Facing bankruptcy, he had set up a new church in a drafty warehouse nearby. It was about a mile from his old church, the First Assembly Church of God, an imposing yellow brick structure he resigned from as pastor after the Assemblies dismissed him for immoral acts in August 1986. To buy time, he disabled Swaggart's car by yanking out the tire valves. "He's here," Gorman's Swaggart-stalker reportedly said, moments after catching Gorman's nemesis on film with a reputed hooker. Then, last year, he urged one of the anonymous callers to contact a man in his church who had experience in such matters, and surveillance began. But a Gorman confidant says that in private he tells a saga of sex, sin and betrayal that goes like this:įor years, he had received anonymous calls about Swaggart's hidden life, but didn't believe them and took no action. Silenced by his lawyers while he pursues a $90 million defamation lawsuit against Swaggart, Gorman says little in public. I'm praying earnestly for the Swaggarts." "That's so far from my nature, it's not worth addressing. "I have been asked, 'Have I been involved in a vindictive way,' and the answer is, 'No,' " declared Gorman at a Monday night prayer meeting.
Then, the man with the camera, or someone with him, picked up a phone and alerted Marvin Gorman, 54, a flamboyant local preacher who a year earlier was defrocked by the Assemblies of God after Swaggart, 52, accused him of numerous acts of adultery.ĭid Gorman perhaps savor a sweet taste of vengeance when he took that call? A camera clicked, capturing Swaggart as he entered a room with a local woman reported to be a prostitute. 17, when he drove into a motel parking lot here. He admitted to paying a prostitute to perform a pornographic act, sources said, and to a lifelong fascination with pornography.
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By his own account, he lost that round, confessing on nationwide television last Sunday to unspecified "sins" and stepping down from his $150 million global TV ministry. Over the last "two or three years," the motel owner says, he watched one of the country's most powerful Pentecostal holy men - a man who once called himself an "old-fashioned, Holy-Ghost-filled, shouting, weeping, soul-winning, gospel-preaching preacher" - rent rooms here in the shadow of an ominous billboard with words warning, "Your Eternity Is at Stake."Ĭruising about in his Lincoln Town Car, Jimmy Swaggart was wrestling Satan and his obsession down on the bayou. Mike," the owner of four cut-rate motels along the strip. When checking in, he always "used the girls' names to register," never his own, according to "Mr.
At times, he wore hats, or sunglasses, or headbands, combing his blond hair down in front, "as if he were hiding," says a woman who has been registered for some time at Tony's Motel as Peggy Carrier. 24 - Victory over flesh does not come easily.Īccording to those who inhabit the demimonde along Airline Highway, a seedy strip of no-tell motels, their neon lights flashing adult movies, water beds and rooms by the hour, he pursued a secret life.
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