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Bishop Earl Paulk gained the attention of presidents and preached to hundreds of thousands of people, but he may be remembered for the sex scandals that rocked the Atlanta-area megachurch he started.
Paulk, the 81-year-old founder of the Cathedral at Chapel Hill in South DeKalb County, died Sunday at Atlanta Medical Center after battling cancer for years.
In a deposition taken in the suit, Paulk said Mona Brewer was the only woman he had sex with outside of marriage. A DNA test last year showed Paulk fathered a child by the wife of his brother, the Rev. Don Paulk. That discovery led to the perjury charge.
Bishop Earl Paulk, one of Atlanta’s pre-eminent religious figures through the 1980s and 1990s, turned himself into Cobb County jail on a perjury charge Tuesday evening .
Earl Paulk, the 80-year-old leader of a suburban Atlanta megachurch turned himself over to authorities Tuesday night to face a charge that he lied under oath about his sexual affairs .
Former church employee Mona Brewer is suing Earl Paulk, his brother, Don, and the church for allegedly manipulating her into an affair from 1989 to 2003 by telling her it was her only path to salvation. In a deposition stemming from this lawsuit, Paulk lied.
A granddaughter of a preacher embroiled in lawsuits over sexual and financial wrongdoings went public this week with shocking testimony she gave months ago in a court deposition.
Timeline of Earl Paulk, the 80-year-old leader of a suburban Atlanta megachurch who is at the center of a sex scandal of biblical dimensions: He slept with his brother’s wife and fathered a child by her.
The 80-year-old leader of a suburban Atlanta megachurch is at the center of a sex scandal of biblical dimensions: He slept with his brother’s wife and fathered a child by her.