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catbyte

(34,393 posts)
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 08:50 AM Aug 2020

Jerry Falwell Jr. says his wife had a 'fatal attraction' affair with the pool boy: report

August 24, 2020
By David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement

Jerry Falwell, Jr. says his wife Becki Tilley had an affair with a young man known to the public as the couple’s “pool boy” and says he was threatening to expose the relationship.

Falwell spoke with and released a statement to the Washington Examiner’s “Secrets” column, which notes the former Liberty University president did not name the man, but “he has been identified as Giancarlo Granda in dozens of news stories.”

Once the affair was over, Falwell says, “we tried to distance ourselves from him over time,” but “he unfortunately became increasingly angry and aggressive. Eventually, he began threatening to publicly reveal this secret relationship with Becki and to deliberately embarrass my wife, family, and Liberty University unless we agreed to pay him substantial monies.”

The Examiner says “Granda, who was 21 at the time, dismissed the charges of threats in an email to Secrets. He emailed, ‘any allegation of extortion is falsely, defamatory and belied by clear documentary evidence. The Falwell’s attempt to sandbag me, and the Examiner, with a last minute story without providing the Examiner clear evidence that this was not simply an ‘affair’ with concocted allegations of extortion reeks desperation. The WHOLE truth will come out.'”

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https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/jerry-falwell-jr-says-his-wife-had-a-fatal-attraction-affair-with-the-pool-boy-report/

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Geez, what a hero. Way to throw your wife under the bus, douche bag.

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Jerry Falwell Jr. says his wife had a 'fatal attraction' affair with the pool boy: report (Original Post) catbyte Aug 2020 OP
Sounds fake. pwb Aug 2020 #1
I'm thinking threesomes. denem Aug 2020 #2
Yeah you don't come out and talk about this MontanaFarmer Aug 2020 #7
Yup SheltieLover Aug 2020 #9
I was just reading the comments on this story in The Daily Mail. Nobody is buying his version. Siwsan Aug 2020 #3
Whatever the true story is TlalocW Aug 2020 #4
That is stereotyping all Giancarlos!! SpaceNeedle Aug 2020 #6
This wasn't their home swimming pool attendant. They picked him up when he Tanuki Aug 2020 #11
Those are some good questions. LisaL Aug 2020 #13
The poolboy was giving pleasure to both Falwells SpaceNeedle Aug 2020 #5
Yep. Falwell put up a $1.8 million 'loan' for a business venture for Granda. tanyev Aug 2020 #15
WHAT - A man of GOD or a pool boy? Laf.La.Dem. Aug 2020 #8
I KNEW it get the red out Aug 2020 #10
Shades of Ted Haggard dalton99a Aug 2020 #12
People who saw this coming underpants Aug 2020 #14
Interesting timing. Liberty just reaffirmed "indefinite leave" for Falwell. yellowcanine Aug 2020 #16
Oh please, the Miami pool boy story clearly shows it was he & his wife OR just him & pool boy themaguffin Aug 2020 #17
They did not commit the 3-some in front of the eyes of God -- they all wore their undies. NCjack Aug 2020 #18
BUUUUUUUUUULLLLSHIT RhodeIslandOne Aug 2020 #19
Poor people donate money to scuzzy assholes like this Yeehah Aug 2020 #20
Ohhhh, he was the WIFES pool boy. GOT IT. Volaris Aug 2020 #21
Thems them family values theys got. LakeArenal Aug 2020 #22

MontanaFarmer

(630 posts)
7. Yeah you don't come out and talk about this
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 09:01 AM
Aug 2020

unless there's something else you're trying to head off. Some people are saying Jerry set the whole thing up; that he's a watcher. People will have to look into that... sound familiar, Falwell hypocrites?

Siwsan

(26,263 posts)
3. I was just reading the comments on this story in The Daily Mail. Nobody is buying his version.
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 08:56 AM
Aug 2020

Most people suspect it was more likely a three way romp in the hot tub.

TlalocW

(15,383 posts)
4. Whatever the true story is
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 08:56 AM
Aug 2020

Because I'm not buying it, but the ultimate takeaway is you dont hire a dude named Giancarlo as a poolboy. That's just asking for shenanigans and hanky-panky. You hire a service run by some 60-something dude named Earl, a cheapskate who hires skinny gawky teenagers every summer.

TlalocW

 

SpaceNeedle

(191 posts)
6. That is stereotyping all Giancarlos!!
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 09:01 AM
Aug 2020

I would suggest hiring any poolboy but marrying someone who takes the vows seriously and truly loves you.

Tanuki

(14,918 posts)
11. This wasn't their home swimming pool attendant. They picked him up when he
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 09:25 AM
Aug 2020

was the 21-year-old pool boy at the Fontainebleau Hotel, where they were staying in Miami, and soon began flying him around in their private jet, bringing him to their home in Virginia, etc

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-jerry-falwell-jr-miami-beach-pool-boy-evangelical-explained-850380/amp/

.. "2012, Falwell and his wife Becki visited the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach. While there, they befriended a 21-year-old pool attendant named Giancarlo Granda. Granda soon began traveling with the Falwells, both to their home of Virginia to hike and water ski, according to the Times, and to the Cheeca Lodge in the Florida Keys, according to the Herald. The latter paper published photos of the trip to the Keys, with Granda smiling next to Falwell, the two looking like father and son. Just months after the friendship commenced, the Falwells offered to help Granda, who had practically no business experience, set up a venture in Miami. After consulting with his friend Jesus Fernandez Jr. and Fernandez’s father, they agreed to open a hostel. Falwell ponied up $1.8 million.

Why did Falwell (who was nearly 50 at the time) and his wife invite a 21-year-old hotel pool boy to travel with them on multiple occasions, and then put up seven figures for him to open up a hostel in Miami Beach that Politico described as a “cesspool of vice”?"...(more)

LisaL

(44,973 posts)
13. Those are some good questions.
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 09:31 AM
Aug 2020

I would think that normally a husband wouldn't want a very hunky pool boy to hang around his wife. But Falwell and his wife took the pool boy to their travels and then put up a large amount of money to help the pool boy with a business venture? It's hard to buy Falwell's claim that his wife had an affair with the pool boy, without Falwell knowing, making Falwell a victim of said affair.

tanyev

(42,559 posts)
15. Yep. Falwell put up a $1.8 million 'loan' for a business venture for Granda.
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 09:34 AM
Aug 2020

All of Donny's girls kept quiet for a very long time for a mere $130,000.

get the red out

(13,466 posts)
10. I KNEW it
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 09:23 AM
Aug 2020

That he was going to throw his wife under the bus at some point then back up! I always figured a threesome. But he will never admit his own partaking.

yellowcanine

(35,699 posts)
16. Interesting timing. Liberty just reaffirmed "indefinite leave" for Falwell.
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 09:40 AM
Aug 2020

This appears an attempt by Falwell to get out in front of some damning publicity. Hilarity will follow. This will be at least a 5 popcorn box story,

Volaris

(10,271 posts)
21. Ohhhh, he was the WIFES pool boy. GOT IT.
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 12:05 PM
Aug 2020

Jerry, there's not a liberal in america that gives a damn about what you put into your mouth. It's what comes OUT that concerns us.
See, not only is it just fine by us that that's totally YOUR pool boy, and not the wifes, it's kinda also ok with us that rather than own this 100 percent NOT a crime, you chose instead to cop to being a straight-up, poolboy-owned bitched CUCK! (props to my man TheFerret there).

They must get off on the self-owns somehow. Because otherwise, this level of stupid (straight, no chaser) would be enough to drive a Proud Boy to masturbate.

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