Justin Fairfax couldn’t find a job — or even get legal clients after facing sex assault claims that derailed in political career while Virginia lieutenant governor, a pal told The Post Thursday.
“He couldn’t find a job really after,” this person said of Fairfax.
After he left office in 2022, he launched a private legal practice out of his home, but was unable to retain enough clients to stay afloat in the final years of his marriage.
Former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax allegedly “couldn’t find a job” after sexual assault claims derailed his political career. AP“I don’t know who his clients were,” the friend said.
Financial filings from the divorce show that while his legal practice made more than $400,000 in 2023, he brought in just $11,000 in 2024 and had earned $0 as of November 2025.
That didn’t sit well with wife Cerina, who was a successful dentist and had real estate holdings, according to the friend.
“She had grown up very poor and it was very important to her to have stable financial stability … and a good home for her children,” the source added.
Fairfax allegedly murdered his wife, Cerina, then took his own life on Thursday morning. Facebook / Justin Fairfax“And when… he couldn’t get clients, he couldn’t get work, I think that’s what started the downhill of the marriage itself,” the source also said.
“That whole scandal, it’s been sort of downhill for Justin Fairfax ever since,” this person added. “It was a very concerted effort to destroy him.”
On Thursday morning, Fairfax County police said the ex-Democratic pol murdered his wife and then took his own life with a gun.
“I was stunned,” the source said. “I knew that he had been having, you know, some difficulties, but I didn’t think it was this serious. I never imagined he’d kill anybody.”
