Peter Popoff

Popoff, 76, first came to widespread fame and fortune in the early 1980s, conducting Charismatic Christianity-style revival services and televised faith healing. During many of his sermons, he would place hands on attendees and miraculously “cure” them of their ailments, though a 1986 episode of “The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson” exposed his use of a hidden earpiece to aid his abilities. Popoff’s popularity subsequently declined and he later declared bankruptcy, though the German-born evangelist has since rebuilt his ministry, which reportedly has received more than $20 million in donations during a single year.