McClung admits he texted nude photo

Eureka Springs City Council member Terry McClung acknowledged Wednesday, Oct. 28, that he sent an unsolicited nude photo to a local woman.

McClung said he sent the photo to Allyson Rose Becker by mistake. McClung said he intended to send the photo to his girlfriend.

“I sent her an inappropriate photo,” McClung said in a telephone interview. “I’m not going to deny that, but it was purely by accident.”

Becker addressed the Eureka Springs City Council during the public comments portion of the council’s regular meeting on Monday, Oct. 26.

Becker told the council that McClung had loaned her $50,000 a little more than a year ago, with terms requiring her to repay the balance with interest, plus an additional $15,000. According to Becker, the terms of the loan also allowed McClung to set a sale price for her home in Eureka Springs and earn a commission on the sale.

McClung, the longest-tenured of Eureka Springs’ six council members, is a licensed real estate agent.

Becker told the council that the one-year loan recently came due. She said McClung tried to “force me to put my house on the market again.”

Becker said she told McClung to foreclose on the house if he believed that was necessary, and McClung responded by offering her a short-term extension.

“While the paperwork was being drawn up, one night when I was doing Uber Eats deliveries, he texted me a picture of his genitalia,” Becker told the city council. “The implication being that to save my house, I needed to perform favors.”

McClung said he was not making sexual advances toward Becker. He said that after he realized he had sent her the photo, he sent another message and asked her to delete it.

Becker said she filed a report with the Eureka Springs Police Department. Police Chief Billy Floyd confirmed Tuesday, Oct. 27, that a report had been filed. Floyd said the report was referred to the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office.

Sheriff Daniel Klatt said the same day that an investigation was ongoing and he could not comment further on the matter.

Becker said she also discovered that McClung’s name had been added to her home insurance policy and that he had made a payment on the policy. McClung said he made the insurance payment to protect his interest in the house.

Becker told the council that McClung had loaned her the money after her car was repossessed.

“All I ever wanted to do was help the gal out, get her car back, give her the opportunity,” McClung said. “I tried to get her to put the house on the market because she has no money. What I loaned her disappeared. She had to pay her taxes, insurance, that kind of stuff, and it disappeared. And so it’s — I could never get her to put it on the market. Whether she listed it with me, somebody else, I didn’t care, but she would have the opportunity to earn more money in a direct sale on the open market than she will in foreclosure.”

McClung said he has initiated foreclosure proceedings against Becker.