his head if he were a Republican, because in that case he would almost undoubtedly have supported ANTI-GAY political policies for many years. It’s really as simple as that. Is it too complicated for you to understand?
Donston
Frapafagno, I’m pretty sure if this dude were white and Republican you would here defending him or showing indifference, not needlessly calling someone a “creep”. Unless these folks are voting for hate or to limit people’s right I don’t give a shit what they do in their private time. Unlike many on the internet I try to look at everything as nuances and unbiased as possible, and I rarely name call. Go at someone else with your tired BS.
Cam
@frapachino
Well, if he were Republican he would have been trying to pass laws harming LGBT people. Since he didn’t this is just a simple case of a DL guy being an addict. This guy never tried to pass laws against us.
Republican closet cases like Aaron Schock don’t just harm themselves, they act like typical GOP bigots and attack everybody else.
Let’s be honest, your anger really comes from two things
1. you hate him because he’s black
2. You hate him because he didn’t try to pass anti-LGBT laws
Doug
That’s not “anal juice,” it’s vomit.
ShiningSex
some gays even closeted ones can be trash. who cares.
Bobby
There are people here commenting as if there aren’t homophobic or racist Democrats, or that all Republicans are bigots or ultra conservative. I’m gay and Republican but mainly just because I don’t want high taxes and I don’t like the ultra left-wing, much like I don’t like the ultra right-wing. Identifying someone completely by political party is stupid.
Kangol2
First, let’s not forget that Andrew Gillum was a very pro-LGBTQ mayor of Tallahassee and a pro-LGBTQ candidate for Florida’s governorship, which he lost by 34,000 votes. The victor of the race, Ron DeSantis, is now endangering the lives of millions of Floridians with his inept response to Covid-19, but that’s the Drumpfublican way it seems.
Second, the disturbing, corpse-like photo of Gillum that’s circulating is clearly not a police photo. Cops do not take off their shoes, but there’s two White feet in the bottom of the photo, one barely visible, standing on Gillum’s left hand. Also cops also would not be gratuitously photographing a passed out person’s genitalia, as this photo does. It looks like something that someone who wanted to set him up was aiming for, and sadly, he got caught in their trap. I just hope for his kids’ sake there isn’t video of him having sex with the escort, though it all comes off almost like revenge-porn, which is ILLEGAL in the state of Florida, so those right-wingers may rue the day they circulated that photo, because if he sues or presses charges….
Third, a lot of this info appears to have been leaked to right-wing hack Candace Owens. There was also a very lurid article on Central Florida Post by Jacob Engels, a conservative gay Roger Stone-protegé who had outed Gillum back in 2018. (Yes, 2 years ago. The article is still up on the site.) It looks like the fix was in to ruin him. Who knows who else was involved, but didn’t Owens claim that the bed was covered in blood and feces (it wasn’t, at least from the photos), that Gillum was nude (the police report never said that), and that there was police footage that was going to leak (it hasn’t)? The police report did leak, as did this creepy photo, but again, it’s not a police photo.
I won’t restate what Donston has written except to say that I feel bad for Andrew Gillum. His marital issues are between him and his wife; I don’t know what she knew or didn’t know, but his political career is kaput and his children have that image of their father floating around there. He’s getting treatment for alcohol, and I hope meth if he has a problem with it. I also hope he’s getting therapy for the “deeper struggles” he mentioned in his letter. I imagine that at some point, for his own sake and peace of mind he will probably come out publicly, in some fashion, but that’s up to him.
(Meanwhile we’ve never seen that Drumpf pee tape or learned what was on all of those CDs and DVDs Drumpf’s pal Jeffrey Epstein, who said he introduced Melania to Drumpf. He and his hypocritical supporters should be the last ones to criticize Andrew Gillum or anyone else.)
Donston
It definitely gives me “set up” vibes. You gotta be smart enough not to fall into that kind of trap. But I got set up vibes as soon as this story broke. I don’t think publicly “coming out” or publicly claiming whatever identity is going to ease him much. That doesn’t suddenly fix people’s internal or external issues. It would only be necessary if he wants to remain a public figure. Besides, I feel whatever he says next will involve more manipulation. Unless he’s really going to go there and keep it 100 as far as his journey and struggles, it’s likely to feel like image sculpting prattle. And we get enough of that from these politicians.
frapachino
YOU are accusing others of hypocrisy? Violent eye roll here!
masterwill7
Where are the pictures??
RandomGuy
A lot of people think the doctor and the whore set him up, someone in bare feet is stepping on Gillum’s arm while they took the photos of him and Candace Owens and that psychotic ex-gay Proud Boy she’s pals with broke the story and had the photos before anyone else.
Chrisk
That was my first thought. It is a weird situation like it was staged.
Inspector 57
Okay, maybe someone was out for him.
But did they force-feed him alcohol? meth? And then strip him to take photos of him?
No, this guy needs to take responsibility for his decisions and behavior.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
I saw the pics. This is the first time I find myself happy that Queerty decided not to include links to the pics. Based on what I read it sounds like he was set up. Meths potency can be increased by whomever it is that is making it. It wouldn’t shock me if the plan was for Mr. Dyson (the paid boy toy) to die and I think that might be why Dyson hasn’t opened his mouth about what happened. He has to be asking himself what the hell was that doctor doing there. Was he the one who supplied the drugs and knew when they would be incoherent or Dyson should be just about dead? Andrew Gillum was clearly a rising force that HAD to be eliminated at all costs and Dyson amounted to nothing else but collateral damage. That doctors out of the clear blue sky appearance at the door at the time all of this is happening is too convenient to be believed. Mr. Dyson was a dime a dozen gym queen who looked for guys who liked to party and had a few pennies left over to give him to make him think he was making money hustling.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
We here at Queerty are dealing with our own noxious vile repugnant viruses…..
That is the sicking amount of trolls who have infected this site. I have been posting here since the inception in 2005, there was once an actual nice community of posters. I actually met two good friends that I have to this day.
The trolls lob ignorant grenades to get a response. They thrive on it. Pretty much any regular commenters know who they are. If we simply ignore them they will sulk and slither back to under the filthy rocks they crawled out from under…
succubus
shut up fool. you’re a sickening old has been that never was..
Cam
@succubus
That’s a post?
Chrisk
@succubus… Uh oh. It’s baackkk…Did someone say your name 3 times in a mirror or something? Of coarse you change your name like underwear so who knows. Lol
sonic_source
Aren’t there supposed to be pictures with this article?
woodroad34
Nude pictures of Andrew Gillum? Waitaminnit…I’m havin’ some feelin’s here.
Bobby
The escort is even hotter.