Barbra Streisand Reveals Her and Husband James Brolin's 'Different Schedule' and Why They Go to Bed 'Very Late' (Exclusive)

Barbra Streisand Reveals Her and Husband James Brolin's 'Different Schedule' and Why They Go to Bed 'Very Late' (Exclusive)

Kevin Mazur/VF19/WireImage Barbra Streisand says she and husband James Brolin "love the silence of the night" The couple therefore goes to sleep "very late" Streisand's new album,The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume Twois out now WhenBarbra Streisandanswers the phone to chat with PEOPLE, it's just after 2 p.m. local time in Los Angeles — but for the legendary star, the day is just beginning. "We go to bed very late, so I'm still in bed," Streisand, 83, explains in this week's issue of her routine with husbandJames Brolin, 84. "We have a different schedule. We love the silence of the night." The EGOT-winning singer, actress and director has long built her life around sound, first through hit songs like"The Way We Were"and movies likeFunny Girl; these days more through the giggles of her grandkids. So it's understandable why she'd appreciate some peace and quiet. Streisand and Brolin married in 1998 after meeting two years earlier at a dinner party orchestrated by friends. In recent months, she's been focused on family (TheYentlstar is mom to sonJason Gould, 58, with ex-husbandElliott Gould, and grandma to a brood that includes stepsonJosh Brolin's two young daughters Chapel, 4, and Westlyn, 6, and stepdaughter Molly's son Soli, 3). Kevin Mazur/Getty She celebrated her27th wedding anniversarywith Brolin on Tuesday, July 1, writing on Instagram, "We met on a blind date 29 years ago tonight, and we married 27 years ago today. I love you honey. B xo. ❤️" Brolin joked on theTodayshow in April that he and his wife'sbest investment over the yearswas their mattress. "Don't misunderstand me. We're both lazy. We love to sleep late," he said. "We do a lot of our work on the phone, on paper, reading, right next to each other." Streisand — who released her bestselling memoirMy Name Is Barbrain November 2023 — is currently wading back into the spotlight with a new duets album,The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume Two, which she released on June 27. The record features an impressive roster of collaborators, includingPaul McCartney,Bob Dylan,Tim McGraw,Ariana GrandeandMariah Carey. Streisand says that McCartney, 83, was the first person on board when it came time to recruit singing partners. "He was so sweet to me when I first came to London. I was there in the '60s, I think, and he invited me to his house with his wife Linda," she recalls. "It was just so kind of him, and he's so wonderful. He's such a great writer and I admire him, so that's a no-brainer. [He] was the first one." Kathryn Boyd Brolin The Secret of Lifemarks Streisand's first new album in seven years, followingWallsin 2018. The star says all of the "wonderful people" who performed with her on the new album were catalysts for her return to the studio — and she's not done yet. Does the 10-time Grammy winner have another album in her? "God, yeah. As long as I have a voice, I love the privacy of recording," she says. "I love standing there in front of the mic and the music in my ears and singing. When I was 18 years old, I made my mother call up publishers to get free music. I still have that person inside, that kid. There are more songs I want to sing." The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume Twois out now. For more on Barbra Streisand, pick up the latest issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands everywhere now, or subscribehere. Read the original article onPeople

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Barbra Streisand Reveals Her and Husband James Brolin's 'Different Schedule' and Why They Go to Bed 'Very Late' (Exclusive)

Barbra Streisand Reveals Her and Husband James Brolin's 'Different Schedule' and Why They Go to Bed 'Very Late' (Exclusi...

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'Jurassic World Rebirth' comes out this week: How to watch all the 'Jurassic Park' movies ahead of the new one

'Jurassic World Rebirth' comes out this week: How to watch all the 'Jurassic Park' movies ahead of the new one

