ANNANDALE, Va. — Disgraced ex Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax became a raging alcoholic and deadbeat father after his professional life and marriage unraveled — and he stole money meant for his kids to buy a gun, bombshell divorce documents obtained by The Post reveal.
The father-of-two’s apparent mental breakdown was laid bare in court filings filed in January tied to his ongoing divorce — just months before he killed his wife Cerina in a tragic murder suicide on Thursday.
Fairfax apparently was drinking so heavily that he would lock himself away in the office of his family’s home and would only come out “long enough to get food or smoke cigarettes,” the documents allege.
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At one point, he purchased a handgun in 2022 with the cash that was supposed to be used for his teenage children’s horseback riding lessons, according to the filings.
He also allowed the family’s mortgage to repeatedly go into default and dodged household bills, the docs claim.
The disturbing details surfaced after Fairfax killed his estranged wife and himself inside their million-dollar home outside the nation’s capital early Thursday.
The judge noted that Fairfax, who was representing himself in the acrimonious divorce, didn’t dispute the facts of the allegations against him.