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Televangelist Jim Bakker dies at 86, reviving scandal memories
Original: Inside Jim Bakker's sex and fraud scandals after TV preacher's death at 86 https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/jim-bakker
US televangelist Jim Bakker has died at the age of 86, prompting renewed attention to the scandals that defined his career. Bakker, once one of America's most prominent TV preachers, was convicted of fraud in 1989 after his PTL Club ministry collapsed amid revelations of a sexual encounter with Jessica Hahn and misuse of ministry funds. Obituaries are revisiting his fall from grace and later attempted comeback.
Why now: The death of a once-famous televangelist has reignited public interest in his 1980s fraud and sex scandals.
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