announcement posted to the church’s website. “In September last year, I learned it was necessary for me to step aside as a director of all Hillsong boards during this season, enabling me to give attention to these charges,” Houston, 67, wrote in a Jan. The 68-year-old Houston has spent the past months incrementally stepping down from his various Hillsong positions before finally resigning in earlier this year. On top of the Lentz-related fallout, Hillsong’s past two years have also been defined by a separate pastor sexting scandal and the church’s founder and leader Brian Houston’s ongoing court trial regarding his alleged concealment of his father’s pedophilia. Hillsong’s NYC branch - where the Lentzs had worked - was put under investigation, Selena Gomez and other celebrities began cutting ties with the institution, a multitude of top pastors began quietly leaving for other churches, and at least one branch, in Dallas, was shuttered. As a result, both Carl and Laura were fired from the church, but the turmoil didn’t stop there.Ĭongregants began coming out of the woodwork to report varying accusations against the Australia-based prosperity gospel group, claiming it was rife with “inapprorpriate” sex, “operated like a nightclub” bestowing VIP treatment to the rich and famous, misused tithe money, demanded “slave labor” and was more “cult” than church. 2020, Lentz’s lover Ranin Karim came forward with her story of their affair.
Prior to Carl’s adultery ending the pair’s careers as top-ranking pastors at Hillsong, they enjoyed a star-studded life as New York’s religious elite and the Christian guides to A-listers. Backgrid The couple now live south of Tampa, property records revealed. Backgrid Laura Lentz is seen after dropping off her son. Backgrid Previously the couple called a luxurious LA mansion home.
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Backgrid A three-part docuseries on Lentz’s downfall and Hillsong’s scandals is set to hit Discovery Plus later this month. Backgrid The couple’s new house is certainly a downgrade from their LA digs. On her Instagram, Laura has posted numerous photos and videos of herself doing work on the home, and is now branding herself as an interior designer. And even after his infidelity rocked his - and Hillsong’s - worlds, he managed to continue living in the lap of luxury thanks to Tyler Perry: The actor put almost $100,000 toward the Lentz family’s rent in a decadent Los Angeles mansion, Page Six reported. The stand-alone house featured four bathrooms, a fireplace and a two-car garage. Mere days before news of Lentz’s affair broke he managed to sell off his family’s $1.5 million Montclair, New Jersey four-bedroom. Unlike her husband, she appeared much as she did before the scandal turned the pair’s live’s upside down. Backgrid Carl Lentz was pictured Friday sporting much longer hair. Backgrid Lentz ahead of airport check-in this past weekend.
Backgrid The ex-Hillsong pastor was fired from the church in Nov. While the open plan property features a wood-burning fireplace, patio, veranda, heated pool, fire pit and main bedroom complete with walk-in closets, ensuite bath with dual sink, glass-enclosed shower and tub, it is still quite a downgrade from the pastors’ previous addresses. The celebrity-beloved religious couple’s new $700,00 three-bedroom home south of Tampa, Fla., they bought in July 2021, is also visible. His wife of nearly two decades, Laura Lentz, also 43, was pictured dropping off Lentz at the airport and taking her son to school. The formerly chiseled Christian leader was pictured with long, unkempt curly hair and without his trademark glasses while at an airport ahead of check-in for a Friday morning flight, according to photos first published by The Sun. The photos also come just weeks before Discovery Plus is set to release “ Hillsong: A Megachurch Exposed,” a three-part docuseries on the controversial congregation.
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