![]() (“Who else wants to bang the bejesus out of Pastor Melissa Scott?” inquired one.) Already stinging from the regime change following Doc Scott’s death, some demanded her resignation. Scott’s Wikipedia page was so vandalized, it had to be removed Web newsgroups devoted to the church were overrun by users posting more damning photos. Another featured a “See you Sunday!” banner plastered across her bare chest underneath, it read: “The Church Where You Can Do Anything … Anything.” One image showed the woman with her legs spread wide, Virgin Mary and baby Jesus postage stamps covering her privates. But after her first sermon, someone anonymously mailed churchgoers Easter cards featuring snapshots of a porn star named Barbie Bridges, who looked remarkably similar to Pastor Melissa Scott. Shortly after his funeral, Doc Scott’s comely young wife assumed University’s pulpit. In his heyday as pastor, Doc Scott reportedly collected $1 million a month in donations and amassed an empire that included two horse ranches, a 35,000-square-foot mansion in Pasadena, a private plane, and a collection of luxury cars. Gene “Doc” Scott, the wildly popular “shock jock of televangelism” - nearly 40 years her senior - to complications from prostate cancer. Four years ago, she lost her husband, Dr. Scott knows a thing or two about tough roads. In unison, they bark, “Tough shoes for a tough road!” Ninety minutes later, she slips offstage and is whisked by security out of the building through a private passageway. “Before I found God’s word, when things got bad, what did I have? I had friends and family forsake me,” she cries, directing her followers to Deuteronomy 33:25. Her doe-eyed image is beamed to local cable stations - she is a late-night staple - courtesy of six TV cameras flanking the pulpit. The unlikely stunner who leads this congregation, Scott, 40, struts the stage clutching a red-leather Bible, periodically flinging her endless chestnut locks. But on any given Sunday, several hundred parishioners converge here for a rousing service that has them swaying and shouting Hallelujah!, enraptured by the low, breathless calls for salvation from Melissa Scott. Most folks drive right past the gritty stretch of downtown Los Angeles that houses University Cathedral, a former movie palace whose marquee now advertises weekly evangelical sermons. Shortly after Melissa Scott took over as pastor of University Cathedral, someone mailed her congregation Easter cards outing her as a former porn star. Gretchen Voss uncovers the true story behind Scott’s divine reinvention. Hard to believe that she was once a triple-X plaything known as Barbie Bridges. Pastor Melissa Scott presides over a televangelist empire. All while she has affairs with married men, lives better than the members of her ministry combined, and denies her past.īut in this new interview, she somewhat hints to her past leaving many to believe she’s starting to admit she was indeed Barbi Bridges.įull story at Marie Claire and also after the jump. She preaches a certain lifestyle and demands her parishioners give more money than they can. She looks down on anything having to do with the adult industry but uses God to bilk people out of their hard earned money all in God’s name. ![]() Melissa has strong-armed people and sent her lawyers after anyone who won’t take down her past adult movies and pictures. And also recently linked to a rumored former porn star. She’s been accused of dating the son of the owner of TBN, Trinity Broadcasting Network, who was divorcing his wife. ![]() Many of her parishioners feel she would have a bigger congregation if she just came clean and told the truth about her past because they feel if she’s lying about this, then what else is she lying about. She’s been criticized for how badly she treats members of her own ministry. But the stories have been out there for years and her past is widely known by everyone in the religious community but never talked about. ![]() Melissa has never admitted she is Barbi Bridges. Thank you to the truth comes out for leaving this link to the new Marie Claire article!
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