![]() ![]() Yawn is a former pastor and an elder at Community Bible Church in Nashville. For more details, head to NBC News.Īnother former MLB star is also making headlines recently regarding his love life. American Baseball player Ben Zobrist, who retired from a 14-season Major League Baseball career in March 2020, has filed a 6 million lawsuit against Byron Yawn, the CEO of Forrest Crain & Co., a Nashville-area business-consulting firm. ![]() The facts are going to come out in the course of the lawsuit and the court proceedings."īen is now seeking $6 million in punitive and compensatory damages through a trial by jury. "We are in the middle of litigation, so I cannot comment further at this point, but that is what this case boils down to. My client deserves his day in court and for the truth to be heard, and so we're going to do that through the court process," said the pastor's lawyer Christopher Bellamy to the Chicago Tribune. We're in the middle of litigation, so I can't really comment further at this point, but that's what it boils down to. "At the end of the day, a woman has the right to choose who she wants to be with. That's what he's devoting himself to, to move on." In a statement to NBC News, Ben's lawyer Larry Crain said: " trying to make the most of his career through helping others, helping young minor league players. ![]() In May of 2019, the pastor's wife Robin reportedly discovered her husband's burner phone and told Ben that "she believed her husband and his wife were having an emotional relationship." Ben and Julianna each filed for divorce in Illinois and Tennessee that month. " secretly maintained a sexually intimate relationship with wife for the remainder of 2019 and into the spring of 2020, all the while concealing it from, his counselee," the filing continues. He alleged a year later that the pastor then "began secretly pursuing an intimate relationship with " and "encouraged 's wife to keep secret from her husband the true nature of her relationship with Yawn through their mutual use of 'burner phones.'" Former MLB player and devout Christian Ben Zobrist has dropped his lawsuit against his former pastor Byron Yawn amid allegations of an affair between the former Tennessee pastor and marital counselor and Zobrist's estranged wife, Julianna. The 40-year-old retired player filed the lawsuit in Tennessee in May, and claimed that the pastor "usurped the ministerial-counselor role, violated and betrayed the confidence entrusted to him by, breached his fiduciary duty owed to and deceitfully used his access as counselor to engage in an inappropriate sexual relationship with 's wife," via NBC News.Īccording to the legal papers, Ben and Julianna started pre-marital counseling with the pastor in 2005, and Ben went for counseling with Byron in 2007, 20. The 2016 World Series MVP, who retired from professional baseball last year after 13 years, is accusing pastor Byron Yawn of having an affair with his wife Julianna and defrauding his charity, via People. Ben Zobrist is making major allegations for huge amounts of money. On Thursday, 14-year MLB veteran Ben Zobrist dropped his lawsuit against pastor Byron Yawn, who engaged in an extramarital affair with Zobrist’s former wife, Julianna. ![]()
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