Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart has died at the age of 90, according to a statement on his social media. Follow Newsweek's live blog.

Jimmy Swaggart, the popular Pentecostal televangelist brought down by scandal in the '80s, died on Tuesday. He was 90 years old. Jimmy Swaggart Ministeries announced his death online on Tuesday, saying that he had "finished his earthly race and entered into the presence of His Savior, Jesus Christ."

Televangelist Rev. Jimmy Swaggart died at the age of 90, two weeks after he suffered a heart attack. The scandal-ridden reverend never regained consciousness after the medical episode in his home in Baton Rouge on June 15, according to the Shrevport Times.