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(This month is Dolly Parton’s birthday, so I ‘m bringing this article by Jennifer Pernicano for Country Rebel on things you might not know about the movie 9 to 5.)

The 1980 film 9 to 5, starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton, tells the story of three working women who live out their fantasies of getting even with their “sexist, egotistical, hypocritical bigot” of a boss.

The women eventually overthrow their boss after kidnapping him and holding him hostage in his own house.  While he’s gone from work, the women implement new policies around the office that benefit everyone, including day care, flexible hours, equal pay, and a job-sharing program.

The movie is hilarious, well-written, and for good reason, is ranked No. 74 on the American Film Institute’s list of the top 100 funniest movies in American cinema.

While fans of the movie have probably seen it 100 times, there are still some things we don’t know about it. Let’s take a look at 7 things y’all might not know about 9 to 5!

The Lead Roles Were Written For Tomlin, Fonda, and Parton

Screenwriters often write roles in their movies with an actor serving as inspiration, but it’s rare when you actually get that actor to play the part. Patricia Resnick, who wrote the movie with Colin Higgins, had Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton all in mind when they were writing the film. Jane Fonda was already attached to the film because, well, it was her idea! She then handed the reigns off to Resnick and Higgins.

“We had Jane for sure, because it was her idea to do the film and it was her production company,” Resnick told Rolling Stone. “It was written for Dolly and Lily, but we did not have them under contract. We really wanted them, but we did have some backup ideas in case they turned us down. For Lily, it was Carol Burnett, and for Dolly, it was Ann-Margret. But I had Dolly, Lily and Jane in my head the whole time, and we were really hoping that’s who it was going to be.”

As luck would have it, Tomlin and Parton accepted the roles of Violet and Doralee, respectively.

Lily Tomlin Initially Turned Down The Role

Can you imagine someone else playing Violet? We sure can’t. Carol Burnett is very talented, but no one could have been as hilarious as Tomlin was in this role. It wasn’t because she didn’t like the script, though. She was just working so much; she wanted to give herself a break!

“I turned ‘9 to 5’ down originally. I was shooting ‘The Incredible Shrinking Woman’ and I was so overworked,” she told the UK’s Evening Times. “I’d worked for seven months on that movie, so I was ready to just shut my eyes to anything else. My partner Jane said to me, ‘This is the biggest mistake of your life. You’ve got to get on the phone and tell Jane Fonda you want to take back the resignation’.”

Tomlin took her now-wife’s advice and begged for the job back, and she is so happy she did.

“I am grateful that I did it. [Jane Fonda & Dolly Parton] became two of my good friends, you know.”

Tomlin and Fonda currently star on the Netflix original show Grace & Frankie.

Dolly Wouldn’t Star In The Movie Unless She Could Write The Theme Song

According to The Guardian, Parton got her self-confidence from all her brothers and uncles who taught her everything there is to know about men.

“I understood the nature of men and I didn’t go in there feeling all intimidated,” she said. “I just went in there and said: ‘Hey! I have a good product here and we can all make some money here if y’all wanna get involved with it.’”

This same self-confidence helped her when she refused to let Elvis Presley record her iconic song “I Will Always Love You”, and again when negotiating for 9 to 5. Parton leveraged her skills as a songwriter and agreed to star in the movie, but only if she could write the theme song.

Her song “9 to 5” earned Parton an Academy Award nomination and four Grammy nominations. It won the Best Country Song and Best Country Vocal Performance, Female at the Grammys.

Dolly’s Fingernails Inspired The Song “9 to 5”

Once Fonda agreed to let Parton write the theme song for the film, she went straight to work! She wrote the song on set and used one of her famous body parts to help her.

In 2009, Parton sat down with the ladies of The View, and filled them in on a little secret about her writing process of the song “9 to 5.”

“I wrote that on the set when we were doin’ the movie, I just watched the things goin’ on during the day, and I would just kind of do my nails and it sounded like a typewriter to me.”

‘9 to 5’ Was Intended To Be A Drama

Yes, you are reading that right. One of the funniest movies in cinematic history was initially supposed to be a drama!

“At first we were going to make a drama,” Fonda told The London Times. Fonda ran the production company responsible for the film, IPC Films.

“Any way we did it, it seemed too preachy, too much of a feminist line,” she continued. “I’d wanted to work with Lily [Tomlin] for some time, and it suddenly occurred to [producer] Bruce [Gilbert] and me that we should make it a comedy. It remains a ‘labor film,’ but I hope of a new kind, different from The Grapes of Wrath or Salt of the Earth. We took out a lot of stuff that was filmed, even stuff the director, Colin Higgins, thought worked but which I asked to have taken out. I’m just super-sensitive to anything that smacks of the soapbox or lecturing the audience.”

