Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, whose ministry was toppled by prostitution scandals, dies at 90
BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA, JUL 1 – Jimmy Swaggart, whose evangelical ministry reached over 2 million households and raised $150 million annually, died following cardiac arrest after a long career marked by both influence and scandal.
- Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, aged 90, died recently with the announcement made on his ministry’s public Facebook page in Louisiana.
- Swaggart’s ministry waned after a series of sex scandals in the late 1980s and early 1990s involving prostitution and legal troubles.
- He became a household name with a multimillion-dollar ministry earning an estimated $142 million in 1986, broadcasting across 21 states and online globally.
- In 1988, Swaggart was photographed in New Orleans in a scandal involving a sex worker and later offered a tearful apology without directly addressing the incident, stating, "I have sinned against you."
- Despite scandals and declining audience, Swaggart remained head of his ministry, often joined by his preacher son Donnie, continuing local services into his later years.
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How Jimmy Swaggart Changed American Christianity
American televangelist Jimmy Lee Swaggart haranguing his audience. (Photo by Rick Maiman/Sygma via Getty Images)THE DEATH THIS WEEK OF JIMMY SWAGGART at the age of 90 brings to an end one of the most controversial and remarkable careers in recent American religious life. For younger Americans, Swaggart’s name might not mean anything; others might recall blurry footage of a weeping preacher confessing, “I have sinned.” And sin he did, but in a ti…
Jimmy Swaggart, passionate televangelist ousted by scandal, dies at 90 - Hawaii Tribune-Herald
The Rev. Jimmy Swaggart, who emerged from the backwoods of Louisiana to become a television evangelist with global reach, preaching about an eternal struggle between good and evil and warning of the temptations of the flesh, a theme that played out in his own life in a sex scandal, died Tuesday. He was 90.
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