Boris Johnson cheated with lover Jennifer Arcuri in family home while wife was away
Jennifer Arcuri today reveals she slept with Boris Johnson in his family home while his wife Marina Wheeler was away, and they were almost rumbled.
And she tells how the pair read Shakespeare before they had sex on the sofa. Our exclusive image shows her beaming in a selfie she took at the then-London mayor’s £3.35million Grade II-listed townhouse that he shared with wife Marina Wheeler.
But she also reveals she felt uncomfortable after having sex at the PM’s marital home.
Speaking of their intimate moment in his living room in March 2016, Arcuri said: “We were discussing some of the latest chapters from his book.
“He said, ‘I have a complete writer’s block. I need to figure what I’m trying to say but I want you to hear it. I really need you, baby, I really need you.’
“We moved on to reading Macbeth, which was a kind of foreplay routine we had. I said, ‘Let’s skip to the good stuff’. He said, ‘I love that about you, you just want to get to the good part.’
“After we made love… I felt conflicted being there in his family home and seeing him like this but I couldn’t help but love the feeling of being desired.”
Marina, a QC who Johnson said was working at the time, arrived home just minutes after his lover left.
Arcuri added: “If I’d have stayed 10 minutes more I would’ve been in the house when Marina got back. That’s not a great feeling.
“We slept together at his family home, and in some ways, it was fun, but it didn’t sit right. I realised this wouldn’t just be a one-off.
Messages between the pair show how Mr Johnson had texted Arcuri the address of the house in Islington, North London, before saying he wanted to “check the coast is gonna be clear”.
After being given the go-ahead Arcuri arrived to find the future PM planning a meal of cheesy pasta.
He poured two glasses of red wine but had to run to the corner shop when he realised he’d forgotten the cheese – leaving his mistress alone.
Arcuri said she was initially amused Mr Johnson was brazen enough to leave her in the house while he popped out – and snapped a selfie in his kitchen as a memento.
She added: “It was the most bizarre feeling, an awkward moment. I thought, ‘You’re leaving me in your house? What kind of woman am I?’ When people tell you who they are, believe them.”
The US entrepreneur did not rate Mr Johnson’s culinary skills.
She described the pasta dish as “perfectly inedible”, and added: “He can barely find his socks, let alone cook dinner. It was horrible. It was soggy and limp. This man was completely useless in the kitchen.”
Arcuri revealed Mr Johnson spoke little of his family and she “never asked questions” but by early 2016 she was starting to feel increasingly uncomfortable about what she describes as their four-year affair. Texts seen by the Mirror show she sent Mr Johnson instructions to wash the dishes after she left so his wife wouldn’t be suspicious.
Arcuri even told him to empty the bins after cutting her foot on the way to the house, and having disposed of her stockings in a kitchen bin.
She wrote: “When in kitchen, while cooking I took off my stockings and put them on side of kitchen island. Apologies in leaving something behind. To be certain, I would remove.”
It wasn’t the first close call the pair had experienced. In August 2015, they discovered they had both booked tickets to a Sunday matinee performance of Shakespeare’s Richard II at The Globe.
Arcuri took a male flatmate and noticed Mr Johnson, who she then claims was her lover of three years, was in the crowd with Marina
She said: “We had seen each other the Friday before. I made mention I was going to the Sunday matinee.
“To both our surprise, he said, ‘So am I. Richard II?’”
Arcuri avoided eye contact with her lover throughout the performance but says Mr Johnson “didn’t stop staring at me at any point”. She added: “My room-mate was my eyes, because I wouldn’t dare look at him.
“My room-mate made a joke at one point about him, ‘Is he going to beat me up later? Should I leave?’”
Mr Johnson later sent Arcuri a message which read: “I kept seeing a gorgeous blonde at Shakespeare and thinking she looked familiar.”
When she asked if he enjoyed the show, he replied: “Immensely. Richard II pretty good too.”
Arcuri claims Mr Johnson saw her regularly behind the back of Marina, who he wed in 1993. Yesterday, she told the Sunday Mirror her affair with the PM had begun in August 2012 – hours before he sat next to the royals at the Paralympic opening ceremony.
Arcuri was granted access to events at three top-level trade missions, despite her businesses not meeting the criteria for the trips.
The Independent Office for Police Conduct said there was no evidence he had committed the criminal offence of misconduct in public office but he may have breached the Nolan Principles of ethical standards.
Len Duvall, the chair of the Greater London Authority oversight committee, which is conducting the investigation, said: “Our investigation will consider whether Boris Johnson conducted himself in a way that’s expected from anyone in that position. It’s important we get those answers, as Londoners deserve to have their politicians held accountable.”