Even after the drama aspect was thrown out of the window, they re-wrote it to be a black comedy, but Fonda still thought it was too dark. We love the film just the way it is, so we’re glad it took the direction it did!

It Was Turned Into A TV Show And Later, A Musical

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9 to 5 the movie had huge success at the box office. In fact, it was the highest grossing movie of 1980! Because of its success, it was adapted for the small screen and ran for five seasons!

Parton’s own sister, Rachel Dennison, played Doralee, Parton’s role in the movie. It also starred Valerie Curtin and Rita Moreno.

Many years later, in 2008, the movie was developed as a musical in Los Angeles! It did so well that it was brought to Broadway and starred Allison Janney as Violet, Stephanie J. Block as Jusy, and Megan Hilty as Doralee. Dolly wrote brand new music for the 9 to 5 musical.

Watch a commercial for the musical below.

 Dolly Parton Memorized The Entire Script

9 to 5 was Dolly Parton’s movie debut and learned a few things along the way. Instead of just learning her own lines, she learned everyone’s lines!

Parton was already super successful as a singer-songwriter, but had never even been to a set. The closest she had come to a movie set was the tour at Universal Studios!

“They just sent me the script and I memorized it,” Parton said in an interview with The Today Show. “I just assumed you had to. My part and [Lily’s] part and [Jane’s] part and Dabney’s part. But I just knew the script back and forth and every week I would read it … I would practice.”

“How were you in my part?” Lily Tomlin asked her.

“Oh, I was great!” she responded.

SOURCE: Country Rebel

By Jennifer Pernicano on December 18, 2017

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  1. EXCERPT: “We perceive our civic challenge as some vast, insoluble Rubik’s Cube. Behind each problem lies another problem that must be solved first, and behind that lies yet another, and another, ad infinitum. To fix crime we have to fix the family, but before we do that we have to fix welfare, and that means fixing our budget, and that means fixing our civic spirit, but we can’t do that without fixing moral standards, and that means fixing schools and churches, and that means fixing the inner cities, and that’s impossible unless we fix crime.

    There’s no fulcrum on which to rest a policy lever. People of all ages sense that something huge will have to sweep across America before the gloom can be lifted – but that’s an awareness we suppress. As a nation, we’re in deep denial.” -– Straus and Howe (1997): “The Fourth Turning,” FIRST EDITION page 2

    The books “Generations” (1992) and “The Fourth Turning“ (1997) by historians William Strauss and Neil Howe identified and categorized recorded cycles of history across multiple cultures and eras. Both books analyzed the timelines of historical events and correlated them to specific life cycles identified as generational “types.” Strauss and Howe addressed the concept of time in the context of both circular and linear perspectives. In so doing, they described the “saeculum” as a “long human life” measuring approximately 80 to 90 years and comprised of four turnings, each lasting around 20 to 22 years.

    Just as there are four seasons consisting of spring, summer, fall and winter, there are also four phases of a human life experienced in childhood, young adulthood, middle age and elderhood.

    Each generation experiences the historical turnings according to their life stage; and the Seasons (i.e. order of societal “turnings”) are identified by each generation as they reach middle-age. Amazingly, history shows a consistent pattern in how the generations similarly cause and affect historical events.”

    Embracing Realism with an Attitude of Pessimism and a Foreboding Sense of Fatalism

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  3. willthesuevi
    willthesuevi
    January 19, 2024 1:24 pm

    Well, now we know why the DOJ and Hunter’s legal team, were so adamant that Hunter reschedule his appearance and avoid a contempt of congress charge.

    I guess the Hunter Biden hypocrisy only goes so far for the legal clowns at the DOJ. How could they bring this charge against Peter Navarro and not charge Hunter? So Hunter now HAS to testify and avoid contempt.

    We all know that Navarro is Trumps most effective financial/economy guy.

    How much more obvious does this have to be, before the legal system polices their own?

    https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/doj-seeks-12-month-imprisonment-for-former-trump-aide-peter-navarro-5569218

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  6. “DYNASTIC BUSH: Momentum for Michelle and A Fifth Term for Barack: Michelle Obama builds momentum for 2024 candidacy. Will this be Barack’s fifth term? Does Dynastic Bush win again?”
    POLITICAL MOONSHINE
    JAN 19, 2024

    EXCERPT: “For well over a year now, the Intelligence Community has been tediously and incrementally operating to remove both Donald Trump and Joe Biden from the 2024 ballot in what amounts to a complete erasure of the slate. Begrudgingly, the IC seems to have accepted and reconciled the fact that despite a wide array of ongoing and future operations to intercede on The People’s will, Trump will be the 2024 nominee.

