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Jim Bakker Bakker Bakker biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Jim Bakker Bakker Bakker

Author Name:

Jim Bakker Bakker Bakker

Born As:

James Orsen Bakker

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Born:

02 Jan 1940

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Televangelist, Assemblies of God minister, Former host of The PTL Club, a Christian television program                          
                          
Mother Furnia Lynette Irwin
Father Raleigh Bakker
First wife Tamara Faye LaValley - 1961–1992 - died 2002, two children, divorced.
Second wife Lori Bakker - 1998–present.                          
                          
Adultery with 21-year-old church secretary Jessica Hahn.

A Federal bankruptcy judge has ruled that the television ministry PTL should be repaid nearly $200,000 of the $363,700 it spent to buy the silence of Jessica Hahn, whose sexual liaison with Jim Bakker led to his resignation from the ministry.

Persuaded thousands of viewers to donate sums of $US1000 or more to purchase "lifetime partnerships" in a Hotel Complex at his Christian theme park in North Carolina called Heritage USA.

One 500-room hotel was completed. It was the biggest time-share scam ever conceived, cloaked in the false respectability of the name of God. Thousands of American souls, mostly retirees, found they were unable ever to get their money back. Bakker was defrocked by his denomination, the Assemblies of God, for "conduct unbecoming of a minister".

PTL's fund raising activities between 1984–1987 underwent scrutiny by The Charlotte Observer newspaper, eventually leading to criminal charges. Praise The Lord Ministry was declared bankrupt.

Charged on eight counts of mail fraud, 15 counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy. and found guilty on 24 counts, and Judge Robert Potter sentenced him to 45 years in federal prison and a $500,000 fine, which was reduced to eight years and he served five years, with no fine.

On July 23, 1996, a North Carolina jury threw out a class action suit brought on behalf of more than 160,000 onetime supporters who contributed as much as $7,000 each to Bakker's coffers in the 1980s.

Bakker owes the IRS more than $6.1 million.