| Name | Jim Bakker |
| Date of Birth | January 2, 1940 (Age: 82) |
| Place of Birth | Muskegon, Michigan |
About
Jim Bakker was born on January 2, 1940 in Muskegon, Michigan. Televangelist and a former co-host of The PTL Club, a well-known evangelical Christian television programme. His former co-host was Tammy Faye Bakker, who was also his wife at the time. Infamously, he was prosecuted for accounting fraud and sentenced to a number of years in prison after being forced to resign from his position of leadership in the church.
In Minneapolis, Minnesota, he received his education in the Bible at North Central University, which is a school that is connected with the Assemblies of God. In 1987, he was put in a position where he had no choice but to resign from his position at PTL as a result of claims that he had stolen money from the church in order to silence a staff secretary at the church who claimed that he had raped her. In April of 1961, he tied the knot with Tammy Faye LaValley, and the couple went on to have two children together. He later married Lori Graham Bakker.
Net Worth
Jim Bakker is an American televangelist, author, and convicted felon. He is best known for his role in the PTL Club scandal. As of 2020, Jim Bakker’s net worth is estimated to be $500 thousand.
Bakker was born in Muskegon, Michigan in 1940. He began his career in television in the 1960s, working as a producer and host for a Christian variety show. In the 1970s, he founded the PTL Club, a Christian television network. The network grew rapidly, and by the 1980s, it was reaching millions of viewers.
In 1987, Bakker resigned from the PTL Club after it was revealed that he had engaged in an extramarital affair with a former employee. The scandal also revealed that Bakker had used ministry funds to pay for the affair. As a result of the scandal, Bakker was convicted of fraud and sentenced to 45 years in prison. He was released after serving five years.
Since his release from prison, Bakker has continued to work in television and has authored several books. His net worth is estimated to be $500 thousand as of 2020.
House
The Jim Bakker Show was a Christian television program hosted by Jim Bakker from 1966 to 1987. It was one of the longest-running Christian television programs in history. After Bakker’s resignation from the show, the program continued with a new host, Richard Roberts. The show was produced by PTL (Praise the Lord) Ministries, which was founded by Bakker and his wife, Tammy Faye Bakker. The ministry was based in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Bakkers’ house was located in Fort Mill, South Carolina.
Books
The PTL Club was a Christian television program hosted by Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker. It featured a number of regular guests, including Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and Oral Roberts. The program was canceled in 1987, after it was revealed that Jim Bakker had been paying hush money to a former church secretary with whom he had had an affair. Bakker was later convicted of fraud and served time in prison.
After his release from prison, Bakker wrote a number of books, including I Was Wrong (1996), in which he detailed his fall from grace and recounted his time in prison. He also wrote a number of books about his experiences as a televangelist, including Tammy and I (2000) and Prosperity and the Coming Apocalypse (2007).
Wife and Family
The wife of Jim Bakker is Tammy Faye Bakker. She was a co-host of The PTL Club, a Christian television program, with her husband from 1974 to 1987. After Jim Bakker was convicted of fraud and sent to prison in 1989, Tammy Faye divorced him and remarried. She later appeared on several reality television shows, including The Surreal Life and Celebrity Fit Club. Tammy Faye Bakker died in 2007.
Views on Homosexuality
According to a magazine article, a former male television preacher claims that he informed a grand jury that he had three sexual encounters with Jim Bakker.
From the middle of the 1970s to 1981, John Wesley Fletcher, a cast member of the television show “The PTL Club,” claimed that Bakker was a bisexual who publicly lusted after the show’s young male camera operators.
In an interview for the January issue of Penthouse magazine, he admitted, “I was Jim Bakker’s male prostitute.”
The second man to publicly admit having sex with Bakker is Fletcher. Former PTL employee Jay Babcock claimed in September that he had informed the grand jury of a sexual encounter with Bakker.