    What the IC cannot accept; however, is Trump becoming president. Those operations are guaranteed to continue. Meanwhile, the IC can’t afford to re-install Biden for a second term either, because even the most partisan Democrats are distancing themselves from that dumpster fire. The American people mostly know that 2020 was stolen and Biden’s illegitimacy is slicing at his administration’s historically unprecedented failures while creating a growing tide of sentiment in the wrong direction for the IC.

    To cut to the chase with Biden, now that the heavy lifting for Cloward-Piven implementation is mostly done, his pawn can be removed from the board and with it goes a suitcase containing all of the blame and culpability for his first historically disastrous term. What Biden’s first term really has been is a third and arguably fourth term for Barack Obama seeing as how he ran point on IC operations to intercede on and undermine Trump’s entire first term.

    The analysis is clear in indicating that Barack Obama will get what amounts to his fifth and likely sixth terms.

    So, while the slate is cleaned with Biden removed, Democrats get a new piece of fat to chew-on while Biden’s destructive policies are left to continue producing intended negative effects….”

    https://politicalmoonshine.substack.com/p/dynastic-bush-momentum-for-michelle

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    1. i dunno…her hubby did jackshit for blacks while he was in office.
      President Trump is jobs and building and a better life for everybody.
      mooch HATES the US…she’d be a hard sell imo…
      but they are getting desperate.
      maybe a cage fight between her and dr jill would be good

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      1. I’ve said for a long time, I’m sure you recall, that the Wookie scares me the most but I think he/she would be a last resort, personally.

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  7. “Trump Isn’t the Only One Trying to Take Out the Deep State”
    CLANDESTINE
    JAN 19, 2024

    “INTRIGUING 👀

    Trump talks about his great relationships with Hungarian PM Viktor Orban, Putin, Xi, and Kim Jong-Un.
    Video: https://bioclandestine.substack.com/p/trump-isnt-the-only-one-trying-to
    Is it a coincidence that Trump has great relationships with all of the world leaders who oppose Ukraine/NATO? Putin is directly accusing Biden, Obama, Clinton, and Soros, of developing bioweapons in Ukraine, and manufacturing the Covid pandemic, to steal the election via mail-in voting. You think Trump and Putin haven’t talked about this? Trump knows.

    There might have been some legitimacy to the Dems’ fear of Trump and Putin having a subtle alliance. Because it sure looks like they do. Trump isn’t the only one trying to take out the Deep State.”

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  8. alec baldwin indicted on involuntary manslaughter

    Alec Baldwin is headed to trial over the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who was killed in 2021 after the actor’s prop gun fired a live round of ammunition on the “Rust” film set.

    The decision to indict Baldwin was announced Friday after a New Mexico grand jury heard evidence presented by special prosecutors Kari Morrissey and Jason Lewis. He was charged with one count of involuntary manslaughter.

    “We look forward to our day in court,” said Baldwin’s attorneys, Luke Nikas and Alex Spiro, of Quinn Emanuel.

    If convicted, Baldwin could face up to 18 months in prison. A trial date has not been set.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alec-baldwin-indicted-manslaughter-charge-rust-shooting-rcna134564

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      1. no, not yet.
        we may take the truck out tomorrow. we need to get to the post office and we need more corn blocks AND the gas grill just went. hubby thought the tanks were empty, but the spare was full. he tried it on the grill but it won’t light at all…it’s old and not the optimal time to replace it, but we grill year round.

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  12. NF: And the new government can revoke that citizenship status!!!

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  13. “7 in 10 French citizens opposed to solving demographic decline with immigration—A majority of respondents in all age brackets were overwhelmingly against using mass immigration to counteract the declining birth rate”
    January 19, 2024
    editor: REMIX NEWS author: LE JOURNAL DU DIMANCHE

    (Smoke billows from burning shelters set on fire by migrants in the makeshift migrant camp known as “the jungle” near Calais, northern France, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “At a time when France is experiencing a spectacular demographic decline, an overwhelming majority of French citizens are not in favor of using immigration as a lever to boost the birth rate, recent polling showed.

    According to a CSA survey conducted for CNews, Europe 1, and Le Journal du Dimanche, 69 percent of respondents rejected using replacement through immigration as a means of injecting fresh blood into the French economy. Upon further analysis, women (71 percent) were slightly more opposed to mass immigration than men (67 percent), and while every age group rejected the idea, elderly respondents were more firmly opposed.

