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Jimmy Lee Swaggart was born on March 15, 1935, in Ferriday, Louisiana, [1] to fiddle player and Pentecostal preacher Willie Leon (known as "Sun" or "Son") Swaggart and Minnie Bell Herron, daughter of sharecropper William Herron. Swaggart's parents were related by marriage, as Son Swaggart's maternal uncle, Elmo Lewis, was married to Minnie ...
John Wesley Fletcher (January 24, 1940 – June 21, 1996) was an American defrocked Assemblies of God pastor, known for his role in the PTL scandal involving Tammy Faye and Jim Bakker. Early life [ edit ]
The film is a parody of televangelism, and was released right after the real-life Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart scandals. [ 1 ] In the film, a televangelist in Staten Island has a one-night-stand with a woman during a rainstorm .
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Pages in category "1980s scandals" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. G. Guinness share-trading ...
In its initial response, Gateway Church said the pastor had been “open and forthright about a moral failure” that took place when he was in his 20s and working at another church, and had a two ...
According to Hahn, on the afternoon of December 6, 1980, when she was a 21-year-old church secretary, she was drugged and raped by Bakker and another preacher, John Wesley Fletcher. [1] Hahn was given a $279,000 (equivalent to $748,250 in 2023) pay-off for her silence, which was paid with PTL's funds to Hahn through Bakker associate Roe Messner ...
More than 30 years ago, Rob Lowe's reputation was in the gutter — and he's better for it. Reflecting on the infamous 1988 sex tape that ground his career to a halt, Lowe said on SiriusXM's "The ...