Jim Bakker has recent source-backed changes around Jim Bakker, minister who built a televangelism empire and lost it from sex and and Jim Bakker, who co-founded "The PTL Club" but fell into disgrace, dies at 86.
Jim Bakker, minister who built a televangelism empire and lost it from sex and money scandals, dies at 86.
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"The PTL Club," which at its peak in the mid-1980s drew 13 million nightly TV viewers, made Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker cultural icons — so much so that they were often skewered in the 1980s and 90s by late-night comedians and parodied on "Saturday Night Live.".
Jim Bakker, who along with his first wife Tammy Faye built an evangelical empire around "The PTL Club" TV show, only to lose it all over a sex scandal and financial crimes, has died at 86.