    A total of 56 percent of 18-24-year-olds were against using immigration to counter the declining birth rate, while 74 percent of those aged 35-49 and 70 percent of over-65s were opposed to it. In a socio-economic breakdown, 65 percent of the most highly educated respondents were opposed, compared to 76 percent of those less qualified academically.

    Supporters of Jordan Bardella’s National Rally were the most opposed at 94 percent, closely followed by voters of Éric Zemmour’s conservative Reconquest party at 92 percent. For the Republicans, this opposition is slightly less pronounced but remains in the majority at 84 percent. On the Renaissance side, 62 percent of those polled were also against.

    Conversely, on the left of the political spectrum, supporters of all parties are in favor of the proposal. Supporters of La France Insoumise (56 percent), the Greens (58 percent), and the Socialist Party (60 percent) are in favor of using immigration as a solution to the country’s demographic decline.

    The number of births in France has not been at such a low level since the end of World War II. According to Insee data, the year 2023 saw just 678,000 babies born, a 6.6 percent drop from the previous year. Faced with this demographic challenge, some politicians are proposing more immigration to counter the population decline.”

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            1. i disagree.
              i think the hordes will be uncontrollable despite what the elite think.
              they war with each other, with Christians with the world. they will not be controlled.
              jmo
              they are a dangerous lot.

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              1. Oh, I know full well how dangerous they are – it is a numbers game – when they get high enough, they will strike. JMO, tho.

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  16. “Cancer, cancer everywhere! “Our free press” IS reporting it—while blacking out the reason for it. Can all these journalists AND doctors be too dumb to see what’s causing THIS pandemic? Or are they just too corrupt to mention it? Either way, we’re in big trouble—and ALL of them must GO!”
    MARK CRISPIN MILLER
    JAN 19, 2024

    “2 Million People Will Be Diagnosed with Cancer This Year — the Most Ever — Due to Rising Cancer Rates in Those Under 50”
    January 18, 2024

    EXCERPT: “The United States is expected to see a record-breaking 2 million cases of cancer this year. That’s because cancer rates are rising among those under 50, according to the American Cancer Society’s annual report on cancer statistics.

    “As a nation, we’ve dropped the ball on cancer prevention as incidence continues to increase for many common cancers – like breast, prostate, and endometrial, as well as colorectal and cervical cancers in some young adults,” said Rebecca Siegel, senior scientific director, surveillance research at the American Cancer Society and lead author of the report, per the release.

    “This report underscores the need for public policy interventions [God forbid!] to help reduce these cancer disparities and save more lives,” Lisa A. Lacasse, president of ACS’s advocacy affiliate, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, said in the release. And while mortality rates from cancer are overall down, the rates of colorectal cancer among those under 50 are rising — and they’re rising fast.

    “The continuous sharp increase in colorectal cancer in younger Americans is alarming,” said Dr. Ahmedin Jemal, senior vice president, surveillance and health equity science at the American Cancer Society and senior author of the study. “We need to halt and reverse this trend by increasing uptake of screening, including awareness of non-invasive stool tests with follow-up care, in people 45-49 years,” he continued. ”

    Up to one-third of people diagnosed before 50 have a family history or genetic predisposition and should begin screening before age 45 years. We also need to increase investment to elucidate the underlying reasons for the rising incidence to uncover additional preventive measures.” ….
    https://people.com/2-million-people-will-be-diagnosed-cancer-rates-rising-under-50-8431951

    “Something in the environment” may be the cause: “Colon cancer is killing more younger men and women than ever, new report finds”
    January 17, 2024
    https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/colon-cancer-deaths-younger-men-women-report-rcna134084

    “Sadness kills: Broken heart syndrome can be as deadly as a heart attack”
    January 13, 2024
    https://www.earth.com/news/broken-heart-syndrome-can-be-as-deadly-as-a-heart-attack/

    “It’s the fracking, stupid: Researchers find disturbing connection between serious childhood illnesses: ‘studies … provide irrefutable evidence’”
    January 15, 2024
    https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/fracking-public-health-risks-groundwater-contamination/

    Etc., etc., ad nauseum: https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/cancer-cancer-everywhere-our-free

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  22. “An Ox Drawn Cart on the Shore and a Swimmer in the Shallows – Ivan Aivazovsky”

    “The Bekalta baptismal font, Byzantine era, 6th century, Sousse Archaeological Museum, Tunisia”

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  25. this is ridiculous! taking the religion out of Easter eggs…
    FTA
    Jill Biden is sponsoring a White House “Youth Art” Easter egg decorating contest for children of National Guard servicemembers that bans religious themed eggs, even though Easter is a religious holiday that celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ–and the contest announcement states the eggs will be displayed during the Christian and Jewish observances of Easter and Passover.

