Before Robyn married Kody, she was legally married to David from 1999 to 2007. The name “Jessop” is a well-known name in the polygamist community. Merril Jessop was the de facto head of the FLDS church from December 2007 to February 2011.

David is not only the first cousin of Christine but is also related to Meri (via her father’s “other” wives) and the third cousin of Kody, Robyn’s second husband! His father, Louis, was his mother, Mary’s uncle by marriage at the time that they got married.

Jessop is connected by a nebulous series of marriages to the Jeffs family; several of Jessop’s daughters and at least one of his wives were previously the plural wives of Rulon Jeffs while at least eleven of Jessop’s daughters and two of his granddaughters became plural wives to Warren Jeffs, several of them while they were underage. One of his daughters, Merrianne, was married to Jeffs three weeks after her twelfth birthday.

According to his former wife, Carolyn’s memoir, Jessop is the father of more than 50 biological children, all by his first six wives.

His senior wife Faunita, mother of 10 of Jessop’s children, suffered from mental illness; she was literally abandoned by the roadside when the group moved to Texas, and she became a ward of one of her grandchildren who was living in the mainstream-Mormon community.

Jessop is believed to have taken many more wives since Carolyn’s departure. According to his ex-wife’s book, Jessop has nebulous business interests that include construction and hotels and has suffered from major heart problems in recent years.

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