According to her ex-husband Jim Townsend, Marjorie Harvey almost did hard time during her first marriage. Per a 2017 Radar report, Townsend was a major drug dealer who served almost 30 years in prison after he attempted to purchase an amount of cocaine weighing as much as an average 12-year-old boy. “We were legally married when I got arrested. We lived in Memphis and had a great life together,” Townsend told the Globe of his relationship with Marjorie.
Townsend claimed that the FBI possessed proof that his brother and Marjorie were both involved in his criminal enterprise, but he told Radar, “We cut a deal that they wouldn’t indict them.” Marjorie owned her own bar at the time, Townsend revealed to the Globe, but federal officials shut the business down because they suspected that it had been purchased with his ill-gotten wealth.
Townsend was supposed to spend his entire life in prison, but he was pardoned by former president Barack Obama in 2017, per Radar. While he and Marjorie had separated while he was incarcerated, Townsend claimed that they remained in contact until she started seeing Steve Harvey. In 2019, Townsend told Radar that he spent some of his free time behind bars writing a memoir. He hadn’t completed it at the time of the interview, but teased that it would include details about his relationship with Marjorie. “I have no allegiance to Marjorie, she showed her hand,” he said.
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