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Speaking of religion, the wife of this disgraced pastor discovered that while married, he had an affair with this alliterate reality star.

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Celebrity Pastor Carl Lentz’s Alleged Mistress Says He Compared Her To Kardashians

Carl Lentz, the former pastor of Hillsong Church where some Keeping Up With the Kardashians stars attended services, is under fire after he was let go from his position due to an alleged months-long affair he had during the pandemic. The alleged mistress came forth with shocking revelations about their alleged fling, and somehow the Kardashians have been included in the scandal.

Many were shocked to learn of Lentz’s firing from star-studded megachurch Hillsong last week. While the church only noted “a recent revelation of moral failures” that led to his removal, one day later the former celebrity pastor took to Instagram to admit to cheating on his wife of 17 years, the mother to his three children and fellow pastor, Laura Lentz. Lentz was known for being the pastor who baptized Justin Bieber at the celebrity-filled megachurch that included superstar attendees like Kourtney Kardashian, Kendall and Kylie Jenner, Hailey Bieber, Bono, and Selena Gomez.

On Tuesday, Lentz’s alleged mistress broke her silence on the affair and detailed her experience with the disgraced pastor. “I’m here to tell the truth,” NYC-based fashion designer Ranin told the NY Post. “And maybe by doing that, other people will have the courage to speak up too.” The Palestinian NYC resident revealed how she met Lentz at a park in Williamsburg, Brooklyn back in May. After saving her phone number in the Notes section of his phone, which she noted was a “red flag,” the two met up at her apartment where they allegedly drank tequila and talked for hours. He allegedly told her “the most beautiful women come from the Middle East.”

She went on to do a background check on him and even asked him if he was married, which he admitted. She shared how much he talked about his wife and how guilty he felt about their relationship. But according to Ranin, he called her his “Middle Eastern unicorn woman” and told her she reminded him of his friends, the Kardashians, something that rubbed her the wrong way. “I don’t like when people drop names.” She went on to call Lentz out for being “a professional narcissist” who “lies too much.” However, by September, she claims they started seeing each other more than twice a week. “We were obsessed with each other,” she said. “He was like a drug to me. I was a drug to him.” – Source

Carl Lentz and the Trouble at Hillsong

In mid-November 2020, a crisis manager from the public relations firm Sunshine Sachs took on a new client: Carl Lentz, former head of Hillsong Church’s four locations in the American Northeast. Hillsong is an Australia-based megachurch that averages more than 150,000 weekly congregants at satellites in 30 countries. It is also a multimedia conglomerate that produces documentaries, books, and chart-topping musical acts. After joining Hillsong as head pastor of the New York outpost in 2010, Lentz quickly became the church’s most recognizable face. Liberally tattooed, elaborately coiffed, and often dressed like a teenage hypebeast, Lentz, 42, achieved mild mainstream fame based on his proximity and access to the millennial celebrities in his flock: Justin and Hailey Bieber, Vanessa Hudgens, Kevin Durant, Selena Gomez. Tens of thousands of urban evangelical professionals followed Lentz for his soaring sermons at weekly services that resembled rock concerts.

But in late 2020, Lentz needed a new path. On November 4, Hillsong’s global senior pastor and founder, Brian Houston, publicly fired Lentz and his wife of 17 years, Laura, pointing to “leadership issues and breaches of trust, plus a recent revelation of moral failures.” On Instagram the next day, Carl Lentz paired a photo of his family decked out in formal attire at the Biebers’ wedding with a confession:

On November 9, Ranin Karim, a 34-year-old jewelry designer and actor with a septum piercing and her own sleeves of tattoos, described a monthslong tequila-drenched love affair with Lentz in interviews with The Sun, the New York Post, and others. She said Lentz introduced himself as a sports agent in Williamsburg’s Domino Park and called her his “Middle Eastern unicorn woman.” Laura Lentz discovered the affair after a Hillsong staffer saw Lentz’s messages on his office computer. With the tabloids feasting on his humiliation, Lentz’s new P.R. advisers believed his return began with three months out of public view, followed by a news cycle dominating mea maxima culpa—perhaps, as suggested for a time, in this magazine.

Having recently sold their home in Montclair, New Jersey, the Lentz family moved to a grand Spanish-style home with a terra-cotta roof and ocean views in Manhattan Beach, California. Entertainment mogul Tyler Perry reportedly paid their $16,000 monthly rent. News of the relocation shocked Hillsong NYC congregants, who felt the Lentzes had just picked up and left. They changed their cell phone numbers, updating only a select few friends, according to one. – Source