14 Facts About Creflo Dollar

Creflo Dollar held the church's first worship service in the cafeteria of Kathleen Mitchell Elementary School in College Park, with eight people in attendance.

Creflo Dollar later renamed the ministry World Changers Church International, and the congregation moved from the cafeteria to a dedicated chapel.

Four services were held each Sunday, and Creflo Dollar added a weekly radio broadcast and the television show Changing Your World.

In October 2012, Creflo Dollar Ministries leased Loews Paradise Theater in The Bronx for a new church location in New York.

Creflo Dollar speaks at conferences and writes about his gospel of wealth and his involvement in televangelism.

In June 2012, Creflo Dollar was arrested for an alleged attack on his fifteen-year-old daughter, according to the Fayette County, Georgia, Sheriff's Office.

Creflo Dollar was accused of choking and punching the girl, a story corroborated by Creflo Dollar's older daughter, and Fayette County police released details of a subsequent 911 call.

Creflo Dollar has long been criticized for living a lavish lifestyle.

Creflo Dollar owns two Rolls-Royces, a private jet, and high-end real estate such as a million-dollar home in Atlanta, a $2.5 million home in Demarest, New Jersey, and a home in Manhattan that he bought for $2.5 million in 2006 and sold for $3.75 million in 2012.

For declining to disclose any financial information to independent audit, Creflo Dollar Ministries received a grade of "F" for financial transparency by the organization Ministry Watch.

Creflo Dollar was among six televangelists who were the subject of a 2007 investigation led by United States Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa as ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee.

Grassley asked for financial information to determine whether Creflo Dollar made any personal profit from financial donations and requested that Creflo Dollar's ministry make the information available by December 6,2007.

Creflo Dollar contested the probe, arguing that the proper governmental entity to examine religious groups is the IRS, not the Committee on Finance.

In May 2015, Creflo Dollar asked his congregation to buy him a $65 million Gulfstream G-650 jet which caused scrutiny.