    The youth artists are encouraged to submit designs that reflect their daily lives as children of servicemembers but may not feature “religious symbols, overtly religious themes.” The contest rules state entries “must be consistent with the image and values of Sponsor”, Jill Biden.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/religious-themes-banned-jill-bidens-white-house-easter/

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  28. 01/19/24 • BIG TECH • BIG PHARMA › NEWS
    “WEF Roundup: Digital IDs Can Track the Unvaccinated, AI Can Speed Up Development of New Vaccines—The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum wrapped up this week with calls for digital IDs, rapid development of new vaccines, more partnerships with corporate media outlets like The New York Times, and widespread acceptance and proliferation of artificial intelligence in all areas of society, including healthcare and education.”
    By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.

    EXCERPT: “The threat of a new pandemic and so-called “misinformation.” The future of democracy. The future impact of artificial intelligence (AI) in society. The “green agenda.” These were just some of the topics on the agenda at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, which concluded today.

    Some of the highlights of this year’s meeting included warnings of how a yet-unknown “Disease X” may cause the next pandemic, discussions on how AI could lead to the rapid development of new vaccines, and talk about how AI could either fall victim to — or filter out — so-called “misinformation” and “disinformation.”

    ‘We don’t want to wait a year before we get the vaccine’ — Warnings were accompanied by more optimistic — from the perspective of the meeting’s participants — outlooks about the role AI could play in tackling future pandemics, such as through the rapid development of new vaccines.

    Jeremy Hunt, the U.K.’s chancellor of the Exchequer, said during a Thursday panel discussion — in which Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla participated — that “when we have the next pandemic, we don’t want to have to wait a year before we get the vaccine.”

    “If AI can shrink the time it takes to get that vaccine to a month, then that is a massive step forward for humanity,” Hunt said….”

    https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/wef-artificial-intelligence-digital-id-vaccines/

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  41. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

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  48. Beverly Hills mansion neighboring LeBron James’s dream home is overtaken by ‘squatters’ hosting nightly raucous raves and charging $75 entry
    A vacant four-bed, 5,857 sq ft Beverly Hills home has become the site of almost daily raucous late night parties hosted by a group of alleged squatters
    Neighbors told DailyMail.com that the noisy gatherings often start at 2am, and have resulted in assaults, fires and arrests since they started in October
    Authorities haven’t been able to evict the residents who have purportedly been able to produce proof of address, and even a ‘fake’ rental agreement

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12971139/Beverly-Hills-mansion-LeBron-James-squatters-party.html

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  49. You pushed the vaxs and people woke up sooooooo

    Is America facing its biggest measles outbreak in years? Georgia becomes fifth state to report cases already this year and FDA warns anti-vax movement will kill thousands
    Vaccination rates for measles among children at at record lows, CDC says
    At least 15 cases have been reported since the start of 2024 plus 41 last year
    READ MORE: Four states now reporting measles cases as Philly offers free shots

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12983559/Is-America-facing-biggest-measles-outbreak-years-Georgia-fifth-state-report-cases-year-FDA-warns-anti-vax-movement-kill-thousands.html

    FDA warns anti-vax movement will kill thousands…. of dollars in profit. There fixed it

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  50. Nikki Haley BANS Daily Mail from all her future campaign events after publishing report on resurfaced allegations she cheated on her husband with her communications consultant and a married lobbyist

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12984447/nikki-haley-bans-daily-mail-campaign-events-husband-affair-allegations.html

    EXCLUSIVENikki Haley DID cheat on husband Michael – had affairs with her comms consultant and a MARRIED South Carolina lobbyist before she became governor, sworn affidavits and new witnesses claim
    Nikki Haley, 51, denied claims she cheated on her husband Michael before she became South Carolina governor in 2010 saying she was ‘100% faithful’
    Now, multiple GOP insiders tell DailyMail.com that they were intimately aware of Haley’s infidelity at the time, saying: ‘It was totally out in the open’
    Communications consultant Will Folks, 49, and lobbyist Larry Marchant, 61, both signed affidavits in 2010 alleging they had a sexual relationship with Haley

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12970377/Nikki-Haley-cheated-affair-husband-affidavits-witnesses.html

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