Vinnie and Claude have illegitimate children. Claude has two daughter from different mothers: one black SDA and one white mormon. Mark is in the middle of a divorce. His wife left him due to adultery. He is guilty of numerous affairs during their marriage. Mervyn is gay and left the group. Claude did not pay child support for his 8 yr old daughter for over an year and could not get his passport renewed. The group ended up fronting him the money and garnishing his wages. Claude drivers license was suspended in 07 for non-payment of traffic violations. Dave is filing bankruptcy as confessed on the Dave and Marla Relationship CPR show. Claude has lied and conned 100's of women worldwide for over 20 years gaining favors in his professional and personal life. He paid for one of his victims to have an abortion last year and confessed to other abortions. Claude currently has a legal complaint filed against him for defaulting on a promissory note for $30,000. Joey confessed to a pornography addiction (seen on youtube). Claude confessed to a sexual addiction, which primarily consists of pornography and excessive masturbation. Joey's and his wife have separated. That leaves Cedric. Cedric is marriage and has a family. He is a college music professor in good standing. Thats all I'm personally aware of.

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I find it sick that these fakers get away with this. Just imagine all the women who have been hurt by the things you have mentioned above. We may never hear their stories and understand fully the pain they have been through. I applaud women like you who speak up for the victims and against the behavior of men who pretend to be good people and hide that they are destroying the lives of those they connect with instead of blessing them. Wow, and I'm sure there is much more to these stories that we will never know about. Thank you. I no longer am a fan of Take Six!

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Was. Vinny Chea is divorced from Karna but they have children. He also has another child by someone else. I heard he has since left a long time girlfriend which was looking forward to marriage with him to marry a recent divorce' and is currently married to her now.

Are you asking about Karna or Karima? Karima is Joey's wife...she is part of the Gospel group Virtue

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Much respect 2 u one2many. I like where U said u would not beat yourself up and I like that fact that U r willing 2 put ur story out
there and admit that u had make a mistake with this man. I personally
believe we can learn a lesson out of the trialers we go through in this life, and it seems to me that u have learn a valueable lesson. No don't beat urself up but don't be caught in this poistion again. Use your experience as a stepping stone 2 maybe help other womens who could probably use
your experience in what u went through 4 them not 2 be caught in that same trapp. You were in a Toxic relationship and I thank god that you got out alive. Hold Your head up and go on with ur life. We all make mistakes.
Be Encouraged One2many!!!! Angel22.

Much respect 2 u one2many. I like where U said u would not beat yourself up and I like that fact that U r willing 2 put ur story out
there and admit that u had make a mistake with this man. I personally
believe we can learn a lesson out of the trialers we go through in this life, and it seems to me that u have learn a valueable lesson. No don't beat urself up but don't be caught in this poistion again. Use your experience as a stepping stone 2 maybe help other womens who could probably use
your experience in what u went through 4 them not 2 be caught in that same trapp. You were in a Toxic relationship and I thank god that you got out alive. Hold Your head up and go on with ur life. We all make mistakes.
Be Encouraged One2many!!!! Angel22.

Typical of a man to remarry and then with his new wife fight the single mother in court for the kids. I wish Karna well too.

No regrets, just lessons learned. Thanks for your encouraging words. I appreciate it:-)

PART ONE OF TWO POSTS:

Okay, time for my catharsis. It is going to be a long one.

I had no idea that all of this had blown up this way. I too became acquainted with Claude McKnight through Match.com.

I remember when he first asked me if "his name" meant anything to me and I replied, "No." He then went on to explain that he was the founder of Take 6. I remember saying, "Oh yeah. I remember Take 6." Still, I was never a big Take 6 fan and I remembered them being hot like 20 years ago, so that wasn't any big deal to me. I work in an industry where I know many people, up close and personal, who are household names. Have had a bit of a celebrated name myself. His being one of Take 6 was no big deal to me. THAT was not what was attractive to me. So what was?

