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Ravi Zacharias’ Former Business Partner Recounts Misconduct; Stations Drop Apologist’s Broadcasts

(Christian Post) New details have emerged related to the now-acknowledged sexual misconduct of the late Ravi Zacharias as recordings of a former business partner have surfaced describing Zacharias’ misdeeds.  

According to Anurag Sharma, a man who co-owned two spas with the late apologist, Zacharias repeatedly engaged in exposing himself to massage therapists and masturbating in front of them over the course of several years. In recently recorded audio footage that was shared exclusively with The Roys Report Monday, the website of independent investigative journalist Julie Roys, Sharma told investigators that he confronted Zacharias about his actions, which he discovered sometime between 2007 and 2010. Sharma also maintained that Zacharias told him to erase all information about his appointments at the spa from the company computer system.
 
It was around this time when the two men owned Jivan Wellness, which reportedly offered massage therapy as well as a form of ancient Indian medicine rooted in Hinduism, among other wellness services.

“It started actually, the lady therapist who had come and who talked about that he’d been misbehaving—exactly the pattern that was there…,”

Sharma told an attorney hired by the Christian Missionary Alliance denomination, the denomination that had ordained Zacharias, in December 2020. 

“And this was exactly the pattern, which was, I saw it plenty of…

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Editor’s note. This article was written by Brandon Showalter and published at the Christian post.

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Manager for Ravi Zacharias Spa Goes Public with Further Accusations

Ravi Zacharias’ legacy received another blow after one of his past employees has publicly come forward with new allegations and corroboration against the late famed christian apologist.

The latest allegations center around Jivan Spa, a wellness center he co-owned between 2009 and 2015, located near RZIM headquarters in Alpharetta, Ga. As we have already reported, he regularly went there for massage therapy and while on the table he would touch the women without their consent, monkey about with his draping and robes in an effort to expose himself, masturbated in front of them, and asked for sexual favors and “physical release.”

As things stand, four women have come forward with accusations of sexual impropriety, four people have corroborated the accounts, and two others acted as witnesses, for a total of ten people that we know so far. Of these ten, we know the identities of five.

Whereas much of the reporting has been done based on unnamed sources whose identities and employment were verified, one of the corroborators to the allegations has come forward and revealed her identity.

Emily Belz of World Magazine has released an article detailing her conversation with the former manager of Jivan Spa, Anna Adesanya, who worked at the wellness center from 2009 until 2012 and who spoke on the record, describing how one of the employees, a massage therapist, came to her upset that Zacharias had asked for perverted services. They write:

Adesanya told me Zacharias would come in regularly, maybe once a month. She remembered an incident around 2009 in which a massage therapist came to her and said she was uncomfortable treating Zacharias anymore because he had asked her for ‘more than a massage.’

Adesanya, who was unfamiliar with Zacharias’ apologetics ministry, said she took the information to Zacharias’ spa business partner, Anurag Sharma, and asked that they talk to Zacharias. She said the two met him at his office at RZIM, where Zacharias showed them his back X-rays as a way of explaining his need for therapy. Zacharias had spoken publicly about his chronic back problems from an injury decades earlier. 

‘He did not admit it—he became defensive,’ said Adesanya. ‘He said, “Who is this girl, what is she trying to do to me?'”

After the meeting, Adesanya said, Sharma fired the therapist who had complained. Zacharias continued coming for regular spa appointments. (Sharma did not respond to repeated requests for comment.)

Adesanya said no other therapists complained to her about Zacharias during her tenure. But she said Zacharias only went to certain therapists and often brought his own massage therapist, an Indian woman, and they would occupy one of the rooms for therapy sessions. ‘I would often have to wonder, because they would be in that room for hours. At most you’re going to have a therapy session that’s going to last an hour and half, maybe two hours tops,’ Adesanya said. ‘It would exceed two hours, if not three. … But it was never anything that was spoken of.’


While RZIM initially told Protestia when we brought these allegations forward weeks ago that they were “virtually impossible to investigate,” they have since changed their tune and are now launching a full investigation.

