CrossFit co-founder Lauren Jenai is off the hook for the $2 million in bail cash she put as much as spring her now-estranged husband from jail in 2019.
The health guru put up the seven-figure sum in dramatic trend in an eleventh hour bond deal to assist Franklin Tyrone Tucker — her fiancé on the time — get out of a Florida detention middle the place he was awaiting trial for homicide.
Tucker — who has staunchly proclaimed his innocence and is individually suing police and prosecutors in Monroe County, Fla. — was arrested on first-degree homicide costs in 2017 for a heist gone fallacious identified regionally because the Treehouse Homicide.
He’s been below home arrest since being launched on the $2 million put up by Jenai.
The pair romantically married in 2020 on Jenai’s garden in Portland, Ore., however the marriage went south after simply over a 12 months, and the duo haven’t any prenup, we’ve beforehand reported.
Sources informed us this week {that a} Florida courtroom has decreased Tucker’s bail from $2 million to $75,000 after the preliminary bond deal expired.
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A supply aware of the case stated: “Lauren is off the hook for the $2 million in bond cash as a result of it has now been decreased… The trial is anticipated to be held this Spring.”
The supply added, “Jenai had initially put up two of her houses to safe the bond, however that bond deal simply expired after three years. The decide issued a brand new, a lot decrease bond that represented [Tucker is] not a flight danger.”
Our insider stated: “The couple have been residing aside for over a 12 months and are anticipated to divorce after [Tucker’s] case is resolved.”
Reps didn’t remark.
The duo — who’d identified one another as teenagers reconnected, then bought engaged, whereas Tucker was jailed. They break up in 2021. Regardless of the break, Jenai has stood by Tucker’s innocence.
She reportedly sold her CrossFit shares for round $20 million as a part of her divorce with the model’s co-founder, Greg Glassman, in 2013.