Did you think people were done visitingJurassic Park?Think again!Jurassic World Rebirthcomes out this week, openinga brand new, star-studded chapterfor the Jurassic franchise. Starring Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey and Mahershala Ali,Rebirthwill revisit the old research facility island for the originalJurassic Park, with the trio on a mission to collect dino DNA. While it's a brand new moment in the franchise, there will likely be lots of references to both the originalJurassic Parktrilogy and theJurassic Worldtrilogy. Need arefresher on the franchise? Here's where to watch all of theJurassic Parkmovies (and shows! And… short films). Jurassic Park(1993) — watch onPeacock, rent onPrime VideoorApple TV The Lost World: Jurassic Park(1997) — watch onPeacock, rent onPrime VideoorApple TV Jurassic Park III(2001) — watch onPeacock, rent onPrime VideoorApple TV Jurassic World(2015) — watch onPeacock, rent onPrime VideoorApple TV Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom(2018) — watch onPeacock, rent onPrime VideoorApple TV Jurassic World: Dominion(2022) — watch onPeacock, rent onPrime VideoorApple TV Jurassic World Rebirth(2025) — watchin theatersstarting July 3 In addition to the seven movies, there are also two Netflix series based in theJurassic Parkworld, though the shows are chronologically confusing (and animated): Camp CretaceousTV series (2020-2022) — watch onNetflix Jurassic World: Chaos TheoryTV series (2025) — watch onNetflix There's also a 2019 short film and the deleted prologue forJurassic World: Dominion: Battle at Big Rock(2019, YouTube short film) — watch onYouTube The Prologue—Jurassic World: Dominion(2021) — watch onYouTube Jurassic World Rebirthcomes out in theaters on July 2. Get tickets Dominioncapped off the trilogy that focused on Owen Grady, meaningRebirthhas the potential to begin a new story basically anywhere. Director Gareth Edwards has said thatRebirth"felt like the beginning of a brand-new chapter in this franchise." So, where does that new chapter begin? Five years after the events ofDominion, where dinosaurs have become old news, a team sets out on a secret mission to the oldest Jurassic Park island — the one that houses the now-defunct research facility. Their mission? To gather DNA samples from land, sea and air-dwelling dinosaurs to potentially create a groundbreaking new medicine. Scarlett Johansson as Zora Bennett Jonathan Bailey as Dr. Henry Loomis Mahershala Ali as Duncan Kincaid Rupert Friend as Martin Krebs Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as Reuben Delgado Bechir Sylvain as Leclerc Looking for whatcritics think of the newJurassic Worldmovie? Yahoo Entertainment has you covered.

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Justice Department says 2 Chinese nationals charged with spying inside the US for Beijing

Justice Department says 2 Chinese nationals charged with spying inside the US for Beijing

Two Chinese nationals have been charged with spying inside the United States on behalf of Beijing, including by taking photographs of a naval base, coordinating a cash dead-drop and by participating in efforts to recruit members of the military who they thought might be open to working for Chinese intelligence. The case,filed in federal court in San Franciscoand unsealed Monday, is the latest Justice Department prosecution to target what officials say are active efforts by the Chinese government to secretly collect intelligence about American military capabilities —a practice laid bare in startling fashion two years agowith China's launching of a surveillance balloon that US officials ultimately shot down over the coast of South Carolina. "This case underscores the Chinese government's sustained and aggressive effort to infiltrate our military and undermine our national security from within," Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement announcing the case. "The Justice Department will not stand by while hostile nations embed spies in our country – we will expose foreign operatives, hold their agents to account, and protect the American people from covert threats to our national security." Officials identified the defendants as Yuance Chen, 38, who arrived in the US on a visa in 2015 and later became a lawful permanent resident, and Liren "Ryan" Lai, 39, who prosecutors say lives in China but came to Texas this past spring as part of an effort to supervise clandestine espionage operations on behalf of China's Ministry of State Security or MSS. The two were arrested on charges of secretly doing China's bidding without registering as foreign agents with the Justice Department, as required by law. It was not immediately clear if they had lawyers. A spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in Washington did not immediately return a message seeking comment Tuesday. According to an FBI affidavit filed in connection with the case, investigators believe Lai had been developing Chen to be a Chinese intelligence asset since at least mid-2021. Their activities, the FBI says, included coordinating on a dead-drop of at least $10,000 in cash to another person operating at the direction of the MSS. They also conducted surveillance of a Navy recruiting station in California and Navy base in Washington state, including through photographs and videos that investigators believe were sent to Chinese intelligence. Authorities say Lai and Chen also discussed recruiting Navy employees to work for China, with Chen obtaining – during a tour of a Navy installation – photographs of names and hometowns of recent recruits. Many listed China as their hometown and investigators believe the information was sent to China, the FBI affidavit says. The case is one in a series of prosecutions concerning Chinese intelligence-gathering, including concerning the military. Last year, for instance,the Justice Department charged five Chinese nationalswith lying and trying to cover their tracks, more than a year after they were confronted in the dark near a remote Michigan military site where thousands of people had gathered for summer drills. And in 2023,two Navy sailors were charged with providing sensitive military information to China, including details on wartime exercises, naval operations and critical technical material. For more CNN news and newsletters create an account atCNN.com

