DesJarlais coerced a mistress into having an abortion during a phone call in September 2000, according to a transcript acquired by the Huffington Post in October 2012.
He vehemently denied recording the conversation on tape. In an October Facebook letter to his followers, “Inaccurately, I was said to have taped the discussion personally by the media. Unknowingly and without my permission, I was recorded.”
A second woman said, that she started seeing DesJarlais while she was his patient nine days before the general election. She claimed that, while she was at his place, the two of them shared a joint and that he gave her an opiate prescription.
He got married for the second time to Amy. The couple has three children together. DesJarlais pushed his ex-wife to abort two pregnancies and a former patient with whom he was having an affair, despite his stated opposition to legal abortion.
How Much Scott DesJarlais Possesses As Net Worth 2022?
Scott DesJarlais’s estimated net worth is $1.5 million, according to the Famous Birthday. The Chattanooga Times Free Press was able to obtain the complete transcript of DesJarlais’s divorce proceedings from 2001 two weeks after he won the 2012 race.
The transcript showed that DesJarlais had acknowledged having at least six sex relationships with persons while serving as chief of staff at Grandview Medical Center in Jasper, Tennessee, under oath. Three coworkers, two patients, and a drug representative were present.
Democratic candidate and state senator Eric Stewart ran against DesJarlais. For a while, it was believed that state senator Bill Ketron, a native of Murfreesboro and the head of the state senate redistricting committee, might oppose DesJarlais in the primary, but Ketron decided not to run.
DesJarlais won the election by a margin of 56 percent to 44 percent over Stewart, joining the other incumbent members of the Tennessee congressional delegation in doing so.
Learn More About Scott DesJarlais
Scott DesJarlais was born on 21 February 1964 in Des Moines, Lowa. His father Joe DesJarlais was a barber and his mother Sylvia was a registered nurse.
DesJarlais graduated with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and psychology from the University of South Dakota in 1987, and the university’s school of medicine awarded him a doctor of medicine in 1991.
In 1993, he relocated to East Tennessee to begin general medicine practice. DesJarlais said in July 2014 that he was receiving intensive chemotherapy to fight neck cancer that had progressed to a lymph node.
During a campaign appearance, while still ill, he acknowledged that cancer has impacted his voice but added that the type is 90% curable. He lost more than 40 pounds as a result of the disease and chemotherapy, which affected his capacity to appear in public and run for office.
DesJarlais declared his cancer-free status in June 2015.