Testimony: Reality Star Was Blackmailed For Gay Affair

May 26, 2022 Scandal, Television

And absolutely nobody was remotely surprised:

Todd Chrisley’s former business partner testified in his federal fraud trial Tuesday that they paid a blackmailer $38,000 in cash after the anonymous person threatened to expose their intimate relationship.

Mark Braddock, who turned Chrisley and his wife Julie into the FBI, told an Atlanta jury that he had an affair with Chrisley for about a year in the early 2000s. After their intimate relationship ended, they had formed a “brotherhood” and were close friends until 2012, he testified.

At some point when Braddock was working for Chrisley’s foreclosure management company, Chrisley Asset Management, they started receiving anonymous text messages threatening to expose them for fraud, as well as out their secret affair, Braddock testified.

But wait, there’s more:

Braddock, who had to tell his own wife about the affair before testifying, turned the Chrisleys into the FBI for tax fraud and told the jury on Tuesday he did not want to be talking about his affair. Braddock has also been granted immunity.

In his opening statements, Chrisley’s lawyer Bruce Morris accused Braddock of thinking he was Todd Chrisley and had an ‘obsession’ with him. Braddock has denied these claims. He also said the only time he’d been with a man was with Chrisley.

Chrisley had publicly addressed rumors about his sexuality in 2017, telling the Domenick Nati Show that the rumors didn’t ‘bother’ him. “In order for it to disappoint me, it would mean that I don’t agree with someone being gay. And my wife certainly is flattered that as many men want her husband as there are women.”

The clip below is from August 2021 when the entire saga apparently began to unfold.



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