Peter filed for bankruptcy in 1987. When they see any media come by, it's a total lockdown on the facility, I had been told by Crystal Sanchez, age 33, who used to work at Popoff's headquarters. Peter Popoff is not the only Televangelist out there scamming people. As it happens, I'd broken my left pinkie a month earlier, so my hand was in a splint. The family had fled the Communists in 1950, eventually settling in Montclair, California. According to him, declaring bankruptcy was a mistake, the misguided suggestion of lawyers. [15], In 1985, Popoff began soliciting donations for a program to provide Bibles to citizens of the Soviet Union by attaching them to helium-filled balloons and floating them into the country. And Lord, was he rich! We were taping television! Prayer Request Form Peter Popoff Ministries Prayer Request Form I want to Pray with you! [citation needed], The 1992 Steve Martin dramedy Leap of Faith was inspired by Popoff's fraudulent ministry, and demonstrated a number of the techniques Popoff and other televangelist scammers use to create the illusion of divine intervention. Tilton's rebuttal? He went bankrupt, he lost everything he had, he had to start over. I knew he'd been born in 1946 in Germany, where his father, an ethnic Bulgarian, was an evangelical pastor. [14], Researcher and bioethics expert Fred M. Frohock cited Popoff as "one of many egregious instances of fake healing. He looked 30-ish and was wearing a Cowboys baseball cap and a greasy Unit Pack jumper. It's so hard to focus your anger sometimes! I didn't know it then, but I would soon get to ask Popoff in person. 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. What troubles you? Popoff asked. By the end of that year, we were back to where we were. He said that they never went off the air, never stopped doing live shows. Peter Popoff was back. I wiggled my pinkiewhich I had been able to do, anywayand he shouted, You are healed! and gave me a long, tight hug. Anyway, then he did it all again three years later and lost everything. The water, he claimed, was drawn from a spring near Chernobyl, Ukraine (site of the 1986 nuclear reactor disaster). I asked if Popoff was the real deal. If you're one of the people on this list, you're almost definitely going to say the devil made you do it. 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 Duplantis disagrees. The script includes Elizabeth Popoff's infamous line, "Hello Petey, can you hear me? A satanic preacher. And ever since then, I know, I personally know, that he is by the book and careful. He absolutely claimed all of that. Ted Haggard was the Chiclet-toothed face of evangelism for three years as the president of the National Association of Evangelicals. Truly, we are all human, and even the best among us must strive to be better. Once, Peter Popoff was a magical, mystical man of Goda giant among '80s televangelists. When times were good, they would ramp up. He's trying to get something, all rightmillions of something, in factbut not for nothing. Lamb's story is a familiar one. The same thing happened to him, but with a private jet instead of new kicks. [53], "Popoff" redirects here. As reported by the Los Angeles Times, more than 40 years later, their media empire has an estimated value of $750 million. On the screen, below Popoff, flashed the message Call now for your free miracle spring water., As if to answer the very question that occurred to mewhat does one do with miracle spring water?Popoff explained that good times were ahead, very good times. One became president, the other just became rich. As previously mentioned, Popoff has something of a checkered past. Peter Popoff is the all-American faith healer because he inhabits both hemispheres of our national brain, the Puritan and the magician. Hired men in suits passed out slips, telling us to jot down the ailments for which we needed intercession. So I asked friends in ten locales spread across the country to give $10 to Popoff, then sit back and wait for tickets. You serve a Jewish God! Skelton wanted to make it clear, before we talked about his friend Popoff, that faith healing was real. Peter Popoff was a seller of "miracle water" regular water that was purported to have mystical, miraculous properties. The home has a stunning view of the city, and is surrounded by lush gardens and a private pool. One time they came with 130 gallon-size jugs.. 82,499 views Jun 7, 2021 4.1K Dislike Share Save Dr. Todd Grande 1.1M subscribers This video The distinction between the two becomes difficult to make, however, when Duplantis has been caught using the church-funded jet for multiple vacations, including a 17-day trip to Hawaii that racked up a calculated $40,000 in fuel and storage fees. 