The marriages performed in the Tony Alamo Ministries are not done legally, with few exceptions. This is especially the case if one of the parties is under age. There are no licenses or any records to prove or disprove that a marriage has been performed.
As is the case with many of these totalistic groups, no marriage is performed without the consent of the leader. Tony Alamo often plays match-maker and has always required his followers to get his approval before a ceremony is performed. This is done for two reasons: Alamo needs to maintain absolute control over his followers, and who they are partnered with plays a big part in the united front. And most importantly, the legal ramifications of allowing children to marry could be catastrophic to the organization.
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In: Secrets Exposed!
Tony Alamo has repeatedly denied being a polygamist, even though he supports the idea publicly through audio messages on ploygamy that were handed out to his followers in the 1990’s. His continuous lies under oath and over the years make the validity of his statements questionable. The fact that he pled the Fifth when asked about his multiple wives and the numerous witnesses that have come forward with information to the contrary does little to persuade people to believe his side of the story.
One of the rebuttals that Alamo often uses when confronted with this polygamist accusation is “I am only married to one woman. Anyone can do a search through court records to find out the truth about it.”
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In: Sound Bites
Since Tony Alamo began practicing polygamy and including young girls as his new brides, he has maintained the same defense on the issue of the right to marry children. He justifies the marrying of children by defining any young girl who has begun menstruating as being of child bearing age, therefore they are women and of marriageable age. To those of us who have daughters who are 8, 9 and 10 years of age and in the early stages of puberty, this explanation is an outrage and meant to justify his perverse desire to be intimate with children.
These are short sound bites from Tony Alamo’s messages . These message can be heard, in their entirety, here and the older ones can be heard here.
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In: Sound Bites
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In: Tell Your Story
Los Angeles Times
June 10, 1994
Child Abuse Hearing for Evangelist Delayed Crime: A prosecutor says convicted tax evader Tony Alamo should be denied bail because he had married 15-year-old girls.
A Los Angeles hearing on child abuse charges was postponed Thursday for evangelist Tony Alamo, who remained in jail in Memphis, where a federal prosecutor accused him of marrying eight of his followers since 1993, including married women and 15-year-old girls.
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In: 1990-1999
Los Angeles Times
August 11, 1998
Susan Alamo entombed in Tulsa
Van Buren, Arkansas — Susan Alamo’s remains were placed in a crypt in Tulsa, putting to rest a years-long fight over the body.
Mrs. Alamo, the wife of evangelist Tony Alamo, died of cancer in 1982. She was entombed Monday.
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In: 1990-1999
Los Angeles Times
February 20, 1997
Cult Leader Loses Ruling Over Dead Wife’s Body
The Arkansas Court of Appeals on Wednesday dismissed on a technicality religious cult leader Tony Alamo’s appeal of an order requiring him to produce the missing body of his long-dead wife for burial.
The body of Susan Alamo, who died of cancer in 1982, disappeared from a Dyer, Ark., mausoleum owned by the cult in 1991, shortly after federal authorities moved to seize church assets for tax irregularities.
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In: 1990-1999
Los Angeles Times
October 1, 1995
Preacher Tony Alamo Told to Return Wife’s Remains
He’s a convicted tax evader and a flamboyant evangelist who once ran what authorities called a multimillion-dollar, Saugus-based cult. Now Tony Alamo is also a grave robber–at least in the eyes of an Arkansas judge, who has ordered him to lay to rest his wife’s missing 13-year-old corpse.
“It’s putting closure to it, finally,” said Alamo’s stepdaughter, Christhiaon Coie of Reseda, who sued Alamo literally over her mother’s dead body and for whom the legal decision represents a symbolic burial of her mother’s and her tortured past.
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In: 1990-1999
Los Angeles Times
March 30, 1992
Mystery Over Missing Body Stalks Tony Alamo
Lawsuit: His stepdaughter accuses the religious figure of spiriting off the remains of his fourth wife. His countersuit claims he has been slandered.
Call it a morbid sideshow, a strange offshoot to the ongoing tribulations of religious figure Tony Alamo.
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In: 1990-1999
Southwest Times Record
November 9, 1991
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Evangelist says he doesn’t have body
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In: 1990-1999
Los Angeles Times
February 20, 1991
Body of Cult Leader’s Wife Stolen From Mausoleum
Arkansas: A court order had forbidden members from taking remains of Susan Alamo. Marshals had seized the property to pay off debts.
The body of Susan Alamo, wife of fugitive cult leader Tony Alamo, was taken from a mausoleum on the cult’s compound in Arkansas after federal marshals had seized the property to satisfy a legal judgment, authorities said Tuesday.
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In: 1990-1999
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In: Humor
There have been many wonderful people whose memory we would like to honor. Unfortunately, we have names but no pictures. It is our hope that the family members and friends of the deceased would consider contributing information to this page by submitting photos of your loved one’s, as well as a few words to describe their lives to honor their memories.
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In: In Memory Of
This excerpt from the attached interrogatory over child support was filed Sept 2, 1969, Superior Court of the state of California, for the county of Los Angeles. You can click here to open and read the entire deposition.
Judy Lee Stearns, Plantiff vs.
Bernie Lazar Hoffman, Defendant
Q. Have you ever had sexual relations with the plantiff?
A. I have never had normal sexual relations with the plantiff.
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In: Legal & Court Documents
Prophecy Digest
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In: 1970-1979
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In: 1970-1979
Southwest Times Record
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) – Preacher Tony Alamo whose church once ran businesses worth millions of dollars drew a maximum sentence Friday of six years in prison on an income tax conviction. He was also fined $210,000.
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In: 1990-1999
Southwest Times Record
July 29, 1992
By Dave Hughes
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Creditors of Tony Alamo had their first chance Tuesday to question him about his assets and evangelical empire but they found it hard to pin him down.
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Southwest Times Record
June 24, 1992
By Dave Hughes
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The idea that led evangelist Tony Alamo to file for bankruptcy Monday may have been hatched a week earlier in the chambers of a federal court judge.
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Arkansas Democrat
June 23, 1992
BY LARRY AULT
Democrat-Gazette Staff Writer
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Cult leader Tony Alamo filed a $16.8 million bankruptcy petition Monday that lists $6.6 million in federal taxes and $5 million owed to the U.S. Department of Labor.
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