Creflo Dollar (28 January 1962-) was an American televangelist from College Park, Georgia. He garnered controversy for domestic violence and for his embezzlement of church funds to buy a private Gulfstream jet for himself.
Biography[]
Creflo Augustus Dollar Jr. was born in College Park, Georgia on 28 January 1962, and he founded the World Changers Ministries Christian Center in 1986. He held four Sunday services and founded a weekly radio broadcast, and he moved his church into the 8,500-seat World Dome on 24 December 1995. By 2007, his church had 30,000 members and a revenue of $70 million, and, in June 2012, he was arrested for punching his 15-year-old daughter for attending a party. He also came under fire in 2014 for purchasing a $60 million Gulfstream jet, which he claimed he would use to help the ministry of his nondenominational church; he preached the controversial prosperity gospel.