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. They prey on the weak, the elderly, those in pain or close to being homeless. Staring at the TV, I was transfixed. For Peter Popoff, we do 35 gallon-size jugs at a time, once or twice a month. When I got home, I began devouring episodes of the new Popoff show. The president got a jet and we bought it.. Peter George Popoff (born July 2, 1946) is a German-born American televangelist and debunked clairvoyant and faith healer. Peter Popoff inhabits both hemispheres of our national brain, the Puritan and the magician. A sixty-eight-year old German American minister, Popoffs It's hard to escape the parallels with another baby boomer, a man born just two weeks before Popoff in the summer of '46, just before the United States entered its long, hopeful postwar expansion. [2][43], Popoff's operation had functioned as a for-profit company until 2006, when it merged with a small church in Farmers Branch, Texas called Word for the World, which operated out of a storefront. The accusations are numerous and diverse. [6] As a child, Popoff emigrated with his family to the United States, where he attended Chaffey College before transferring to the University of California, Santa Barbara, from which he graduated in 1970. The flamboyant, seemingly pious preachers who solicited cash for enormous, if dubious, ministries were household names. 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!) Televangelism. I took your holy water and put it in my son's shoes, she said. Three years later, revenues for Popoff's ministry were just over $35 million. In this crowd, I was very white, very young, and very male. Randi's tape of the ruse made its way to The Tonight Show, where Johnny Carsonwho harbored great disdain for charlatansexposed Popoff 's technique. I fed my curiosity in the meantime with the broad outline of Popoff's story. He worked the aisles for two hours that night, back and forth, until finally he was in my section. Fans of Robert Tilton know him as the host of Success-N-Life. When I inquired about the college scholarships and Ukrainian orphanages that, according to their mailings, the ministry funded, he said he'd get back to me with the addresses of the orphanages (he never did) and the details about how much the scholarships were worth (ditto). Shabalalalalalalala! he cried. And in modern Christianity, this yearning for the jackpot has given rise to what's known as the prosperity gospelthe magical thinking that if we give a few bucks, close our eyes, and pray real hard, riches and blessings will be ours. He had an answer for everything, or almost everything. 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. On her second day on the job, opening envelopes, she counted about $30,000 in donationsin a room filled with about 20 other women doing the same job. And that's the gospel truth.. As a parsonage, it is tax-free. [42] Popoff also started referring to himself as a prophet. When Peter Popoff finally emerged, he gave a short sermon, but his heart wasn't in it. Victims were interviewed, including a married couple who charged that Popoff had taken "thousands of dollars" from them. One of the friends I'd cajoled into donating got a text message inviting her to an event in Washington, D.C. That's how I found myself, two days later, hustling into the Marriott Wardman Park for a 7 p.m. show. Tilton's message has been clear from the start: Poverty is the result of sin, and also please send money. I had expected to be rebuffed. So that's fun. He's an archduke, and his armies march on Luxembourg this very night. If news vans come by, the receptionist or security guy, whoever sees it first, she notified all the top people, letting them know the building is on lockdown.. 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. A loving wife. To revisit this article, visit My Profile, thenView saved stories. GQ may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. Was it possible, I wondered, that Popoff believes in his own powers, just a little? [28], Octogenarian Larry Skelton, a former organist of Popoff from 1965 to 1990, and for Peter's father before that said, "When you're praying for the sick, it's through the Holy Spirit, and there's some times that it works freely, and then there are other times when the Spirit's just not there." "[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. The earpiece, I realized, was always an unnecessary gimmick. In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary An Honest Liar, we find out how magician-turned-debunker of psychics James "The Amazing" Randi worked with an undercover surveillance expert to expose how popular televangelist and "faith healer" Peter Popoff was deceiving his audience into believing he was conversing with 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 Popoff was homeschooled after the eighth grade, so he could travel and preach with his father. Every kind of sickness. Birth Name: Peter Popoff Occupation: Religious Leader Born In: Germany Birthdate: July 2, 1946 Age: 76 years old (as of 2022) Ethnicity: Unknown Nationality: American Sexuality: N/A Peter Popoff was born on the 2nd of July, 1946. You know, its OK to make money. 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. I had no idea that peddling miracles was, these days, as lucrative as ever. AMC is broadcasting a Peter Popoff "service" (scam session) as I type. But I'd noticed his hesitation, and he could tell that I'd noticed, so he explained. Beginning in the mid-2000s, Popoff bought TV time to promote "Miracle Spring Water" on late-night infomercials, and referred to himself as a prophet. [3] " We've done so many stories about him, but it never does any good," said Ole Anthony, founder of Trinity Foundation, which has investigated Popoff and other faith healers since 1987. You're in that auditorium, and you had to pay for that sucker. more. 