A brawny New Yorker, who has simultaneously married three women, asserts it’s up to the women to verify his relationship status before committing to marriage with him.

Jason Washington, aged 46, first tied the knot in 2018 after meeting his initial wife at a gym in British Columbia, Canada. He caught her attention by complimenting her, as she recounted to CTV News.

His first spouse, who goes by the pseudonym Sara, revealed that the mixed martial arts enthusiast proposed within a week of their meeting, and they were married just eight months later.

However, the relationship soured when Sara, a single mother, claimed Washington was abusive towards her 10-year-old son. This prompted her to leave him, although the couple never legally divorced.

Another woman, identified as Emma, stumbled upon a Facebook group titled “Are We Dating The Same Guy?” where she spotted a photo of Washington, immediately recognizing him as her husband.

Emma, like Sara, was initially committed to Washington until an incident where he allegedly hit her son led her to expel him from her life. They too remained legally married.

The two of them soon found out that a third woman is also married to Washington. Court records obtained by the outlet showed that the 2013 divorce proceedings in British Columbia between the couple were never finalized, meaning he is still married to her as well. 

When contacted about his love life, Washington told CTV News it was his partners’ responsibility to uncover his past. ‘That was a woman’s job. That was my soon-to-be-wife’s job to do all that,’ he stated. 

Jason Washington, 46, is married to three women at the same time, but he said it was their ‘job’ to figure that out for themselves before they decided to tie the knot with him

The former US Marine married his two wives in Canada. He now lives in Buffalo, New York, where he wed another woman. (Pictured: Washington with one of his wives)

Washington also shared that he has actually been married four times. 

He tied the knot in 2021 to a woman in Buffalo, where he currently resides, per the outlet. She applied for and received a divorce from him in December 2025. 

‘I’ve always been up front, 100 per cent, about who I’ve been married to and who I haven’t. They all talk to each other, bro. They’re women,’ Washington responded. 

‘These are women I loved for many, many years,’ he added. 

In all 50 US states and Canada, bigamy, when someone marries more than one person at a time, is considered a crime. 

It is often classified as a felony and can lead to fines, jail time, and automatic voiding of future marriages. 

The women still legally married to Washington are puzzled over how their marriages were even approved by government departments that signed off on their license applications without issue. 

Sara said that if she had known about his checkered past, she would have never married Washington. 

Court records also showed that the 2013 divorce proceedings between him and another woman were never finalized, meaning he is still married to her, Sara, and Emma

‘It would have been a huge red flag,’ she explained. 

Meanwhile, Emma recalled her catching him ‘messaging another girl’ while they were together. 

He denied that happening, telling her he was planning on buying her a ring and marrying her, Emma claimed. 

‘He actually went to my dad and asked for my hand, crying. You know, he’s telling me, he’s telling my dad that he was going to protect me,’ she added. 

Their marriage license was granted without any issues by officials in British Columbia. 

Now, years later, she feels that Washington was actually ‘love bombing’ her as a way to distract her from noticing anything was off in their relationship. 

Emma also noted that Washington created a divide between her and her friends, adding: ‘I couldn’t get him to leave. I felt so stuck and so scared.’ 

She and Sara are now focused on trying to get their marriages to Washington annulled by arguing that Canadian officials should have never allowed it to happen in the first place. 

This is not Washington’s first experience with a scandal, as he was previously thrown in jail in Buffalo after killing a man in a drunk driving accident. 

Washington was convicted of second-degree manslaughter in 2022 after he crossed the double yellow line on Seneca Street and crashed his vehicle into another, killing a man. 

Washington was convicted of second-degree manslaughter in 2022 after he crossed the double yellow line on Seneca Street and crashed his vehicle into another, killing a man

The other driver, Thomas Shoemaker, 57, was killed. Washington and a female passenger were left injured and taken to the hospital. 

He pleaded guilty to the crime in October of that year and spent a little more than three years in jail before his release in 2024, records showed. 

When asked about his criminal record, Washington said he was convicted of the crime because he suffers from ‘dissociative episodes from f***ing combat.’ 

He went on to lash out at the CTV News reporter, telling him: ‘You f***ing t***!’ 

According to military records reviewed by the outlet, Washington was court martialed for ‘bad conduct’. He served from August 1997 to October 2001. 

The Daily Mail contacted Washington for comment.