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Business partner of Falwells says affair with evangelical power couple spanned seven years
Reuters ^ | Aug. 24, 2020 | Aram Roston

Posted on 08/24/2020 10:01:33 AM PDT by nickcarraway

Giancarlo Granda says his sexual relationship with the Falwells began when he was 20. He says he had sex with Becki Falwell while Jerry Falwell Jr, head of Liberty University and a staunch supporter of President Trump, looked on.

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 Falwell’s 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Florida; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: beckifalwell; falwell; florida; giancarlogranda; granda; jerryfalwelljr; libertyuniversity; poolboy; scandal; sexscandal; virginia
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To: Sirius Lee

Basically.


21 posted on 08/24/2020 10:18:03 AM PDT by babble-on
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To: lodi90

This makes his innocent explanation about the redhead and the unzipped pants, seem like a lie.


22 posted on 08/24/2020 10:19:03 AM PDT by KobraKai
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To: mn-bush-man

People who go to Liberty University might.


23 posted on 08/24/2020 10:19:27 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: All

It is Reuters so it’s probably BS. We’ll see


24 posted on 08/24/2020 10:20:03 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: nickcarraway

“People who go to Liberty University might.”

Will this make the value of a Liberty University degree go up or go down?


25 posted on 08/24/2020 10:21:40 AM PDT by Meatspace
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To: nickcarraway

Personally what they do in private is nobody’s business as long as they aren’t preaching against it. Too bad it has to come out to the public but the one who reveals it is not worthy of respect.


26 posted on 08/24/2020 10:22:09 AM PDT by webheart (Coronavirus, I give up. Come get me.)
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To: Metrobank

They do well enough taking out themselves.


27 posted on 08/24/2020 10:22:17 AM PDT by newzjunkey (Vote Giant Meteor in 2020)
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To: Meatspace

what a shame.
you’d think they’d know better

one good thing, though. now that its out in public (alas!) any blackmailing is finished


28 posted on 08/24/2020 10:22:34 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they are excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: nickcarraway

Hits the news first day of GOP convention....

means probably just one more lie


29 posted on 08/24/2020 10:23:35 AM PDT by truth_seeker ( ^^\/**|_|**\/ ^^^^)
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To: nickcarraway

Hi.

See what’s shaping up here?

Blackmail vs business partner.

Get some popcorn.

5.56mm


30 posted on 08/24/2020 10:23:47 AM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! Finish THE WALL!)
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To: nickcarraway
"and a staunch supporter of President Trump, looked on."

What does this have to do with anything? Did they run these stories when any private citizen supporter of Obama got themselves into trouble? I think not.

31 posted on 08/24/2020 10:23:48 AM PDT by newzjunkey (Vote Giant Meteor in 2020)
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To: TomGuy

“This is getting juicier than the Jim and Tammy Faye demise.”

Jim is still doing fine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bakker

I actually met Jessica Hahn 30 years ago, and have a photo with her.

No one under 50 knows who she is or cares, haha.


32 posted on 08/24/2020 10:23:49 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: nickcarraway

I will reserve judgment until concrete proof is established. This Grande guy seems like a very slick manipulator.


33 posted on 08/24/2020 10:24:25 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: KobraKai

The pool boy is playing along with Junior’s spin because he doesn’t want to come out as gay.


34 posted on 08/24/2020 10:24:41 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: mn-bush-man

Scuttlebutt is that Trump attorney Michael Cohen helped make some dirty photos of the Falwells go away, with the price Falwell paid being endorsing Trump in 2016, which got other evangelicals on board. Don’t know if Cohen has the literal or figurative receipts on this, but supposedly he will put it in his upcoming book.


35 posted on 08/24/2020 10:24:59 AM PDT by drjimmy
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To: nickcarraway

If this guy was truly blackmailing Falwell and Falwell called him on it by exposing the affair, then the pool guy/business partner can be expected to react. I doubt his revelation about Falwell watching is true. It is more of a “gotcha!”


36 posted on 08/24/2020 10:25:00 AM PDT by elpadre
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To: nickcarraway

Had a neighbor doing this to his live in girlfriend but it was part of an actual sexual abuse situation. Horrible. He “pimped” her on the internet.

The girlfriend ended up going into a shelter.

Thankfully the POS moved away after he lost the house.

This crap goes on all over. Some willing, some not.


37 posted on 08/24/2020 10:25:02 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's also a highway to hell.)
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To: nickcarraway

Falwell, the idiot that he is, said this guy was blackmailing them. Not a shock he responded. Second handsome young man they were oddly financially involved with.


38 posted on 08/24/2020 10:27:08 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: nickcarraway

Well, duh.

Televangilists are not even one step removed from carnival barkers.

Guess your weight? No one can out guess the guesser!

Who gives a sh*t.


39 posted on 08/24/2020 10:27:29 AM PDT by Vitesse
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To: treetopsandroofs

I’m under 50 and I know who she is. Why would you take a picture of her?


40 posted on 08/24/2020 10:27:38 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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