LYNCHBURG, Va. – After Liberty University affirmed the terms of President Jerry Falwell Jr.‘s indefinite, paid leave of absence, new information is coming to light about both he and his wife, Becki.
Hours after Reuters published its report, Falwell resigned from his roles with Liberty University, according to the Associated Press.
On Monday, Reuters published an interview with Giancarlo Granda, who told the news organization about his years-long sexual relationship with Becki Falwell, Jerry’s wife.
He said that he first met the couple in March 2012 while working as a pool attendant at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel.
He started having sex with Becki that month and into 2018, while Jerry looked on, according to Reuters.Granda told Reuters that through the course of the relationship, these sexual encounters would happen multiple times a year at either hotels in Miami and New York or even at the Falwells’ home in the Lynchburg area.
Granda wasn’t just having sex with Becki Falwell, but was also in business with the couple.
According to Reuters, Granda acted as the manager of a youth hostel in Miami Beach when the three bought the property in 2013. The article stated that corporate records show that Granda currently has a stake in that venture.
On Sunday, The Washington Examiner published a statement from Falwell saying that blackmail led to his recent erratic behavior.
Falwell wrote that a man “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...”
Falwell did not identify Granda as that man, and when asked by Reuters, Granda denied blackmailing Falwell, saying that he wanted to negotiate a buyout from a business arrangement he had with the couple.
BUSINESS PARTNERS CLAIMS
In a case prone to escalate the contention encompassing one of the most powerful figures in the American Christian traditionalist development, a colleague of Jerry Falwell Jr has approached to state he had a years-in length sexual relationship including Falwell's better half and the outreaching pioneer.
Giancarlo Granda says he was 20 when he met Jerry and Becki Falwell while filling in as a pool specialist at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach lodging in March 2012. Beginning that month and proceeding into 2018, Granda disclosed to Reuters that the relationship included him engaging in sexual relations with Becki Falwell while Jerry Falwell looked on.
Granda indicated Reuters messages, instant messages and other proof that he says exhibit the sexual idea of his relationship with the couple, who have been hitched since 1987. "Becki and I built up a close connection and Jerry delighted in viewing from the side of the room," Granda said in a meeting. Presently 29, he portrayed the contacts as regular – "on numerous occasions every year" – and said the experiences occurred at inns in Miami and New York, and at the Falwells' home in Virginia.
His fellowship with the Falwells in the end soured, Granda told Reuters, to some extent since he needed to break down his binds with the couple and fell into a business debate with them.
Granda first rose as a figure in the Falwells' circle two years prior, when BuzzFeed News revealed that the couple had become a close acquaintence with Granda and started a new business with him, purchasing a Miami Beach youth lodging in 2013. At the hour of the BuzzFeed article, a delegate of the Falwell family said Granda was "offered an offer" in Alton Hostel LLC in light of the fact that Granda lived in Miami and would go about as a chief of the young lodging. Corporate records show that Granda as of now has a stake in that adventure.
Becki Falwell didn't react to messages or telephone and instant messages from Reuters. After Reuters introduced its underlying announcing early a week ago to the Falwells, a legal advisor for Jerry Falwell, Michael Bowe, said the zealous pioneer "completely denies all that you demonstrated you mean to distribute about him."
On Sunday night, notwithstanding, as Reuters was planning to distribute this article, Jerry Falwell gave an announcement to the Washington Examiner in which he said that his better half had an illicit relationship with Granda and that Granda had been attempting to coerce cash from the couple over the issue. Granda denies any such expectation, saying he was trying to arrange a buyout from a business game plan he says he had with the couple.
Falwell's announcement Sunday to the Examiner said nothing regarding Granda's record claiming that the zealous pioneer had his own job in the undertaking, and Falwell didn't address inquiries from Reuters about it. In the announcement cited by the Examiner, Falwell said that "Becki had an improper individual relationship with this individual, something in which I was not included."
A few hours after the Reuters article showed up, the Washington Post and different U.S. media revealed that Falwell had ventured down as head of Liberty University, the Christian school he has run since 2007. In any case, later Monday, Falwell contested those records. "I have not surrendered," he told Politico. "I will be on uncertain leave."
Freedom and Falwell didn't react to Reuters demands for input on his status.
Falwell, 58, had taken an uncertain time away not long ago from Liberty. That progression, declared in a laconic explanation from the educational committee's of trustees, came days after Falwell posted, at that point erased, an Instagram photograph of himself with his jeans unfastened, remaining with his arm around a young lady whose jeans were likewise somewhat fixed. Falwell later told a nearby radio broadcast that the image was implied as an amiable joke.
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