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." Popoff, he said, sends his own pre-blessed water, in a 16-ounce bottle, to add to all the jugs of Poland Spring. "[27] Jason's video footage was also aired on the Nova episode "Secrets of the Psychics" in 1991. [49] He drives a Porsche and a Mercedes-Benz. 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. Golding Jun 25, 2019 Discussion EtcetEra Forum Golding Member Oct 25, 2017 1,991 Jun 25, 2019 #1 What is going on here? The Tonight Show expos made national news, and in 1987 the Peter Popoff Evangelistic Association filed for bankruptcy. To avoid Swaggart's potential power grab, he handed Jerry Falwell Sr. the keys to the kingdom. To fans of Mike Warnke, it's Sunday morning. There's nothing magical about them, he said about the spring water, the baruch wallet, and all the stuff I'd gotten in the mail. The conference room was packed with a thousand people, maybe two thousand. 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. Jason produced video segments interspersing the intercepted radio transmissions with Popoff's "miraculous" pronouncements. Yeah, he died in jail. After the bankruptcy, Popoff, like some of his fellow Pentecostal preachers, receded somewhat from view. [1], In 1998, The Washington Post reported that Popoff was making a comeback, seeking to jump-start his ministry by repackaging himself for an African American audience, buying time on the Black Entertainment Television network. Let's take a look and find out. 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. Berlin wasn't divided into east and west until 1949, three years after Popoff was born. 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. These programs air on Mainstream cable stations airtime sold (usually) by a third party media broker, then inserted by your local cable or satellite company. What is there to say about it that hasn't already been said in countless documentaries, exposs, and depositions? [21] With a scanner radio, Jason was able to demonstrate that Popoff's wife, Elizabeth, was using a radio transmitter to broadcast information that she and her aides had culled from prayer request cards filled out by audience members. The actual ministry, though, has been something of a mystery. Early frequenters of YouTube know him as The Farting Preacher. And getting off crutches, that was big, toothis is why people needed Popoff's healing touch. The pivot has allowed Popoff to slip from the shadow of his old scandal and, in the years since, quietly rebuild his empire. The Popoff water is Poland Spring? I asked. It turns out that some news just gets spread faster when you're being blackmailed for $7.5 million. [46] Popoff purchased a home in Bradbury, California, for $4.5 million in 2007. He'll do the work, all right, and your part is just suspending disbelief and sending him a check to show that you mean it. Then, next to the toilet paper, an 8-by-11 printout listing the family's goals for 2015Peter's, Liz's, Nick's, Amy's. But she soon began to worry that she wasn't really working for a church. I still can't decide. The prevailing sentiment in the room was Thanks be to Godbut also Thanks be to Peter Popoff. And tubs and tubs of gold and stones came in. You've been to Europe? [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. His church, the Church of the Christian Crusade, spread a staunchly conservative interpretation of Christianity. At about half past noon, he and his wife pulled into the driveway, back from church, I figured. 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. They did not want to comment on Crystal Sanchez's allegations in her e-book. Popoff falsely claimed God revealed this information to him so that Popoff could pretend to cure them through faith healing. According to him, three women who had previously worked for him had threatened to go public with the information if they weren't paid $7.5 million. We are a prosperity ministry that preaches prosperity, Nick added. For the Lord worketh in mysterious ways. Sanchez said that when she took the job as a donation processor, she thought she might gain new skills while serving God, too. With a whole cult. She had come to talk to Peter. Popoff didn't come out to meet her; nor did any of his employees. When he exposed fellow TV preacher Marvin Gorman for having extramarital affairs, that guy wound up out of a job. 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! On December 21, Peter Popoff welcomed me into his office, where we were joined by Amy and Nick, the two children who work in the ministry (another son, Alexander, is in the military). Like Popoff, they used the offer of a religious trinket (a free prayer cloth) to compile an address list. It felt good, as hugs do. I only grew more curious. 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. Popoff branded his critics "tools of the devil". He referred to the attacks as "what we deserve." Select the best result to find their address, phone number, relatives, and public records. 