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‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’: How a Bible thumper became a gay advocate and icon

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debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival Sunday and is in theaters Friday.The Bakkers had a veritable Christian empire, with their own Jesus-themed amusement park, Heritage USA, before Jim got embroiled in a sex assault scandal and lost it all in 1987.

Two years later, he would go to jail for defrauding his followers of $158 million. Tammy had to sell off her glitzy wardrobe for money. (In a truly soap-operatic turn, she later married Roe Messner, the property developer for Heritage USA, who then also went to jail, for bankruptcy fraud charges.)Bailey and Barbato — who run the production company World of Wonder — sympathized with the 4-foot-11 Tammy Faye.

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