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Justice Department says 2 Chinese nationals charged with spying inside the US for Beijing

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UPenn to update swimming records set by Lia Thomas, settling with feds on transgender athletes case

UPenn to update swimming records set by Lia Thomas, settling with feds on transgender athletes case

WASHINGTON (AP) — The University of Pennsylvania says it will update records set by transgender swimmerLia Thomasand apologize to female athletes "disadvantaged" by Thomas' participation on the women's swimming team, part of a resolution of a federalcivil rights case. The U.S. Education Department and Penn announced the voluntary agreement Tuesday. The case focused on Thomas, the transgender swimmer who last competed for the Ivy League school in Philadelphia in 2022, when she became the first openly transgender athlete to win a Division I title. The department investigated Penn as part of theTrumpadministration's broader attempt to remove transgender athletes from girls' and women's sports, finding the college violated the rights of female athletes. Under the agreement, Penn agreed to restore all individual Division I swimming records and titles to female athletes who lost out to Thomas and send a personalized apology letter to each of those swimmers, the Education Department said. On Tuesday afternoon, thePenn websiteshowed other athletes holding the school's top times in Thomas' freestyle events. The site was annotated with a note that read, "Competing under eligibility rules in effect at the time, Lia Thomas set program records in the 100, 200 and 500 freestyle during the 2021-22 season." "While Penn's policies during the 2021-2022 swim season were in accordance with NCAA eligibility rules at the time, we acknowledge that some student-athletes were disadvantaged by these rules," Penn President J. Larry Jameson said in a statement. "We recognize this and will apologize to those who experienced a competitive disadvantage or experienced anxiety because of the policies in effect at the time." As part of the settlement, the university must also announce that it "will not allow males to compete in female athletic programs" and it must adopt "biology-based" definitions of male and female, the department said. In his statement, Jameson said Penn has always been in compliance with NCAA and Title IX rules as they were interpreted at the time, and that the university has never had its own policies around transgender athlete participation. The school has followed changes to eligibility guidelines as they were issued earlier this year, he said. The NCAA changed its participation policy fortransgender athletesin February, limiting competition in women's sports to athletes who were assigned female at birth. "Our commitment to ensuring a respectful and welcoming environment for all of our students is unwavering," Jameson said. "At the same time, we must comply with federal requirements, including executive orders, and NCAA eligibility rules, so our teams and student-athletes may engage in competitive intercollegiate sports." Education Secretary Linda McMahon called it a victory for women and girls. "The Department commends UPenn for rectifying its past harms against women and girls, and we will continue to fight relentlessly to restore Title IX's proper application and enforce it to the fullest extent of the law," McMahon said in a statement. The Education Department opened its investigation in February and concluded in April that Penn had violated Title IX, a 1972 law forbidding sex discrimination in education. Such findings have almost always been resolved through voluntary agreements. If Penn had fought the finding, the department could have moved to refer the case to the Justice Department or pursued a separate process to cut the school's federal funding. In February, the Education Department asked the NCAA and the National Federation of State High School Associations, or NFSHSA, to restore titles, awards and records it says have been "misappropriated by biological males competing in female categories." The most obvious target at the college level was in women's swimming, where Thomas won the national title in the 500-yard freestyle in 2022. The NCAA has updated its record books when recruiting and other violations have stripped titles from certain schools, but the organization, like the NFSHSA, has not responded to the federal government's request. Determining which events had a transgender athlete participating years later would be challenging. ___ Associated Press writers Annie Ma and Dan Gelston contributed. Gelston contributed from Philadelphia. ___ The Associated Press' education coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. AP is solely responsible for all content. Find AP'sstandardsfor working with philanthropies, alistof supporters and funded coverage areas at AP.org.

