Jim Bakker, TV Evangelist Felled by Fraud and Sex Scandals, Dies

With his wife, Tammy Faye, Mr. Bakker built a broadcasting juggernaut around the gospel of prosperity.Jim Bakker in 1987. The television ministry he founded with his first wife, Tammy Faye Bakker, brought in as much as $129 million annually before he was felled by a sex scandal.