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5. From AP
Thu Apr 16, 2026, 10:16 AM
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https://apnews.com/article/virginia-justin-fairfax-death-e10bd0f6327852933e15c8d9af559cd3

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Both were found dead at their northern Virginia home in Annandale after the couple’s teenage son called 911 shortly after midnight, said Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis.

The couple was going through a divorce, and Fairfax was served recently with paperwork that indicated when he was next to appear in court, Davis said.
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Vanessa Tyson said Fairfax — at the time a Columbia Law School student serving as an aide to Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards — forced her to perform oral sex in his hotel room during the Democratic National Convention in Boston in 2004. Two days after Tyson’s statement, Meredith Watson issued her own, accusing Fairfax of raping her in 2000, when they were students at Duke University.

Fairfax said the encounters were consensual and refused calls to resign.
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