{"id":5282,"date":"2020-08-24T13:18:26","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T17:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5282"},"modified":"2020-08-24T14:05:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T18:05:30","slug":"business-partner-of-falwells-says-he-had-affair-with-the-power-couple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5282","title":{"rendered":"Business partner of Falwells says he had affair with the power couple, Falwell claims they were being blackmailed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Giancarlo Granda, a business partner of Jerry Falwell Jr has come forward to say he had a years-long sexual relationship involving Falwell\u2019s wife and the evangelical leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Falwell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/washington-secrets\/exclusive-falwell-says-fatal-attraction-threat-led-to-depression\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said Sunday<\/a> he &#8220;was not involved&#8221; in his wife&#8217;s &#8220;inappropriate personal relationship&#8221; with Granda, and mentioned &#8220;fantastic&#8221; and &#8220;prurient, untrue aspects&#8221; of the relationship &#8220;based on the individual&#8217;s misrepresentations.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Three way Christians!  <br><br>Will this be highlighted during the Republican Convention today?<br><br>Business partner of Falwells says he had affair with the power couple <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zxFHm4Wmgs\">https:\/\/t.co\/zxFHm4Wmgs<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/specialreports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SpecialReports<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Don Winslow (@donwinslow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/donwinslow\/status\/1297933474729324544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 24, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Business partner of Falwells says he had affair with the power couple <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hxQhFMSU0H\">https:\/\/t.co\/hxQhFMSU0H<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AramRoston?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AramRoston<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Ben Smith (@semaforben) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/semaforben\/status\/1297931059309551616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 24, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RtejL20kz_M\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/investigates\/special-report\/usa-falwell-relationship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giancarlo Granda, a business partner of Jerry Falwell Jr has come forward to say he had a years-long sexual relationship involving Falwell&#038;r&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5282\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Business partner of Falwells says he had affair with the power couple, Falwell claims they were being blackmailed<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[122],"class_list":["post-5282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jerry-falwell-jr","tag-business-partner-of-falwells-says-he-had-affair-with-the-power-couple","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/giancarlo-e1598289839719.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-1nc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5282"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5287,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5282\/revisions\/5287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}