Jerry Falwell Jr. says his wife had an affair with the Florida ‘pool boy,’ claims they were being blackmailed – By Peter Weber (The Week) / Aug 24 2020
Suspended Liberty University leader Jerry Falwell Jr. confirmed to Washington Examiner columnist Paul Bedard late Sunday that his wife, Becki Falwell, had an affair with a young man they befriended and went into business with in Florida eight years ago. In a long statement, Falwell said he and his wife “forgave each other” — he suggested he had also “important smaller things” to atone for, quoting a Bible verse about visual adultery — and had decided to come forward because his wife’s former lover had been extorting them for “huge amounts of monies” to stay quiet. “I’m just tired of it,” Falwell told Bedard.
Falwell said the young man — Giancarlo Granda — had created a “‘fatal attraction’ type situation,” referring to a famous 1987 movie in which a jilted extramarital lover boiled a pet rabbit, among other acts of retaliatory intimidation. Granda, 21 at the time of the affair, told the Examiner in an email that “any allegation of extortion” is false, “defamatory, and belied by clear documentary evidence,” adding that the attempt by the Falwells “to sandbag me” with this “last-minute story” just “reeks of desperation,” and “the WHOLE truth will come out.”
The salacious nature of the relationship between the Falwells and Granda emerged when Michael Cohen, the former fixer and lawyer for President Trump, told comedian Tom Arnold in a secretly taped conversation that he had destroyed riqué “personal” photographs involving the “pool boy” on behalf of Falwell weeks before Falwell unexpectedly endorsed Trump for president.
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