Loved the cast. Started to live the show. But bigamy?!? Why didn't he just maintain a second family without marrying like a normal man? :)- Or divorce bedridden Mom (especially since there appeared to be no love lost between the kids)? And no one in the other family never googled Dad and wondered who these other kids were? Come on- this is supposed to be a HUGE investment company. Hello... Wikipedia, people!
shareOops... Double-negative... no one EVER googled...
shareHe couldn't divorce who we was never legally married to in the first place. Plus he would lose the company in a divorce because his wife owns it.
shareRegarding the bigamy: Big John worked it for 40 years. It helped him immensely that for twenty-two of them the second wife was in a coma. The rest of the time she was drunk.
I too wondered how he wasn't uncovered. You know someone investigated him before they entrusted him with their $investments. Or did they merely ensure his company was on the up & up?
From an outsider's perspective, Googling him would have revealed his beginnings in Georgia: Real estate, capital, other relatives including a son, and a natural assumption of an exwife. His continued involvement wouldn't raise any alarms due to a bond with his first born son. [Yet the previous marriage surely would have been mentioned. And if the father maintained a close relationship with his son, the other kids would have been asked about him. maybe? ]
Yet what work was John performing in Georgia that required so much travel? Or was it the private equity company in North Carolina and for whatever reason Corrin & RB didn't want to relocate since John would still have to travel extensively?
Then he blew it up. RB would have never caught on if John didn't step down and hand the reins over to his eldest son, Eric. I think he decided to spend the rest of Corrin's life with her.
Prior to this, RB wouldn't have learned about Eric since Eric was running his own successful company before he folded it in with "The Sherwood Equity family" as they called it.
Some have such a low esteem they create reasons to hate everyone else.
There are a few things that don't add up but honestly I still think he could've gotten away with it.
His original family with RB and Corrine was very low-key. They seemed to be a basic middle-class suburban family. Not overly rich with lush vacations but not in the poor house either. But it does still surprise me that RB and Corrine never saw John in a magazine/newspaper/news....SEG isn't a huge company but they seem to be doing well. Surely his name would've popped up somewhere. But I think John played it smart he flew just below the radar in both cases.
But my theory is....I think the drunk wife knew and that's why she acted the way she did. She was probably thought she couldn't leave John because her family and lush life would fall apart so she had to deal with being second. Add in alcohol and John's absence and she turns to the kids to take her frustrations out on them. Then she conveniently falls into a coma and John is in the clear. Look at the only clip of her "I did everything for you and this is how you repay me?" (not verbatim but along those lines) She def could've known.
And no one in the other family never googled Dad and wondered who these other kids were?Add to that the strain of scandals connected to his firm, which would make it likely that his face would pop up in the press or tv without even having to google it. share
The families were from different states right ?
Not all firms are publicity hungry, in fact many are discreet and maintain a low profile doing good and respectable work.They bailed out flailing companies and rebuilt them, not exact Trump Tower etc... Especially in the banking community, and in his situation he knew better than to be in the public eye, I'm sure he maintained a low public profile for just that reason.
I think Cornell or Eric said 'he wanted it all' referring to John. Clearly wife number 2 was wealthy and it doesn't appear that he shared the luxurious benefits of his second marriage with his first family. Selfish man.
Beginnings are always messy.