MIAMI HERALD EXCLUSIVE: Naked photographs of Jerry Falwell's wife surface in Miami Beach scandal.

[MelissaB]

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The photographs show Rebecca Falwell in various stages of undress, and are said to be among those that Michael Cohen, President Trump's former lawyer, tried to quash.

How cut-rate SoBe hostel launched Jerry Falwell Jr. ‘pool boy’ saga, naked picture hunt

The sun was setting at the Cheeca Lodge resort in Islamorada when Jerry Falwell Jr. smiled for the camera, a national evangelical leader nearing 50 posing next to a young man he had met poolside in Miami Beach.

The photograph shows Giancarlo Granda, a handsome, 20-something pool attendant whom Jerry and his wife, Rebecca, 52, befriended at the Fontainebleau hotel in 2012, and within months, would set up as part-owner and manager of a $4.7 million South Beach hostel.

It was an unusual partnership: The president of the largest Christian university in the world, a school that prohibits gay sex, agreeing to operate a Miami Beach hostel, regarded as gay friendly, in conjunction with a “pool boy” with virtually no hotel management experience after they met at the storied Fontainebleau, a favored South Florida vacation ground for the Falwells. Yet there they were, not only business partners but mingling socially at Cheeca, an idyllic, exclusive resort in the Keys.

The relationship between the Falwells and Granda forms the backdrop of an improbable Miami story that is causing political ripples beyond South Florida. It involves a multimillion-dollar lawsuit, the pool boy” as he is described in the lawsuit, the comedian Tom Arnold, Michael Cohen, President Trump’s now imprisoned political fixer, naked photographs — and a Miami father and son who say they were defrauded in a real estate deal then forced to change their names due to “threats.”

Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article231717833.html#storylink=cpy

[Achilleaze]

1. republican family values are as FAKE as...

the No Treason claims of Dirty Donny, the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[trev]

2. Yeah, but

the naked photos are said to be from Falwell's cell phone. Probably nothing untoward about them.

However, that being said, I can't help but wonder about his frequenting a gay-friendly hotel and bestowing tons of money on a young man he'd just met.

[George II]

25. Hush money, I'm sure.

[trev]

30. No doubt.

Personally, I'd love to see the Falwell name go down in flames.

[jberryhill]

33. I don't get it either

"Three photographs have been seen by the Herald, however. They are images not of Falwell, of but his wife in various stages of undress. It is not known who took the photographs or when they were taken, and the Herald was not given the photographs and therefore, has not been able to authenticate them independently. Two of the photographs appear to have been taken at the Falwells’ farm in Virginia, and a third at the Cheeca Lodge."

The overall story is weird, but the pictures appear to have been hacked personal photos.

[underpants]

3. This is the second thread I've seen on this

and still no naked pictures ☹️

[MoonRiver]

5. Lol

[LonePirate]

6. Unless the naked pictures are of the pool boy, then I am glad we have not seen them.

[enid602]

42. Huckabees

We’d best be thankin’ our sweet baby Jesus that the naked photos aren’t of members of the Huckabee family.

[47of74]

56. No shit.

I’d be scrubbing out my eyes with fluoroantimonic acid any of those popped up.

[CatWoman]

16. you're so damn crazy

[pangaia]

38. Tell me about it.

I interrupted something important cause I thought there would be pics.

bummer

[LonePirate]

4. So did the pool boy sleep with Falwell, his wife or both of them?

There is no way Falwell invested a huge sum of money with a pool boy stranger at a hotel unless Falwell had some other arrangement with him.

[Elwood P Dowd]

8. He must have been the best performer in their menage a trois games.

[LonePirate]

12. Given the competition, he probably won by default.

[George II]

27. Betcha his wife and the pool boy took Falwell down a "peg" (look it up)

[CincyDem]

52. oh - that ain't right. lol. no need to look it up.

[Kind of Blue]

26. lol...

[Politicub]

62. The pool boy could be part of a possible cuckold fetish of Falwell's

It's not the kink; it's the coverup that's important.

[LonePirate]

65. That is assuming the pool boy slept only with the wife and not with Falwell himself.

The pool boy’s investment wasn’t for a straight hostel, after all.

This is the sort of fun scandal this country needs as it has elements of sex, hypocrisy, religion, politics and bribery/blackmail. If there were drugs involved or if the pool boy had been only 16, then this scandal would have hit the proverbial jackpot. And I wouldn't be surprised if cocaine or ecstasy were involved at some point.

