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...final straw was a decision by Federal Bankruptcy Judge Rufus Reynolds that Falwell's financial rescue plan did not accommodate creditors and contributors. Reynolds suggested that Falwell should control only, say, five of nine PTL board members. Convinced that new board members might help restore the defrocked Jim Bakker, Falwell resigned, along with top administrators and current board members. The entire affair, said Falwell, washing his hands of it, has become the "Watergate of Evangelical Christianity...
Hahn, 28, first came to public notice as the former church secretary from Long Island, N.Y., who toppled Televangelist Jim Bakker from the pulpit of his lucrative PTL ministry by admitting an irregular sexual escapade into which Bakker and fellow Preacher John Fletcher allegedly conscripted her in 1980. Now she is on the cover of the November Playboy, which paid about three- quarters of a million dollars for an interview ("I'm not a bimbo," she said) and topless photo layout. Her face has become familiar on such shows as Larry King Live and Good Morning, America. Her lawyer, Dominic...
Hahn also told Playboy the Rev. Jerry Falwell used her to gain control of PTL, which was placed in his hands by Bakker after his downfall...
...know I'm no fan of Jim Bakker, but Jim Bakker has also been screwed," Hahn said. "I believe Jerry Falwell just outright screwed...
...news conference Tuesday, Falwell, who is struggling to keep control of PTL against Bakker, said Hahn's involvement with Playboy "brings her down unfortunately to the level where Mr. Bakker...