God Forbid: The Sex Scandal That Brought Down a Dynasty (2022) on Netflix

Name: God Forbid: The Sex Scandal That Brought Down a Dynasty
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2022-11-01
Duration: 109 min
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Sam Myerson, Betty Monroe, Lou Silver, Jerry Falwell Jr., Donald Trump

NR20221h 49mDocumentary

Giancarlo Granda, a Miami Beach pool attendant, meets Becki Falwell, wife of Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. He becomes entangled with the couple and their hostel business.

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Jerry Falwell Jr. runs Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, and supports Donald Trump. In March 2012 he and his wife, Becki, stay at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach, where Becki meets Giancarlo Granda, a twenty-year-old working at the hotel pool. Granda says a sexual relationship with the couple began that month and lasted years, with Jerry Falwell Jr. sometimes watching. The Falwells put money into a South Beach hostel, the Alton Hostel, also known as the Miami Hostel, alongside their son Trey and Granda. A father and his son sue them, saying the hostel idea was theirs and that they were left out.

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A Reuters article from August 2019 reported that Jerry Falwell Jr. signed a 2016 real estate deal giving Liberty University's sports facilities to his personal trainer, who paid nothing. Liberty instead credited $580,000 off the price to lease the property back through 2025.
Jerry Falwell Jr. turned down Donald Trump's November 2016 offer to become United States secretary of education, citing personal reasons and not wanting to leave Liberty University for more than two years.
Jerry Falwell Jr. left his position at Liberty University without a formal accusation or admission of wrongdoing, which reportedly entitled him to a $10.5 million severance package.
In 2024, Liberty University was ordered to pay Jerry Falwell Jr. $15.3 million in a settlement concerning his resignation.
It was later revealed that Jerry Falwell Jr. made his endorsement after Donald Trump's personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen had set out to recover "personal" photos involving the Falwells.
Jerry Falwell Jr. sued Liberty University for damaging his reputation in October 2020 but dropped the lawsuit that December; the university then sued him for $40 million in April 2021.