Bakker spent four and a half years in prison after being convicted in 1989 \u200bof defrauding followers in a scheme involving holidays at his Christian theme park<\/p>\n
The US televangelist Jim Bakker, who built a multimillion-dollar empire and lived \u2060in opulence before being disgraced by a sex scandal, a conviction for defrauding followers and divorce from his television co-host Tammy Faye, has died aged 86.<\/p>\n
The death of Bakker, whose journey from the TV pulpit to a prison cell in the 1980s inspired comparisons to the corrupt character of the fictional preacher-huckster Elmer Gantry, was revealed on \u2060social media by his second wife, Lori \u2060Bakker.<\/p>\n
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