Scientology Investigation of South Park the Last Straw for Katie Holmes: Aussie Magazine Report

Tony Ortega

October 31, 2011

An Australian gossip magazine is reporting something about Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise which is probably about as reliable as most of the stuff written about Tom and Katie by similar tabloids here in the U.S.

So why would we care what a supermarket tab from the other side of the world is saying about Katie?

Well, the magazine’s reporting appears to be based at least partly on our stories from last week, and says that Katie is steaming mad about Scientology’s creepy South Park investigation, enough to walk out on her Scientologist hubby.

In other words, at least one publication in the world has gone and done the incredible: given the Village Voice credit for splitting up TomKat!

Aussie journalist Bryan Seymour sent us news this morning that New Idea had put the Holmes-Cruise story on its front page. From the magazine’s website:

SHOCK SHOWDOWN: KATIE WALKS OUT ON TOM
An upset Katie Holmes has stormed out on her husband Tom Cruise following explosive allegations the Church of Scientology has been spying on Hollywood stars – including ‘going through their trash’ to find ‘vulnerabilities’. The actress, who is tired of her struggling film career being overshadowed by bizarre claims about her husband’s religion, finally flipped after embarrassing Scientology internal documents surfaced online last week. The upsetting claims resulted in a fiery showdown with Tom that left Katie fuming. ‘Katie was in such a bad mood about it all that she ended up bickering with Tom,’ an insider reveals.

Well, we know how these “insider” accounts in the supermarket tabs go. Maybe it’s true, and maybe it isn’t.

All we know is, Katie Holmes ought to be fuming mad after reading our stories last week, which showed that her hubby Tom’s church reacted to the ribbing it got in a 2005 South Park episode by targeting the show’s creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, as well as the animator duo’s friends and employees for the typical Scientology retaliatory investigation routine, including private investigators snooping into their lives and sifting through their trash. (Links to all six of our stories last week: 1. The South Park investigation is revealed in secret Scientology documents. 2. More internal church documents show the extent of the operation. 3. Scientology responds in typical fashion. 4. Filmmaker Lloyd Kaufman confirms he was pumped for information, as the documents suggested. 5. Journalist Mark Ebner was also investigated for working on the episode. 6. Private investigator Mark Chauppetta reveals what Scientology PIs are looking for in your trash.)

We’re expecting to have more material this week on Scientology’s targeting of South Park, and Katie Holmes will want to pay close attention: additional documents spell out her husband’s role in the operation.

The Top 25 People Crippling Scientology
#1: L. Ron Hubbard
#2: David Miscavige
#3: Marty Rathbun
#4: Tom Cruise
#5: Joe Childs and Tom Tobin
#6: Anonymous
#7: Mark Bunker
#8: Mike Rinder
#9: Jason Beghe
#10: Lisa McPherson
#11: Nick Xenophon (and other public servants)
#12: Tommy Davis (and other hapless church executives)
#13: Janet Reitman (and other journalists)
#14: Tory Christman (and other noisy ex-Scientologists)
#15: Andreas Heldal-Lund (and other old time church critics)
#16: Marc and Claire Headley, escapees of the church’s HQ
#17: Jefferson Hawkins, the man behind the TV volcano
#18: Amy Scobee, former Sea Org executive
#19: The Squirrel Busters (and the church’s other thugs and goons)
#20: Trey Parker and Matt Stone (and other media figures)
#21: Kendrick Moxon, attorney for the church
#22: Jamie DeWolf (and other L. Ron Hubbard family members)
#23: Ken Dandar (and other attorneys who litigate against the church)
#24: David Touretzky (and other academics)
#25: Xenu, galactic overlord