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Marriages, Exes, and Her CIA Father's Tunisia Mystery

from The Gift · #97

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4 min

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Michelle talks about being married multiple times and staying friendly with most exes, then details her mysterious CIA-adjacent father who ran TRW, fled to Tunisia after 9/11, remarried a much younger French woman, and had a late-life daughter who called him 'Tom.'

In this bit8 moments
  • 12:56Tim's sister called him demanding he stop losing weight and put it back on, concerned he was developing a eating disorder.
  • 13:30He's been married multiple times and insists there's nothing wrong with getting married repeatedly.
  • 13:53Tim remains very friendly with most of his exes, though not the second one out of respect to someone named Olivia.
  • 14:28His father worked in the CIA and likely did something a little naughty but not criminal.
  • 14:55Tim's father ran TRW, a company that made automotive and aircraft weaponry and parts—immediately identified as a front.
  • 15:48After 9/11, Tim's father abruptly moved from Miami to Tunisia for a job, the specifics of which remain unclear.
  • 16:19Tim's father went to Tunisia claiming he had a job, though the nature of that work was never certain.
  • 16:37In Tunisia he remarried a young French woman and had a child in his 60s, fathering a daughter who was only six when he died of cancer five years later at 73.
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TunisiaTRWLarry KingThe Falcon and the Snowman

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