And then he said something mysterious, maybe even beautiful. I was in a hotel bed, enrobed in terry cloth, my teeth brushed, my hand aloft holding the remote. According to Pete Evans, an investigator from the religious watchdog group the Trinity Foundation, the prosperity gospel posits that if you give x amount of dollars, youre going to get that multiplied and given back to you [by God].. Both men have produced nothing, except, for their followers, fervent certainty that they can produce anything. He blurred The kicker was his conviction on 10 counts of transporting girls as young as 8 across state lines for the obvious, evil reason. I was surprised when the address for the church I had found online took me to a storefront in an industrial park. In this crowd, I was very white, very young, and very male. As a result, some televangelists have resorted to wacky tactics to get your money. With his grinning California charm, charismatic preaching methods, and Mother Goosian alliterative name, Popoff was the man to see in the '80s for revival services and quick Ernest Angley has been having a rough go of things lately. Tilton's message has been clear from the start: Poverty is the result of sin, and also please send money. You could see, there was no fakery to it. And if they don't feel better? The couple's 7,300-square-foot house, purchased for $4.5 million in 2007, sits in a gated community in Bradbury, California, and is owned by his church. I fed my curiosity in the meantime with the broad outline of Popoff's story. And then came something I didn't expect: love from the crowd, people rubbing me on my back after I sat down, touching me, giving me high fives, saying, Praise the Lord! It felt so good that even if my pinkie had been causing excruciating pain, or even if I'd had a far worse condition, something that in my heart I'd known was incurable, I'm sure that, for the moment, I would not have noticed. She had first responded to my pestering a few months earlier, but I never expected that the Popoffs would consent to an interview. When I got home, I began devouring episodes of the new Popoff show. He wants it that way, so there is no question about where the money goes. Berlin wasn't divided into east and west until 1949, three years after Popoff was born. [16] When skeptics asked him to prove that the money he had collected had in fact been spent on Bibles and balloons, Popoff staged a burglary at his own headquarters. The story goes like this. He aint broke and neither should you be, he exclaimed in his DVD Strike 1, Strike 2, Strike 3: Satans Out!. I put it in his bed, I put it on his pillow, and my son joined the church and he got saved and he's still in churchand then I got $3,800 and new furniture., Such blessings! People reached out to touch him, their hands seeming to plead, Help me. He picked people out and asked what was wrong. Things get creepier the more you read about the Alamos. Peter George Popoff (born July 2, 1946) is a German-born American televangelist and debunked clairvoyant and faith healer. He was exposed in 1986 for using a concealed earpiece to receive radio messages from his wife, who gave him the names, addresses, and ailments of audience members during Popoff-led religious services. He went bankrupt, he lost everything he had, he had to start over. His wife stuck with him, even after he was sued for allegedly going all "bad touch" on employees during mandated "quiet time.". They cant be faulted for the misdeeds of Duplantis, but its important that we all exercise a little caution when choosing our religious conduit. He was made of stuff too stern for something as trifling as a complete lack of moral fiber to knock him out of the box. He lives in a rather large estate on the shores of Eagle Mountain lake just north of Fort Worth, and somehow his 60+ acre estate of improved lakefront property with a private runway and fully [41] Respondents were promised miraculous protection from disease and disability, along with financial prosperity (which might include "divine money transfers directly into your account"), if they slept with the water for one night before drinking it, then prayed over the empty bottle and sent it back to Popoffwith a donation. Hes also a chief perpetrator when it comes to unscrupulous religious practices. [7][8][9], Popoff's father preached at revival meetings throughout the United States. Regular meth-fueled hookups with a male prostitute named Mike Jones. A month later, they've outgrown the darned things, and you have to ask your parishioners for $54 million to buy new ones. scare me more than the harbingers of hell in Free Speech Alley. Peter Popoff Popped. As reported by UPI, when Jim Bakker bounced out of PTL in 1987, he became concerned that his ministry was about to be the subject of a hostile takeover by Jimmy Swaggart, who initiated the investigation into the Bakker clan. But he was also an enormous fraud who was ruined in scandal. In his extracurricular life, Popoff came to see himself, in those Cold War years, as a kind of Christian 007, sneaking Bibles into Communist lands. If you've ever been at a cheap