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  "name": "Jim Bakker",
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  "description": "Follow Jim Bakker, a tracked person, in Lootura: recent changes, timeline, related context, and source-backed evidence.",
  "updatedAt": "2026-10-06T17:54:58.776Z",
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    "Bakker"
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  "changes": [
    {
      "title": "Jim Bakker, who co-founded \"The PTL Club\" but fell into disgrace, dies at 86",
      "summary": "Jim Bakker, who along with his first wife Tammy Faye built an evangelical empire around \"The PTL Club\" TV show, only to lose it all over a sex scandal and financial crimes, has died at 86.",
      "date": "2026-10-06"
    },
    {
      "title": "Jim Bakker, who built 'PTL Club' televangelism empire, has died at 86",
      "summary": "Jim Bakker, along with his first wife Tammy Faye built an evangelical empire around the hugely successful \"The PTL Club\" TV show, only to lose it all over a sex scandal and financial crimes. (Image credit: Lou Krasky).",
      "date": "2026-10-06"
    },
    {
      "title": "Jim Bakker, minister who built a televangelism empire and lost it from sex and money scandals, dies at 86",
      "summary": "\"The PTL Club,\" which at its peak in the mid-1980s drew 13 million nightly TV viewers, made Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker cultural icons — so much so that they were often skewered in the 1980s and 90s by late-night comedians and parodied on \"Saturday Night Live.\".",
      "date": "2026-10-06"
    },
    {
      "title": "Jim Bakker, Television Preacher Felled by Sex and Financial Scandals, Dies at 86",
      "summary": "With his wife, Tammy Faye, Mr. Bakker built a broadcasting juggernaut around the gospel of prosperity.",
      "date": "2026-10-06"
    },
    {
      "title": "Discovered by Atlas",
      "summary": "Jim Bakker first entered the public knowledge record with source-backed evidence.",
      "date": "2026-10-06"
    }
  ],
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}