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US televangelist Jim Bakker, ensnared in fraud and sex scandal, dies at 86

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 a multimillion-dollar empire and lived ⁠in opulence before being disgraced by a sex scandal, a con

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  1. The Guardian: US televangelist Jim Bakker, ensnared in fraud and sex scandal, dies at 86
  2. NBC News: Jim Bakker, Controversial Televangelist, Dies at 86
  3. CBS News: Jim Bakker, disgraced televangelist, dies at 86