CrossFit co-founder Lauren Jenai moves forward with jailhouse wedding

CrossFit co-founder Lauren Jenai is one step closer to marrying accused murderer Franklin Tyrone Tucker while he’s in jail — after their planned nuptials were initially denied.

If the marriage goes ahead, the two will share their first-ever kiss inside a Florida detention center where he’s been held for about two years.

Millionaire fitness pro Jenai — ex-wife of CrossFit co-founder and CEO Greg Glassman — was high school pals with Tucker. They reconnected as adults on Facebook before he was arrested on first-degree murder charges in 2017 for a violent heist gone wrong, known as the treehouse murder, in the Florida Keys. As she fought to prove his innocence, a relationship blossomed.

The two are banned from video visitation for 100 years after Jenai “got a little risqué,” she said.





But after Tucker recently filed a motion to remove the prosecutor in his case, alleging she has a conflict with one of his defense lawyers, a memo from the local sheriff’s office indicated the prosecutor wouldn’t sign off on his wedding plans. A judge reversed that decision, Jenai told us, and she says they’ll likely marry this month.

Their jailhouse wedding would be their first kiss, and first physical contact ever in 30 years. “Isn’t that a little bit romantic?” she told us on Monday. “Today I was called by the chaplain of the jail … One of the next steps in the process according to Florida law is we have to go to a marriage counseling class” via phone.

After the wedding, she’ll leave the slammer without her husband. “That’s gonna be horrible. I know how hard that’s going to be,” she said. Even leaving town after Tucker has court dates “is always very, very hard.” But she’ll have family and friends in Key West to celebrate. She’s launching her new fitness brand, Manifest, in December.

As for “conjugal visits — I assume this is never going to happen,” she said. A lawyer repping Jenai and Tucker, Robert Hantman, proclaimed Tucker’s innocence and told us the couple “should be granted conjugal visits after their marriage because of the length of time he’s been held behind bars” with no bond.





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