Jim Bakker, who lost his ‘PTL Club’ televangelism empire in sex and money scandals, dies at 86 - AP News
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Jim Bakker, who lost his ‘PTL Club’ televangelism empire in sex and money scandals, dies at 86 - AP News

Source:Associated Press
Author:Jim Salter, Hallie Golden

Jim Bakker, who along with his first wife, Tammy Faye, built an evangelical empire around the hugely successful “The PTL Club” TV show, only to lose it all in a sex scandal and financial crimes, has died. He was 86. His second wife, Lori Bakker, said in a sta…