# Jim Bakker

> Follow Jim Bakker, a tracked person, in Lootura: recent changes, timeline, related context, and source-backed evidence.

- Type: person
- Updated: 2026-10-06T17:54:58.776Z
- Canonical: https://atlas.lootura.com/us/person/jim-bakker

## Recent changes

### Jim Bakker, who co-founded "The PTL Club" but fell into disgrace, dies at 86

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

### Jim Bakker, who built 'PTL Club' televangelism empire, has died at 86

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

### Jim Bakker, minister who built a televangelism empire and lost it from sex and money scandals, dies at 86

"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

### Jim Bakker, Television Preacher Felled by Sex and Financial Scandals, Dies at 86

With his wife, Tammy Faye, Mr. Bakker built a broadcasting juggernaut around the gospel of prosperity.

Date: 2026-10-06

### Discovered by Atlas

Jim Bakker first entered the public knowledge record with source-backed evidence.

Date: 2026-10-06

## Sources

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