
Jim Bakker, Televangelist Who Went to Prison for Fraud, Dies at 86
He lost an empire, served federal time, and came back to television anyway.
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Film, television, music, celebrity, and the business of attention.

He lost an empire, served federal time, and came back to television anyway.

For four decades, two co-stars stuck to the same story. One finally changed it.

A video game argument, a late-night phone call, and a Los Angeles courtroom.

The role took seven auditions, and he kept it for more than a decade.

He played the single that started it all, then walked away before the screaming began.

Five weeks after her death in South Carolina, police and federal drug agents are still working.

A 9:35 a.m. call in Santa Monica, and a family that asked for one thing.

She walked away from the charts in 1969 for a job nobody expected.

The Scioto County Sheriff's Office is investigating. No cause has been released.

She was still celebrating the win online the day before it all came apart.

Federal agents rarely join a case like this. Something pulled them to Greenville.

At 100 she strapped in, said six words, and jumped. She's already planning the next one.

She canceled an appearance last month. Now her father has confirmed the worst.

He beat CT, won twice, then vanished for a decade. Where he went surprised everyone.

She had a crown, a byline, and a date circled in August.

A movie star with houses all over the world just wrote his mayor one letter.

A 3,000-year-old poem just outsold new releases, and one professor is cashing in.

She spent 22 years reading the weather. Now she says the mic came with a catch.

He was posting cigar photos from a boat days before the fall.

He put his guitars and Cadillac up for sale. Then things got stranger.