It was on a page with a story about the Jasper incident so I'm pretty sure it's her.
It was on a page with a story about the Jasper incident so I'm pretty sure it's her.
Here's Mapes hubby gleefully celebrating the demise of some Christians...
Are we starting to get the idea with this couple?
HEADLINE: TELEVANGELIST'S DIVORCE COULD SINK MINISTRY;
TILTON A VIOLENT DRUNK, WIFE SAYS
BYLINE: By MARK WROLSTAD Dallas Morning News
DATELINE: DALLAS
BODY:
Robert Tilton and Leigh Valentine forged separate high-profile careers as charismatic Christians before a life-changing encounter sparked their union in marriage and ministry.
But the crossing paths of two evangelical stars led to a star-crossed partnership.
Their two-year marriage - the second for each - has disintegrated into a nasty divorce, raising allegations against Tilton of violent rages and cruelty, drinking binges and infidelity, - and innuendos about both preachers' mental states.
The charges against Tilton are "damn lies," said his attorney and friend, J.C. Joyce.
"If he was that bad, why didn't she sue HIM for divorce?" Joyce said. "Bob Tilton is the one who filed for this divorce."
The split raises more questions about Tilton's future. Formerly among the country's best-known televangelists, he has been targeted by religious-fraud lawsuits for nearly five years, yet hopes to return to TV preaching.
His second divorce in less than three years threatens to further damage the Word of Faith Family Church he founded 19 years ago in suburban Farmers Branch, Texas. Through scandal, divorce and changing theology, Sunday attendance has shrunk to a few hundred for a ministry whose telecasts and fund-raising once blanketed North America.
Leigh Valentine Tilton charges that after their secret wedding in February 1994 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, her husband became an increasingly abusive, alcohol-fueled adulterer, haunted by nightmarish visions and delusions of grandeur.
"There's a cruel side to Bob that I never saw before," said Leigh Tilton, adding that she does not want to hurt him and reluctantly made the allegations to protect herself and her 3-year-old son, Joshua. "Bob is just not being reasonable right now."
Joyce derided her statements.
"All these naked comments don't mean anything in the world," he said. "They'll be contested. This is just a typical divorce."
But the divorce is not typical in its celebrity power...
For someone so involved in all the devious stuff she does - it's amazing her face is not plastered everywhere.
Guess the MSM protect their own slimes.
