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Sep 17, 2021 · Jim Bakker was convicted of fraud and served five years in prison — but despite never being criminally implicated herself, Tammy Faye suffered massive consequences for her husband’s crimes and...
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When we first see Tammy Faye, she is having makeup applied even though she has, as she confirms, permanent lip liner, eyebrows, and eyeliner tattooed on. She claims she has never been photographed without her enormous fake eyelashes. All of this is true. Jim J. Bullock, who co-hosted a short-lived 2005 talk show with Bakker (who had remarried and w...
After Jim and Tammy meet at Bible college and fall in love, Jim tells her he wanted to be a radio DJ and loved Fats Domino and Little Richard. But then as a high school senior, he was in a car with a girl singing along to Fats on the radio when he ran over a little boy who was seriously injured. He promised God that if the boy recovered, he would g...
Jim and Tammy are traveling on the evangelical rally circuit. One day they come out of their motel to find their Cadillac is gone. Jim says it has been stolen, although there is the possibility it has been repossessed for nonpayments. In any case, they appear stranded but fortuitously enough another guest emerges from his room just at that moment t...
By 1981, the Bakkers are co-hosts of the wildly successful PTL Cluband raking it in. Their relationship, however, is deteriorating. Jim finds Tammy constantly irritating, while Tammy is hurt by Jim’s coldness and feels bored and isolated by having to give up work, at his insistence, during her pregnancy. She visits the set and is distressed to see ...
Neglected by Jim, Tammy finds herself drawn to Keanu lookalike and music producer Gary Paxton, whom Jim has brought from Nashville to help Tammy record gospel music. Unlike Jim, he believes in her talent and compassion as well as telling her she’s beautiful (even at 8 months’ pregnant) and she is tempted to stray. But after they share a kiss, she i...
After Jim tearfully confesses to Jerry Falwell and other leading evangelists that the newspapers are about to reveal that he had a one-night stand with a 21-year-old church secretary named Jessica Hahn and that the $200,000 in hush money he has given her came from PTL donors earmarked for other purposes, the minister tells him to take a step back. ...
To consolidate his position as president of PTL, Falwell not only reveals Bakker’s financial misconduct but says he has had homosexual relationships. Bakker has always denied he had any sexual encounters with other men and the truth remains very much a “he said, he said” matter, although more than a few men, many of them current or former employees...
On her own show, Tammy moves away from theological matters to discuss topics ranging from cooking fudge to penile implants. Tammy did in fact feature a segment on penile implants on Christian television. “We got all kinds of mail,” she told TV Guide, “the most ever in the history of PTL. But a lot of it was people wanting the pamphlet on the penile...
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Sep 15, 2021 · Criticized for initiating the divorce while her husband was behind bars, Tammy Faye stated in her memoir: “How cruel would it have been for me to have waited until he walked through those...
Dec 20, 2019 · At a press conference in May 1987, Falwell said the Bakkers were no longer fit to lead PTL, accusing Jim Bakker of being secretly gay and claimed that Tammy Faye Bakker made a long list of demands ...
Sep 24, 2021 · Tammy Faye was never charged in connection with Jim's crimes, but—especially given her prominent role in the ministry—many doubted that she was completely in the dark. How could she not...
