Despite Mark Braddock having gay affair with Todd Chrisley and helping him commit fraud, his wife of 30 years Leslie has reportedly forgiven him and isn’t divorcing him.
Everyone was expecting to see Leslie dump Mark but that isn’t happening as she’s forgiven and sticking to him. MTO News has more;
According to federal documents, Todd Chrisley had a gay affair with his business partner who helped him commit fraud. And that same partner allegedly snitched to the feds after their romance went sour, based on his testimony in court.
The reality TV star, 53, was allegedly living with Mark Braddock in the early 2000s before breaking it off, a judge in Atlanta was told. Mark testified that after the affair ended the pair stayed friends and formed a ‘brotherhood.’
But it blew up in 2012 when Chrisley threw him out of his office and threatened to call the police on him, Insider reported. The TV star has been married for 26 years to Julie, with whom he shares five children: Lindsie, 32; Kyle, 30; Chase, 25; Savannah, 24; and Grayson, 16.
Mark is married to his longtime wife, Leslie, and they celebrated 34 years of marriage in October 2021. In this three-decades-long marriage, they were blessed with two sons.
While appearing for the testimony for Todd’s ongoing tax fraud trial, Mark told the court that he only recently shared with his wife details about his gay affair with Todd, before coming to the court to testify.
Media Take Out has learned that Mark’s wife Leslie has “forgiven” him, and intends to stay married to her downlow husband.
It is crazy to be married to someone for 30 years and not know they play for the other team.
After the affair ended, while Chrisley’s former flame worked at Chrisley Asset Management, he claims an anonymous source sent text messages threatening to expose the relationship and his boss’ fraud.
The alleged texts said: ‘Pay cash and we’ll shut up.’
Chrisley and Braddock ended up paying their blackmailer $38,000, which Braddock withdrew from the bank in four $9,500 payments, before meeting Chrisley in a parking garage.
He handed over the large amounts of cash ‘in a little bag’ for Chrisley to pay the blackmailer, he testified on Tuesday.
After the Chrisley’s were accused by the FBI of tax invasion, Braddock told jurors his feelings for Chrisley convinced him to help them commit fraud, he testified.
The former employee created fake tax documents for the reality star and submitted them to banks and impersonated Chrisley in emails and phone calls, Insider reported.
After the two had a falling out, Braddock reportedly wanted to get back at his former lover and created fake email accounts to report the Chrisleys’ criminal behavior to government and news agencies.
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