Tag Archives: Jim Bakker

December 13, 1988

On December 13, 1988, a bankruptcy judge in Columbia, South Carolina, ordered that the assets of the PTL (Praise The Lord) television ministry be sold to a Toronto real estate developer for $65 million. Turns out that Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s Christian ministry was just a way for them to get rich off of … Continue reading

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March 19, 1987

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com in 1987, Televangelist Jim Bakker resigned from his television ministry the PTL due to a sex sandal involving his ‘personal’ assistant Jessica Hahn. I thought it might be interesting to see how many big-time preachers had succumbed to the erotic allures of the flesh and stopped researching when I hit … Continue reading

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