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."

Swaggart went into cardiac arrest recently, and his ministry provided an update on what happened to him.