hotel, flipping through channels in the middle of the night, you've probably seen Marcus Lamb's work. The same thing happened to him, but with a private jet instead of new kicks. Popoff talked about everything, without a trace of defensiveness. Yeah, praying for people would be a bummer. Let's take a look and find out. There I saw an old white man preaching to an audience of elderly black people. What's the deal? He touches them and they feel better. Early frequenters of YouTube know him as The Farting Preacher. Shabalalalalalalala! he cried. Their ministry fell pretty clearly under the umbrella of "that's absolutely a cult" when it was discovered that they had followers working in a sweatshop, producing high-end denim jackets that were sold for hundreds of dollars. "[45] Ole Anthony of the Trinity Foundation, founded in 1987 to research the claims of televangelists, said, "Most of these guys are fooled by their own theology"referring to other televangelists such as Joel Osteen and T. D. Jakesbut in the case of Popoff, "he's fundamentally evil, because he knows he's a con man. With his grinning California charm, charismatic preaching methods, and Mother Goosian alliterative name, Popoff was the man to see in the '80s for revival services and quick-as-a-bunny faith healing. But I'd noticed his hesitation, and he could tell that I'd noticed, so he explained. Prayer Request Form Peter Popoff Ministries Prayer Request Form I want to Pray with you! [18], At the height of his popularity in the 1980s, Popoff would accurately announce home addresses and specific illnesses of audience members during his "healing sermons", a feat that he implied was due to divine revelation and "God-given ability". He thought for a moment, then replied that, yes, Popoff was the real deal. "[27] Jason's video footage was also aired on the Nova episode "Secrets of the Psychics" in 1991. Yeah, they deliver it right here, he said. Popoff was homeschooled after the eighth grade, so he could travel and preach with his father. Tilton's rebuttal? His shining quote: "Consent is puberty." The flamboyant, seemingly pious preachers who solicited cash for enormous, if dubious, ministries were household names. Apparently, plants in the audience would chat people up or get them to jot down details, then feed their information to Liz, who passed it on to her husband through an earpiece. He came to me when I least expected. Hallelujah! Peter Popoff says hes a healer and a prophet of God. Right alongside our Puritan work ethic and entrepreneurial drive runs our instinctive love for the lottery. His message hasn't changed, The Washington Post noted in 1998, but the audience he is aiming for has.. If youre unfamiliar with Duplantis, heres a quick rundown: Hes charismatic, an excellent orator and spouts Bible quotes like nobodys business. I didn't know how it was all funded through a tax-exempt ministry that reaches its flock via live events and a blizzard of mailings, expertly crafted to separate poor people from their money. Ah, but here in America, time absolves all that. Cathy Roe, a woman impoverished by Popoff, told Inside Edition she felt she was brainwashed by watching him on television. CLEVELAND, October 29, 2014 - Parker Hannifin Corporation (NYSE:PH), the global leader in motion and control technologies, today announced that Peter Popoff, Vice President and President - Filtration Group, age 62, will retire effective February 1, 2015, after 36 years of dedicated service to Parker. [42] Popoff also started referring to himself as a prophet. He went on to say that "on the days it didn't show, you still had to pay for the auditorium, so you needed to help the Holy Spirit along. He had a lot of feelings. [29], A February 2007 Inside Edition segment reported that Popoff's new infomercials depict him "healing the sick" in a manner identical to his methods prior to James Randi's expos. On paper, Popoff's new outfit hadn't technically been a churchthat's because it never had a physical house of worshipbut instead functioned as a religious non-profit. The $1.3 million in church funds that an IRS investigation found redirected to the Bakkers' personal accounts couldn't take Jim down, but CNN reports the alleged hush money payment of $279,000 to cover up the rape of his secretary certainly pushed the "pause" button on his success story. He was hugging people, punching the air with them. The Tonight Show expos made national news, and in 1987 the Peter Popoff Evangelistic Association filed for bankruptcy. Peter Popoff Email Helicopter Pilot @ US Army View Peter's Email (It's Free) 5 free lookups per month. If you can't, you're in trouble", almost verbatim. Staring at the TV, I was transfixed. These programs included offers of free "Miracle Manna" that allegedly provided health and financial miracles. Many would obey, tossing away bottles of digitalis, nitroglycerine, and other important maintenance medications. According to publicly available IRS forms, by 2003, Popoff 's new organization was netting over $9 million a year and Popoff was paying himself and his wife a combined salary of more than half a million