When two of his daughter's friends, Elizabeth Mulay, 12, and Liane Nelson, 13, refused to swim naked, Grunseth attempted to tear off their swimsuits.
Nine years later, Mulay and Nelson, now adults, levied accusations against Grunseth, which two other women, Lisa Hare and Heather Charles, corroborated.
[5] Two members of the rock band that had performed at the party that evening remembered seeing men and teen aged girls swimming naked.
U.S. Republican Senator Rudy Boschwitz, who was waging his own campaign for reelection, led a moderate faction that wanted Grunseth replaced by Carlson.
In reply, Grunseth claimed that he had engaged in adultery and other bad behavior in the past, but that he had changed since then and been faithful to his wife, the former Vicki Tigwell, since their 1984 marriage.
[14][15] Grunseth later moved to Barnes Bay, Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia, where he purchased property in 1997 and founded Lennonville Orchards, a large cherry-growing operation.