Husband of Jessica Hahn, Secretary in Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker Scandal, Files for Divorce

The Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker scandal’s secretary Jessica Hahn’s husband has announced that they are divorcing one another.

Lloyd is requesting that their respective legal bills be split equally and that their right to spousal support from one another be waived. Despite getting married in 2009, according to Lloyd, he and Hahn have been estranged since 2018.

The former Playboy model startled the world in 1987 when she claimed that she had been raped by Jim in 1980 when she was 21 years old, despite the fact that the former pair had kept their relationship reasonably discreet. Later on, he would admit to having once had sex with her, but he would insist that it had been consensual.

After the Charlotte Observer started looking into Jim and Tammy Faye’s finances, Hahn came forward. The two were apparently well-known at the time for their multimillion dollar PTL conglomerate of Christian-based enterprises. The South Carolina-based company has a theme park, a water park, and a housing development in addition to a Christian television network.

 Tammy Faye Bakker, Jim J. Bullock

Among the newspaper’s findings was that Jim issued a payment to Jessica of $279,000, who at the time was a church secretary. Bakker was later found guilty of 24 counts of fraud and sentenced to 45 years in prison. He was paroled after about five years behind bars.

Speaking about her experience after the scandal, she told the Charlotte Observer in a 2020 interview: “I go out and sometimes people, rarely, but once they hear my name, they’re like, ‘Oh.’ I get embarrassed. I never used to get embarrassed. I guess because the reality of it hit me. It’s ridiculous.”