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Inside the Jerry Falwell Love Triangle

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Giancarlo Granda was a 20-year-old pool boy at a Miami hotel when Jerry Falwell Jr.’s wife showed sudden interest in him — asking him to join her in her hotel room, where her husband, the prominent evangelical leader, wanted to watch, Rolling Stone reports.

In his upcoming book, Off the Deep End: Jerry and Becki Falwell and the Collapse of an Evangelical Dynasty, Granda writes about the love triangle, saying that Falwell’s giddiness and giggling throughout the encounter was “disconcerting.”

Off the Deep End: Jerry and Becki Falwell and the Collapse of an Evangelical Dynasty
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