{"id":7976,"date":"2025-05-20T06:25:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T10:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=7976"},"modified":"2025-05-20T06:25:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T10:25:37","slug":"liberty-to-pay-jerry-falwell-jr-15m-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=7976","title":{"rendered":"Liberty to pay Jerry Falwell Jr. $15M settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty University will pay its former president, Jerry Falwell Jr., about $15 million to settle litigation following his 2020 resignation after a high-profile sex scandal that drew national attention to the private Christian institution.<\/p>\n<p>While the settlement was announced in 2024, neither Falwell nor Liberty shared details about what it included &minus; or how much Falwell would get paid.<\/p>\n<p> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/investigations\/2025\/05\/20\/liberty-university-jerry-falwell-jr-settlement-sex-scandal\/83675753007\/\" target=\"_blank\">USA TODAY reports &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty University will pay its former president, Jerry Falwell Jr., about $15 million to settle litigation following his 2020 resignation a&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=7976\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liberty to pay Jerry Falwell Jr. $15M settlement<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"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":[1],"tags":[614],"class_list":["post-7976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-liberty-to-pay-jerry-falwell-jr-15m-settlement","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-24E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7976","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=7976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7977,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7976\/revisions\/7977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}