Jakes’ legal team filed an initial complaint in the defamation suit in November, on the day after the megachurch pastor had ...

from Jermaine Jakes, the son of Bishop T.D. Jakes.” The legal filings include an image of a Nov. 3 text message from Jermaine ...

Pastor Richard Edwin Youngblood — the older brother of Duane Youngblood, whom Bishop T.D ... Jakes' assistant, driving him around and making sure he had what he needed for ministry. He would also ...