Prior to his role as pastor, Bryant served as the director of the NAACP’s youth and college division.
Bryant has a daughter, Topaz (born in 1998), with an Atlanta woman named Crystal Madison.
In summer 2007 rumors exploded in the church that Jamal had gotten a 17-year-old church member pregnant.
After Michelle Wedderburn filed for a child support increase, he finally acknowledged that he had fathered a daughter named Naomi with her in 2001.
In January 2008, Gizelle filed for divorce, but later cancelled the filing on January 24. In 2010 Gizelle attended Empowerment Temple and was called wife and first lady by Jamal, causing many to wonder if they had divorced. In 2012, Jamal Bryant was interviewed by Roland Martin concerning his affair and divorce where Bryant confirmed that they were divorced, good friends and were co-parenting their children well. He stated in the interview that had he not divorced her he knows he would have been unfaithful again.
CNN went to great effort to dig up Bryant!