Megachurch Pastor Joel Osteen’s wife, Victoria Osteen, is accused of assaulting a Continental Airlines flight attendant named Sharon Brown on a flight from Houston to Vail, Colorado. Sharon Brown alleges that Victoria Osteen became incensed by a stain on her first class seat and threw her into a bathroom door and elbowed her in the left breast.
The lawsuit against Victoria Olsteen looks like it should be a pretty open & shut case since the FAA has already fined Victoria Olsteen $3,000 for interfering with a flight crew member. According to the report put out by the FAA, Victoria Osteen asked another flight attendant to clean a stain off of her first-class seat and when that attendant said she was going to go get another flight attendant to do so, Victoria Osteen grabbed yet another flight attendant and showed her the seat. The newest flight attendant said she would call the cleaning people and went to the cockpit, where Victoria Osteen followed her and then assaulted Sharon Brown. After allegedly assaulting Sharon Brown, flight attendants asked Victoria Osteen to leave the plane, which she and Joel Osteen did voluntarily.
Now that Victoria Osteen is getting sued, she and her lawyer are trying to get the FAA report thrown out of the court, saying “The FAA does in all due respect an incredibly incompetent investigation”. The lawyer for Sharon Brown said the FAA did an appropriately thorough investigation.
I have previously written a post on Pastor Joel Osteen, but his wife’s brazen assault on an airline stewardess just goes too far… Victoria Olsteen is on an airplane to go to Vail (legendary playground of the uber-rich) and she just cannot tolerate a stain on her first-class seat. After all, it might get on her expensive dress. The wife of America’s most popular pastor Joel Osteen shouldn’t have to tolerate a STAIN, right?! Joel & Victoria Osteen are a shame and embarassment on the Christian faith. Joel Osteen refuses to stand up for what he believes in (or perhaps doesn’t really believe in it at all!) and his wife Victoria Osteen is a snooty, stuck-up, rich baby. Not just a rich baby, but apparently a violent one too. Victoria and Joel Osteen are the perfect match: scam artist and vicious, pampered wife.
I simply don’t understand how 42,000 people in Houston attend Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church services each week when the leadership of Lakewood Church is so obviously terrible. Victoria Osteen should be cleaning toilets for a living and Joel Osteen should be selling cheap crap at local town fairs instead of put on a national pulpit to spew their filth.
Sharon Brown is also apparently having a difficult time getting a fair jury to hear her lawsuit allegations due to the fact that Joel and Victoria Osteen are nationally recognized figures and many potential jurors are fans of Joel Osteen’s television ministries.
I find it truly unfortunate that America has sunk to such a point that Joel Osteen and his degenerate wife Victoria Osteen are our foremost spiritual leaders.
Update August 8, 2008
The NYTimes.com wrote an article on the lawsuit today about Victoria Osteen revealing more details of the lawsuit. Victoria Osteen has been accused by Maria Johnson, one of Sharon Brown’s coworkers at Continental Airlines of even being racist. Johnson claims that Victoria Osteen barged past her and other black employees to go speak to the only white employee and that Mrs. Osteen was dismissive and abusive to Mrs. Brown because of her race. Sharon Brown also called a psychologist, Shayna Patrice Lee, to testify and she said that Sharon Brown suffers from major depression and PTS because of Victoria Osteen’s demeaning and humiliating behavior. It sounds to me like Sharon Brown is reaching a little bit in her claims, but I hope this knocks Victoria Osteen’s overblown ego back into Earth’s atmosphere. What do you readers think? Is Victoria Osteen racist? Was racism a factor in Victoria Osteen’s actions?
Now this is a couple of years since I listen to the Osteen’s good and nourishing messages from Kenya. Your summons have an impact to my life and I have prescribed the same to my colleagues and they have never been the same again! They say it is just great. Keep it up and forge ahead.Dont listen to these people.