dollars a year; their son, daughter, and son-in-law were each netting over a hundred grand. In advance., The day after I talked with Skelton, he called me and asked if I could include one last sentiment, and I said I would. Peter Popoff Biography The birth name of this Con man and televangelist is Peter Popoff. And then, on my way out, I got even closer to the truth. He's the guy that eschewed material wealth and said it waseasier to thread a needle with a whole camel than it was for a rich dude to get into heaven.) You know, its OK to make money. Small screen success led to high-minded ambitions, and the Bakkers soon began construction on Heritage USA, a Christian theme park with water slides, a 500-room hotel, and the staple of all amusement parks, tax exemption. "His scams are endless. Squinting through a window, past venetian blinds, I glimpsed a carpeted foyer, and beyond that, an empty room. * Prefix First Middle Last And he has risen again to make millions leading the People United for A photograph in his 1980 memoir, Behind Curtains of Darkness a New Fire Is Blazing, shows Popoff in front of a boat, hair flowing like a Bee Gee's, two Bibles fanned in his left hand. Then He Made the Most Liberating Music of His Career. Peter Popoff was born in West Berlin, Germany in July 1946. So one day I took the Garden State Parkway to have a look at Unit Pack, a family-run firm that specializes in packaging those little samples of shampoo, pharmaceuticals, and the like. Yeah, he died in jail. When partners wouldn't donate so much money, they would cut back on staff, Sanchez said. [14], Researcher and bioethics expert Fred M. Frohock cited Popoff as "one of many egregious instances of fake healing. She'd sold all her belongings. Though he didn't focus on TV, he lived the good life as a minister and Christian comedian, traveling the world spreading his message that the devil is coming for you and you'd better be ready to fight him. Before long, however, he'd rebranded his ministry as People United for Christ, and he'd reconsidered his audiencethis time focusing on African-Americans. Program Overview", "White Preachers Born Again on Black Network; TV Evangelists Seek to Resurrect Ministries", "Miracle Water: Ripoff or For Real Part II", "Prophet or profit? He touched it, and then he let loose a loud stream of glossolalia, speaking in tongues, as Pentecostals do. He went bankrupt the next year, but made a comeback in the late 1990s. In fact, maybe he realized that today, more than ever, we are primed for what he has to sell. Speaking to the New York Times after being fired from the company, Koper stated that her "job as finance director was to find ways to label extravagant personal spending as ministry expenses.". This was vintage stuffa sort of resurrection, if you will. I'm the one who pours the blessed water into the drums, said the man with the lip rings. He said he prayed so hard over the letters that the ink leaked into his bloodstream, and by the way that's why he needed plastic surgery, paid for by aforementioned donations. This is his first article for GQ. I met the very friendly father and two sons who owned the place, and they confirmed for me that they do business with Popoff, but they didn't say much more. I at least admire their conviction, but Duplantis is less genuine than the thanks received by your neighbor who gives out healthy candy alternatives on Halloween night. Angley haspreviously been accused of operating a cult where followers are taught that enough prayer can heal HIV and "childless men are encouraged to have vasectomies and Angley who preaches vehemently against the 'sin' of homosexuality is himself a gay man who personally examines the genitals of the male parishioners before and after their surgeries.". Sorry, that was a typo. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". Like, 1,500 people followed him. "[1] Skelton claimed that he had seen miracles, for instance a believer whose short leg grow six inches to match the length of his normal leg. Sometimes, the best we can do is point out inconsistencies. He lost. To avoid Swaggart's potential power grab, he handed Jerry Falwell Sr. the keys to the kingdom. [36], In 2008, the UK broadcasting regulator Ofcom issued strong warnings to broadcasters for transmitting Popoff's material, which the regulator felt promoted his products "in such a way as to target potential susceptible and vulnerable viewers". But when I asked about the earpiece, Popoff was happy to talk. One time they came with 130 gallon-size jugs.. They make him rich, pray with the trinkets, and maybe get rich, too. The other, somebody higher up, told me that the distribution of the miracle spring water was subcontracted to a packaging plant in Cedar Grove, New Jersey. The personification of this phenomenon might well be Peter Popoff. Appliances had been delivered. He'd been operating his businesses as tax-free nonprofits, which the IRS called bull on pretty hard. He gets rich, you get hope. C CarpeDeezNutz Member Feb 14, 2016 #14 Oversoul said: He got caught once in the past by "[3] "Miracle Spring Water" promotions were still