The evidence against Swaggart reportedly came from Marvin Gorman, a rival New Orleans evangelist, who last year filed a $90 million defamation lawsuit accusing Swaggart of falsely spreading stories that Gorman engaged in numerous adulterous affairs. Swaggart met with the denomination's 13-member Executive Presbytery for 10 hours Thursday 'to discuss matters that could affect his credentials with the church,' church spokeswoman Juleen Turnage said Friday.ĪBC News, citing sources it did not identify, reported today that church officials at the meeting reviewed photographs purporting to show Swaggart and a known prostitute entering and leaving a motel room. Swaggart, 52, is an Assemblies of God minister and president of a Baton Rouge-based ministry that broadcasts to 143 countries and had a 1986 income of about $142 million.Īssemblies of God officials in Springfield, Mo., confirmed Friday that Swaggart was being investigated, but refused to confirm the subject of the investigation.

'I feel he will be there, but as far as what the service holds, I can't tell you,' Klein said in a telephone interview. His spokeswoman, Barbara Klein, said Swaggart probably would attend Sunday services at his Family Worship Center in Baton Rouge, but she did not know whether he would deliver a sermon or make any statement regarding allegations that he was seen entering a motel room with a prostitute. 20 - Television evangelist Jimmy Swaggart had no comment today on reports that the Assemblies of God church is investigating allegations of adultery against him.

In 1991, Jimmy was involved in another sex scandal with another prostitute, and rather than confessing to the congregation again, he decided to take another approach, telling those at the center that “The Lord told me it’s none of your business.NEW ORLEANS, FEB.

The sex scandal resulted in Jimmy’s infamous ‘I have sinned’ speech where he tearfully confessed what he had done to the Ministry, as well as hundreds of members of the Family Worship Center.Garland and Randy let the air out of Jimmy’s tires & immediately called Marvin, who came to the hotel to ask Jimmy what he was doing there. A while later, Jimmy arrived with a prostitute and took her to room 7.They placed a camera draped in black cloth in the window of room 12 in the hotel.Marvin hired his son Randy and son-in-law Garland to stake out a Travel Inn in Baton Rouge, Florida.Jimmy’s exposure was the result of a retaliatory move from fellow “Assemblies of God” Minister Marvin Gorman when Jimmy accused him of having several affairs.In 1988, Frances’ husband Jimmy was involved in a sex scandal with a prostitute, which resulted in a suspension from the Ministry, and ultimately being defrocked by the Assemblies of God.

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