Well, he seems very strong and yet gentle from the onset. Remarkably patient although tenacious. And, he seems intelligent as well. Okay, okay - he isn't as handsome as the professional photo he uses on the websites. However, he is handsome -- at least I thought so. Not remarkably so, but still, handsome. Turns out, however, that lots of ugly things can come in handsome packaging. Ladies, can I get an "Amen" to that? I don't think I will ever be able to look at a photo of him anywhere again, without now seeing a combo of Brian McKnight and Steve Harvey. I can't remember the name of the person who said that, but I had to laugh. That was funny and oddly - seemed right on, although I had not seen it prior.

Initially I refused to have much communication with him because I told him that I did not trust long distance relationships. He asked me to be more open and to give it a chance. He said that at the least we might become the best of friends or at the best, more than that. I actually thought there was something really special happening between us. For months he would text message me constantly throughout the day and he would call me. He would tell me that we were building something and that we were becoming closer and closer. I would send him pictures I had taken traveling and he would do the same. He would talk about how effected he was by my beauty. He always wanted more and more photos. He said he just loved looking at me. I mean, who doesn't want to hear that? The guy you are digging thinks you are pretty? Yeah. He called me pretty and princess sometimes. He said very endearing and flattering things. I was falling for him. And, having waited so long to find someone, well, he seemed to be a step above the guys I had come across over the past few years through dating sites. I loved the sound of his voice even. I was quickly (albeit irresponsibly I now see) swept up in the possibility of he and I.

He started pushing and pushing for me to use a webcam. He was relentless on this topic. He said it was necessary if we were going to be pursuing this (and he would use this term by prefacing it with putting it in quotes) "relationship" (end quote) long distance. He said that this way we would meet face-to-face online and get to share more of our lives this way. "Get Closer" this way. He said that texting and hearing my voice just wasn't enough anymore. He really needed to "see" me. I was touched. I thought that he seriously wanted me to be available to him. I loved it. I began to talk to my girlfriends and a couple of male friends about him. I must admit that one of my male friends said that Claude sounded "sketchy" to him, but I brushed that off.

Before we ever saw each other online he had begun telling me, regularly, that he wanted me so much that just hearing my voice had him "ready" to well...let's say it made him really, really "excited." I was excited too, on many levels. Mostly, at the possibility of something good and true developing between myself and this man whom I thought was a firm believer in God. I had shared with him that I had been waiting for years - saving myself for the right man. He never flinch at this and still spoke to me about wanting me and needing to hold me. As time went on and the communicating increased, I wanted to be with him too. And, as you ALL know, it didn't take long before the late night conversations became abundantly sexual in nature. We would talk, sometimes for hours and then on several occasions, the conversation would turn totally erotic. I thought that he and I had a passion for one another. I stupidly thought it was something special and unique. Hah!

Now, I want to take note that although he would drop spiritual quotes here and there, he never said he was pious. However, he did wax Christianity in the beginning, especially. He mentioned loving the Lord more than once early on. Still, Claude isn't entirely responsible for who I "thought" he was. I think that for many of us, it gave us a reason to drop our guard with him quickly, because he was part of this Group that was known for loving the Lord. This experience reminded me of how much the public persona and the private with people in general and especially with celebrities can be at different poles.

When all is said and done, I was a bit too eager to believe he was this stellar man. That isn't giving him a float, but only taking responsibility for my end.

Sometimes we would speak and the phone call would only go on about 15-20 minutes. Other times we would stay on the phone for hours. We would tell each other stories and secrets and I was certain that he and I were really "into" each other. He used to ask, regularly, WHEN were we going to get together. Often saying that he couldn't wait to see me. He would say this and I would blush and blush. I felt the same way. He sent me A LOT of photos of him and even some of him naked. Oh, and I am not naive enough to think that he only sent me that weirdo little video clip of him servicing himself to fruition. He and I had a brief falling out over that. I felt it was a bit too much and he said that he thought it would excite me and he only sent it because he wanted to be with me so much. He also said it showed how much he trusted me to send these photos and that video. I thought STUPIDLY thought that this evidence of how close he felt we were was real. So, in turn, I sent him a couple of cheesecake photos. Nothing explicit like his, but what I thought was artfully sexy without being naked. I was so pleased at how they came out. I was so sure that there was something there between he and I.

