Photo SpecialCeleb Scandals

From power seats to penthouse suites, these public offenders proved the bigger they were, the harder they fell

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JESSICA HAHN, TAMMY FAYE & JIM BAKKER

A tryst with church secretary Jessica Hahn buried the multimillion-dollar Praise the Lord ministry built by Jim Bakker and his wife, but the unholy trinity survived. Jim served five years for fraud and heads a small L.A. church. Tammy, diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer, starred on The Surreal Life. Hahn got a new nose, teeth, breasts and a Playboy spread.

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