2026年10月6日 / 美国东部时间凌晨1:05 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
密苏里州布兰森讯——吉姆·巴克克尔与首任妻子塔米·费伊凭借大获成功的电视节目《PTL俱乐部》打造了一座福音派帝国，却因性丑闻和金融犯罪一无所有，现已去世。他享年86岁。
巴克克尔的第二任妻子洛里·巴克克尔在一份声明中表示，巴克克尔于周一离世。目前他的死因尚未公开。
这对夫妇当时住在密苏里州娱乐小镇布兰森附近，自2003年节目开播以来，他们就在当地录制电视节目《吉姆·巴克克尔秀》。巴克克尔曾在2020年中风。
“他是基督教电视节目的先驱，但对我来说，他是我的丈夫、我最好的朋友，也是我有幸在人生和事工的诸多岁月中并肩同行的人，”洛里·巴克克尔在声明中说道。“吉姆深爱着人们。他热爱这项事工，也爱着这些年来始终支持他的朋友和伙伴们。即便在他生命的最后日子里，他的心依然牵挂着上帝的工作和继续向世界传播福音的事业。”
但真正让吉姆和首任妻子塔米·费伊·巴克克尔成为文化偶像的是另一档福音节目——他们在20世纪80年代和90年代频繁被深夜喜剧演员调侃，还在《周六夜现场》中被恶搞。2021年9月，讲述他们人生的剧情电影《塔米·费伊的眼睛》上映。
在20世纪80年代中期的鼎盛时期，巴克克尔夫妇的事工不仅包括每晚吸引多达1300万观众的电视节目，还包括位于南卡罗来纳州米尔堡的基督教主题公园遗产美国乐园与酒店。
巴克克尔出生在密歇根州马斯基根，就读于明尼阿波利斯的北中央圣经学院，在此结识了塔米·费伊。两人于1961年结婚，随后退学开启了自己的巡回事工——他布道，她唱歌并演奏手风琴，二人走遍全国，造访各地教堂和帐篷布道会。
他们引起了电视布道家帕特·罗伯逊的关注，并于1965年在罗伯逊的基督教广播网推出一档儿童节目。到1966年，巴克克尔开始主持基督教脱口秀《700俱乐部》。
巴克克尔于1972年离开基督教广播网，两年后创立了PTL卫星网络。《PTL俱乐部》——PTL意为“赞美主”——成为该网络的招牌节目。
在20世纪80年代的鼎盛时期，《PTL俱乐部》吸引了数百万观众，每年从信徒手中获得数百万美元收入。
这档节目类似基督教版的《今夜秀》，包含嘉宾访谈和基督教艺人表演环节。巴克克尔会发表积极向上的布道，而魅力十足、始终标志性地涂着厚重睫毛膏的塔米·费伊则会献唱。大部分节目都在他们位于北卡罗来纳州夏洛特市以南的大型园区录制。
这对夫妇声名远扬，时常因奢华的生活方式和塔米·费伊浓重的妆容被电视喜剧演员恶搞。
吉姆·巴克克尔卷入丑闻
1987年3月，巴克克尔承认与教会职员杰西卡·哈恩发生性关系，他们的帝国开始崩塌。巴克克尔被迫辞去自己一手创立的机构的职务，将运营权交给牧师兼广播员杰里·福尔韦尔。
塔米·费伊始终支持巴克克尔，时常哭花睫毛膏，即便许多人将他的倒台视为20世纪80年代贪婪与虚伪的典型象征。
情况愈发糟糕。
1988年，在对PTL财务状况的调查后，巴克克尔因邮件欺诈、电信欺诈和共谋罪被起诉。他被判有罪，被判处45年联邦监禁，后来刑期减至8年。
巴克克尔被判有罪后的新闻发布会上，塔米·费伊站在麦克风前演唱了赞美诗《我站在基督的磐石上》。
他们的婚姻走向破裂，塔米·费伊于1992年与巴克克尔离婚，距离他们的31周年结婚纪念日仅差数月，当时巴克克尔仍在狱中。她后来与建筑承包商罗伊·梅斯纳结婚，梅斯纳的项目包括遗产美国主题公园。梅斯纳于1995年因破产欺诈罪被判有罪，在狱中服刑约两年。
塔米·费伊于2007年因结肠癌去世。
巴克克尔于1994年获得假释出狱。他于1998年与第二任妻子洛里结婚。五年后，这对夫妇在PTL卫星网络上推出了《吉姆·巴克克尔秀》。
2021年6月，巴克克尔及其晨兴教堂制作公司就一项诉讼达成和解。该诉讼指控他 falsely声称健康补充剂银溶液可以治愈新冠肺炎。和解协议要求向在疫情初期付费或捐款购买该产品的人退还15.6万美元。
诉讼称，巴克克尔和一名嘉宾在2020年2月和3月的11期节目中做出了该治愈宣称。
巴克克尔与塔米·费伊育有两个孩子。他与第二任妻子于2002年收养了五个孩子。
Jim Bakker, televangelist who co-founded “The PTL Club” empire but fell into disgrace, dies at 86
October 6, 2026 / 1:05 AM EDT / CBS/AP
Branson, Mo. — Jim Bakker, who 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, has died. He was 86.
