Falwells ready to sell the South Beach hostel that launched the ‘pool boy’ saga
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Jerry Falwell Jr. looks ready to sever ties with the South Beach hostel that launched the “pool boy” sex saga, though the pending deal is tied up in a court fight.
In 2013, a company set up by the former evangelical leader’s son, Trey, paid $4.7 million for the two-story building at 810 Alton Road that housed a liquor store, restaurant and a cut-rate hostel in the heart of South Beach.
The odd part was the Falwell business partner in the property: Giancarlo Granda, who befriended Jerry and his wife, Becki, the year before while he was a 20-year-old pool attendant at the Fontainebleau hotel in Miami Beach.
When the arrangement became public in 2018, the “pool boy” saga began.
It morphed into a scandal after Granda and Becki Falwell confirmed in dueling 2020 interviews that they had been having sex before the relationship soured. Granda claimed Jerry filmed some of their encounters; the Falwells said he was unaware of his wife’s affair.
The saga helped lead to Falwell’s 2020 exit as president of Liberty University, the evangelical college his father founded in the 1970s.
Despite the messy split, the South Beach hostel remained a link between Granda and the Falwells. Though his name was removed from annual corporate filings last year, Granda said Wednesday night that he still has a stake in the business.
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