No jail wedding needed
CROSSFIT co-founder Lauren Jenai has received a wedding present she never imagined — her jailed fiancé Franklin Tyrone Tucker is being freed on $2 million bond just before the couple were to wed in the slammer. The eleventh-hour deal even brought Jenai closer to her ex-husband, she said, as he offered to chip in a loan. Jenai was in Key West, Fla., this week to marry Tucker inside the detention center where he’s been held for about two years awaiting trial on murder charges. But on Wednesday, a bond deal was reached, Page Six exclusively learned. “It’s a huge success and a long time coming,” Jenai told us. “Once everything’s in place, he can walk out of the jail.” They’ll celebrate at a rented Key West house before heading back to her home in Oregon. They’ll still get married, but not immediately. “I want him to come out and have a breath,” she said. Tucker will be under house arrest. The couple were going to have their first-ever kiss at the jailhouse wedding. Tucker’s team have been trying to negotiate bond for a year and a half, and they hope the bond is a step in having the case against him tossed. As Jenai tried to get the bond money together, she even called her ex-husband, CrossFit co-founder and CEO Greg Glassman. “We had a bad divorce. We’ve had issues,” she said of Glassman, whom she added was “leary” of the relationship with Tucker. In the end, she did not need the funds, but she said Glassman told her: “‘I was going to do this . . . I hope I get love credit.’ It was really cute.” Jenai reportedly sold her CrossFit shares for up to $20 million as part of their split in 2013. She’s launching her own fitness brand next month. The bond negotiation was reached by lawyer Robert J. Hantman.