[Politicub]

66. Yes! It needs a drug angle!

And it would be extra if the drug was a line of cocaine being snorted off the poolboy’s ass by Falwell.

[Caliman73]

7. All of this would be a big "nothing burger" if evangelicals didn't want to tell everyone else...

how evil they are and try to control everyone's behavior. Get your own shit together and MODEL how a "good person" lives!

1. Don't get rich off of scaring old people into sending you their social security checks for salvation.
2. Stop telling everyone how evil gay people are, while you secretly hang out at "gay friendly" hostels.
3. Just stop! Whatever you plan to do, it isn't the right thing. Jesus would not approve, and just stop.

Ask Tom Hanks how he manages to be a super rich dude, married to the same women for over 30 years and avoid scandals in one of the most scandal plagued industries.

[Achilleaze]

9. "I've got a free FAKE clue for Falwell republicans." - P. Robberson

[Leghorn21]

10. Oh, FUN!! I nominate the Miami Herald and Julie K. Brown for every Pulitzer known to mankind!

Keepin the heat ON!!

This doesn’t look as if it will amount to a whole lot, but something is hyper-weird here, in particular: Falwell’s abrupt Lindsay Graham-like about face re: trump endorsement for no discernible reason - what was that about??!?

Thanks much for posting, MelissaB - if nothing else, that Falwell scumbucket is probably having a really shitty day, and I’m EVER so down with that!

On edit:

And what’s the deal with Falwell’s fuel contract??! I understand none of this but, hmmmm

The Pentagon agreed to buy nearly $900,000 in jet fuel from the conservative university owned by Jerry Falwell Jr., just months after President Donald Trump took office.

The Department of Defense signed the contract with Freedom Aviation, which is wholly owned by Liberty University, on May 9, 2017, and had since purchased more than $400,000 in turbine fuel from the same company, reported The Daily Beast.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/jerry-falwell-jrs-university-sold-1-million-jet-fuel-pentagon-since-trumps-inauguration/

[hunter]

11. It's not the sex or naked pics or pool boy threesomes.

It's the hypocrisy.

[salin]

13. and the early endorsement (after the Cohen help) - very public - embrace

of then candidate Trump. Would the Evangelical right jumped behind this bandwagon/momentum? Did he make that move in exchange for hushing/disappearing the problem?

[Kingofalldems]

29. There it is.

[LonePirate]

14. Exactly! All of those things sound like fun but I'm not an evangelical championing "family values."

All of this would be a huge dose of “none of your business” were it not for it happening to someone like Falwell and his sudden reversal of support before the 2016 primaries.

[mitch96]

43. "It's the hypocrisy. "

Naked pic's of Falwells wife, naked pic's of the Prez wife.. The new normal.. uffda.
If it happened to a Dem they would have his head on a pike.. "Oh the Shame!"
m

[not_the_one]

15. He is an attractive man

so you KNOW he was been propositioned by other men. Some of us take the challenge quite seriously.

And the rules are different for the rich. They can (usually) get away with things because their money insulates them.

It sounds like he tried it, liked it, and got caught. (Any time there are two men in the same bed of three, there IS some curiosity being satisfied... )

So Sad.

He COULD pull a Tammy Faye Baker, publicly realize how wrong he has been, and become a darling of the gays....

[safeinOhio]

19. With good reason,

Jesus thought rich people suck. Can’t read the NT without getting that message.

[luvtheGWN]

21. With or without the mascara????

[FakeNoose]

17. Julie K. Brown has a lot of street cred in the industry

She's also the lead reporter who's dogging the Jeffrey Epstein story. So maybe we should give her some slack on this. It might turn out to be something.

[Paladin]

18. I hope the Falwell empire goes down in flames over this. (nt)

[keithbvadu2]

20. Wonder what credits are transferable from Trump U. to Liberty U.?

Wonder what credits are transferable from Trump U. to Liberty U.?

[MagickMuffin]

22. Is Jerry Falwell Jr a Mother Cucker???

Time will tell!!!

[catbyte]

23. Ew.

[Zambero]

24. Crooked televangelists never Fall Well

I mean....Fare Well. My bad!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

31. Jerry Jr., whose wife these are pictures of (not Jerry Sr.'s) isn't a televangelist.

He's not any kind of clergyman. He's a different sort of grifter.

[trev]

37. Well, to be accurate

Jr is not a televangelist. He's a businessman who happened to be bequeathed his father's propaganda university.