I wish people would just grow up. sounds like to me someone has it out for the osteens. just because they are doing great in life does not mean they are bad people. If people would read the bible and live it they would have just as much as the osteens. i believe that the osteens are doing great in there life and there walk for the Lord. I believe all this is just a lie of what they are saying about the osteens. some one is just trying to make some money. To the Osteens hold your head up high God is on your side, all it is the devil try to still your joy. I WILL BE PRAYING FOR YOU,YOUR FAMILY AND YOUR MINISRTY. love always your sister in CHRIST.
I wonder who the raciest may be. Would there be a lawsuit if Ms. Osteen was say Ms. Smith? If it was being tried in criminal court I would give the situation merit but in fact it is in civil court. Not a criminal matter. The fact she was fined is because she ticked off a crew member. Frankly since the cabin crew was given more authority (after 9-11) I find them to be rude often and many have forgotten that they are in a service industry they are not small town cops. I would guess when Ms. Osteen asked to have the stain dealt with Ms Brown was snip or perhaps even rude in her hurried pre departure state of mind as I have experienced personally recently. If it were not for the Osteens success my guess is that there would be no civil action. Ms. Johnson may just be tired of cleaning stains for paying customers and choose to retire on the Osteen’s ticket.
It’s something! Always something. God let Joel and his wife preach on TV and He’ll take them away if He wants to! Till then God bless you people! And I’m going to watch Osteen’s online broadcast!!!
Can u say Tammie Fae, or Gloria Copeland? Phony Osteen and his barbie doll wife will fall, guarenteed. There is only so much BS a normal, thinking person can absorb. These are phonies that add nothing to our economy and should be exposed. How come all of you fools give them money. Did the seed that you “sowed” bring you all the rewards they promised? I’ll tell you what, your “seed”, probably put the Ostenns little snot nosed soldiers in a private school and bought Mrs O a new designer dress and a botox injection. I bet Joel is really a little homo that will be caught playing with young men. They are all freaks and you fools that give money are more pathetic then them. Get a life, saved losers. I think Paula White is hot, “without walls” megachurch is in foreclosure, heard. Better sell another book. I think Paula could save her church by posing in Playboy. Now, that would be a book of hers that I would buy.
“Accept Jesus… or burn in Hell” Really?? Haven’t we evolved more than that????
Pride, Hubris, Ego, Dogma. All are merely words for Selfishness and describe the largely narcissistic attitude that, “I’m right so I get to go to heaven, but you’re wrong, so you’re not.” What kind of uninformed, isolated fool honestly still believes that they have been so blessed by either pure dumb-luck to have been born into; or circumstances to have been surrounded by; or mere fate to have blithely stumbled upon, “the only right way to salvation” – everyone else be damned. What small minded baboons still believe that there is only one way? Can’t you see how each sect even within “your way” amended its beliefs to appease the constituency of it’s time or leaders – or are you simply ignorant of its severe changes? Does it make you feel stronger, more powerful, more entitled or superior to feel your way to be the only way??? My guess is yes, probably, and there’s mountains of psychological and sociological evidence to support this phenomena – otherwise you’d have to share “the way” with another message, messenger, or form of greatness, and that would rock your smallness to its core (or the priests/kings who made the rules you blindly accept). Saying aloud, “I don’t know for certain… but I have strong intuitions and beliefs” makes you stronger, not weaker – and it certainly makes you a more loving individual.
If you want to see something which will not only build, reinforce, and justify your faith (no matter its source) watch the 12-hr series, “The Power of Myth” by wise sage and scholar to many a minister and professor, Joseph Campbell. You will realize what your intuitions have been telling you all along – that the duality, the duplicity, the metaphoric symbolism of the simultaneously beautiful and horrific (make God angry and he floods the earth kids and all) allegorical Bible tales, create a truthful-hypocrisy (love your enemy, but turn to salt for looking upon God??) which can split into 200+ sects within 2000 yrs of the Christian story alone.
