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Showing Original Post only (View all)MIAMI HERALD EXCLUSIVE: Naked photographs of Jerry Falwell's wife surface in Miami Beach scandal. [View all]
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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 Trumps 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
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 Trumps 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
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MIAMI HERALD EXCLUSIVE: Naked photographs of Jerry Falwell's wife surface in Miami Beach scandal. [View all]
MelissaB
Jun 2019
OP
Unless the naked pictures are of the pool boy, then I am glad we have not seen them.
LonePirate
Jun 2019
#6
That is assuming the pool boy slept only with the wife and not with Falwell himself.
LonePirate
Jun 2019
#65
All of this would be a big "nothing burger" if evangelicals didn't want to tell everyone else...
Caliman73
Jun 2019
#7
Oh, FUN!! I nominate the Miami Herald and Julie K. Brown for every Pulitzer known to mankind!
Leghorn21
Jun 2019
#10
Exactly! All of those things sound like fun but I'm not an evangelical championing "family values."
LonePirate
Jun 2019
#14
Jerry Jr., whose wife these are pictures of (not Jerry Sr.'s) isn't a televangelist.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Jun 2019
#31
Would someone kindly tl;dr what the controversy is? I read the article, but can't for the life of me
Politicub
Jun 2019
#36
I'm not saying Cohen or 45 blackmailed Falwell after obtaining the photos, but ...
LonePirate
Jun 2019
#48
A pool boy that runs a gay-friendly hostel as one of the players is just icing on the cake
Politicub
Jun 2019
#63