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Michael Imperioli Joins Fox Drama Series ‘Memory of a Killer’ Opposite Patrick Dempsey

Michael Imperioli Joins Fox Drama Series 'Memory of a Killer' Opposite Patrick Dempsey

Michael Imperioli is the latest addition to the cast of the upcoming Fox series "Memory of a Killer." Imperioli will star in the series alongsidepreviously announced leadPatrick Dempsey. The new series is said to be inspired by the Belgian film "De Zaak Alzheimer," aka "La Memoire Du Tueur." Per the official logline, the show is about "hitman Angelo Ledda (Dempsey) leading a dangerous double life while hiding an even deadlier personal secret — he has developed early onset Alzheimer's." More from Variety Stand Up Comedian Earthquake to Develop Fox Sitcom Based on His Life, Bill Burr to Produce Fox Biblical Event Series 'The Faithful' to Debut in March 2026, Finale Set for Easter Sunday Johnny Knoxville to Host 'Fear Factor' Reboot on Fox Imperioli will star as Dutch, described as "an accomplished Italian chef who owns a restaurant in the Bronx, a stalwart establishment that is also a front for Dutch's less sociable activities — such as running a criminal enterprise. As ruthless and mercurial as he is affable, Dutch is Angelo's oldest friend, as well as his employer — he gives Angelo the targets for his hits. In a business as dangerous as theirs, Angelo must trust Dutch. But being trustworthy isn't one of Dutch's more dependable qualities." Imperioli is best known for his role as Christopher Moltisanti in the seminal HBO drama "The Sopranos." He was nominated for five Emmy Awards and two Golden Globes during his time on the series, winning the Emmy for best supporting actor in a drama in 2004. He also wrote five episodes of the series. Recently, he starred in Season 2 of "The White Lotus" at HBO, for which he earned another Emmy nomination. His other recent TV credits include "This Fool" at Hulu and "Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector" at NBC. He is repped by Gersh and Anonymous Content. "Memory of a Killer" is produced by Warner Bros. Television and Fox Entertainment. Ed Whitmore and Tracey Malone developed the series for television and executive produce alongside Cathy Schulman of Welle Entertainment. Arthur Sarkissian and Martin Campbell are also executive producers, along with Peter Bouckaert of Eyeworks. Best of Variety Oscars 2026: George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Julia Roberts, Wagner Moura and More Among Early Contenders to Watch New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week 'Harry Potter' TV Show Cast Guide: Who's Who in Hogwarts? Sign up forVariety's Newsletter. For the latest news, follow us onFacebook,Twitter, andInstagram.

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Michael Imperioli Joins Fox Drama Series ‘Memory of a Killer’ Opposite Patrick Dempsey

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Jury reaches verdict on 4 of 5 counts in Diddy trial but is told to keep deliberating

Jury reaches verdict on 4 of 5 counts in Diddy trial but is told to keep deliberating

