Jim Bakker Dies: Televangelist Was 86
Jim Bakker death
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- ABC News Top·8h agoJim Bakker, who built ‘PTL Club’ televangelism empire, has died at 86
Jim Bakker, who along with his first-wife Tammy Faye built an evangelical empire around the hugely successful “The PTL Club” TV show, only to lose it all over a sex scandal and financial crimes, has died
Read at ABC News Top → - Irish Times World·11h agoJim Bakker: US televangelist, disgraced in fraud and sex scandal, dies at 86
Prominent television preacher built a multimillion-dollar empire but was imprisoned for fraud
Read at Irish Times World → - NZ Herald Entertainment·12h agoJim Bakker, television preacher felled by sex and financial scandals, dies at 86
His TV ministry drew up to 13 million viewers a day and earned $231 million annually.
Read at NZ Herald Entertainment → - NPR News Now·13h agoJim Bakker, who built 'PTL Club' televangelism empire, has died at 86
Jim Bakker, along with his first wife Tammy Faye built an evangelical empire around the hugely successful "The PTL Club" TV show, only to lose it all over a sex scandal and financial crimes.
Read at NPR News Now → - Washington Post US·14h agoJim Bakker, disgraced televangelist who went to prison, dies at 86
With his wife, Tammy Faye, he presided over the multimillion-dollar PTL empire before his fall in the 1980s after sex and fraud scandals.
Read at Washington Post US → - Deadline Hollywood·15h agoJim Bakker Dies: Televangelist Was 86
Jim Bakker, the televangelist who built a media empire with former wife Tammy Faye Bakker, has died. He was 86. In a social media post, Bakker’s wife Lori Bakker shared the news of his death. “It is with a broken heart that I share that my beloved husband, Jim Bakker, went home…
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