God loveth a cheerful giver. Jimmy Swaggart, start smiling.
The TV evangelist agreed to pay $1.85 million to end his mudslinging battle with fellow preacher Marvin Gorman.Gorman sued Swaggart for defamation, seeking $90 million, after the two swapped sexual misconduct allegations in the 1980s. Gorman won a $6.6 million verdict in 1991, but an appeals court overturned the award.
A settlement was announced in February, but no details were released then. It was approved earlier this month.
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Gorman said Swaggart and his allies spread false rumors of numerous affairs in the mid-'80s to destroy Gorman's New Orleans-based TV ministry. Swaggart fell from grace after Gorman had pictures taken of him with a prostitute outside a seedy motel in 1987.