Posted on 03/15/2023 2:20:31 PM PDT by Morgana
Jerry Falwell Jr. is suing Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, claiming his former employer has withheld $8.5 million in retirement benefits that were previously promised to him.
The son of the school’s founder and conservative activist Jerry Falwell Sr., Falwell has been credited with bringing Liberty University back from the brink of financial collapse while serving as its president from 2007 to 2020.
However, Falwell’s tenure at the school ended amid scandal and controversy in 2020 after Falwell posted an image to social media of himself alongside a woman with their pants unbuttoned and unzipped. The image was meant to be taken in jest, but many nevertheless found it troubling.
After being placed on indefinite leave, Falwell and his wife, Becki, made a public statement that Becki had engaged in an extramarital affair and that their family was now being blackmailed.
The next day, Reuters published a now-infamous article detailing the account of Giancarlo Granda, a former Miami Beach pool attendant who claimed the Falwell’s had engaged in a lurid relationship with him, in which Falwell watched him and Becki have sex for his own pleasure. Granda also claimed Falwell had used his money and influence to control him and keep him quiet.
The Falwell’s vehemently deny the details of Granda’s account, though they admit Becki did have an affair with Granda.
Granda’s telling of the story was recently the subject of a Hulu documentary titled “God Forbid: The Sex Scandal That Brought Down a Dynasty.”
When Falwell resigned from Liberty University, it was announced that the two parties had settled on a $10 million severance package, because Falwell had not been formally accused of or admitted to wrongdoing.
Since that time, Liberty and Falwell have volleyed various lawsuits. In Oct. 2020, Falwell sued Liberty for allegedly damaging his reputation after the university launched an investigation into the school’s previous financial entanglements with Falwell’s personal real estate investments. While Falwell later dropped that suit, he later revived it in Nov. 2021.
Liberty University sued Falwell in April 2021 for allegedly breaching his contract while working for the university, as well as violating his fiduciary duty. In the suit, the school claims Falwell withheld information that would be damaging to the school’s reputation during severance negotiations, including his alleged problems with alcohol and the details of Becki’s affair with Granda.
That litigation is ongoing.
Now Falwell is suing the school for not having paid the $8.5 million they had previously agreed to award him by this point in time in accordance with his severance arrangement. Liberty University has apparently not paid out the sum in light of the ongoing litigation regarding what, if anything, Falwell is actually owed by the school.
In a statement, Liberty University said, “This claim is part of a larger dispute currently pending in state court. The University will defend the new action on the same grounds it has already pled on the record in the state case.”
“Liberty is confident it is not legally required to pay these funds and will file the appropriate responses with the federal court,” the statement went on to say.
What BS, a family of “religious” grifters.
He needs to get together with Richard Roberts as Oral Roberts boy Richard also feels he got axed out of the will.
I wouldn’t say Sr. was a “grifter”. The only sin I can tell Jerry indulged in was gluttony. Maybe pride.
This is the weirdo who liked to sit around watching while his wife had sex with the pool-boy, right? And this is Jerry Falwell’s son - wow. The old man may have had his faults, but no one deserves a son like this.
Religion biz has been berry, berry good to Jerry
Cucked freak
Hey can I watch young stud deep plow my wifey into the mattress while I ahem self gratify
And such a self professed Christian
It’s disgusting
I was in the room with Jerry Sr. in my religious media days did not see anything wrong going on.
The University is a worthy place. His reckless actions and hubris are incredibly damaging. And apparently no shame.
Maybe Reno is confusing him with Oral, Jimmy or Jimmy.
Along with a few others that escape my memory.
My money’s on Jr. being a closeted homo and this is the closest he’ll let himself enjoy his true lusts.
Baptists frown on homosexuality but can forgive a spouse for infidelity.
Falwell, Sr., most likely was not a grifter according to people I’ve known who attended his church. Junior was another story, but he was not particularly “religious” — just a very flawed attorney managing a college his father founded.
Your money wins
Sadly, many people will look at the Falwells, the Bakkers, the Jimmy Swaggarts, etc. and say to themselves, “if that’s how Christians behave, I want no part of that faith.”
Issues in religious media definitely egos and so I was a big hypocrite myself in those days in my own way.
I agree. The old man was ok by me. His son was a dud and a lowlife. Living the millionaire life, being a cuck.
They were in it for cash all along, nothing Christian about them
“Just as I am” always closed services for Rev. Falwell Sr. I can never find a full video of a service as seen in the late 70’s although the stuff from Garner Ted is readily available in some cases. Odd that...I think Falwell was the more genuine of the TV pastors, after Rev. Graham.
Rumour says that Jr. wasn’t able to stand at attention, so he had to get sexual gratification by being a cuck.
One of his grandsons was the apple that landed pretty far from the tree. William Graham Tullian Tchividjian.
Took over D. James Kennedy's old church, expelled Kennedy's wife and daughter, threw and underling under the bus to try to dodge the fallout. Had an affair, etc.
R.C. Sproul, Sr. is another well known preacher whose son has had a checkered past. Including copping to a felony.
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