Exclusive | Justin Fairfax was a raging drunk who bought gun with kids horseback-riding money before murder-suicide: court docs

ANNANDALE, Va.— Disgraced ex-Virginia Lt.

Gov.Justin Fairfax became a raging alcoholic and deadbeat father after his professional life and marriage unraveled — and he stole money meant for his kids in order to buy a gun, bombshell divorce documents obtained by The Post reveal.The father of two’s apparent mental breakdown was laid bare in court filings filed in January tied to his ongoing divorce — just months before he killed his wife, Cerina, on Thursday in a tragic murder-suicide.Fairfax apparently was drinking so heavily that he would lock himself away in the office of his family’s home, where he lived among “empty wine bottles, trash and piles of dirty laundry” — and would only emerge “long enough to get food or smoke cigarettes,” the documents allege.He purchased a handgun in 2022 with cash that was supposed to be used for his teenage children’s horseback riding lessons, according to the filings.He also repeatedly allowed the family’s mortgage to go into default and dodged household bills, the docs claim.Cerina alleged that Fairfax “had chosen not to be a productive member of the family and that the dictionary definition of ‘deadbeat’ was accurate as applied to him,” the filing states.The judge noted that Fairfax, who was representing himself in the acrimonious divorce, didn’t dispute the facts of the allegations against him.As a result of his deadbeat behavior, a judge had ordered Fairfax to leave the family home by April 30.

But two weeks before that deadline, Fairfax ended up killing his estranged wife and himself inside their million-dollar home in Annandale outside the nation’s capital.The court documents shed light on Fairfax’s downward spiral in the years after his stunning fall from grace.His mental health started to decline after multiple women came forward in 2019 to accuse him of sexual assault, the filing states.“At that time, [Fairfax] was the Lieutenant Governor of Virginia and was an ascendant political...