Then the clues began to surface. Sometimes we were scheduled to speak at a certain time over the phone or on webcam (we would call them phone dates or webcam dates) and he wouldn't call, however, I would see him active on a dating website - even an hour or so past when he was scheduled to call me. I mean, I consciously went into the two sites I knew he had been on and checked to see if it showed him as being online and he ALWAYS would be. As a result, I would tell him that I was breaking with him because he was rude enough to stand me up to continue communicating on that site with someone else. His response? Well, many of you probably already know what I am going to say, but - Claude would say that he was tied up in the middle of a "recording session" that ran long and that his laptop computer just automatically would open to the websites and others whenever he signed on. He would swear he hadn't been on those sites in weeks...OR he would say that he had been there, but just to look to see if I had been on them. Okay, YES my BS alarm was going off and then some. Still, I tried to believe that what he was saying was true/possible. And LADIES, isn't it a shame when you run across a "guy" (I am NOT going to call him a man) who has you second-guessing your own rationale because his lies almost seem plausible? I was constantly second-guessing myself with him. And I aided and abetted him in that I would help him convince me that his lies were truth because I wasn't really quite ready to let go of the attraction I had to him. I own this. I know, looking back now, that I spent much too much time trying to reason out his explanation, only to then regroup and continue on in him. I know that this is lame. Lame, but true.

Several times he would come up missing for days on in. No word from him. There I would be with my girlfriends counting the days of not hearing from him and going back and forth with all of the facts and inconsistencies, all the while knowing, full well, that I needed to step out of that mess. I knew it, but it was easier said than done. Still, knowing this had me contacting him and gently telling him that what I was getting from him wasn't going to be enough for me and that I was breaking contact with him. Each time he adamantly said that this was not acceptable. He did the full court press in saying that we should work it out and how it was unthinkable that I would stop being his friend, possibly his best friend, and how very much I meant to him. He would absolutely blow up my phone until I would talk to him. He would say that I was trying to throw away whatever he and I had been building - and that he would not stand for it. I thought that the fact that he could have just as easily walked away when I said that we should stop contacting one another - but instead went full on to get me to change my mind, well, I thought it meant something. I stupidly thought that when he fought so hard with me to continue on with WHATEVER was happening between us, that he really genuinely cared for me. Oh well, hindsight.

And, BTW, to whomever that is posting as VEMAN96054, I don't know what your deal is, however, I want to point out that at some point when you are involved with someone - even before you are engaged - you should be able to take the other person at their word. Dating is not supposed to be this struggle of one-upping one another or constantly disbelieving what the other person says. There should be a point when you can count on the decency of one another and just trust the other person and relax into a relationship. Heaven help us if courtship is simply to be an exercise in honing our distrustful barometers. If we cannot take anything as truth then it can never actually be love. There is no blame or shame in these women believing that they were in a monogamous relationship with him, if that is what he told them. There are plenty of musicians and other celebs. who are not whoring around or out to destroy the lives of others. I don't think he necessarily consciously sets out to cause pain, I think it is worse then that. He absolutely is indifferent as to the wreckage he leaves in his wake. As long as he gets whatever he wants from the situation, the women and the pain he causes each and all of them, are simply collateral damage to him. There is a part of me that wants to say that I don't even think he is a bad guy. HOWEVER, what he has done to thousands is just too devious and deviant for me to utter those words - even on the page.

