Jimmy Swaggart, the televangelist whose multimillion-dollar ministry was crippled by his encounters with prostitutes, has died. He was 90.

Jimmy Swaggart is dead. The Pentecostal Televangelist who rose to power throughout the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s to become a fixture of American television before a string of scandals capsized his ...

The Pentecostal preacher and pioneer of televangelism had been in critical condition at a Louisiana hospital after suffering ...

The service for the American Pentecostal preacher and gospel music artist will take place at a church in Baton Rouge. He died ...

Jimmy Swaggart tripped up on his progress to Heaven America’s most popular hellfire preacher of the 1980s died on July 1st, aged 90 Photograph: AP Jul 10th 2025 | 6 min read ...

Jimmy Swaggart, the televangelist whose multimillion-dollar ministry was crippled by his encounters with prostitutes, has died. He was 90. His death was announced Tuesday. The Louisiana native was ...

Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart speaks at the funeral service for his cousin, rock and roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis, in Ferriday, La., Saturday, Nov. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)© AP ...

Jimmy Swaggart, longtime televangelist and preacher, died on Tuesday at the age of 90 after suffering from cardiac arrest. Swaggart’s official Facebook page shared the news of his death on Tuesday.

Newsweek Magazine dubbed Swaggart as the "King of Honky Tonk Heaven" in 1982. This moniker was likely a tongue-in-cheek reference to his rise to prominence as a televangelist in the 1980s, a ...

Jimmy Swaggart developed a large following with his televised sermons in the 1980s. He made national headlines in 1988 when he was photographed outside a New Orleans-area hotel with a sex worker.

Radio and TV The Jimmy Swaggart Ministries also launched a radio program, "The Campmeeting Hour" on January 1, 1969, in Atlanta, Georgia. The program grew to 700 radio stations in the U.S.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, whose multimillion-dollar ministry and huge audience dwindled following his prostitution scandals, has died. He was 90.