Bryon Noem allegedly participated in online fetish forums under a pseudonym and spent thousands of dollars while chatting with models, according to a Daily Mail report

One model claimed that in those exchanges, Bryon acknowledged his wife Kristi Noem's alleged affair with an "adviser"

Kristi and Corey Lewandowski, a former DHS aide, have denied longstanding rumors of an affair amid her recent ousting from DHS

Bryon Noem allegedly stated his wife, former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, was engaged in an alleged extramarital relationship with her adviser, according to a report from the Daily Mail.

On Tuesday, March 31, Daily Mail published an investigation into Bryon's participation in online fetish forums. As part of that investigation, the outlet uncovered hundreds of photos, videos and messages showing the former first gentleman of South Dakota dressed in pink hot pants and massive fake breasts apparently made of balloons.

Bryon also reportedly paid at least $25,000 to chat with online models in the "bimbofication scene," which fetishizes performers who have significant silicone injections and dramatic surgical enhancements.

Daily Mail spoke to three separate online models for the report. One woman claimed to the outlet that she had asked Bryon — who was using the pseudonym "Jason Jackson" — about rumors that his wife, Kristi, was having an ongoing affair with her adviser, Corey Lewandowski.

"I asked him about it and his response was, 'I know. There's nothing I can do about it,' " the woman claimed.

Just weeks earlier, Kristi was ousted from the Department of Homeland Security following a series of combative congressional hearings. During the hearings — which Bryon attended — Kristi was questioned about the agency's aggressive immigration enforcement actions, among other things.

She was also asked by Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Calif.) if she "had sexual relations with Corey Lewandowski." Kristi fired back, "I am shocked we're going down and peddling tabloid garbage in this committee."

Kristi and Bryon, a South Dakota insurance agent, have been married since 1992 and share three adult children. Lewandowski married Alison Hardy in 2005 and has four children.

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Both Kristi and Lewandowski have vehemently denied the affair rumors, which have circulated since she served as governor of South Dakota. Until March, Lewandowski had been serving as a senior adviser to Kristi at DHS, where he had been widely described as her de facto chief of staff. However, his technical status was as an unpaid "special government employee."

In her exchange with Rep. Kamlager-Dove during the March 4 House Judiciary Committee hearing, Kristi downplayed Lewandowski's influence on DHS, insisting he did not have any authority to make official decisions.

"He is a special government employee who works for the White House," Kristi claimed. "There are thousands of them in the federal government."

In the Daily Mail's new report, Bryon did not deny to the outlet that he'd engaged in explicit online conversations. He also didn't deny sharing photos of himself dressed as a woman.

When asked by the outlet if he was aware that he'd made "indiscreet comments about his wife and could have endangered national security by exposing her to the threat of blackmail," Bryon reportedly said, "Yeah, I made no comments like that, that would lead to that. I deny the second part of that."

Bryon and Kristi did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's requests for comments on the Daily Mail report, though a spokesperson for the latter said in a statement shared with the New York Post on Tuesday, “Ms. Noem is devastated. The family was blindsided by this, and they ask for privacy and prayers at the time."

Lewandowski also did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment.

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