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The House Mark Never Owned: How a Tax Lien, a Fire, an Affair, and a Rewritten Story Became His Latest Fantasy
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Sleeping with the Serpent: The Church's Affair with Deception Paperback – November 25, 2025 by Mark Anthony Stephens (Author)
He Actually Did It: Mark Stephens Wrote a Book… And Accidentally Confessed to Everything
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Mark Stephens claims he “built” a home he never owned, never paid for, and never appeared on legally. The real timeline reveals an inherited house, a federal tax lien, an affair, a suspicious fire, contradictory statements, and an insurance-funded rebuild—not Mark’s contribution. Here is the full truth.
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When a Narcissist Writes His Own Diagnosis: Mark Stephens vs. Tori


Mark’s newest public statement includes a line so unintentionally revealing that it might be the most honest thing he has ever written:

“A true narcissist doesn’t leave you alone.
They smear. They provoke. They rewrite history constantly.”

He meant it as an accusation against Tori.
What he wrote instead was an accidental confession.

For nearly two years, Mark has used public posts, spiritual language, and dramatic self-narration to attack the very woman he is still legally married to — even renaming her “Lori” online as a failed attempt to sidestep potential protection-order problems.

He claims he’s defending his name.
He claims he’s exposing deception.
But what he’s actually exposing is his own reflection.


1. “A true narcissist doesn’t leave you alone.”

Let’s be clear:

Tori has stayed silent.
Mark has not.

Mark has:

  • Created and rebranded public pages to continue posting about her
  • Used “public statements” as loophole communication
  • Weaponized spiritual authority to frame himself as the persecuted one
  • Tried to rename her online to dodge accountability
  • Inserted himself into her life repeatedly through posts, themes, videos, and book promotion
  • Continued telling her story while she has chosen not to speak publicly at all

A true narcissist cannot let go.
And nothing demonstrates that more clearly than Mark’s fixation on Tori long after she disengaged.


2. “They smear. They provoke.”

Mark’s post is one long smear—seasoned with biblical citations and melodramatic language.

He has accused Tori of:

  • Mysticism
  • New revelations
  • Spiritual deception
  • Betrayal
  • Lying
  • Public attacks
  • Destroying his reputation
  • Ruining his ministry
  • Living off the life he supposedly built

Yet the irony is simple:

Tori hasn’t posted about him at all.
Mark has been the only one speaking, attacking, and escalating publicly.

His provocation is not a reaction — it is a strategy.


3. “They rewrite history constantly.”

Here is where Mark’s projection becomes undeniable.

In his post, he claims:

  • He carried the financial weight
  • He paid for the home Tori is living in
  • He “built everything”
  • He financially supported her
  • He funded the household

These are bold claims.
But they collapse instantly under the weight of actual documentation.


THE HOUSE HE SAYS HE PAID FOR — BUT NEVER OWNED

Mark has repeatedly claimed he “paid for the home” and “built the life” Tori lives in.

But the Clark County property records tell the real story:

FACTS FROM THE AUDITOR’S OFFICE:

  • The home was legally owned by Tori (Schmidhamer) and Alwin Schmidhamer.
  • Tori’s name appears on the property as early as 2003.
  • Mark appears nowhere on any deed, mortgage, lien, trust, title insurance, or recorded financial instrument — not in 2003, not in 2015, not ever.
  • The home predates Mark by over a decade.
    In 2003, while Tori’s name was on property documents,
    Mark was married to his first wife and living in California.

There is no legal mechanism, no financial record, no historical timeline that connects Mark to the purchase, financing, or ownership of this home.

The life he claims he built existed before he did.

His name is not missing.
His name was never there.

Yet in his rewritten history, he becomes the architect of someone else’s foundation.


The Timeline He Hopes No One Looks At

There is another detail that makes Mark’s “I built everything” narrative even more absurd:

Less than a year after Tori’s home was legally awarded to her in her divorce, Mark entered her life — and married her shortly after meeting her.

That timing isn’t poetic.
It’s strategic.

The property records show the home was signed into Tori’s name in January 2016.
Mark began dating her not long after, and married her almost immediately.

In other words:

  • The house was hers.
  • The stability was hers.
  • The financial foundation was hers.
  • The assets predated Mark entirely.
  • The life he claims to have “built” existed before he arrived.

What Mark calls “building a life” looks far more like arriving after the foundation was already poured, then retroactively assigning himself credit for the construction.

It also explains why he speaks about the house with such misplaced entitlement now —
because without that house, without her stability, without her life already built,
he has nothing to claim as his own.

This is not the story of a man who created a home.
This is the story of a man who walked into one and decided it was his.


THE NARCISSIST’S ACCIDENTAL CONFESSION

Mark intended to accuse Tori of narcissistic traits.

Instead, he outlined his own pattern with painful precision:

  • He does not leave her alone.
  • He smears her character publicly.
  • He provokes conflict to gain attention.
  • He rewrites their history to make himself the hero or the victim depending on the day.

This isn’t discernment.
This isn’t biblical truth.
This isn’t courage.

It is projection.
It is image preservation.
It is a man trying to retell a story the evidence refuses to support.

And with every post, Mark reveals more about himself than about Tori.


QUESTIONS MARK NEEDS TO ANSWER

Mark’s own contradictions create questions that deserve answers — especially when he is choosing to speak publicly.

1. Were you too poor to pay child support, or did you build and fund a million-dollar home?

Both cannot be true.


2. If you made only $1,500 a month, how did you “pay for everything” as you claim?

Your income claims do not match your “provider” narrative.


3. How did you buy a home that the Clark County Auditor’s Office shows you NEVER owned, financed, or appeared on in any legal capacity?

Your name does not appear on:

  • the deed
  • the mortgage
  • the trust documents
  • any recorded financial history

Explain this.


4. If Tori owned the home in 2003 and you were married to someone else in California at the time, how were you “building the life she’s living in”?

How did you finance a property you didn’t know existed?


5. If you “built everything,” why can’t you produce the financial documents in court that back up your claims?

Where are the receipts?


6. If Tori is spiritually dangerous, deceptive, or unfaithful — why are you still publicly obsessed with her?

Why can’t you let her go?


7. If you preach truth, why do your public statements contradict the public records?

Is truth dependent on who is listening?


8. If you provided the financial stability you claim, why does every legal and financial record show Tori brought the assets and the home into the marriage — not you?

What exactly did you “build”?


9. If you insist this home is yours, are you accusing the Clark County Auditor’s Office of lying?

Because their records contradict every word you’ve said.


10. Why does every verifiable fact — income, property, history, timelines — contradict your narrative?

Why does the evidence always tell a different story?