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PART TWO OF TWO POSTS:



...I am compelled to offer that in my case, I never EVER believed that I was the only one. He never said that. No matter what I can say I believed he implied or said, I believed he was probably pursuing others or dating others. He did tell me that he had not been involved with anyone for a very long time. He did say to me when we first started communicating, that he would continue on Match.com until the time came when we got "serious" (or he got serious with someone). He said once that since we lived far apart, we had to see if it would become seroius enough between us where one of us moved to the others City. Seriousness was clearly equated sexually with him (i.e., sexuality being evidence of our making serious choices...or at least that is what he seemed to imply). This made sense to me. We hadn't even seen one another in person, yet. I could not expect that he was committed to me when we had never even touched. I do want to add, however, that later on he told me that he only kept his Match.com membership because he had purchased it a year in advance and since he had spent his money there, he would just occasionally browse it but wasn't looking to meet anyone else.


He never spoke of sexing me, he spoke of wanting desperately to "make love" to me. And YES - whenever he would see ME on Match.com, he would become clearly upset about it. OR if he thought I was on a date with someone else, he would act out. He didn't try to hide it. It was clear that he didn't want me seeing anyone else. Even so, I made it a point to try and seem as non-committed as he might be. I let him know that I was still staying on Match.com as long as I thought he was. Of course he said he actually hadn't been there for the purpose of dating. Well with 1631 others, why bother?

THEN, he started contacting me later and later at night and I realized that he was checking to see if I was with anyone. If he contacted me at any point and I could not speak or text back, he right away would ask me about "my date." This, he would ask sarcastically, although I didn't ever say that I was on a date. He was remarkably possessive. Isn't that funny? Also, if he asked if he could contact me really late that night, he rarely did. I later figured out that that was because he then knew I was there waiting for his call. It was when he didn't know where I was or who I was with that he would actually text or call over late. It makes sense. Twisted, sordid, creepy sense.

I told him once that someone I knew who knew him had told me that he was a "collector" of women and he became incensed. He vehemently denied it. Wow.

And in "defense" of any of us who ever made the mistake of believing he was sincere on any level - well, he remembered a lot of details. Perhaps he would write them on the List that is apparently now famous. I remember one time he saw me online after not seeing me on webcam in two months and he realized that I was in a different room then he had seen before. I mean, with 1,631 women, how did he keep these details straight in his head?

Through the Grace of God and my own sense of self-worth, despite the fact that I had fantasized about it, and my body was certainly up for it, I never would allow myself to sleep with him. His stories just didn't add up and then it got to where he had out and out stood me up when he and I were supposed to be meeting up in person for the first time. I realized from all the inconsistencies in his excuse as to why he didn't show up as planned, that he had literally chosen to be with someone else over me. His loss, but my GREAT fortune - although it didn't feel that way at the time. At the time I felt devastated. He insisted it was some scheduling error and somehow he didn't even have a moment to call or text me, but GIRLFRIENDS you know that that is impossible and that anyone man their salt would at least phone you to say that they are not going to be available to you as planned. Prior to that happening, I thought that he and I would be lovers. I was sure of it. I wanted it...

I felt hurt by the fact that he stood me up that day - as he had built up our time together so completely. Up until that week he had only talked of how amazing it would be when we got together and how much he wanted us to finally be together. Although he tried very, very hard to convince me that I should come and meet him a few days later (late night meeting - which I could see that this guy who had stood me up was actually expecting me to come to his hotel room so that he could sex me before he got on the plane the following morning. Hah. The chances of him being successful in that endeavor were from null to zero. Oh hell no!)

After that I refused to ever meet up with him in person. Ever. I mean, the lies were just too out there. He would swear up and down that he was telling the truth, but in my soul I knew that he was actually with someone else during the time he had said he was going to be with me and afterwards tried to add me into the last minute mix as sloppy seconds. Ummm, no thanks. Everything pretty much deteriorated after that. Not to sound cavalier about it all. It wasn't simple. I was really crazy about him and very hopeful. It was difficult stepping away even though I knew I had to. It was hard to let go of those hopes. It stung to see that I had allowed all this energy and feeling to go into this guy who was turning out to be nothing more than a creep who was just looking to get IN as many women as he could. Wow. I felt very sad.

