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- Televangelist Jim Bakker is indicted on federal charges of mail and wire fraud and of conspiring to defraud the public. The case against the founder of Praise the Lord (PTL) Ministries and three of his aides exploded in the press when it was revealed that Bakker had sex with former church secretary Jessica Hahn.
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Sep 15, 2021 · As Jim and Tammy Faye’s public profile grew, so did their family unit. In 1970 Tammy Faye gave birth to daughter Tammy Sue “Sissy,” and in 1975 to a son, Jamie “Jay” Charles.
Flanked by daughter Tammy Sue Chapman, 21, and his white-haired attorney, George T. Davis, 82, Bakker smiled and held his head up as he stepped quickly toward the gray granite courthouse across...
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Dec 20, 2019 · 1:58. March 20, 1987: Scandal erupts for Jim and Tammy Bakker. The Bakkers are televangelists with a religious program called "Praise the Lord." Hahn later claimed that in December 1980, when she ...
James Orsen Bakker ( / ˈbeɪkər /; [1] born January 2, 1940) is an American televangelist. Between 1974 and 1987, Bakker hosted the television program The PTL Club and its cable television platform, the PTL Satellite Network, with his then wife, Tammy Faye. He also developed Heritage USA, a now-defunct Christian theme park in Fort Mill, South ...
Sep 3, 2021 · Tammy Faye Bakker filed for divorce following his conviction and married Roe Messner. Jim Bakker went back to TV after he was released from prison, and now hosts the Jim Bakker Show. ABC 20/20 is ...
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In 2021, disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker and his Missouri church was ordered to pay $156,000 in restitution after being sued for falsely claiming a drug could cure COVID-19, according to ABC News. During broadcasts of The Jim Bakker Show , the prosperity preacher claimed a product called Silver Solution could “prevent, mitigate, treat, or ...
Aug 24, 1991 · August 23, 1991 at 8:00 p.m. EDT. CHARLOTTE, N.C., AUG. 23 -- A federal judge today resentenced Jim Bakker to 18 years in prison -- a 27-year reduction of the initial sentence -- after the...