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. Head of the Trinity Foundation Ole Anthony has cited the prosperity gospel and preachers like Duplantis as the cause of the overwhelming number of homeless and poverty-stricken people who visit his soup kitchen. His shining quote: "Consent is puberty." But a key component of his act eventually spelled his downfall. These programs included offers of free "Miracle Manna" that allegedly provided health and financial miracles. So that every little package of water contains a few molecules of holiness. I wasn't aware yet of the ski vacations or his affinity for tennis or how much he adored his Bentley. Peter Popoffs net worth is estimated to be in excess of $12 million as of 2023. Bizarrely unethical of them. How old is Peter Popoff? Responders to the ad received a small wooden cross bearing the inscription "Jerusalem" and a solicitation for donations, followed by numerous additional solicitation letters. And yet, they did. I held up my broken finger. So I made the ministry $5 million!, It wasn't always like this, Amy interrupted to say. You have permission to edit this article. 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. [51], The 1990 album Spiritual Healing by the death metal band Death was inspired by Popoff, and the front cover artwork depict a priest almost identical to him healing a person in a wheelchair. He lost. 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. Cookie Duration Description; cookielawinfo-checbox-analytics: 11 months: This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. His wife eyed me warily. She had first responded to my pestering a few months earlier, but I never expected that the Popoffs would consent to an interview. It's also extra-strength shady, according to allegations made by Jan and Paul's granddaughter Brittany Koper. For other people with the name, see. Before long, however, he'd rebranded his ministry as People United for Christ, and he'd reconsidered his audiencethis time focusing on African-Americans. [32][33][34][35] In July 2008, a Nanaimo, British Columbia resident was reimbursed by Popoff after she went public with her concerns over his fundraising tactics. It's true. Meanwhile, as chief administrative officer (Amy) and executive vice president (Nick), they prosper alongside him. They make him rich, pray with the trinkets, and maybe get rich, too. Popoff received the transmissions via a receiver and earpiece he was wearing and repeated the information to astonished audience members. He believes in divine magicto enrich you, to heal you, or just to entertain youbut not at the expense of the work ethic. This lady came in, and everyone said she was nuts, Sanchez told me. Or kidney problems, a bum ticker, thyroid. Mark Oppenheimer is the editor-at-large at Tablet magazine. He is popular for being a Religious Leader. Haggard's responses to the accusations varied over the next few months, running the gamut from "I don't know who that guy is" to "I bought meth from that guy but I threw it away" to, eventually, "yeah, I did all that stuff.". Actions like that should be red flags for congregation members, but like the big questions in life, even minute dealings with religion are complicated. They want to take the stand. Squinting through a window, past venetian blinds, I glimpsed a carpeted foyer, and beyond that, an empty room. [14] Popoff would also "command" supplicants in wheelchairs to "rise and break free". If I wasn't going to see a service, I still wanted to visit Popoff's office. Negative, captain. As I sat with the gregarious, affable Popoff, I understood: He believes he is helping people. I looked like the real deal: a man in need of supernatural healing. 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. 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. I was in a hotel bed, enrobed in terry cloth, my teeth brushed, my hand aloft holding the remote. But none were humiliated quite as publicly as Popoff. 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. I knew there had been scams. He added that "almost everybody" knew about the radio communication system. He switched lady friends with Gary Busey. He touches them and they feel better. Donald Trump's presidency will be, with any luck, the most polarizing point in American history that we'll live to experience. Where are you, Ada Mae?that sort of thing. Life was a hoot and a holler for Haggard. Shabalalalalalalala!, Yeah, we do him, the man said. Five adoring children. Interestingly, it also states in Matthew that Jesus said, "Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me." [52] A 2012 Broadway musical adaptation of the same title was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Musical. Not his anti-labor union manifestos or the fact that he'd light up a room with his smile when you brought up segregation or his connection to a series of bombings in the 1960s. I asked about Popoff. It appeared to me that Popoff was exploiting more than just American forgetfulness. While these gimmicks may seem obvious, Jesse is a less blatant subscriber to the so-called prosperity gospel. He thought for a moment, then replied that, yes, Popoff was the real deal. Because it is categorized as a parsonage. 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