In his upcoming book, Giancarlo Granda has detailed his affair with Becki Tilley, wife of prominent evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr.
Granda’s soon-to-be-released book entitled Off the Deep End: Jerry and Becki Falwell and the Collapse of an Evangelical Dynasty, reveals details of how the then 20-year-old came to start a six-year affair with Becki Tilley and how their first sexual encounter was watched by her husband.
The affair led to Jerry leaving his position as president of Liberty University , one of the biggest privately-owned evangelical universities in the world, and the downfall of his reputation in the faith.
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Giancarlo says that he met Becki at the Fontainebleau hotel in Miami at the beginning of 2012.
She was sitting by the pool, stretched out on a daybed when he noticed that she was giving him intense eye contact. When he later got “within earshot” of her, she said to him “Oh, these girls don’t know what they’re doing. You need someone older”.
The two began to flirt with Becki asking Giancarlo about his life including where he studied and what his interests were. By the end of his shift, she asked him if he wanted to come back to her room.
Giancarlo said that he didn’t say no straight away and that Becki then added “There’s just one thing… My husband wants to watch”.
She went onto explain that her and her husband had gone to a well-known swingers hotel called Miami Velvet, but left because it felt perverted, so they came to the Fontainebleau in hopes of meeting likeminded people.
The 20-year-old said that he was unsure of whether to say yes or no because he had never done anything like it, but Becki assured him that Jerry would “hide in the corner and watch us” saying “That’s his thing. You won’t even know he’s there”.
Becki and Giancarlo caught up later that night at a different hotel, with Jerry watching on as they performed oral sex on each other. Penetrative sex was not allowed according to Giancarlo, who said that was the only rule Becki and Jerry had.
After that night, Giancarlo explains that he thought it would be the last time he would ever see the couple but later received a text message from Becki asking to catch up again.
Giancarlo became a pivotal person in the lives of the Falwell’s up until 2020 when allegations of the affair came out.
At first both Becki and Jerry denied the affair but after Giancarlo came clean about everything, they switched their narrative, telling Vanity Fair earlier this year that Becki was the one involved in the affair with Jerry having nothing to do with it.