Face of Anti-Gay Pro-Trump Dating Site is Convicted Child Molester

Yesterday we reported on a new dating site for Trump supporters. The site bans gay people (as if any sane gay person would want to join a pro-Trump dating site) but allows straight people who are married.

The face of the site is a married couple from Guilford County, North Carolina, Barrett and Jodi Riddleberger.

WRAL discovered something else about Trump supporter Barrett Riddleberger. He’s a convicted child molester:

WRAL News would not agree to that. Riddleberger’s past includes a felony conviction for taking indecent liberties with a child in in 1995. The charge stemmed from his videotaping himself having sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 25, the Greensboro News & Record reported in 2014.

A North Carolina criminal history check Monday turned up no serious charges on Riddleberger’s record since then. He said he’s been married for 22 years.

“I’ve already paid my debt for something I did 25 years ago,” he said.

It’s unclear who created the Trump.dating website. Riddleberger refused to answer most questions. A press release announcing the site’s creation and a paid-for blogpost on the right-leaning Daily Caller website circulated within the past few weeks quoting a Sean McGrossier as the website’s founder and owner. Attempts to locate him Monday were not successful.

WRAL also reported that Riddleberger said that “the marital status issue was a mistake and was being fixed by a programmer.”

However, “Some reports have also noted that, once a person gets past the initial sign-up page, he or she can choose ‘happily married’ or ‘unhappily married’ as a status before finalizing a profile and meeting new potential dates.”

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Russell Tovey Announces ‘Completely Unexpected’ Engagement to Rugby Player Steve Brockman

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Russell Tovey is engaged to be married to his boyfriend Steve Brockman.

Tovey confirmed the news to Daily Mail, saying, “Completely unexpected but very very happy and looking forward to having a proper party to celebrate when back in London.”

It’s unclear how long they’ve been dating but the relationship reportedly began getting serious last summer.

Brockman is a rugby player for the Kings Cross Steelers as well as a personal training company.

Tovey is currently starring in the ABC series Quantico and as The Ray for The CW.

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Woman Cut Out Of Will After Walking In On Multi-Millionaire Dad Having Sex With Another Man

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A New York woman is contesting her late father’s will after he disinherited her when she walked in on him having sex with another man.

54-year-old Diana Downing said her relationship with her wealthy Manhattan landlord father Vincent Downing never recovered after she barged in on the rendezvous decades ago when she was a teenager.

Downing, who was disbarred as an attorney after pleaded guilty in 2010 to felony charges related to a Medicaid fraud scheme, wrote in an affidavit:

“While it is challenging to untangle the dynamics of our family, I believe that strains between my father and myself emerged when I was a young teenager.”

NY Daily News reports:

Downing accused her father of being “a closeted homosexual with a difficult-to-control temper.”

“I also suspect that I interrupted an encounter between my father and a male lover,” she wrote. “I believe that my father was so embarrassed that he shunned me.”

Downing said her dad, Vincent Downing, never recovered from his discomfort over the incident. She said he skipped her high school graduation and her Yale University commencement.

The two never reconciled before Vincent Downing died at 86 on May 10, 2016, when he was crushed by a car in a pedestrian crosswalk on the Upper East Side. He was survived by Diana and two other children.

Downing filed a petition earlier this month to halt the distribution of her father’s assets to the beneficiaries of his will.

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She claims that her  was really a resident of Paris for the past 20 years.

If she can prove that claim to be true, French law would grant her some of her father’s money since children can’t be disinherited there. She is also waging a legal battle in France over the same claims.

However, Helen Chaitman, a lawyer for Diana’s brother, David Downing, said the allegations about walking in on her father having sex with another man are ”totally fabricated” with “no basis in fact.”

David Downing’s legal team also deny that his father was a resident of France. Diana Downing claims that emails and mail backup her claim that her dad — who had U.S. and Irish citizenship — lived in France. Downing had most of his medical procedures in France, she contends, and his family visited him there.

Diana Downing added in her affidavit that if her father hadn’t died in the accident in 2016, they may have reconciled.

“I was cautiously hopeful that my father would overcome the embarrassment that I believe prompted him to shun me in my teen years, and which I suspect haunted him,” she wrote.

“I believe that, shortly before he died, my father was preparing to reconnect with me.”

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