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The Florida woman arrested for barraging her ex’s new partner with explicit photos and videos from their relationship allegedly swindled her former beau out of his house after he convinced authorities to drop charges, a lawsuit claims.
Kristina Taylor and a pal, both 36, tracked down the boyfriend’s new partner and bombarded her with sex tapes from the failed relationship last October.
The 45-year-old boyfriend — who asked not to be named — convinced the prosecutors not to give the women jailtime for the harassment, but Taylor returned the favor by kicking him out of the $525,000 house he financed, according to the suit filed in January in Polk County.
The house had been bought in her name, but the boyfriend allegedly put up the actual money — which was more than $40,000 on the down payment and other costs, plus roughly $5,000 a month for the mortgage and upkeep, the suit states.
He also claimed to have covered $18,000 of Taylor’s debts, including $12,000 for previous surgeries, so that she would qualify for the loan.
The loan was taken out in her name because his investment company was too new to meet the bank’s lending requirements, according to the suit.
However, the boyfriend says he has written proof the house was meant to belong to both of them — a family home for him, Taylor, and her two children.
But when the relationship went south, Taylor’s gal pal Tara Johnson allegedly architected the sick harassment scheme when she found out that her friend’s ex had moved on — and started a new relationship weeks after the break-up, the Polk County Sheriff’s Department said.
Both were facing two months in prison until the ex-boyfriend intervened last week and insisted that the pair receive no jail time, or he would refuse to cooperate with the state’s attorney.
Johnson and Taylor were reportedly both offered a misdemeanor diversion program, which includes hours of community service and supervision to avoid convictions.
The man chose to protect Taylor for the sake of her kids, whom he had become a father to in the four years they were together, he previously told the Daily Mail.
Johnson avoided jail time, but she resigned from her job as executive director for Hope House Florida, a shelter for new mothers.
Johnson touted the organization’s help teaching women “relationship skills” in one video on the org’s Instagram page.
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