A man has been awarded $8.8m in damages from a man who slept with his wife and allegedly destroyed their marriage.
Keith King successfully sued Francisco Huizar III over the 18-month fling with his wife, Danielle, using a North Carolina law that allows spouses to pursue ‘homewreckers’ for damages.
It stipulates that married individuals can sue a person for “criminal conversation” if they have sex with their spouse and destroy the ‘”genuine love and affection” in a marriage.
The enormous payout is comprised of $2.2m in compensatory damages, as well as triple that in punitive damages, the Herald Sun reported.
He was awarded the sum despite Huizar’s lawyer claiming King was a controlling spouse in an already-troubled marriage when he met her.
King is said to have controlled his wife’s access to money, made her watch porn, insisted she keep her hair blonde and that she wear bikinis as well as high heels.
Huizar and Danielle King met at a New York BMX show in August 2015, and began their affair after Keith King left her behind to attend a Colorado show.
Huizar, of San Antonio, Texas, is said to have rented a room closer to the Kings’ home in Durham, North Carolina, that month, and met Danielle at least nine times over the following three months.
Keith King rumbled the affair in August 2015 after checking his wife’s phone bill, and asked Huizar to leave her alone. But Huizar tagged along to a spa break King gave to his wife as a birthday gift the following February.
King’s attorney Joanne Foil told Durham Superior Court: “There is no way that this marriage could have humanly been saved with the level of this man’s involvement.”
He is also said to have hired a property close to where the Kings were enjoying a beach vacation together in spring 2016.
Danielle King almost ditched Keith King in April 2016, but decided to give the marriage another go. They eventually split in January 2017, with Huizar helping his lover rent an apartment.
Keith King realised the affair had been continuing for six months when he visited the apartment later that month, amid claims his ex and her lover were trying to frame him as a wife beater.
He ended up brawling with his wife’s new partner, and now claims he has post-traumatic stress disorder.
Huizar plans to appeal the ruling against him.
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