# The American televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, who visited South Africa in the 80s, has died at the age of 90, after being in poor health for a while. 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. He became one of a string of successful TV preachers brought down by sex scandals. Swaggart resigned from the Assemblies of God shortly after the church said it was defrocking him for rejecting the punishment it had ordered for moral failure.
Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart dies at 90