Megachurch Pastor TD Jakes brought a slander claim to a former preacher in November 2024 and said that explosive allegations of a decades of old sexual attack were incorrect.
Former preacher Duane Youngblood, 58, accused Jakes, 67, last year in a podcast of an attempt to kiss corner and involuntarily more than 40 years ago.
Last month, Youngblood submitted a motion to submit the slope. His brother Richard submitted a sworn explanation to support Duane's motion and claimed that the Megachurch donor had hunted him years ago when they shared a hotel room during a ministerial bed, who claimed a similar behavior as the original accusation of his brother.
Richard wrote in his statement: '[Jakes] Secure a room with two beds in it and we went to the room for the night. That night, while I was in my bed, I felt Elder Jakes climb into my bed.
“He pressed his body against mine and asked:” Youngblood, do you feel that? “He referred to his erection that he pressed against my back.
'I was out of bed in complete shock like him [got] From the other side and met me. He grabbed me by my arms and pulled me towards him and started kissing me. At the moment I can't believe what happens to me. '
Jakes denied the first allegations that gave rise to his defamation claim and those of the brothers, to support the motion to stop.
He burned their claims a 'campaign of lies' and said that the brothers were trying to squeeze $ 6 million from him, and insisted that he never cherished the desirable desires for these men.
Megachurch Pastor TD Jakes has denied explosive accusations of sexual abuse against a few pastor brothers decades ago
Jakes, 67, submitted a defamation about a statement by former pastor Duane Youngblood (right), 58, more than 40 years ago, before his older brother Richard Edwin Youngblood Sr. (left), 62, his own allegations in a sworn declaration last month
Jakes, depicted with chattered music mogul sean 'diddy' combs, said that the allegations were a 'campaign of lies' and insisted that he never cherished the carnal desires for these men'
Jakes has estimated a net value at more than $ 20 million and is best known as the senior pastor at The Potter's House, a Megachurch in Dallas, Texas, the 10th largest in the US with a weekly presence of around 17,000 people.
He is in favor of sexual abstinence in his teachings, and in 2015 President Barack Obama praised him and told variation: 'What makes Bishop Jakes special, that is, regardless of your station in life, he is to speak to you, with you To pray, to pray with you, and to see you as an equal in the eyes of God. '
Richard Youngblood's explanation about his alleged experience in a hotel was submitted to support the motion of his younger brother Duane to submit the slope, where several other men also sworn stamps that would support Duane's claims would support.
After serving in prison for the sexual violation of a minor, Youngblood came forward for the first time in October in Podcast interviews with Larry Reid with claims that Jakes attacked him when he was 18 or 19 years old.
He claimed that the attack came after he spoke with Jakes for about two hours in the house of an older female spiritual, then Jakes then tried to kiss him.
The next morning Youngblood claimed that Jakes called his house and, while he was 'in a bathtub', meant that he wanted a relationship.
“He says to me, without any hesitation:” There are three things I need to do. The first is, when I come to Pittsburgh, you become the only person I sleep with, “” Youngblood claimed to make Reid.
'The second is, you can't sleep with anyone else because I don't want to give my wife anything. And third, I will take care of you for the rest of your life. '' '
Days later Jakes said Youngblood's lawyer sent him a letter who demanded $ 6 million “to resolve this issue quickly and private, otherwise he would introduce a lawsuit against Jakes for sexual violence and intimidation, reports the Christian post .
Jakes, seen with Steve Harvey in 2009, claimed that the allegations of him that the brothers sexually abused the brothers were an attempt to squeeze him and more defamatory
Jakes has estimated a net value at more than $ 20 million, and is best known as the senior pastor at The Potter's House, a Megachurch in Dallas, Texas, which is the 10th largest in the US with a weekly presence of around 17,000 people
Jakes said that the statement “was not only ridiculous, it's a lie with a bald face.”
'To be clear: while I occasionally traveled to Pennsylvania around 1986 to preach in area churches that were part of the Greater Emanuel International Fellowship Network, I never tried to grab, grab or kiss teenagers in the bend, grabbing, grabbing or kissing , “wrote Jakes.
'I never called Duane Youngblood to introduce him for sex in exchange for financial support. And I have never cared for, sexually abused, sexually abused and busy with predatory behavior of sexual nature to Duane Youngblood. I never apologized for Youngblood for such a behavior because it didn't happen. '
In the motion, Duane claimed to hit Jakes' defamation that he since came to the fore last year, “has received threats from people associated with the claimant, including his son.”
In response to the motion, Jakes fervently denied the allegations against him and he served a statement of eight pages in his answer to the motion to reject his defamation to them.
'I have assessed the sworn statements by Duane Youngblood and Richard Youngblood to support the motion to dismiss. The statements in these sworn statements claim to describe situations in which I cherished the desirable desires for these men. These statements are conscious and flagrant untrue, “he wrote.
Jakes, seen with radio presenter Charlamagne Tha God, said in a sworn explanation that he “never tried to grab teenagers, grab or kiss”
'I was divested by these defamatory accusations and the after -letter of $ 6 million that I received from Duane Youngblood's lawyer, Tyrone Blackburn.
'For years I advised to ignore the constant flow of low-level smears against my reputation.
“The emotional and physical toll of this coordinated lies campaign, designed to damage my reputation and inheritance, has become overwhelming.
'The pain that it caused my 43 -year -old wife and my five children I have always loved and fed, is just too much to wear. Every person has a breaking point. I have reached mine. I have authorized this lawsuit because I can no longer remain silent. '
Jakes also said that Richard made his claims because he tried to take revenge for Jakes who refused to give him a job.
'He has not been able to keep a job, he has several children with different women and a crime conviction for not paying child benefit. It is difficult to respect a man who does not take care of his children, “Jakes said in his statement.
'In all my years I have never initiated a lawsuit against someone. We have filed this lawsuit against individuals who were supposed to be men of God, but that are clearly not. '
