There are still traveling con artist families operating today. They prey on the elderly with false “home improvement” scams, and yes, the small children are often used in the cons. How many of these kids ever take a stand to expose this?

Gortner was extremely brave to put himself on the line like that. He was raised in the “family biz”; he wanted out, he got out. He moved on and changed his life. He doesn’t need to repeat the story over and over for anyone’s entertainment.

as far as the “also curious” query, well its about what you woulda expected from the evangilicals. The whole “strayed sheep, pray for one bad apple” routine. another commom comment was “well at least the people were really saved thru him, cuz THEY had faith.” blah blah.

and Mr. Brito, I suggest you don’t ask those things of Marjoe himself. that’s the fastest way to get him to clam up (and possibly call security). He doesn’t live in the past or want to talk about it.

Thanks for the information. You’re absolutely right. I wasn’t researching very hard at all. I should have looked a bit further. But you know, I was just writing a quick blog post. Neither Wikipedia nor first few pages of Google had nothing on Marjoe since the late 90s.

What I’d like to know is what Marjoe is doing today, and you’ve already answered a bit about that. I’m also curious about the initial reaction by evangelicals to his film and the truth about him.

what exactly is it you want to know? Everyone in LA knows Marjoe. He throws the biggest parties on the planet. (for philanthopic sponsors). You ain’t nothing in Hollywood if you aren’t on marjoe’s guest list.

dude, marjoe has about 70,000 google hits. you weren’t researching very hard if you thought that was a “dead end”