C’mon folks. Get out of your rut – get over yourselves and your prejudices. Read more from sources and thinkers outside your current dogma. Not doing so is Slothful, Prideful, and Not even loving of your neighbor… and it’s just plain foolish. You may, in fact, be reinforced in your previously held views… but I highly doubt it. Expanding our little brains is a one-way trip, we will never return to exactly the same small town from which we departed but rather, we become acquainted with a grandness and mystery that we always knew was larger and more amazing that even those who came before us had been able to see.
He who is without sin throw the first stone!
I am not sure what happen, every story has 2 sides. I watch Joel every Sunday, it makes my week, and his joke always makes me laugh.
I came on here trying to get the 4 series of Hope but could not find it and this pops up.
I know the picture of her with her Eyes bugging out, talks of something not right.
But who are we to judge, we are not God. I have seen looks on her face when Joel is preaching at times and the camera catches it.
I have thought to myself, she has an attitude of being to good.
But I can’t judge her since I don’t know her. But I do hope that what happen on that plane takes care of itself, or maybe already has. If it did happen, I feel for Joel to have to go through what she did, it does not make good for him as a preacher.
I do have to watch him every Sunday, for the words he preaches, I thank God for them, they have touched my life in so many ways.
WHY IS IT THERE IS ALWAYS SOMEONE THAT HAS TO TRY TO DEGRADE SOMEONE ELSE? YOU ARE NOT TO JUDGE ANYONE. AND IF YOU ARE CALLING YOURSELF A FAITHFUL PERSON OF GOD, THEN I SUGGEST YOU THINK ABOUT THE FACT THAT ONLY GOD CAN JUDGE YOU,WHICH THE WAY I SEE IT,THERE’S A STRIKE AGAINST YOU RIGHT THERE HUH?
We need to fight the Devil together with mighty in the Sharon Brown issue. Sharon Brown need support.She needs Jesus.I will be praying for her from today onwards.What is she aiming at by letting the Devil use her.
She will not benefit from tunishing the name of Mrs Osteen.
I am afraid the Devil is working hard day and night to fight Men and women of God so many go to perish with him.He does it in so many ways including the way of Sharon Brown.We need Jesus!We need Jesus!
May the pastor and his wife not listen to these people being used by the evil one. Continue the good work you are doing. I feed on God’s word using your messages every day. I am really blessed. Thank you for your good work. Marjorie,United Kingdom.
Jesus said. if you want to be a great in God’s Kindom, you need to be a servant of all, how can be true this verse to the life of Joel Osteen..Jesus said, brothers among brothers……we are all priest…..we dont need heroes like the pagan did in their religion….
lord help them to see the light!!!
Just for ONCE I’d love to see those airy-fairy preachers and their pampered princess wives get squeezed in a coach seat on a nine-hour trip, sandwiched between a puking baby and an obese person who takes up half their seating space. Nowhere to stretch out when you’re tired, and it’s hell on your varicose veins when you’re taller than five-foot-four. Those rich preachers and their spoiled rotten wives make me SO sick! That selfish, snobbish, Jezebel will answer to God for the contempt she has shown toward poor working stiffs (Isa.3:15). The prophet Amos thunders against women like today’s skinny “fat cows of Bashan” are in for a rude awakening from God when their fairy tale comes to an ends. Instead of beauty there shall be the burning of God’s judgment and instead of sweet perfume a stink (Isa.3:16-26).
Ok I find all of this very interesting. You have Joel who thinks he is God’s messenger to the world. And you have Victoria who stands there acting all bubbly. My mother bought the Cd’s Become A Better You. After she bought them she started playing them in the car. since then she never has taken them out. She is forcing us to listen to him speak. I mean don’t get me wrong it was ok to list to them the first couple times. That was almost 6 months ago. She has fallen on th bandwagon with this bull shit that the great Joel is preaching. I cant satnd it. The man is a scam artist. Just look at him. Now tell who in the world can smile like that all the time? Can someone answer that for me please. I want to know. What does he not ever get mad at anyone? I mean we should leave them alone about the law suit. But he is scamming all of you people who believe his world is the tell and know all. He is Just some guy trying to make a buck. Now when his father started the ministry he probably didn’t know that it would get this big. He probably thoughtit would be about average size. But not like this. Okay now if Joel and the Barbie doll wife of his flyed coach instead of first class all the time and lived in a normal community and thier kids went to public school and they lived like regular people then maybe I would believe that he was doing this for God. But he is only in it for the money. He talks about eating out all the time and flying first class all the time. Why does he think people want to hear about him and the fancy restaurants that he dines at. I don’t. Do you? I ask you this what was our lives like before the great Joel and the Barbie doll came around?
