Jim Bakker, TV pastor who served time for defrauding followers, dies at 86

NBC News reports: There are no new alerts at this time Jim Bakker, the charismatic evangelical preacher who built a Christian television empire, only to see it collapse in scandal, recrimination and prison, died Monday, his wife said. He was 86. “It is with a broken heart that I share that my beloved husband, Jim Bakker, went home to be with the Lord this evening,” his second wife, Lori Bakker, said on the Facebook page of Bakker’s most recent TV show , “The Jim Bakker Show.” She did not disclose a cause of death.

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