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...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...
Those on Hahn's side portray her as a devout follower of Bakker's who was spiritually and emotionally "shattered" by the tryst. Hahn told her pastor, the Rev. Gene Profeta, about the incident. Profeta consulted his friend Paul R. Roper, a business consultant in Anaheim, Calif., and self-appointed monitor of clergy skulduggery. John Stewart, a Christian broadcaster and teacher at ! the Simon Greenleaf School of Law in California, became Roper's partner in the project. Hahn told Roper that Bakker had pressured her into sex. Roper says, "She was overwhelmed by being in the presence of this...
Roper repeatedly notified PTL of Hahn's story, and when no reply resulted, he and Stewart sent PTL officials a draft of a civil complaint on Hahn's behalf, claiming emotional distress, as well as Hahn's account of her Florida tryst. Within ten days that document got the attention of Dortch, an Assemblies of God minister who was installed as Bakker's top administrator in the wake of press allegations of misuse of PTL moneys. Dortch met Roper in tony Newport Beach, Calif., in 1985 and soon hired as PTL's representative Criminal Lawyer Howard Weitzman, whose clients have...
...Jane Goes to Hawaii bears absolutely no resemblance to Sartre's dark existential classic about overcrowding. What we really have here is a better-than-average sex farce about a geology teacher (Tom Hughes) who brings home a Harlequin romance hack named Vivien Bliss (Lynda Cohen) for a weekend tryst...
...tackle in hand. Among them goes "poor Holloway," a somewhat seedy chap of dubious breeding who has yet to catch a salmon in 20 years of trying. Meanwhile, the "salmon widows" wait restlessly back at the hotel -- for Holloway to sneak away from the river to yet another noonday tryst. Just as the juvenile parr of the salmon tribe dart in among their unaware elders to fertilize the females' eggs, so does "poor Holloway" put horns on his betters...