"You're an evil bastard. Now put that on the nationwide. That's what you are," exclaimed TV preacher Leroy Jenkins the last time INSIDE EDITION's Matt Meagher tried to interview him
"You Satanist son of a gun. Now get out of here," he continued.
Watching his reaction after that last encounter one might assume Rev. Jenkins would want nothing more to do with INSIDE EDITION cameras. However, the preacher recently agreed to sit down for an interview, saying, "I'm not afraid of the inside or outside edition. I have nothing to hide."
Jenkins has been preaching to millions of people around the world through his crusades and TV ministry. Along the way he's collected tens of millions of dollars in donations.
"I need 20 people that will give $1,000," the Reverend says during one sermon to his followers.
Many desperate people write to Jenkins, asking him to pray for them. Attached to many of those letters is cash, sometimes a dollar, sometimes much more.
But what happens to those letters?
A couple who used to work for Jenkins's ministry tells INSIDE EDITION, "[Jenkins is] taking people's trust and their religion and he's twisting it to make money." They say they read and responded to many of Jenkins's prayer requests.
However, according to the couple, as soon as the money was collected, those letters were quickly destroyed. "Everything they sent in, pictures of their family, their father that's dying, they get shredded."
All the people who sent Jenkins money get a letter back thanking them for their contribution. In it he promises to pray for them, but the former employees say that's all a lie.
Jenkins admits shredding the letters, but he says it's to ensure the privacy of his followers. He says he does pray over some of the letters, but adds, "Anyone who has any brains at all knows preachers don't read all those letters."
Leroy Jenkins says he has the power to heal and perform miracles.
A movie was actually made about his life, starring Robert Wagner and Faye Dunaway. One scene not in the movie is his marriage to his second wife, Eloise Thomas.
Jenkins married the 76-year-old woman less than two weeks after the death of her husband of 51 years. She was whisked off to Las Vegas and she became Mrs. Eloise Jenkins, the preacher's wife.
"I did love her. She was a wonderful person," says Jenkins of his late second wife. "Anybody that knew her loved her."
Jenkins says his love had nothing to do with the fact that Eloise had won $8.9 million in the Ohio state lottery in 1992.
Instead Jenkins claims, "I tried to save her from being robbed by her family."
The Reverend moved Eloise into his home near Columbus, and a short time later money started moving out of her savings accounts. $67,000 was withdrawn in two months, and $10,000 of that went directly to Jenkins's ministry.
When Meagher questions Rev. Jenkins about taking money from the accounts of Eloise and her husband, who had not yet died, Jenkins says he did not. "No, that is not true, where's your proof?"
Meagher points out that the elderly Eloise "never had a credit card in her life. [Then] all of a sudden she has one and you're charging clothes all over town on it."
"That is a lie," the Reverend responds.
Attorney Ben Espy, a former Ohio state senator who was appointed by the courts to be Eloise's guardian, believes there is no question that Jenkins was after the 76-year-old's money. He says she was suffering from dementia when she married him.
"My only goal was to make sure that she was safe and her assets were safe," says Espy.
The marriage was annulled after just seven months on the grounds that it had never been consummated. According to the court records, Eloise did not remember she'd married the preacher, didn't know she'd gone to Las Vegas to be wed, and did not even remember how old she was.
"I don't know who informed you, but they're nothing but a bunch of liars, okay? Every one of them."