Overview
- Amy Duggar King writes that Jimmy Lee Duggar allegedly strangled her mother Deanna at age 21 after learning she planned to move in with a boyfriend, an attack she says Jim Bob Duggar interrupted.
- She also describes an earlier incident in which Deanna was allegedly pinned and beaten with a leather belt for more than an hour, leaving her bruised and bleeding.
- Amy says she was instructed never to be alone with her grandfather and later learned, after his 2009 death, that it was because he was a predator.
- The book frames the revelations as part of a pattern of secrecy and generational abuse within the Duggar family, with Amy suggesting some relatives may not know the full history.
- The claims come from Amy’s memoir Holy Disruptor, released Oct. 14, and media reports note they have not been independently corroborated or tied to new legal action.