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...glitzy TV and entertainment empire that he had created and nurtured over 13 years. Responding to charges that were about to break in the Charlotte Observer, Bakker confessed that he had paid $265,000 in hush money to cover up an afternoon of adultery in 1980 with Jessica Hahn, a 21-year-old church secretary from Long Island, N.Y. At Bakker's request, Falwell became PTL's new head, amid rumors that another TV evangelist, Jimmy Swaggart of Baton Rouge, La., was conspiring to wrest control...
Bakker, Falwell said, described the adulterous 1980 tryst with Hahn as a 20- minute encounter in which Hahn was the aggressor and intercourse did not occur. According to Falwell, Bakker also said that the $265,000 in hush money came from his personal funds, not from PTL. On that basis, Falwell told Bakker that if he ironed out problems with his church body, the Assemblies of God, "I see no reason why you couldn't get back in the ministry." Falwell declared his willingness to "step aside...
...only mistake was not realizing that his meetings with Donna Rice could be "misconstrued," then blaming the media for the mess he was in. Even Jim Bakker, who by profession alone should have an intimate acquaintance with the theological concept of sin, resisted simply confessing his dalliance with Jessica Hahn. Instead, Bakker insisted that his troubles were all part of a "diabolical plot" by rival preachers...
...Assemblies expelled Bakker not only for committing adultery with Jessica Hahn, a former church secretary from West Babylon, N.Y., but also for "alleged misconduct involving bisexual activity." Two weeks ago, at his residence in Palm Springs, Calif., Bakker declared to reporters, "I'm not a homosexual." However, sources familiar with the Assemblies investigation of PTL (for Praise the Lord or People That Love) reported that incriminating testimony came from witnesses who claimed to have participated in such sexual activity with Bakker...
Dortch briefly succeeded Bakker as PTL president and host of its TV show until he was forced out last month. Dortch was found guilty of failing to notify church leaders of Bakker's misconduct and of subsequent deceit (the two men arranged hush-money payments of $265,000 to Hahn and her advisers). Dortch's downfall after 33 years in the ministry was especially awkward. He had been the Illinois superintendent for the denomination and had served 14 years on the very body that ordered his defrocking. Bakker and Dortch, who had no immediate response to the action, have...