My husband would leave for ‘business trips’ for days

IT’S not often that two ex-wives come together to take down their mutual former husband - but Athena Klingerman and Amber Rasmussen believed it was a matter of time before he hurt someone. And they weren't wrong - as Brandon Johnson is now facing a 10-year prison sentence for a shocking rape plot against another ex.

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He is the subject of the podcast Ex-wives Undercover - where Athena and Amber grew a following of thousands as they put together evidence of their mutual ex-husband's affairs, scams and abuse. Athena was in a relationship with Brandon between 2007 and 2012, and has a daughter with him, while Amber dated him from 2013 until 2019.

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The women were introduced when Amber took on the role of step-mum to Athena's daughter. They recall how Brandon would often try to pit them against each other. But once Amber left her cheating ex they decided to work together to unearth his sick lies, and expose how cheating was by no means his worst crime...

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In it, she said: “Isn’t it amazing the things we find out about our husbands once we file divorce?”. Amber claimed Brandon often went away on work trips, something she rarely questioned until after the marriage broke down. But she says she later discovered Brandon’s Bumble dating profile, which he was using secretly while they were together.

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Bizarrely it featured an image of him with his wife, where he had scribbled Amber's face out. She also alleged he used a fake name, going by Bradley, a name that was close to Amber’s heart. “That’s actually my dead nephew’s name,” she explained.

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Soon after they divorced, Amber alleges that a woman who was dating Brandon during their marriage reached out to Athena. “[The woman] had some questions, things weren’t adding up. "Apparently my husband was going by a fake name, he told her he was a multi-millionaire who had homes all over the world, that he was actually looking for property in Norway and was gonna move there… and he has never been married, nor had any children,” she claims.

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Amber claims he also told his new lover he was a psychologist which was "100% all lies," and had taken her away for a week long getaway on the same dates Amber believed she was on a business trip. “Three days into the trip, he ghosts her,” Amber alleged.

“He finally text messages her a couple of days later and said it’s his mum and that he was in a car accident … and was in a coma.”. “The truth was that he flew back to his wife,” Rasmussen said, pointing to herself. The truth was that he flew back to his wife.

Not only does she believe he cheated, but Amber accused Brandon of being a “con man” and of embezzling money in another TikTok video, saying, “He was charged with 13 counts of felony theft.”. When she finally decided to leave the marriage, she showed The Daily Dot court documents of the divorce which claimed Brandon failed to turn up to court and was due to give Amber a monetary award.

The Daily Dot verified that a person by the same name was hit with 13 first-degree charges for theft over $5,000 between 2015 and 2019. According to the King County Superior Court Clerk’s Office’s website, where these charges are listed, Brandon was found guilty.

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Women’s Aid provides a live chat service - available weekdays from 8am-6pm and weekends 10am-6pm. You can also call the freephone 24-hour National Domestic Abuse Helpline on 0808 2000 247. Athena, his first wife, also shared her experience with the con artist with whom she shares a daughter, Sydney.

Speaking on her podcast, she claimed she overheard Bradley cheating on her via an accidental phone call the night before her own baby shower. Waking to a call at 3am, she said she overheard Brandon's antics in Las Vegas, after he butt-dialled her by mistake.

“I figured he was calling me because he had got back to his hotel room,” she explained. “I answered the phone to say ‘Do you miss me already?’ there was no response. I realised he had pocket-dialled me. “He starts flirting with one of the girls and asks if he can kiss her, he does, then his friend teases them about holding hands.”.

Athena claims she stayed on the phone for three hours, hearing her fiance cheat on her before hanging up and texting him, saying she had heard everything and was splitting up with him. But when he saw her text, he threatened to throw himself off a balcony, so she stayed with his.

For two years, Athena says their relationship became steady and relatively happy. But just before the wedding, she claims she noticed his old ways come back as his temper flared and he tried to swindle a cheaper wedding behind her back. During the process of trying to leave him, Brandon would put tracking devices on my vehicles, he would stalk me, harass me.