Word: jessicas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world fell in for Lawrence Spiegel in December 1983. After a bitter divorce and custody fight, Spiegel was arrested on a complaint by his ex-wife and charged with the sexual abuse of his daughter Jessica, 2 1/2. There followed a two-year ordeal during which Spiegel, a psychologist from Flanders, N.J., lost most of his practice, built up legal bills of $70,000 and worst of all, he says, was denied contact with his little girl. "I wanted to kill myself," Spiegel recalls...
...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...
...Fort Mill, S.C., appeared on his TV network to explain why he had relinquished the reins of his $129 million-a-year PTL (for Praise the Lord or People That Love) empire. It was not because he had confessed to one afternoon of sin in 1980 with Jessica Hahn, a comely New York secretary who was then 21, he insisted. Instead, flanked by his forgiving wife Tammy Faye, Bakker said he had resigned to stop a "diabolical plot" for a rival evangelist's takeover of his church, which includes not only the cable network but a glitzy theme park, Heritage...
...creation began on a warm December day in 1980 at a hotel in Clearwater Beach, Fla. At the time, Jim and Tammy, although sunny on camera, were going through a chilly time offstage. According to some accounts, Evangelist John Wesley Fletcher arranged for Bakker to meet young Jessica Hahn, a secretary for the Full Gospel Tabernacle, a Pentecostal church in Massapequa, N.Y. According to Bakker's official statement in resigning as head of PTL, the brief encounter was a setup: "I was wickedly manipulated by treacherous former friends and then colleagues who victimized me with the aid of a female...
Swaggart asked to meet with Bakker. Instead, Dortch flew to a Baton Rouge hotel to talk with Swaggart and two officials of the Assemblies of God. As Swaggart tells it, "I confronted Dortch about the Jessica Hahn thing. He flatly denied it. He lied to me." Swaggart did nothing further until the February convention of National Religious Broadcasters, the trade association for radio-TV preachers. Swaggart was about to speak when the Rev. John Ankerberg, Southern Baptist proprietor of a weekly TV show, approached, knelt down and whispered to him that the Charlotte Observer was hot on the Bakker- Hahn...