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RZIM Statement on Ravi Zacharias Allegations: ‘It’s Virtually Impossible to Investigate’

Several days after three of Ravi Zacharias old colleagues and employees, including his business partner and co-owner Anurag Shamra accused the renown, now deceased Christian Apologist of sexual harrasment at a Spa he co-owned, RZIM has released a statement on the incident, saying they believe the allegations to be false, and that it would be ‘virtually impossible’ to investigate them.

In a statement released to Protestia by Ruth Malhotra, Public Relations & Community Manager, RZIM commented:

We, the family and ministry teammates of Ravi Zacharias, can say that the accusations being made against Ravi do not comport in any way with the man we knew for 74 years, nor do we believe them to be true. These accusations pertain to businesses closed nearly a decade ago. While we would like to respond in more detail to these accusations, it is virtually impossible to do so at this time given these accusations were only made months after his death and were never raised during his 74-year life. 


While we appreciate receiving a statement, it doesn’t make much sense. Given that his accusers are still alive, including his business partner who has made the accusation, and in fact still lives in the same city as RZIM headquarters, it seems that the ability to investigate is not ‘virtually impossible’ but rather ‘imminently doable.’

RZIM could likewise easily interview and reach out to Steven Baughman, the one who has interviewed all three alleged victims. Furthermore, one of the alleged victims, while not wanting to have her name released publicly, said she would be willing to speak directly to Margie; Zacharias widow, about the incidents that she claims occurred.

Even if RZIM completely disbelieve the story, this is certainly more of a case that they don’t want to investigate, rather than they can’t.

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Ravi Zacharias Accused by Former Business Partner of Molesting Spa Employees

A well-known critic of Ravi Zacharias has released a video alleging the famous, since-deceased Christian apologist and author engaged in unwanted sexual behavior and sexual harrassment between him and his staff at businesses he owned, according to allegagtions by three of his past collegeues.

Steven Baughman, a lawyer who runs the well-documented website www. www.raviwatch.com and whose ministry has been chronicling the ups and downs of the well-respected man and ministry for years while using primary source data and original documentation, recounts that Ravi Zacharias was the owner of two different health spas in the 2000’s, despite being wealthy enough as to not need this sort of side hustle.

Highlighting information that was released after Ravi was embroiled in a story that involves emotional affairs, sexting, blackmail, lawsuits and suicide threats, as well as forcing the woman involved to sign a binding non- disclosure agreement (NDA) whereby Zacharia’s estate would come after her if she breached it and spoke of the scandalous interaction they had, Baughman points out that Ravi was adamant and steadfast that he was never alone with women in the same room, following the Billy Graham Rule, and yet these businesses and the services they offered afforded him the opportunity to do just that.

Confirming that he has spoken to both Ravi’s former partner and Jivan Wellness co-founder Anurag Sharma, along with two female former employees, Baughman states: “…based on my recent interview with one of his business partners and with two women who worked in the spas, what he did in those massage rooms was not just sexual, but sexually abusive.”

One of the past employees allegedly told Baughman:

“I had a close relationship with Ravi. He was a sexual pervert. I know of many women he molested. During a particular kind of treatment that did not involve the client removing their lower-body clothing, Ravi exposed himself and asked me to ‘massage around there.’

There is also testimony from Zacharias’s business partner saying that the hypocrisy coming from Ravi of preaching against sexual immorality while himself being sexually immoral with the therapists contributed to the spa being shuttered.


Baughman says that the three witnesses have shared their testimony with a well-known christian leader six-weeks ago, and that his leader has contacted RZIM leadership and urged them to investigate and respond.

We have reached out to RZIM but have not received any response at the time of publishing.

Protestia is in the process of investigating these claims, as these sorts of allegations require serious proof, and having been reached out by involved parties to take a closer look. If anyone has any information to share, either on or off the record, please reach out to us at protestia@outlook.com Confidentiality will be guaranteed.