First and foremost, yes the seat should have been clean. But, no doubt anyone who has worked at a job where cleaning is a necessity have missed things. But looking at the big picture, should she have acted the way she supposedly did?? Me personally, I would have politely asked it to be cleaned up, and even if the flight attendant refused, was it her job to ensure this in the first place?? Should she be blamed for an oversight on another party? If that being the case, Victoria, obviously acted inappropriately (excuse my spelling)I live in Houston and I have attended their services, I consider myself a good Christian, but did not get the full satisfaction from the sermon as I usually would from a less popular Church. With that said, I think that all should be treated equally regardless of 1st class, 2nd class or even 3rd class given the option. Yes we pay more for 1st but it does not give anyone the right to belittle those that are not as fortunate. She should face the same consequences as any one, for what she has done, if proven in a court of law, leaving her status quo behind and living up to her mistake…before the eyes of god we are all the same…what makes her any different????
Why do people have to be jealous from others? First its the job of the attendantss to make sure
they do there job right (clean seats) I am not ashamed to say I have cleanned many dirty rooms, toliets and large homes and it is expected of me to do my job right…after all some one is paying good money to be assured that all is clean. Leave the Olsteens alone…if you do not get the message of God than dont bother to watch him on TV…it is up to ALL of us as christians to read the bible pray to God and ask for forgiveness from our own sins…stop judging others its not our place… .Glory to god in the Highest AMEN
I just read this in which you called what Joel Osteen preaches “spewing filth.” You also called his wife a degenerate! I have been watching Mr. Olsteen for quite some time and read his books. EVERTHING he preaches is backed up by scripture in the Bible. That leads to the conclusion you consider The Bible “filth.” Oh, by the way = Ms. Olsteen was cleared of all charges. Witnesses on tthe plane – other passengers said the assualt never happened. The accuser on the witness stand admitted NO Dr.s found ANY physical problem or ailment due to the altercation. She delayed counseling, etc. This is a case of a woman seeing an opportunity to make money. It was revealed she had pressed similar charges way before regarding another passenger. The prejudice and hatred exhibited by you and other comments here is appalling. I did not make a decision about this incident until i got ALL the facts. It is obvious this alleged assualt never happened. You jumped to conclusions and convicted with your hate before even hearing the evidence or lack of. It is amazing how so many people here immediately ASSUMED this woman filing charges was telling the truth without hearing any evidence at all. All of you want to hate the Olsteen’s so much you just decided she was guility before proven otherwise. Listen up, people, she was cleared of these charges – the evidence demanded that be so. It was NOT because the jury was prejudiced towards the Olsteens. Ms. Brown just wqanted MONEY from the Olsteen’s. That is painfully obvious now.
man what ever u tell is lie. this blog is full oh shit, idiotic talks. this bolg should be banned
Only God really knows the absolute truth, in all the hearts, minds, and souls of everyone, and He will deal with it according to His will, and we should accept that He has a plan for everthing. To say the least, everyone is to be judged by God alone for everything they do and will be, so may we all take caution of ourselves!
The lord be lifted up above the earth,pastor esteen and his wife doing there best to encourage the whole world,becoz thats what God wants on this very end of time coz his return is near,we all need to make it to heaven and sister osteen is a Prayer warrior,doesnt matter people say,she is a woman of overcomer,BLESS THE MINISTRY AND KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK
IN GOD’S EYE SIGHT WE ALL ARE FILTHY WAGS. JESUS TOLD US TO BE SLOW TO ANGER AND TURN THE OTHER CHEEK.