Tammy Faye Bakker - Фильмы

Тамара Фэй "Тэмми" Messner (родилась LaValley; March 7, 1942 – July 20, 2007), formerly Тэмми Фэй Баккер, was an American Christian singer, евангелист, предприниматель, author, talk show host, and television personality. She initially gained notice for her work with The PTL Club, a televangelist program she co-founded with her husband Джим Баккер in 1974. Prior to founding The PTL Club, they had hosted their own puppet show series for local programming in Minnesota in the early 1970s, and Messner also had a career as a recording artist. In 1978, she and Bakker built Heritage USA, a Christian theme park. Месснер would гарнер significant publicity when Джим Баккер was indicted, convicted, and имтюрьмаред on numerous counts of fraud and conspiracy in 1989, resulting in the dissolution of The PTL Club. After divorcing Баккер in 1992, she remarried to Роу Месснер. She was diagnosed with colon cancer in 1996, of which she suffered intermittently for over a decade before dying of the disease in 2007. Over the course of her career, Месснер was noted for her eccentric and гламурная персона, as well as for her moral views that diverged from those of many mainstream Evangelists, particularly her acceptance of the LGBT community and reaching out to HIV/AIDS patients at the height of the AIDS epidemic.