Tammy Faye Bakker knew Roe Messner (both pictured above) well before her much-publicized split from her first husband, Jim Bakker. As The Columbus Dispatch reported in 2015, Messner had been an employee of the Bakkers' corporation and was made the chief builder for the televangelist couple's Christian theme park, Heritage USA, located at their South Carolina headquarters. By all appearances, Messner was just a colleague — that is, until Jim Bakker's fraudulent, underhanded dealings came to light in the late 1980s.
In an interview Messner gave on "Larry King Tonight" shortly following Tammy Faye Bakker's death in 2007, Messner maintained that he and Tammy grew close only after Jim was arrested and sent to prison. In an older video clip featured during Larry King's segment with Messner, Tammy herself could be seen explaining how their relationship blossomed. "I had always liked Roe," Tammy said in the footage. "I thought Roe was a really neat man. And I began to love Roe as I began to know Roe. He — that's when the spark happened to me when we really started getting to know one another."
While the pair married a year after Tammy divorced Jim in 1992, it seems that other legal woes prevented the newly-minted Messners from a happily ever after — and once again, it all had to do with fraud.
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