The lack of a strong male influence was a common thread that bound Long’s accusers and Jamal Parris revealed back in 2011 that his father was abusive and rarely present.

Parris, who wrote an open letter to Bishop Long during the scandal, said he met the bishop, whom he said he would eventually call “daddy,” when he was 14 and new to Atlanta.

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Both men said they were 17 when the sexual advances began. By then he had taken them on several trips, to Kenya, Honduras and the Bahamas, among other exotic locales, introducing them to world-famous celebrities and lavishing them with new cars and their own apartments.

Long never addressed the scandal directly, but in a sermon last year, he stated he had briefly entertained taking his own life.

[READ: Bishop Eddie Long Reveals Suicidal Thoughts… (VIDEO)]

“I had a moment…I had a moment…I wanted to kill myself and was ready,” he told his New Birth congregation, referring to a time when he said he felt “condemned from the four corners of the Earth.”

“My family loved me,” he said. “My church loved me…Regardless of what anybody said, love lifted me and carried me. And you didn’t judge me.”

Now that the mega church leader is deceased, at least 4 of his accusers will have the final say on the most trying chapter in the life of New Birth and its bishop.

What do you think about news of an Eddie Long tell-all book?