Televangelists Lists Mansion for a Cool $8 Million
Famed Televangelist huckster Peter Popoff, 76, is selling his California mansion, and he’s asking $8.1 million dollars for it.
Popoff made a name for himself as a faith healer in the 1970s and 80s, marketing himself as able to heal the sick and prophecy the future. He soon gained prominence and would broadcast his show nationally, where he would have ambulatory ‘plants’ sit in wheelchairs and then miraculously jump out of them at the insistence that they are healed, bringing in over $500,000 a month.
Famously, in 1986, he was putting on shows where he’d get a “word” from God and tell the audience uncanny information about themselves, such as their illnesses and even their home address. He was mercifully exposed by skeptic James Randi, who revealed Popoff’s wife would gather the prayer cards from invitees and read them to him through an earpiece, which he then pretended was coming to form God. The fact that his wife would casually drop the n-bomb didn’t help matters either. His ministry quickly crashed and burned after the exposure, and he declared bankruptcy in 1987.
Sadly, he reemerged in the 2000s, making a fortune selling ‘miracle water’ through YT ads that promised health, wealth, and prosperity for the purchaser.
He made nearly $25M in 2005, the last year he reported his taxes, because he changed his business model to become a religious organization, which made him tax exempt. A couple of years ago, when a reporter from GQ went to check out his church, he found nothing more than an empty parking lot.
Now he’s selling his house. Popoff purchased the 8300sqf, 6-bedroom, 9-bathroom home in 2007 for $4.5 million, turning a tidy profit after 16 years of use.
It is unclear whether or not he’s downsizing or upsizing.
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Poor Poopoff. He’s 76 and obviously doesn’t have much longer to live, then he steps into forever, no hope, dammed for eternity and won’t take so much as a dime with him.