running on TV channels in the United States and Canada in 2022. He once sued Hustler for $45 million because they ran a parody piece making fun of him, and took the case all the way to the supreme court. Animals and humans drinking from the spring were purportedly spared radiation sickness. Peter Popoff is the all-American faith healer because he inhabits both hemispheres of our national brain, the Puritan and the magician. I had no idea that peddling miracles was, these days, as lucrative as ever. Critics later documented that the recipients of these dramatic "cures" were fully ambulatory people who had been seated in wheelchairs by Popoff's assistants prior to broadcasts. [13], Popoff's methods were definitively exposed in 1986 by the magician and skeptic James Randi and his associate Steve Shaw, an illusionist known professionally as Banachek, with technical assistance from the crime scene analyst and electronics expert Alexander Jason. I held up my broken finger. Susan and Tony are broadcasting their gospel and living in a 14,000-square-foot mansion in Arkansas on a compound staffed by their followers, who are paid $5 a week and get food when they're good. [1][13][21][22][23], Randi also planted accomplices in Popoff's audiences, including a man dressed as a woman whom Popoff "cured" of uterine cancer at a meeting in Detroit in 1984. Truly, we are all human, and even the best among us must strive to be better. It never ends.Dave opens even more Peter Popoff religious scam mail.#PeterPopoff #MiracleWater #SCAM And if a fellow is clever enough, he can remake his kingdom and amass quite a fortune. It turns out that some news just gets spread faster when you're being blackmailed for $7.5 million. As previously mentioned, Popoff has something of a checkered past. His wife eyed me warily. Peter filed for bankruptcy in 1987. His old jet (not to be confused with his other two old jets) was wearing a little thin at the seams, and he just knew his followers would help him, a humble servant of Jesus. He touched it and le t loose a loud stream of glossolalia, speaking in tongues, as Pentecostals do. And tubs and tubs of gold and stones came in. Cut to the mid-'70s. Two rings through his lower lip framed his broad smile. F. Scott Fitzgerald famously noted that "there are no second acts in American lives." Some people will call it dumb luck. He had an answer for everything, or almost everything. This didn't look like a house of worship; it looked like a mailing address. In theory, it's a beautiful way to spread a message of faith to the masses. The night that I was healed and hugged by Peter Popoff, I saw no sign that he was using an earpiece. [47] In 2003, his ministry received over $9.6 million, and in 2005, over $23 million. I've been working for 50 years, Popoff told me. While he is more or less the nicest guy in the world, he also drives a Bentley and lives in a house worth more than 5 million bucks. Prestigious debunker James Randi exposed the trick on national television, and Popoff was never heard from again. Televangelist Jesse Duplantis and his ministry based in Destrehan, La. For an hour and a half, he answered my questionsabout miracle spring water, James Randi, bankruptcy, his tennis game, the Holy Spirit. No, for real, why doesn't God want televangelists flying business class? From award-winning writing and photography to binge-ready videos to electric live events, GQ meets millions of modern men where they live, creating the moments that create conversations. Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson has given permission for his private jet to be used in the hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines' flight MH370, according to the New Zealand Herald. A deluge of solicitation letters and token enclosures would follow, requesting more donations in exchange for miracles. I can see God leading people into new homes, new automobiles! God gives supernatural debt cancellation! And I'd like to send you the miracle spring water., The show cut to video of Popoff working a room of sick, elderly African-Americans. For a real thriller, look no further than the flagrant manipulation of religion occurring in our own state. View the profiles of people named Peter Popoff. Every kind of sickness. And Lord, was he rich! [11], Popoff married his wife Elizabeth in August 1971[12] and the couple settled in Upland, California. If God created man and man created the small two-way radios that Popoff and an assistant used to have secretly communicate while Popoff was performing, then hallelujah. He was poised for a comeback in 2009 when HBO produced a documentary on his return to the righteous path, but wouldn't you know it, more allegationsof the abusive variety popped up. They are simply points of contactthey help people focus their prayer. God decides what prayers to answer. His former employee says hes something quite different. With a promise to heal the sick, Popoff convened huge crowds, where he relied on a shtick that involved calling out the name and ailment of someone in the audience he had never met, as if God had just vouchsafed him the