The cult leader who said he was immortal succumbed - we think - to heart disease in southern France. Bourdin founded groups in the '60s and went public with the news he was the Messiah. He maintianed a small following despite notoriety gained from a series of tax problems and from accusations by female apostates that he had molested them.
Passage: Gilbert Bourdin, 74
The cult leader who said he was immortal succumbed - we think - to heart disease in southern France. Bourdin founded groups in the '60s and went public with the news he was the Messiah. He maintianed a small following despite notoriety gained from a series of tax problems and from accusations by female apostates that he had molested them.
