Jim Bakker turned religious intimacy into an American empire—and showed how faith, fame, fraud and reinvention could share the same stage.

Journalists called Bakker a “televangelist,” but he never showed interest in being a pastor or an evangelist. His hero was Johnny Carson. Moore noted that Bakker's “goal was clearly to be a talk-show ...

“His heart was still for the work of God and for the Gospel to continue reaching the world,” his wife said in a statement Brian Brant is an associate editor for the human interest team at PEOPLE. He's ...

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Jim Bakker, the televangelist who came to be known across the country in the 1970s and 80s, died at the age of 86. His wife, Lori Bakker, shared the news of his passing in a Facebook post.

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Bakker spent four and a half years in prison after being convicted in 1989 of defrauding followers in a scheme involving holidays at his Christian theme park The US televangelist Jim Bakker, who built ...

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Branson, Mo. — 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 over a sex scandal and ...