Bakker died Monday, his second wife, Lori Bakker, said in a statement. His cause of death was not immediately clear.
The pair lived near the Missouri entertainment town of Branson and filmed their TV show “The Jim Bakker Show” there since it launched in 2003. Bakker suffered a stroke in 2020.
“He was a pioneer of Christian television, but to me, he was my husband, my best friend, and the man I was honored to walk beside through so many seasons of life and ministry,” Lori Bakker said in a statement. “Jim loved people deeply. He loved this ministry, and he loved the friends and partners who stood with him throughout the years. Even in his final days, his heart was still for the work of God and for the Gospel to continue reaching the world.”
Lori and Jim Bakker in October 2011 Albert L. Ortega / Getty Images
But it was another evangelical program that made Jim and his first wife, Tammy Faye Bakker, cultural icons – so much so that they were often skewered in the 1980s and 1990s by late-night comedians and parodied on “Saturday Night Live.” A theatrical movie on their lives, “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” was released in September 2021.
Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker in August 1987 Will & Deni McIntyre / Getty Images
At its peak in the mid-1980s, the Bakkers’ ministry included not only the TV show, which drew up to 13 million nightly viewers, but also the Christian-based Heritage USA theme park and hotel in Fort Mill, South Carolina.
Bakker was born in Muskegon, Michigan, and attended North Central Bible College in Minneapolis, where he met Tammy Faye. They married in 1961 and dropped out of college to start their own traveling ministry — he preached, she sang and played the accordion as they crossed the country visiting churches and tent revivals.
They caught the attention of televangelist Pat Robertson, and in 1965 launched a children’s show on Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network. By 1966, he was hosting “The 700 Club,” a Christian talk show.
Bakker left CBN in 1972 and two years later formed the PTL Satellite Network. “The PTL Club” — PTL stands for “Praise the Lord” — became its signature show.
In its heyday in the 1980s, “The PTL Club” was drawing millions of viewers – and bringing in millions of dollars annually from followers.
Sort of a Christian version of “The Tonight Show,” it featured chats with guests and Christian entertainers. Bakker offered upbeat sermons and Tammy Faye – charismatic and always wearing her trademark heavy mascara – sang. Most episodes were taped at their sprawling complex just south of Charlotte, North Carolina.
The couple was so famous that they were often parodied by TV comedians for their lavish lifestyle and Tammy Faye’s abundant makeup.
Jim Bakker gets caught up in scandals
In March 1987, their empire began to crack when Bakker admitted to a sexual encounter with church clerk Jessica Hahn. Bakker was forced to resign from his own empire, turning over operations to pastor and broadcaster Jerry Falwell.
Tammy Faye stuck by Bakker, often with tears running down her mascara, even as many saw his downfall as a fitting symbol of the greed and hypocrisy of the 1980s.
Things only got worse.
In 1988, Bakker was indicted for mail fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy after an investigation of PTL’s finances. He was convicted and sentenced to 45 years in federal prison, though the sentence was later reduced to eight years.
At a news conference after Bakker was found guilty, Tammy Faye stood in front of the microphones and sang the hymn, “On Christ the Solid Rock I Stand.”
Their marriage crumbled and Tammy Faye divorced Bakker in 1992, just short of their 31st anniversary, while he was still in prison. She later married Roe Messner, a building contractor whose projects included the Heritage USA theme park. Messner was convicted of bankruptcy fraud in 1995 and spent about two years in prison.
Tammy Faye died of colon cancer in 2007.
Bakker was released on parole in 1994. He married his second wife, Lori, in 1998. The couple launched “The Jim Bakker Show” on the PTL Satellite Network five years later.
In June 2021, Bakker and his Morningside Church Productions Inc. settled a lawsuit accusing him of falsely claiming the health supplement Silver Solution could cure COVID-19. The settlement called for $156,000 in refunds to people who paid money or gave contributions to obtain the product in the early days of the pandemic.
The lawsuit said Bakker and a guest made the cure claim during 11 episodes in February and March of 2020.
Bakker and Tammy Faye had two children. He and his second wife adopted five children in 2002.
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