Personal Life
In November 2010, Lamb admitted on the Daystar Network that he had an extramarital affair that had ended several years before. In his admission, Lamb took "100 percent responsibility" for his actions. He and his wife were able to fully reconcile with the help of marriage counselors. Due to the advice of their marriage counselors, the decision was made to keep this matter private as long as they could, in order to heal adequately. The Lambs decided to publicly disclose the infidelity shortly after they claimed that three women asked for US $7.5 million in exchange for silence on the matter. Instead, the Lambs' shared their story publicly on television and refused to pay anything. Bedford, Texas authorities decided not to prosecute criminal charges against the three women for extortion, even though the attorney representing the three former Daystar employees had in fact, asked for $7.5 million from Daystar. Civil suits and counter-suits between Daystar and the three former employees were filed over the matter.
Lamb and Daystar were vindicated in fall 2011 following an October decision by a Dallas court after a contested hearing to throw out all employment law claims by one of the employees. By December, 2011, that employee had dropped all of her other claims which were based on defamation, and the other two other employees had dropped their cases entirely. Daystar subsequently dismissed its countersuits against each of the women. In connection with these matters, none of the claimants received any financial compensation, either individually or for attorney fees, and have no right to re-file.
The Lambs have appeared on mainstream network programs such as Good Morning America and Dr. Phil to say that Marcus' infidelity was several years ago, that their marriage is now whole, and that they want to do all they can to help other married couples stay together.
Marcus and his wife, Joni, reside in Dallas, Texas with their three children, Jonathan, Rachel and Rebecca. Jonathan recently married Suzanna Sagar.
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