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Hahn describes sex with Bakker, second evangelist

NEW YORK -- A tape-recorded statement by Jessica Hahn says she was forced into sex with a second evangelist following her sexual encounter with TV preacher Jim Bakker seven years ago, Newsweek magazine reported.

Newsweek says in a story in its April 13 issue, based on a signed transcript of the statement obtained by the magazine, that Hahn told Bakker she was a virgin and feared pregnancy and he replied, 'Don't worry about it.'

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Hahn, a 20-year-old church secretary at the time of the 1980 encounter in a Florida hotel room, said in the statement she was woozy after being given a glass of wine when Bakker, 47, forced her to have intercourse and oral sex with him for 'what seemed like an hour and a half,' Newsweek reported.

'I tried to get him off of me,' Hahn said. 'He couldn't get enough. He had to find new things to do.'

Newsweek reported the Assemblies of God Church is investigating allegations of adultery, oral sex, coercion and cover-up involving Bakker, his wife, Tammy Faye, and several current and former officials of the PTL ministry.

None of those named by Hahn responded to requests by Newsweek for comment.

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Hahn says in the tape-recorded statement when she told Bakker before they had sex that she feared getting pregnant he assured her, ''I've had an operation. Don't worry about it, you'll appreciate it later.''

Hahn said after the encounter with Bakker she was forced into similar sexual activities for another hour by a second evangelist who was working with Bakker.

Newsweek did not name the second evangelist.

''You're not just going to give it to Jim, you're going to give it to me too,'' she recalled the other minister as saying, according to the transcript obtained by Newsweek.

On March 19 Bakker resigned as chairman of PTL, which stands for 'Praise the Lord' and 'People That Love,' after acknowledging he had a sexual encounter with a church secretary in 1980 and paid her hush money.

Bakker has been invited to an Assemblies of God hearing Tuesday in Dunn, N.C., where a group of church elders will consider whether to accept his resignation as a minister in the charismatic denomination.

The Assemblies of God Church also is investigating Hahn's allegation that two PTL officials -- the Rev. Richard Dortch, now president of PTL, and a former PTL board member, the Rev. Aimee Garcia Cortese of New York -- learned about the hotel incident three years ago, Newsweek said.

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Hahn's statement said she felt pressured by them to sign a statement denying that the encounter had taken place.

She said Cortese warned, ''Sign the papers or you never will have any peace.''

Hahn's detailed account was recorded two months later and was followed by a $265,000 settlement from PTL.

According to the transcript, Hahn quoted evangelist John Wesley Fletcher, who brought her to Bakker, as saying Bakker 'has no sexual life with his wife,' who was 'having an affair' with Gary Paxton, a Nashville-based country singer.

Paxton denies he had an affair with Tammy Bakker but told Newsweek, 'I'm sure Jimmy thinks it's true.'

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