This marriage, however, only lasted three years.ĭonnie Swaggert and his second wife, Judy. Later the same year, Swaggert tied the knots with Judy. ( Source: Family Worship Center’s Website) The sons of three sisters, all of them share the same middle name and play the piano.
Swaggart also is the cousin of recording artists Jerry Lee Lewis and Mickey Gilley. The anointed teaching, preaching and music of Jimmy Swaggart, Donnie Swaggart, Gabriel Swaggart, and the ministers and musicians of Family Worship Center can now be accessed 24hrs a day through Jimmy Swaggart Ministries' SonLife Broadcasting Network, experience the difference today If you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall. The marriage was broken off, and they divorced in 2003.ĭonnie Swaggert and his first/current wife, Debbie. During the 1970s, Swaggart established a ministry under the Assemblies of God. His first wife was Debbie, with whom he has three children-Gabriel, Mathew, and Jennifer. Regardless of him having a low profile, news of his elaborate marriages have made numerous headlines. That being said, he kept a low profile and does so to this day. Gabriel's father, Donnie, followed his dad’s footsteps into the ministry. Donnie Swaggart's Elaborate Marriages and Remarriage According to those who inhabit the demimonde along Airline Highway, a seedy strip of no-tell motels, their neon lights flashing adult movies, water beds and rooms by the hour. This perhaps was the final nail in the coffin for him as he soon handed the ministry over to his son, Donniel Swaggert, Gabriel's father. He carried on as an independent preacher after that, but three years later, he was caught yet again with an escort in California. After aggressively calling his contemporaries out for infidelity against their wives in 1988, photos of him with a, say, lady of the night circulated.ĭue to this unsavory revelation, he was discharged from the Assemblies of God. Jimmy, the founder of the Jimmy Swaggart Ministries, made headlines during the ‘80s and ‘90s, all for the wrong reasons, though.