NEW YORK (AP) — The jury inSean "Diddy" Combs'sex trafficking trial said Tuesday that it has reached a verdict on four of five counts against the hip-hop mogul. But the partial decision remained under wraps after jurors were told to keep deliberating because they were stuck on the top charge, racketeering conspiracy. Prosecutors, Combs' defense team and Judge Arun Subramanian reasoned that after just two days of deliberations, it was too soon to give up on reaching a verdict on all counts. So rather than taking a partial verdict, Subramanian told the jury to continue weighing the remaining charge. Deliberations will continue Wednesday. The developments came late Tuesday afternoon, when the jury sent a note saying it was unable to reach a unanimous verdict on the racketeering conspiracy charge because there were jurors with "unpersuadable" views on both sides. But in less than 13 hours of deliberations, the jury did reach a verdict on two counts of sex trafficking and two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. The latter concerns allegations of arranging to fly the women and sex workers across state lines. If there is a conviction, the sex trafficking charge carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison and a maximum sentence of life. Transportation to engage in prostitution carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. The outstanding charge, racketeering conspiracy, carries a maximum sentence of life in prison. After hearing about the jury note, Combs, 55, appeared morose as his lawyers spoke with him. At one point,the hip-hop mogulsolemnly read a piece of paper that attorney Marc Agnifilo handed to him. After the jury came in for instructions and then exited the room, a subdued Combs sat in his chair for a few minutes. As he stood to leave, he faced his relatives and supporters in the audience, blew a kiss and tapped his heart, as he frequently has done at the start and end of each day. Then he paused before his mother and exchanged a few words, telling her, "Love you" and "I'll be all right." Marshals then led him from the room. Jurors are weighing charges that Combs used his fame, wealth and violence to force two girlfriends into drug-fueledsex marathonswith male sex workers known as "freak-offs" or "hotel nights." He has pleaded not guilty.His lawyers contendprosecutors are trying to criminalize Combs' swinger lifestyle and that, if anything, his conduct amounted to domestic violence, not federal felonies. Racketeering conspiracy is the most complicated charge because it requires the jury to decide not only whether Combs ran a "racketeering enterprise," but also whether he was involved in committing such offenses as some or all of various types of offenses, such as kidnapping and arson. Earlier Tuesday, the jury asked to review critical testimony from one of the prosecution's most important witnesses: the hip-hop mogul's former longtime girlfriendCassie, the R&B singer born Casandra Ventura. The panel of eight men and four womenasked for Cassie's account of Combs beating, kicking and dragging her at a Los Angeles hotel in 2016 — an assault captured on now-infamoussecurity camera footage. They also asked to see Cassie's testimony about when she said Combs accused her of taking drugs from him and kicked her off their yacht at the Cannes Film Festival in France in 2013. On their way back to the U.S., she said, he threatened to release explicit videos of her having sex. In addition, the jury asked for Cassie and stripper Daniel Phillip's testimony about her jumping into his lap at a New York City hotel. Phillip testified that "she was terrified," and he suspected Combs had been slapping and slamming her around an adjacent room. Phillip testified that he told her she was in real danger. Cassie, he said, "basically tried to convince me that it was OK: 'It's OK. I'm fine, I'll be OK.'" Tuesday's court session began with the lawyers and judge considering the jury's request late Monday for clarification about what qualifies as drug distribution, an aspect of the racketeering conspiracy charge. Subramanian ultimately reminded jurors of instructions he'd already given on that part of the case. On Monday, barely an hour into deliberations, the foreperson sent a note complaining that there was one juror "who we are concerned cannot follow your Honor's instructions." In response, the judge reminded jurors of their duties to deliberate and follow his instructions on the law. At the trial, Combschose not to testify. His lawyers built their arguments for acquittal mostly through lengthy cross-examinations of dozens of prosecution witnesses.

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Jury reaches verdict on 4 of 5 counts in Diddy trial but is told to keep deliberating

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Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, whose ministry was toppled by prostitution scandals, dies at 90

Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, whose ministry was toppled by prostitution scandals, dies at 90

