Word: bakkers
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Looking properly contrite and a trifle weary, fallen Televangelist Jim Bakker emerged from his self-imposed seclusion in Palm Springs, Calif., last week. Flanked by Wife Tammy and Son Jamie, 12, the boyish Bakker, once ruler of the $129 million PTL television and theme-park ministry, delivered a message of conciliation ("We will not fight -- we don't want to be part of a circus") and seeming acceptance ("Without a miracle of God, we will never minister again...
...Pentecostal preacher, who has been lying doggo since he confessed seven weeks ago to adultery, bristled slightly when discussing new charges of immorality recently leveled against him. "I've never been involved in wife swapping," Bakker asserted. "I'm not a homosexual, and I've never been to a prostitute." He noted that he had only enough money to last "six months at the most," and added almost jauntily, "We have eight or nine million dollars in royalties we never received" from...
...revelations of these celestial sums were yet another chapter in the saga of Bakker, an Assemblies of God minister who for 13 years ran the $129 million-a-year PTL empire, which includes the Heritage USA theme park in Fort Mill, S.C. Six weeks ago he stepped down as PTL president and chairman after admitting to a 1980 tryst with Massapequa, N.Y., Church Secretary Jessica Hahn and to then making a "blackmail" payment. A $265,000 hush-money package was assembled for Hahn and her advisers...
Jerry Falwell, the Lynchburg, Va., Baptist Fundamentalist who assumed the post of PTL chairman in mid-March, last week reviewed the lavish compensation ( that has been made in the past to Bakker and his fellow PTL officials. Falwell's reaction: "outrageous" and "indefensible." Among the disbursements were $350,000 in 1986 and $270,000 in the first quarter of 1987 to Richard Dortch, 55, the new president of PTL and Bakker's former chief aide; $360,000 last year and $250,000 as of March to David Taggart, 29, another Bakker aide; $160,000 in 1986 and $50,000 this...
Reports of financial and sexual excesses by fallen TV Preacher Jim Bakker. Controversy over a heroic Jewish convert to Catholicism...