information. Ted Haggard was the Chiclet-toothed face of evangelism for three years as the president of the National Association of Evangelicals. In each case, I was shocked that they'd agreed to be interviewed, until I realized, as I sat with them, that they didn't think they had anything to hide. Ad Choices. "[46], Popoff was collecting almost $4 million per year in the late 1980s, according to Randi. You know where that pain went? Popoff cried after one healing. All rights reserved. Wayfair Huge Deal-A-Thon - Up to 60% off everything! I only grew more curious. The caption reads: Peter prepares to drop Bibles into the Black Sea off Istanbul, Turkey. Everyone had a story: Addictions had disappeared. Unfortunately for Swaggart, hell hath no fury like a minor television celebrity scorned, and Gorman had Swaggart followed and photographed during a rendezvous with a local prostitute. They would take the stones out, take the gold to be resold. Anything that wasn't valuable was shredded. He may have once been branded a charlatan, but Popoff could probably see that we never stopped making space in our hearts for a guy like hima guy who knows what we want to believe. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. The resulting backlash was split. Unfortunately for the reverend, that last part broughteverything tumbling down. The government started taking action in the early '90s, and Tony found himself on the wrong side of the law. Televangelist makes comeback", "Televangelist gives back woman's cash: Nanaimo resident was concerned about Peter Popoff's fundraising methods", "Two very different charlatans both selling the divine right to get rich quick", "Controversial Televangelist Peter Popoff Hawks 'Miracle Water', "430 Long Canyon Road, Bradbury, CA 91010", "How true to life are the psychics and psychologists in Red Lights? and somehow his 60+ acre estate of improved lakefront property with a private runway and fully functional airport is only valued at $125k, so the taxes are minimal on the land and zilch on the mansion. They prey on the weak, the elderly, those in pain or close to being homeless. I took a bathroom break in Popoff's private lavatory, right off his office. Among his other supposed accomplishments: his doctorate in philosophy, his two bachelor's degrees, and the somewhere-between-two-and-five wounds he accumulated in Vietnam. He worked the aisles for two hours that night, back and forth, until finally he was in my section. There's plenty of behavior to throw stones at here, but the Bible takes a pretty firm stance on that. The conference room was packed with a thousand people, maybe two thousand. Bizarrely unethical of them. He kept going, and now does infomercials selling his patented Miracle Manna, a guaranteed cure for, according to Popoff, basically everything. A Christian Post piece from late 2019 outlined some of his current financial struggles: his Boeing 747 has been on blocks for two years, since the six-figure repairs that it needs are currently out of Angley's reach, financially speaking. Taking the high ground (anything is high ground once you get low enough), Lamb repented, asked his congregation for forgiveness, and naturally went on Doctor Phil. Popoff, he said, sends his own pre-blessed water, in a 16-ounce bottle, to add to all the jugs of Poland Spring. Like Popoff, they used the offer of a religious trinket (a free prayer cloth) to compile an address list. I've seen people with a short leg that had, for a while, a six-inch buildup on one of their shoes, said Skelton, who's 80, ten years older than Popoff. And we in the audience were eager to believe in his powers. At a recent London gathering, GTS filmed Popoff "healing" a woman supposedly "wracked with pain", though Marshall and a colleague had previously seen herin no obvious distresshanding out pens and questionnaires to audience members. According to her, the network serves as a personal bank account for the Crouch family, who aren't above zany shenanigans like having their chauffeurs ordained to avoid having to pay taxes on their salaries. Some of the ladies had walkers or wheelchairs, some were healthy enough to dance in the aisles to the gospel music playing over loudspeakers. And since Hell (probably) doesn't exist, the only winner here is Popoff. His ministry became so popular that he attracted between 8,000 and 10,000 worshipers to his megachurch every week, and his broadcasts brought in scores of letters with personal requests for prayer and (naturally!) Then there was the time that he said the September 11th attacks happened because God was angry at America's acceptance of, among others, "the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle." But one by one, they fell to disgrace: Jim Bakker paid off a woman who'd accused him of rape; Jimmy Swaggart was caught with a prostitute at a roadside motel. Almost immediately the letters began to come. Peter Popoff was one of the bolder frauds in televangelist history. I knew there had been scams. Got a question? Every year, you take the kids shopping for new shoes. 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