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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Alex Woodward

Jerry Falwell Jr. to get $15 million payout after Liberty University sex scandal

Liberty University has agreed to pay its former president, Jerry Falwell Jr. roughly $15 million as part of a settlement after his resignation in the wake of sex scandals that rocked the famously conservative university.

Falwell took over as president following the 2007 death of his father Jerry Falwell Sr., a massively influential figure within America's modern right-wing Christian movement who founded the university in 1971.

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