Shear’s sister, contacted in New Orleans, said a lawyer had advised her not to comment. She said it was foolproof if she said it happened at her house.″ ‘It’s only a matter of time before someone jumps on that band wagon. ″She saw the issue with Debra Murphree (and said). ″She told my sister it was all concocted,″ Shear said in a telephone interview from Los Angeles. Rhonda Shear, co-owner of ″Hot Lines,″ a strip-tease telegram service that employs Kampen in New Orleans, said her sister, Nona, told her that Kampen made up the story after seeing the Penthouse account of Murphree’s relations with Swaggart. She was reported to be in New York for promotional appearances about the article and could not be reached for additional comment. Kampen, 38, was quoted in Penthouse as saying Swaggart gained her trust with his counseling, then emotionally manipulated her into acting out sexual fantasies. ″The things she reports Swaggart made her do are very similar to the story of Debra Murphree. ″The fact that she was with Swaggart has been corroborated by her husband and others in Louisiana,″ the statement said. Penthouse spokesman Sy Presten issued a statement for publisher Bob Guccione saying the magazine stood behind the story. ″We now know that they already knew and did not care that it was a lie.″ ″Our attorneys learned of this fraudulent story in December and had clearly shown Penthouse and its porno writer, Art Harris (the author), that the story was untrue,″ Swaggart said.
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I have never met or seen the woman,″ Swaggart said at a news conference at his ministry headquarters.
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″There is not one shred of truth to these allegations.
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Those allegations led to Swaggart’s ouster from the Assemblies of God, a Pentecostal denomination, and a major downturn in the fortunes of Jimmy Swaggart World Ministries. The allegations by the woman, Catherine Mary Kampen, are similar to those levied last year by a prostitute, Debra Murphree. The stripper’s employer labeled the woman’s allegations, detailed in the magazine’s current issue, ″a pornographic fairy tale.″ As Swaggart threatened to file a libel suit Monday, the magazine said it was standing by its article. (AP) _ Television evangelist Jimmy Swaggart has accused Penthouse magazine of trying to destroy his ministry through a ″diabolical and slanderous″ story in which a stripper says she performed sexual acts for him.