John McAfee’s ex-prostitute wife Janice reveals how she was ordered to poison him after he left jungle harem of 7 women
SPYING on your multi-millionaire husband for a dangerous criminal organisation isn't usually the foundation of a strong relationship.
But that's how the wife of anti-virus software tycoon John McAfee – who was found dead in his Spanish prison cell this week – claims to have spent the early years of their romance.
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The 75-year-old tech mogul reportedly in Barcelona, his lawyer confirmed on Wednesday.
McAfee was arrested on October 3 of last year at El Prat airport in Spain as he was about to flee the country to Turkey.
McAfee faced tax-related criminal charges in the US that carried a prison sentence of up to 30 years, and he was awaiting extradition at the time of his passing.
He is survived by his wife Janice, nearly 40 years his junior, who met John while working as a prostitute in Flordia.
This is the wild story of their relationship – including cartels, pimps and even poison plots.
Jungle harem with teenage girls
Playboy McAfee had several eyebrow-raising sexual relationships before settling down with Janice in 2013.
He was kicked off a mathematics PhD begun in 1968 when it was discovered he was sleeping with one of his undergraduate students, who would become his first wife.
McAfee later married Judy, who helped him build his company founded in 1987, but they too split in 2002.
Six years later, the multi-millionaire sold all his belongings and moved to the Central American jungle where he bought a villa in picturesque Belize.
There, he had a harem of seven young women.
"Some people think it is horrendous that I lived with seven women aged between 18 and 25," McAfee told The Sun. “People can think what they want.”
He added: “I have been married twice and living with seven women was a lot less stressful than having a wife.”
In 2012, McAfee was arrested in Guatemala after attempting to flee Belize when he became a "person of interest" in the fatal shooting of his American neighbour, Gregory Faull.
To prevent being sent back to Belize, McAfee faked a heart attack – his plan worked, and he was instead deported to the US that December.
The night after landing on US soil, he was solicited by sex worker Janice Dyson in South Beach, Florida.
She didn't know John was a notorious millionaire, but her pimp did.
Janice and John spent the night together and soon began a relationship – but their romance wasn't exactly what it seemed.
Poison kidnapping plot
For the first two years they were together, Janice was spying on John for cartel bosses introduced to her by her pimp.
Even after they married in 2013, Janice was passing on information about his movements to the gangsters who plotted to kidnap him.
She loved her husband, but was too afraid to disobey the cartels' ordered.
Eventually, their orders became more sinister than simply demanding to know his whereabouts.
"They wanted me to do things like hide poison in his food and let them in the house where he was staying," Janice told The Sun in 2019.
Janice described her position as a "scary situation" and added: "Because I didn't tell [him] it had a strain on our relationship".
Incredibly, John decided to stay with the mum-of-three even after he discovered her involvement in the plots against him – because he had clocked what was happening and knew his wife was in a perilous position.
"For me I did not mind," John said. "She was in a hard place but when she finally came clean it was a beautiful moment."
The cyber-security pioneer didn't elaborate on how he discovered his spouse was spying on him, but added: "The cartel was the problem, [not] the pimp."
On the run
In 2018, while the couple lived in a heavily fortified compound in Tennessee, John claimed to have been targeted in a poisoning "assassination attempt".
A year later, they took to the seas in a yacht – heading from the US to the Bahamas, then Cuba – after McAfee suspected US law enforcement were trying to extradite him.
They were both arrested along with their crew in the Dominican Republic later in 2019 after entering the country with firearms on the boat.
"Every yacht has weapons on board, there are still real pirates out there that kidnap people and steal things from yachts," John fumed after his arrest.
"Before we even showed up, we radioed we were coming.
"When we showed up at the dock we were surrounded by weapons."
He bizarrely claimed the arrests were a plot on behalf of the US Government.
When she finally came clean it was a beautiful moment
John McAfee on Janice's spying
"It was America's attempt to get me back to America without filing [for] formal extradition," he said.
Instead, he and Janice were able to travel to London before crossing Europe to an ultra-secure tin-foil-covered hideout in Lithuania.
"The facility we're at is very comfortable and there are many people here who we interface with," John told The Sun at the time.
Survived by 47 children
But Janice spoke about missing her three teenage kids, who weren't John's, while travelling the world with her husband.
"[The past few years have] been a little stressful because you're having to pack up and leave at a moment's notice and with me having children it's been difficult trying to see them," she said.
John said that his "people" were watching Janice's children and that they were being taken care of.
But he made an even more startling revelation about his own brood: he claimed to have fathered 47 kids, whose ages ranged from late teens to approaching 50.
"It's very difficult to keep track of [them]," he said. "Almost all of them were illegitimate.
"[But] I keep in touch with every one... I take care of all of them financially."
After being indicted on tax evasion charges in the US, John was arrested in Barcelona last October.
He also faced charges in America for allegedly being part of a team which ran a
Last week, on Father's Day, Janice posted an explosive note about John's legal situation on Twitter.
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"John's honesty has often gotten him in trouble with corrupt governments and corrupt government officials because of his outspoken nature and his refusal to be extorted, intimidated or silenced," it read.
"Now the US authorities are determined to have John die in prison to make an example of him for speaking out against the corruption within their government agencies."