Let's see what else we know as his M. O.? Oh, and you all must know the one about how he spends holidays with relatives so that is why he cannot EVER call you over a holiday. He will text message you, however. AND, when he claimed he was always in Florida and couldn't call when he was there, it was because he was trying to broker peace between his father and his brothers and that it was so intense each time, he couldn't call anyone. Blah, blah, blah. Ridiculous. Now we know that Madame X lived in Florida.

The thing is that he consciously goes into these pseudo-relationships with women KNOWING that from the onset he is going to be absolutely deceitful, manipulative and literally prey upon them under the guise of being a nice guy. He seeks to harm women and is gratified in this. It is not simply that he is just a creep or a fraud, who doesn't know how to commit or relishes in dishonoring women... it is that he clearly derives pleasure from betraying the trust of women. He hates women. He is Claude McKnightmare to women. He has little regard for ANY consequences of placing any of those he engages in jeopardy emotionally, spiritually, mentally or physically - as long as his ridiculously unhealthy EGO is stroked...well, that and as long as he is "stroked" by as many as possible, period.

BTW, to the woman who said that the sex wasn't very good. No big surprise there. The webcam sex was lame, too. He just needed a pretty face to jerk off to - clearly...so I stopped that early on...AND, prior to discovering his sole ambition regarding the webcam being to masturbate and not to get to better as I had previously thought, when he tried to have phone sex with me, what he was saying was so rehearsed and boring that I had to take over the lead. This kind of freaked him out because it wasn't part of his usual "script." He had no real spontaneity whatsoever and CLEARLY even from this limited view of what was in store, I could see that it was all about him and his gratification and he was probably not capable of checking in with me or my needs. But then he would say something really smart like, "...in the bedroom or any part of our relationship you never ever have to do anything you are not comfortable with...:" and suddenly, I would find myself thinking he had attributes worth investing in. He would tell me, and apparently many countless others, that I could feel safe with him. I too thought that anyone can improve in bed and I told myself that I was so fierce in that area that I could make him better. Okay, okay - that is what I told myself. Besides, I had been waiting for years to find someone and my body was REALLY hoping he turned out to he authentic. When I realized that there was no way that I could entrust my body to this guy, it was harsh.

The last time he asked to see me, saying he would be in my City, I told him that I was going to be away. It wasn't true. The fact is that I knew then that he was HIGH RISK - even before all of this came out - and that I was never going to risk some disease by letting him touch -- not even kiss me. I was fortunate in that he tripped himself up enough in the things he said, to know that he was a liar. Not just a liar, but a liar and a juggler. I could not refute the fact that getting to know him was riddled with inconsistencies.

Now, don't get me wrong. Initially, I was really, really IN to him - or so I thought. I really thought he and I were getting close and becoming "best friends" as he loves saying (apparently to many). And, I did want him, VERY much so, earlier on. Still, I am past the stage of my life where I can hear the lies and pretend they aren't there although, shamefully, I tried.

I was fortunate in that the last time I told him that my association with him was proving to be a bad experience for me and I called him on his lies, I told him that we should no longer be in contact and he listened. Yes, several times he would see me online and try to make contact after that, but when I ignored him those few times, I never heard from him again. That was many months ago. At the time, it actually felt painful for me to stay away from him. I had let him in my head and heart and, admittedly, I was very disappointed. Not just in him, but in myself for being such a poor judge of his character and for trying to rationalize away some of the OBVIOUS signs that Claude was a Fraud.

