INSIDERS: Religious TV kingpin JIM BAKKER faces THE END as pals fear dementia sets in as he believes dead wife Tammy Faye Bakker is STILL ALIVE.
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JIM BAKKER’s health is failing – and friends fear the man who was once the most powerful TV evangelist in America is suffering from the onset of Alzheimer’s disease.
Insiders say the 73-year-old former Assemblies of God minister has dropped 40 pounds, spends much of his time staring into space, and keeps asking for his now-deceased ex-wife, Tammy Faye.
In the 1980s, Bakker was caught up in a scandalous affair with church secretary Jessica Hahn and later spent nearly five years in prison after bilking millions from investors and church followers. Now remarried, he runs his Morningside ministry from Blue Eye, Mo., and appears on the daily “Jim Bakker Show.”