James Orsen "Jim" Bakker (pronounced ˈbækər; born January 2, 1940) is an American televangelist, a former Assemblies of God minister and a former host (with his then-wife Tammy Faye Bakker) of The PTL Club, a popular evangelical Christian television program.A sex scandal led to his resignation from the ministry. Subsequent revelations of accounting fraud brought about his imprisonment and divorce. He later remarried and returned to televangelism.
I think - there's always going to be a percentage of people who maybe aren't as good as others.
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Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world?
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Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer.
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It's not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a television talk-show host.
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[on why his The P.T.L. Club (1976) empire crashed] I think the devil was mad. I think something so wonderful and beautiful was being built, that the devil was mad.
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(2000-present) Began to plan a possible move to the Branson, Missouri area, where he now resides much of the year.
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He marked the fourth anniversary of "The New Jim Bakker Show" which premiered January 2, 2003. He and his second wife, Lori Graham Bakker, star in the talk show format program in front of a live audience in the former Cowboy Cafe which is now called the Studio City Cafe in Branson, Missouri. [January 2007]
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(1989 - 1994) Imprisoned for fraud (US$158 million)
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(1995-2000) Lived in California and spent as much time as possible in North Carolina with his daughter and two grandsons
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As a young boy he put a newly painted rowboat in his front yard and stuck a 'For Sale' sign on it. After the sale, the buyer tried to bring it back when he discovered that Bakker had only painted one-half of the boat -- the side that faced the street.
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Among the frivolous items that Bakker bought with his church's money: a eight-foot-tall brass giraffe and an air-conditioned doghouse.
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After his arrest, people cynically joked that Bakker's PTL network actually stood for "Pass The Loot".
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When confronted about the missing $158,000,000, he claimed that Satan had gotten into his ministry's computers to make the money lost. When asked if he could prove Satan stole the money, he replied, "Can you prove he didn't?"
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Father of Jay Bakker and Tammy Sue Bakker Chapman.
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Title
Year
Status
Character
Marcus & Joni
2013
TV Series
Himself
The Rachel Maddow Show
2010
TV Series
Himself
The Jim Bakker Show
2003
TV Series
Himself - Host
Intimate Portrait
2001
TV Series documentary
Himself
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
2000
Documentary
Himself
Sally Jessy Raphael
1988
TV Series
Himself
The P.T.L. Club
1976
TV Series
Himself
The PTL Club
1974
TV Series
Himself - Host
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Drunken Peasants
2016
TV Series
Himself
The Eighties
2016
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself - Televangelist
The '80s: The Decade That Made Us
2013
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself
Religulous
2008
Documentary
Himself (uncredited)
Retrosexual: The 80's
2004
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself
101 Most Shocking Moments in Entertainment
2003
TV Movie documentary
Himself - #85 Jessica Hahn Brings Down Jim Bakker
I Love the '80s
2002
TV Series documentary
Himself
Spin
1995
Documentary
Himself
Perverse Preachers, Fascist Fundamentalists and Kristian Kiddie Kooks
$500,000
