Jim Bakker, the American televangelist whose career collapsed over a sex scandal and fraud conviction, has died at the age of 86, his wife announced. The televangelist rose to national fame alongside Tammy Faye before a sex scandal and fraud conviction brought down his evangelical empire. Key points and original sources are listed below.

• Jim Bakker, the American televangelist whose career collapsed over a sex scandal and fraud conviction, has died at the age of 86, his wife announced. : https://punchng.com/disgraced-us-televangelist-jim-bakker-dies-at-86/S1

• The televangelist rose to national fame alongside Tammy Faye before a sex scandal and fraud conviction brought down his evangelical empire.S2

• Jim Bakker, the televangelist who rose to fame with the PTL network in the 1970s, but was later convicted of fraud and conspiracy, has died at the age of 86.S3

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• "His voice, his vision and his legacy will never be forgotten," his wife, Lori Bakker, writes thewrap.com/">TheWrap.S5

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• With his wife, Tammy Faye, he presided over the multimillion-dollar PTL empire before his fall in the 1980s after sex and fraud scandals.S8