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...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...
Those declarations were made only three days after fellow TV Preacher Jerry Falwell made sure that Bakker would never minister again at his former domain in Fort Mill, S.C. Bakker had relinquished control of PTL (for Praise the Lord or People That Love) to Falwell, a Fundamentalist Baptist, after confessing that he had paid $265,000 in hush money to cover up his adultery. But prior to last week's board meeting at PTL, Bakker had wired Falwell that it seemed time for a comeback...
...inspirational daily cable hour. The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer reported last week that the couple received nearly $1.6 million in pay last year from their PTL (for Praise the Lord or People That Love) television ministry. In the first three months of this year, the paper added, the Pentecostal preacher and his wife received $640,000. In all, the Bakkers were paid $4.8 million in salary, bonuses and other compensation between 1984 and last month...
Reports of financial and sexual excesses by fallen TV Preacher Jim Bakker. Controversy over a heroic Jewish convert to Catholicism...
...time. One woman recounted the woes of a dreary day following her state's legislative delegation through a series of raucous St. Patrick's Day appearances. A fellow from a small wire service told a joke about the scandal surrounding Rev. Jim Bakker. "He's a lay preacher." "What?" "He got laid, get it>" It fell very flat among the correspondents' business suits...