I might be inclined to say that it comes down to us and being compassionate for his sickness, however, while I do realize that it is a sickness in him, this does not cancel out the fact that he is an egregious affront to women worldwide. This business of their being 1632 of us on his List in just the past two years means that deceiving, coning, defrauding, hurting and putting women at risk for his own personal gratification is his career. His life's work. He spends a lot more time at that, evidently, than at singing. Hurting women and getting his kicks from doing so, is clearly his obsession and undeniably his ambition. And then, even more egregious is his USING the name of Jesus and invoking the Lord to try and deflect from his taking TRUE and LASTING responsibility for his actions. I mean, COME ON! An online course that he only completed a couple of weeks of - IF THAT - and suddenly he is cured?

They say that anyone who comes across our Paths is our Teacher...especially those who irritate or upset or seemingly hurt us. Well, though I believe it is a lesson that did not go down easily, hopefully, we will learn to keep our hearts open but to weed out the BS faster and sooner -- even when doing so requires our admitting that we made a mistake. People who say he didn't do anything to us that we did not allow him to do - are wrong. While we all have some responsibility because NONE of us can say that somewhere in our gut we didn't think that his ducks did not line up in a row, or that there weren't signs that we ignored, we could not know that his heart was so twisted. How could we have known this? Why would we have known this?

Anyone who did sleep with him, at the very least you probably have clamydia and you should run out to be tested on the whole gamut of STDs. I pray that through some miracle you are all alright and STD free. If he is NOT your husband, wear a condom and don't give him ALL that he wants sexually, if it is something that can put you at risk.

Claude The Fraud is a cautionary tale. Let's try and not close ourselves off and harden too much. Let's not give him the satisfaction of letting him scar us or of letting McKnightmare scare us permanently. We trusted some sociopath who is spiritually, emotionally and mentally damaged to the core. Okay. Now, let's lick our wounds and embrace life and love. There are really terrific and wonderful MEN out there. There are. he just isn't one of them.

Hugs and Prayers, Light, Support and Healing to ALL those whose path he crossed. For those of you who genuinely thought you were in a one-on-one relationship with him, I send you lots of Love and Hope that you can let go and turn this whole mess over to God and not remain stuck in this place. I hope you can let go of the "dream" of what you thought you have so that you can move forward into what you will have. There is a saying which goes: "The space for what you want, is already filled by what you've settled for." No matter how many promises he may come back to make just remember that it takes years and years and years for these serial debasers, if ever, to come clean. Don't waste anymore of your essence on him. Take back the power you handed over to him. Take back your power.

Wow! Re: Claude Mcknight

Thank you WithThisLight.... for sharing in detail the psych of this, whatever, he is.... like you said - not a man... I unfortunately was pursued heavily and daily for many many months with what I thought was a wonderful man... but, I did not have the luxury of NOT hearing from him for days and days at a time, maximum was 3 days that I would not hear from him during his act with me and like I said this went on heavily for months upon months. Really, he only wasted almost close to a year from start to finish - with me... I count myself as one of the VERY lucky ones in this Claude the Fraud McknightMare.. .hahahaa.. Brilliant analogy - thanks. .At one point he got extremely pissed at me when I had mentioned that I had told a guy friend of mine about him - his retort was "why are you talking to others about OUR RELATIONSHIP?!!" Well, we all know now, about his manipulation games.... soooo sad....

It was very nice to hear someone finally put his charade into such proper detail and I really thank you for your kind words! It is time that he is REALLY transparent like we have all made him and not like the transparency he likes to use! LOL... and anyways, not sure if you saw his confessional blog, but he wanted and asked for transparency - I, for one, was happy to oblige him since I had warned him severely at the beginning that he would be very very sorry if he was playing with my head... but, of course, NO, he was most certainly not playing with my head - was his answer...LOL...

I truly am sorry for your pain

WithThisLight,

You are clearly a well educated, intelligent, beautiful soul who was deceived and used by this terrible loser. You should post that long story on his website. His fans should know what kind of a$$hole they are supporting.

Very sorry that happened to you. I hope your story will help more women be aware of the drama and pain that comes along with his snaggle toothed stink butt.