Madison Sheahan, the now-former Trump administration official who served as the deputy director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from March 2025 to last January, allegedly seduced a teenage girl who worked under her, The Daily Mail reported on Thursday.

The relationship reportedly began in 2020 when Sheahan was 23 and a senior official with the Ohio Republican Party. Her alleged lover was a 19-year-old woman working as her junior staffer. The staffer, who has not been publicly identified, now calls the relationship toxic, volatile, and controlling.

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Once, on November 29, 2020, when the staffer sent Sheahan a picture herself dressed in black jeans and a tight-fitting black bodysuit before going out for a night of fun in Atlanta, Georgia, Sheahan allegedly freaked out over the phone.

“She lost it on me,” the former staffer said. “It went from her saying, ‘Have fun, have a great night,’ to, ‘What the f**k, you’re not gonna f**king go. Are you actually f**king serious? I’m not gonna talk to you again.’” When the staffer called her later, Sheahan reportedly yelled that the staffer planned on cheating on her with a man; another source said they overheard the phone conversation.

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“This is why I don’t like to date people who aren’t gay,” Sheahan allegedly told the young woman. Sheahan was the staffer’s first same-sex relationship.

The staffer said, “I think a lot of the problems with our relationship was that she’s not comfortable in her own skin. It’s okay to be gay… but I don’t think that’s something she has accepted.”

Sheahan worked as now-former Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem’s executive director during Noem’s governorship in South Dakota and became ICE deputy director in March 2025.

A senior Department of Homeland Security official told The Daily Mail that, while serving at ICE, Sheahan regularly targeted female staffers who she saw as “disloyal,” and tried to get them fired, sometimes verbally abusing her own staff and threatening to “rip their faces off” while claiming that she had Noem’s full support.

“She’d always try to be the alpha in the room. There could never be a stronger woman. Madison was intimidated by strong women,” the source said.

Sheahan’s political adviser, Bob Pudachik, told The Daily Mail, “As the Ohio campaign manager, I can speak with authority that no such relationship existed. Madison was not and has never been in a relationship with a subordinate.”

Sheahan left ICE in January to run for Congress in Ohio.

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