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, who became a household name amassing an enormous following and multimillion-dollar ministry only to be undone by his penchant for prostitutes, has died. Swaggart died decades after his once vast audience dwindled and his name became a punchline on late night television. His death was announced Tuesday on his public Facebook page. A cause wasn't immediately given, though at 90 he had been in poor health, having suffered cardiac arrest last month. The Louisiana native was best known for being a captivating Pentecostal preacher with a massive following before being caught on camera with a prostitute in New Orleans in 1988, one of a string of successful TV preachers brought down in the 1980s and 1990s by sex scandals. He continued preaching for decades, but with a reduced audience. Swaggart encapsulated his downfall in a tearful 1988 sermon, in which he wept and apologized but made no reference to his connection to a prostitute. "I have sinned against you," Swaggart told parishioners nationwide. "I beg you to forgive me." He announced his resignation from the Assemblies of God later that year, shortly after the church said it was defrocking him for rejecting punishment it had ordered for "moral failure." The church had wanted him to undergo a two-year rehabilitation program, including not preaching for a full year. Swaggart said at the time that he knew dismissal was inevitable but insisted he had no choice but to separate from the church to save his ministry and Bible college. From poverty and oil fields to a household name Swaggart grew up poor, the son of a preacher, in a music-rich family. He excelled at piano and gospel music, playing and singing with talented cousins who took different paths: rock-'n'-rollerJerry Lee Lewisand country singerMickey Gilley. In his hometown of Ferriday, Louisiana, Swaggart said he first heard the call of God at age 8. The voice gave him goose bumps and made his hair tingle, he said. "Everything seemed different after that day in front of the Arcade Theater," he said in a 1985 interview with the Jacksonville Journal-Courier in Illinois. "I felt better inside. Almost like taking a bath." He preached and worked part time in oil fields until he was 23. He then moved entirely into his ministry: preaching, playing piano and singing gospel songs with the barrelhouse fervor of cousin Lewis at Assemblies of God revivals and camp meetings. Swaggart started a radio show, a magazine, and then moved into television, with outspoken views. He called Roman Catholicism "a false religion. It is not the Christian way," and claimed that Jews suffered for thousands of years "because of their rejection of Christ." "If you don't like what I say, talk to my boss," he once shouted as he strode in front of his congregation at his Family Worship Center in Baton Rouge, where his sermons moved listeners to speak in tongues and stand up as if possessed by the Holy Spirit. Swaggart's messages stirred thousands of congregants and millions of TV viewers, making him a household name by the late 1980s. Contributors built Jimmy Swaggart Ministries into a business that made an estimated $142 million in 1986. His Baton Rouge complex still includes a worship center and broadcasting and recording facilities. The scandals that led to Swaggart's ruin Swaggart's downfall came in the late 1980s as other prominent preachers faced similar scandals. Swaggart said publicly that his earnings were hurt in 1987 by the sex scandal surroundingrival televangelist Jim Bakkerand a former church secretary at Bakker's PTL ministry organization. The following year, Swaggart was photographed at a hotel with Debra Murphree, an admitted prostitute who told reporters that the two did not have sex but that the preacher had paid her to pose nude. She later repeated the claim — and posed nude — for Penthouse magazine. The surveillance photos that crippled Swaggart's career apparently stemmed from his rivalry with preacher Marvin Gorman, who Swaggart had accused of sexual misdeeds. Gorman hired the photographer who captured Swaggart and Murphree on film. Swaggart later paid Gorman $1.8 million to settle a lawsuit over the sexual allegations against Gorman. More trouble came in 1991, when police in California detained Swaggart with another prostitute. The evangelist was charged with driving on the wrong side of the road and driving an unregistered Jaguar. His companion, Rosemary Garcia, said Swaggart became nervous when he saw the police car and weaved when he tried to stuff pornographic magazines under a car seat. Swaggart was later mocked by the late TV comic Phil Hartman, who impersonated him on NBC's "Saturday Night Live." Out of the public eye but still in the pulpit The evangelist largely stayed out of the news in later years but remained in the pulpit at Jimmy Swaggart Ministries, often joined by his son, Donnie, a fellow preacher. His radio station broadcast church services and gospel music to 21 states, and Swaggart's ministry boasted a worldwide audience on the internet. "My dad was a warrior. My dad was preacher. He didn't want to be anything else except a preacher of the gospel," Donnie Swaggart said in avideo message sharedon social media Tuesday following his father's death. "That's what he was put on this earth to do." The preacher caused another brief stir in 2004 with remarks about being "looked at" amorously by a gay man. "And I'm going to be blunt and plain: If one ever looks at me like that, I'm going to kill him and tell God he died," Jimmy Swaggart said, to laughter from the congregation. He later apologized. Swaggart made few public appearances outside his church, save for singing "Amazing Grace" at the 2005 funeral of Louisiana Secretary of State Fox McKeithen, a prominent name in state politics for decades. In 2022, he shared memories at thememorial servicefor Lewis, his cousin and rock 'n' roll pioneer. The pair had released "The Boys From Ferriday," a gospel album, earlier that year. Donnie Swaggart said he promised his father that "I will continue the work" — distributing Bibles, sharing the gospel and "proclaiming the message of Christ." Swaggart is survived by his wife, Frances, son Donnie, daughter-in-law Debbie, grandson Gabriel, daughter Jill, granddaughter Jennifer, son-in-law Clif, son Matt, daughter-in-law Joanna and nine great-grandchildren.

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Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, whose ministry was toppled by prostitution scandals, dies at 90

Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, whose ministry was toppled by prostitution scandals, dies at 90 BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Televangelist Jimmy Sw...

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