The Rev. Jimmy Swaggart, America's longest-serving TV evangelist and founder of Jimmy Swaggart Ministries, died at age 90 following an extended hospital stay, his family says.

Infamous televangalist and gospel music artist Jimmy Swaggart has passed away at age 90, just weeks after suffering from a heart attack at his home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana ...

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 ...

Famed televangelist Jimmy Swaggart died in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on Tuesday, July 1, his family and publicist announced. He was 90. The Pentecostal preacher and pioneer of televangelism had been ...

Swaggart, 90, from Ferriday, is the founder of Jimmy Swaggart Ministries. At his peak in the mid-1980s, Swaggart was the country’s top-rated TV preacher, broadcast to two million households.

Swaggart pursued full-time ministry in 1955 and in 1969 launched “The Campmeeting Hour,” broadcasting on more than 700 radio stations around the country. Four years later, “The Jimmy ...

Jimmy Swaggart, who was one of America's most influential televangelists in the 1980s before an affair with a prostitute brought his career crashing down, has died at the age of 90.

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. Gerald Herbert / AP ...

Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart has died at the age of 90, following a heart attack last month. The Pentecostal preacher had an audience of millions before a sex scandal in the late 1980s.

Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart has died at the age of 90, according to a statement on his social media. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart has died at the age of 90, less than a month after it was revealed that he had suffered cardiac arrest at his longtime home in Baton Rouge, LA. The Pentecostal ...