Jim Bakker's $1,000 Lifetime Hotel Promise, Sold 66,683 Times
In the 1980s, a TV ministry sold a deal that sounded like a dream: give $1,000 once, and stay free at its Grand Hotel for four days and three nights, every year, for the rest of your life. By the end of the drive you'll know what the courts found: how many of those partnerships were sold against the limit that was promised, why the hotel couldn't fit them even on paper, where the money went instead, how Jim Bakker's conviction stood while his first sentence didn't, and what the buyers actually got back.
Jim Bakker died on October 5, 2026, at 86, WBTV reported, citing his family. This episode…
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