Interview · moment 4 of 17
Marriages, Exes, and Her CIA Father's Tunisia Mystery
from The Gift · #97
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4 minGuest
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.'
- 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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