Here’s a link.
“I have sinned.” Also Jerry Lee Lewis’ cousin. Portrayed by Alec Baldwin in the move Great Balls of Fire!
Oh, so HE is the adultery guy. Bakker is the swindle everyone for money guy? I remember Tammy Faye Bakker and I heard she really turned around before she died.
Anyway, both are probably swindlers, but I mix the two up.
Bakker also committed adultery with Jessica Hahn.
I always confuse them, too. Bakker was accused of drugging and raping Jessica Hahn, as was another preacher, John Wesley Fletcher. She was given a hush money payment of $278,000 that was paid out of Bakker’s church’s account.
I was a kid in the 80’s. My parents, both Christians(as am I), always warned against TV preachers like Swaggart, Bakker, Robert Tilton, etc.
It’s just a cash grab, they thought. Despite reputation these guys bring, there are real pastors out there; they just tend to avoid TV and begging for money constantly.
Swaggert was doing naughty things with whores. That was his unique angle.
The Rudy Schwartz Project has a delightful (NSFW) little ditty about this event.
Jimmy Swaggart got caught checking into a motel with a prostitute
It’s being reported that celebrity chef Anne Burrell is dead at 55.
Gary England, meteorologist who as a TV weatherman pushed his station to get its own doppler radar resulting in the first time doppler radar was ever used in a commercial setting, created the little emergency weather insert that would show in the lower right-hand corner of TV programs so that people could be warned about inclement weather without having their regularly scheduled program interrupted, created Storm Tracker, consulted on (and had a cameo in) the movie Twister (original version), and helped develop storm warning systems that would work on the internet, dead at 85 from complications from a stroke.
Also…
Evangelical preachers doing naughty things with prostitutes is hardly unique, although at least the ones he was doing them with were female.
Anyone think weighing 475 pounds might be bad for your health?
Depends on from whose perspective. From the fundagelical perspective, it was the multiple flings with sex workers, as has been noted. From my very non-fundie Christian perspective, it was just the usual business of finding bogeymen to blame the sins of the world on - liberals, homosexuals, pornography, etc. - so that they didn’t have to look at their own selves and find any sin there any worse than losing their temper in traffic.
Fundamentally, there should be no profit off religion. End of story.
I dunno. I once knew a guy who weight 177 pounds who died.
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Lightning struck Lou Christie. Or perhaps it was a short illness.
The reports I’ve seen say Sartain was 78.
Wikipedia has him as 81 as well.
Knew him mainly from Ernest movies.