The wife of disgraced anti-gay televangelist Eddie Long received a standing ovation from church members while discussing her marriage's highly publicized problems. "I was in the middle of a storm, and I got off the ship," Vanessa Long said of publicized plans to file a divorce.
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It was almost two years ago that allegations first surfaced that Long had long-term sexual relations with young male members of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in suburban Atlanta. Mrs. Long publicly announced her plans to divorce in December 2011. The case was withdrawn in February 2012.
Long was accused of luring at least five young men into sexual relationships. Maurice Robinson, Jamal Parris, Anthony Flagg and Spencer LeGrande filed sexual coercion lawsuits against Long and New Birth in the fall of 2010. Long was accused of using church funds to give the young men cash,
gifts and cars. The sexual relationships reportedly began when each of
the plaintiffs were around 16 years old. Read the complaints HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE.
A fifth man later came forward with more allegations. Long reached an out-of-court settlement with all parties in May 2011.
A hypocrite who preys on teenage boys in the church congregation and uses church funds to buy them cars is a little more serious than a "wreck" or a "storm." But keep telling yourself that, hon.
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Got off the ship or was she the silent captain and that kept her mouth shut and kept rowing, and then only bailed when the waters got a little too, too rough, oh that victim card gets a whole lotta faces, how much lawsuit settling can one church stand??
Posted by: Troy | 10 September 2012 at 10:37
Wait, so she's back with him now and creating a narrative for why she went back besides the money.
Posted by: Colin | 16 September 2012 at 14:59