US televangelist Jim Bakker, disgraced from sex scandal and fraud, dies at 86
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“Jim Bakker, televangelist whose Christian TV empire collapsed in scandal, dies at 86”
PTL founder built a multimillion-dollar religious broadcasting empire with Tammy Faye before sex and financial scandals led to his downfall, fraud conviction and nearly five years in prison
Read at Ynetnews“Jim Bakker, TV Evangelist Felled by Fraud and Sex Scandals, Dies”
With his wife, Tammy Faye, Mr. Bakker built a broadcasting juggernaut around the gospel of prosperity.
Read at The New York Times – U.S.“Jim Bakker, TV preacher felled by scandals, dies at 86”
The televangelist rose to national fame alongside Tammy Faye before a sex scandal and fraud conviction brought down his evangelical empire.
Read at The Jerusalem Post“US televangelist Jim Bakker, ensnared in fraud and sex scandal, dead at 86”
Bakker spent four and a half years in prison after being convicted in 1989 of defrauding followers in a scheme involving holidays at his Christian theme park The US televangelist Jim Bakker, who built a multimillion-dollar empire and lived in opulence before being disgraced by a sex scandal, a conviction for defrauding followers and divorce from his television co-host Tammy Faye, has died aged 86. The death of Bakker, whose journey from the TV pulpit to a prison cell in the 1980s inspired…
Read at The Guardian – World“Jim Bakker, 'PTL Club' televangelist and fmr husband of Tammy Faye, dead at 86”
Televangelist Jim Bakker, the host of the popular “The PTL Club" TV show with his former wife Tammy Faye Bakker, died Monday at the age of 86.
Read at Fox News – U.S.“Morreu Jim Bakker, o 'televangelista' caído na desgraça devido a escândalo sexual”
Através de música, orações e entrevistas, foi aumentando a sua popularidade, até se estabelecer de forma independente e, no início da década de 1970, criar a sua própria estação de televisão, alcançando o sucesso com o programa The PTL Club, que significava Louvado seja o Senhor
Read at CNN Portugal“US televangelist Jim Bakker, disgraced from sex scandal and fraud, dies at 86”
US televangelist Jim Bakker co-founded The PTL Club with his then-wife Tammy Faye before being jailed for fraud and conspiracy.
Read at BBC News – World“Jim Bakker, minister who built a televangelism empire and lost it from sex and money scandals, dies at 86”
"The PTL Club," which at its peak in the mid-1980s drew 13 million nightly TV viewers, made Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker cultural icons — so much so that they were often skewered in the 1980s and 90s by late-night comedians and parodied on "Saturday Night Live."
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