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Televangelist Jim Bakker, convicted in PTL fraud case, dies at 86
Televangelist Jim Bakker, who co-founded the PTL Club and built the Heritage USA Christian theme park with his then-wife Tammy Faye, has died at 86, his family announced; his cause of death was not disclosed. His ministry collapsed amid scandal and fraud convictions in the 1980s, and he later returned to Christian television in Missouri.
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About Tammy Faye Messner
Tamara Faye Messner was an American evangelist. She co-founded the televangelist program The PTL Club with her then-husband Jim Bakker in 1974. They had hosted their own puppet-show series for local programming in the early 1960s; Messner also had a career as a recording artist. In 1978, she and Bakker built Heritage USA, a Christian theme park.
Everything about Tammy Faye Messner →- Occupation
- singer, entrepreneur, actor, writer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- March 7, 1942
- Died
- July 20, 2007
- Website
- http://tammyfaye.com/