[ECL213]

28. When I die...

I hope they put me in charge of punishing the televangelists.

[TlalocW]

32. I have a feeling this is just the beginning

A lot of Falwell's supporters will hold their noses if the pictures are on his phone, but I'm thinking this is just the first shoe.

TlalocW

[Honeycombe8]

34. You gotta be kidding me. You can't even make up stuff like this. nt

[Vegas Roller]

35. The christian family values

strike again.

They are such hypocrites.

[Politicub]

36. Would someone kindly tl;dr what the controversy is? I read the article, but can't for the life of me

figure out the issue.

Is it a bad business deal or something? Or is there an implication that the Falwells were banging the pool boy, Cohen or Trump found out, and blackmailed Falwell to endorse him before the Iowa caucuses?

What is going on??!

This is me right now -->

[trev]

39. That's the fun of this issue as it currently stands.

Speculation is rife.

[Politicub]

41. Gotcha. It has Lifetime movie of the week potential.

[trev]

45. Personally, I like to see right-wingers embarrassed

regardless of the circumstances.

Keep enough stuff like this in the news and we might turn a few Independents....

[KY_EnviroGuy]

54. Good potential for a reality show, too.

The tRump clan could participate.....

[LonePirate]

44. Here is a rather brief summary.

Falwell and his wife met a pool boy while on vacation in Miami and they soon invested a large sum of money in the pool boy’s gay hostel. Soon after, Falwell backed 45 and the evangelicals joined Falwell in backing him, which helped him zip through the primaries. Now nude photos of Falwell’s wife have surfaced, seemingly in relation to the pool boy investment as Cohen (45’s lawyer) was recruited at the time to retrieve and destroy the pictures.

All of this may be coincidental. It’s the timing of Falwell’s endorsement along with his generous financial investment with a stranger to run a gay hostel (odd given his position at Liberty University) which have people scratching their heads.

[trev]

46. Excellent wrap-up. nt

[LonePirate]

48. I'm not saying Cohen or 45 blackmailed Falwell after obtaining the photos, but ...

There sure is a lot of coincidental smoke in this story if there is no fire there.

[trev]

49. Yes, I agree.

As I mentioned on here, I'm simply curious about the whole money deal. Obviously, something took place. And whatever it was, it seems to have changed Falwell's mind.

[Politicub]

61. TY - Trump and his gang of idiots invite so much stupid to hang around them

I'm glad this is in the news. It doesn't reflect well on the Falwells, which is a good thing.

[leftieNanner]

47. This has been a "drip...drip...drip" partial story for a while

and this is a smidgen of new information about there being nude photos of Falwell's wife.

The implication is that there is something very dodgy going on that would make Jerry invest a lot of money in a "pool boy". Michael Cohen was brought in to help cover this up - whatever it turns out to be in its entirety - and then POOF Falwell endorses Trump for President.

Hopefully we will get the full story soon.

[LuckyCharms]

40. FINALLY! I GET TO SEE THE PICS!

DREAM COME TRUE!

[oasis]

50. K and R baby. Not fake news!

[Grammy23]

51. I have nearly split my sides laughing at this whole scenario

and the comments from my fellow DUers. God only knows how much I needed the laugh. I’ve been really sad and worried about the current situation we seem to be in. But this brief moment of hilarity (and the possibilities of scandal are endless ) has just lifted my spirits. Thanks, DU. I can carry on now with a new lease on life!

[Politicub]

63. A pool boy that runs a gay-friendly hostel as one of the players is just icing on the cake

You can't make this stuff up.

[Generic Other]

53. Thoughts and Prayers

[JDC]

55. "Art" no doubt....

[TheCowsCameHome]

57. Thankfully they weren't of Jerry..

..

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

58. Is Melania her role model?

[vlyons]

59. Why am I not surprised?

There seems to always be a sex scandal or a money grifter scandal or both brewing with these Evangelicals. Especially the ones in positions of power and money.

[saidsimplesimon]

60. I demand the release of the pool boy photos.

Mitch should not object, after all Chao finds his cruelty oh so stimulating.

[TeamPooka]

64. Falwell must have been preaching about the burning bush to that pool boy.

[Codeine]

67. The far right loves to call others "cucks."

This proves they’re projecting, as always.

[MineralMan]

68. I understand that "cuck porn" is a popular

sub-genre. Seems strange to me...

[Tipperary]

69. Now we can all be titillated by this instead of rump's

hijacking of this country.

[Skittles]

70. easy to see why he is a Trump Humper