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TONY ORTEGA
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Isaac Hayes III is getting a lot of attention today for repeating something he said years ago about how his father quit South Park — but he’s conveniently ignoring some new Scientology documents that contradict what he’s saying.
Last September, we had a bombshell story for The Daily Beast. New internal Scientology documents revealed that after the infamous “Trapped in the Closet” South Park episode that aired in November 2005, one of the show’s stars, Scientologist Isaac Hayes, was deeply offended by how Scientology had been portrayed in the episode.
Hayes’s character Chef was not in the episode, which poked fun at Scientology celebrities Tom Cruise and John Travolta and laid bare the upper-level secret information from “Operating Thetan Level Three,” the material about Xenu the galactic overlord that Scientologists must pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to learn.
But according to a memo that he wrote on November 17, the day after the episode aired, former top Scientology official Mike Rinder told his boss, Scientology leader David Miscavige, that Hayes was furious that the show had aired.
“Isaac was briefed on the show when he arrived in LA at lunch time. He was very pissed and said it explained why he hadn’t been able to reach the creators of the show, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, over the last few days,” Mike wrote.
For our Daily Beast story, Mike confirmed that he had written the memo, and that it was authentic. (Mike later died on January 5 of this year.)
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Isaac Hayes III is getting a lot of attention today for repeating something he said years ago about how his father quit South Park — but he’s conveniently ignoring some new Scientology documents that contradict what he’s saying.
Last September, we had a bombshell story for The Daily Beast. New internal Scientology documents revealed that after the infamous “Trapped in the Closet” South Park episode that aired in November 2005, one of the show’s stars, Scientologist Isaac Hayes, was deeply offended by how Scientology had been portrayed in the episode.
Hayes’s character Chef was not in the episode, which poked fun at Scientology celebrities Tom Cruise and John Travolta and laid bare the upper-level secret information from “Operating Thetan Level Three,” the material about Xenu the galactic overlord that Scientologists must pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to learn.
But according to a memo that he wrote on November 17, the day after the episode aired, former top Scientology official Mike Rinder told his boss, Scientology leader David Miscavige, that Hayes was furious that the show had aired.
“Isaac was briefed on the show when he arrived in LA at lunch time. He was very pissed and said it explained why he hadn’t been able to reach the creators of the show, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, over the last few days,” Mike wrote.
For our Daily Beast story, Mike confirmed that he had written the memo, and that it was authentic. (Mike later died on January 5 of this year.)
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The Scientology documents Isaac Hayes III is conveniently ignoring
Isaac Hayes III is getting a lot of attention today for repeating something he said years ago about how his father quit South Park — but he’s conveniently ignoring some new Scientology documents that contradict what he’s saying.
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