{"id":3945,"date":"2013-08-28T22:10:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T05:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=3945"},"modified":"2013-08-28T22:10:54","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T05:10:54","slug":"thirty-percent-of-original-stapleton-residents-were-actors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=3945","title":{"rendered":"Thirty Percent of Original Stapleton Residents Were Actors"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\"\"<\/a>Have you ever thought that Stapleton was perfect? Maybe a little too perfect? Turns out that of the first 500 Stapleton residents, roughly 30% were actors. Forest City recently released hundreds of contractual agreements with actors and actresses who agreed to live in Stapleton for a decade pretending to be something they were not. The actors would receive free housing and have their home bills paid for a period of ten years provided they play the part of a perfect Stapleton family. One of the conditions of the agreement was that they would not be able to disclose the information until after ten years. Since that time has passed, many of the original actors have started telling their stories.\n\n\u201cIt was a lot of fun,\u201d says actor Eric Murphy. \u201cMe and the wife they set me up with had a lot of fun trying to figure out what couples were actors and the ones that were not. In the end, we probably only got 50% correct.\u201d Murphy says that he and his stage wife had a great working relationship, but it never crossed those lines. \u201cShe is great, and we are still great friends. I know things didn\u2019t go as well for some of the other couples they tried to put together.\u201d Murphy says that his faux marriage was successful because they never crossed the friend line and had a sexual relationship. \u201cOnce you throw sex into the mix, there\u2019s no turning back. You\u2019re going to fight.\u201d\nForest City acknowledges that for some of the actor couples they had to stage a move or a divorce for various reasons. \u201cSometimes, things just weren\u2019t working out,\u201d says Forest City Spokesperson Janelle Ayers. \u201cSome of the couples didn\u2019t get along, or maybe they actually met someone they wanted to spend their life with and the situation wouldn\u2019t work. Some got pregnant from husbands or boyfriends, and therefore, wanted to make sure they were spending that time with their real family.\u201d\nForest City says its motives for the ruse were simple. \u201cWe knew that the early development stages were critical,\u201d says Ayers. \u201cWe wanted to attract the right people, and the best way to do that is to put the people we wanted already in the homes. If you look around, you can see that it was pretty successful. Although we somewhat regret tricking people, we don\u2019t regret getting them into our great community.\u201d Forest City is tight lipped on whether or not any more surprises will be coming residents\u2019 way in the next 10 years. \u201cThere is nothing to say at this point except that everything we have done has been in the best interest of the community,\u201d said Ayers.\n]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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