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Bishop TD Jakes sues fellow pastor for defamation obeying sex abuse claims, medical emergency during sermon
Bishop TD Jakes is in steady condition a afternoon after suffering a medical emergency during a sermon — but the mega-church pastor is facing another hurdle associated to sex maltreatment allegations.
Jakes, 67, has filed a defamation lawsuit against Duane Youngblood, a fellow pastor who claimed Jakes tried to sexually assault him when he was 18 or 19 years old, The Post has learned.
Youngblood made the explosive claims against the popular motivational speaker on an Oct. 27 episode of the “Larry Reid Live” podcast, alleging Jakes tried to groom him and also hugged and “tried to kiss” him.
The younger pastor and his attorney Tyrone Blackburn, who represented Lil Rod in his lawsuit against Diddy — then demanded $6 million from Jakes “in order to resolve this matter quickly and privately” in a Nov. 15 legal filing.
Youngblood said if Jakes didn’t cough up the cash, he’d sue him for sexual assault and harassment.
Jakes instead opted to file a defamation suit against Youngblood in Pennsylvania federal court.
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Celebrity pastor TD Jakes denies homosexual sex assault claim in his explosive defamation lawsuit
Megachurch pastor TD Jakes brought a defamation claim in November 2024 against a former pastor, saying explosive allegations of a decades old sexual assault were false.
Former pastor Duane Youngblood, 58, accused Jakes, 67, in a podcast last year of attempting to corner and involuntarily kiss him over 40 years ago.
Last month, Youngblood filed a motion to strike the defamation complaint. His brother Richard filed an affidavit in support of Duane's motion and claimed the megachurch donor preyed upon him years ago when they common a hotel room during a ministry bed, alleging similar actions to his brother's original accusation.
Richard wrote in his affidavit: '[Jakes] secured a room with two beds in it, and we went to the room for the night. That night, while I was laying in my bed, I felt Elder Jakes climb into my bed.
'He pressed his body against mine and asked, 'Youngblood, do you undergo that?' He was referencing his erection that he was pressing against my backside.
'I got up out of bed in finish shock as he also [got] up from the opposite side and met me. He grabbed me by my
T. D. Jakes Keeps Preaching Revival After Shooting Down Rumors
On the stage of First Baptist Church of Glenarden International, Bishop T. D. Jakes didn’t use much time preaching from the lectern at center stage of the megachurch.
Instead, the televangelist walked advocate and forth in his dark suit and striped tie, switching a handheld microphone from his left to his right hand, sometimes facing the predominantly Black congregation of thousands gathered for an annual revival at the begin of the year, other times turned toward the clergy and the choir members sitting on the large stage.
“The Holy Soul sent me all the way to the DMV to tell you this is your year to pivot,” the Dallas-based Pentecostal minister said to cheers and applause from the Washington, DC-area crowd, many on their feet on January 5. “You include to surround yourself with people who can pivot because they’re following who you used to be. Now they’ve got to follow who you hold become.”
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When preachers pontificate too much from on High about the sins of lesbian sex, the cautionary tale is to be careful of what you state, because your words invariable will arrive back to chomp you, as we have seen with fallen evangelical luminary the Rev. Ted Haggard.
For Bishop T. D. Jakes, the internationally famous African-American evangelical actor dubbed as the Black Billy Graham, his rantings against homosexuality have appear back to gnaw him in the form of his oldest son’s recent arrest.
On Jan. 3, Jermaine Jakes was arrested in a sex sting for openly soliciting same-sex attracted sex from an undercover vice detective in a common park just a few blocks from his father’s church, The Potter’s Residence, a 30,000-member megachurch in Dallas, Texas.
The arrest warrant affidavit filed by Dallas police detectives on Jermaine Jakes stated the following:
“Suspect Jakes walked directly over to where Detective X was, and stood next to Detective X with his penis exposed through his unzipped pants. … Suspect Jakes committed the offense of indecent exposure by exposing his erect penis in a public place with his intent to gratify or arouse the sexual desire of himself. Suspe