Business partner of Falwells says affair with evangelical power couple spanned seven years
Source: Reuters
WASHINGTON In a claim likely to intensify the controversy surrounding one of the most influential figures in the American Christian conservative movement, a business partner of Jerry Falwell Jr has come forward to say he had a years-long sexual relationship involving Falwells wife and the evangelical leader.
Giancarlo Granda says he was 20 when he met Jerry and Becki Falwell while working as a pool attendant at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel in March 2012. Starting that month and continuing into 2018, Granda told Reuters that the relationship involved him having sex with Becki Falwell while Jerry Falwell looked on.
Granda showed Reuters emails, text messages and other evidence that he says demonstrate the sexual nature of his relationship with the couple, who have been married since 1987. Becki and I developed an intimate relationship and Jerry enjoyed watching from the corner of the room, Granda said in an interview. Now 29, he described the liaisons as frequent multiple times per year and said the encounters took place at hotels in Miami and New York, and at the Falwells home in Virginia.
His friendship with the Falwells eventually soured, Granda told Reuters, in part because he wanted to dissolve his ties with the couple and fell into a business dispute with them.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-falwell-relationship/
Mr Granda has a more interesting version of the story than Falwell. The only person we're not hearing from here is Ms Falwell.
I'd love to know what was in those texts, emails and other evidence Granda showed to Reuters.
bringthePaine
(1,728 posts)victimhood; check the wife for an NDA🤫? she can still testify...my guess is she cuts the deal
and waves from the dock as his yacht becomes a prison ship, maybe called the
"Jerry FallFromGrace II"🧐🤣
fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,459 posts)SunSeeker
(51,559 posts)SunSeeker
(51,559 posts)volstork
(5,401 posts)NOW who's the "cuck?"
Some actually VOLUNTEER for the role.
yonder
(9,666 posts)apnu
(8,756 posts)Oscar Wilde would probably approve.
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)SunSeeker
(51,559 posts)waddirum
(979 posts)SunSeeker
(51,559 posts)BadGimp
(4,015 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,733 posts)Maraya1969
(22,480 posts)I can't find Falwell's wife's age.
dalton99a
(81,511 posts)NCDem47
(2,248 posts)Because I'm sure there's more about something. Get it all out in the open while crazy man in having his convention and the Post Office guy is getting grilled. Get that zoo of monkeys off your back.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,504 posts)IronLionZion
(45,446 posts)flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)Cue the victimization:
(Falwell) saying the man involved had been threatening to reveal the relationship to deliberately embarrass my wife, family, and Liberty University unless we agreed to pay him substantial monies.
(Falwell) stepped down after an uproar sparked by a photo he posted on social media that showed him with his pants unzipped, stomach exposed and arm high around the waist of a woman who was not his wife. Falwell has said the photo was taken at a costume party during a family vacation.
Ah, the old "costume party" excuse.
Falwell said he was seeking mental health counseling amid the trauma of the situation and that he remains fully devoted to his wife.
The statement said that while her indiscretion may have been more obvious and apparent, I realized that there were important smaller things I needed to do better too.
paleotn
(17,918 posts)Her indiscretion? The slime ball is tossing his wife under the bus in a desperate attempt to save himself? Somebody cue Tammy Wynette.
StevieM
(10,500 posts)She banged the other guy, at least in part, because it turned Falwell on and he wanted to watch. For most people I would say that is fine, if it makes them happy, and if everyone is consenting and not coerced. But Falwell is a hypocrite for spending so many years lecturing the rest of us about how evil we are if we don't defer to him and his stated values in our sexual choices and then failing to meet his own standards.
central scrutinizer
(11,648 posts)Freudian slip? Bwah hah hah
Politicub
(12,165 posts)There will be others that come out from the woodwork.
paleotn
(17,918 posts)OverBurn
(950 posts)Hypocrite's are the worst. Standing up there in the pulpit telling people what horrible sinners they are, while the preachers are usually some of the worst offenders. I grew up in mostly Baptist and Southern Baptist Church's. I remember one of the Preachers ran off with the money. Another one ran off with a Deacon's Wife. The Preacher's kids were the absolute worst of the bunch.
sobenji
(316 posts)mdbl
(4,973 posts)ROFL
StevieM
(10,500 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,166 posts)Saintly Sinners!
Send more money!
Kid Berwyn
(14,907 posts)Just watching.