![]() ![]() I went on other dates to try to forget him and he said he had counselling to break the spell of me and be cured but it didn’t work.” “He said the sex we had was the best he’s ever had in his life and he couldn’t stop being with me.” ![]() Ranin is a 34-year-old designer from New York City. “When I found out he was married, I told him repeatedly ‘go back to your wife, go back to your family,’ but he kept turning up in the lobby of my apartment block with bottles of Clase Azul tequila for us to drink,” she told The Daily Telegraph. “We commend her for her courage and have assured her of our utmost compassion in their journey forward,” they wrote, adding, “As a church, we are committed to learning more about how to identify such trauma and bring meaningful support to anyone who has experienced it.Daily Telegraph Carl Lentz: Mistress shares sex secrets in Hillsong pastor affairĬarl Lentz’s mistress has revealed some of their most intimate moments and what the former Hillsong pastor told her when his affair was exposed to the world.Įxclusive: The mistress of former Hillsong pastor Carl Lentz has told how she believes he used their affair to subconsciously jeopardise his marriage and career telling her when he was fired from the megachurch, “I’m finally free now.”įashion designer Ranin Karim says the man who baptised Justin Bieber was looking for an escape out of his “boring” 17-year marriage and is deeply regretful for the hurt she brought to his Sydney-born wife Laura and their three children. In a statement on Hillsong’s website, the Houstons said they heard about Kimes’s allegations in the course of the East Coast investigation. (He later deleted the tweet and apologized for it.) He added that he “wasn’t aware of the moral failures until late last year.” Houston recently tweeted that the assault by Jason Mays was a sad story and that the victim had been previously abused at her father’s church in Pennsylvania. In November, Houston announced an investigation of the Hillsong East Coast locations that Lentz led, and in February, he said the investigation was complete, though the results were not publicly disclosed. ![]() In 2018 a group of Hillsong volunteers emailed the Lentzes and the Houstons claiming that church staffers were engaging in unchecked sexual misconduct and bullying. ![]() “Human Resources, whistleblower policies, or any sort of ‘safe place’ to share concerns.” “We were growing so quickly that we didn’t really have the things that are supposed to protect against situations like this,” Kimes wrote in her statement. Former congregants have said that, in part by instructing volunteers not to talk to or look at Lentz, Kimes helped maintain his status in the church. reported in February, Kimes paid a former Hillsong College student $150 a week to look after her own daughter. Hillsong founder Brian Houston fired Lentz over what he said were “moral failures”-including, most explosively, Lentz’s cheating-and has claimed in public statements and a recent interview on the Today show that Lentz’s behavior was an aberration for the church.Īfter Lentz’s firing, Kimes and her husband appeared in several reports about Hillsong’s labor practices. The Grammy-winning group Hillsong Worship, one of the church’s three musical acts, recently broke the record for a Hillsong streaming debut in the U.S. Every time, I froze.” A legal representative for the Lentzes told RNS that the two “vehemently deny the allegations and, in addition to that, have irrefutable proof the events did not happen as they are being described.”Īside from its celebrity congregants, Hillsong, which was founded in Australia in the 1980s and now has 131 locations across the world, has bolstered its visibility with a vast multimedia operation. She wrote in her statement that “I was physically violated by his unwanted and repeated sexual touching of my intimate areas. I also felt so ashamed and I had been told not to say anything or tell anyone,” Kimes told Religion News Service, which first reported the allegations. She wrote in a statement on Medium that during the seven years she spent as a nanny for Lentz and his wife, Laura, “I was subjected to manipulation, control, bullying, abuse of power, and sexual abuse.” Leona Kimes and her husband, Josh, both worked under Lentz at Hillsong NYC and are currently pastors at Hillsong Boston. Lentz, who garnered fame for himself and Hillsong via his friendships with celebrities, led the church’s locations on the East Coast until his firing in November. Following months of scandal surrounding Hillsong, a pastor at the megachurch alleged on Monday that Carl Lentz repeatedly sexually abused her and threatened her during conversations about his conduct. ![]()
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