By Leonard BlairChief Reporter Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Now living in separate homes more than 60 miles apart, Suzanne Hinn, the wife of controversial prosperity preacher and televangelist Benny Hinn, filed for divorce from her estranged husband last Friday, according to court records.

The filing in the Hillsborough County Court in Tampa, Florida, and first reported from the Trinity Foundation, shows the televangelist having an address in Palm Coast, Florida, while his wife has listed a home in Longwood, Florida, valued at more than $1 million.

Matthew Wilson, Suzanne Hinn's attorney, who works with Anton Garcia Law in Tampa, was not available for comment when his office was contacted by The Christian Post on Tuesday. It was unclear how long the couple had been living apart or why Suzanne Hinn filed for divorce from the 71-year-old. This isn't her first time breaking up with Hinn, though.

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In February 2010, Suzanne Hinn served her husband with divorce papers in California's Orange County Superior Court, citing “irreconcilable differences” after 30 years of marriage. They were first married on August 4, 1979, and have four children together.

In the summer of that year, the National Enquirer photographed Hinn leaving a hotel room with fellow televangelist Paula White, according to Charisma. Hinn would later reveal that he and White had a “friendship” that was over and not an “affair”, as claimed by the National Enquirer. The Enquirer report claimed that Hinn and White spent three nights in a five-star hotel that the televangelist booked under an alias.

“No immorality. These people over there sound like we had an affair. That's a lie,” Hinn told followers at a crusade in California.

Hinn said the Vatican made him a Patron of the Arts, and he took White to Rome because he wanted her to become an organ donor to help preserve the Vatican's art collections.

“I let her come with me to Rome so she could donate money,” Hinn said. “That was stupid of me. And for that, I do apologize.”

Hinn and his wife later divorced, but in 2012, he announced their reconciliation. He also claimed that their divorce was precipitated by Suzanne Hinn's addiction to prescription drugs.

“Suzanne began taking certain prescription medications to help her deal with some of her personal struggles. She became dependent on those for nearly 15 years, and those medications caused her to behave erratically at times,” Hinn wrote. in a message on the website of his ministry. “As her husband, I did not know the extent of her addiction to these medications, nor did I fully understand how much damage they caused her, physically and emotionally.”

The couple remarried in 2013 at the Holyland Experience in Orlando, Florida, in front of an audience of 1,000.

Hinn, who claimed to have given up the prosperity gospel about five years ago, stating that the “Holy Spirit is just fed up with it”, recently warned that the world is on a collision course with its darkest days ever, and only those who give. money to the work of the Lord, especially to his ministry, will be protected financially.

The gospel of prosperity teaches, among other things, that believers have a right to the blessings of health and wealth, and they can obtain these blessings through positive confessions of faith and the “sowing of seeds” through the faithful payment of tithes and offerings. Many, such as the Lausanne Movement, said such teachings were “false and seriously distorting the Bible” and “unethical and unchristian”.