Before Her Final Days, Joni Lamb Removed Doug Weiss From a $3 Million Property — Here’s Why
When Joni Lamb—the formidable co-founder and matriarch of the multi-million-dollar Daystar Television Network—quietly signed a quitclaim deed in the final weeks of her life, she did more than execute a routine piece of estate planning. She set off a legal and relational shockwave that exposed the deep fractures within one of America’s most powerful televangelism dynasties.
The property in question was a breathtaking, $2.9 million beachfront condominium in Destin, Florida. Purchased in September 2023 shortly after Joni’s highly controversial second marriage to licensed psychologist Doug Weiss, the luxury asset had been jointly owned by the couple. But just eight weeks before her death on June 17, 2026, Joni bypassed her husband, stripped his name from the title, and isolated sole ownership under her personal revocable trust.
At 81 years old, privately losing a brutal battle with metastatic bone cancer while publicly masking her condition as a “back injury,” Joni was a seasoned corporate executive. She was not naive. This calculated, quiet legal maneuvers took place against a turbulent backdrop of institutional power struggles, allegations of corporate financial misuse, and a bitter, biblical rift with her own children.