Hensons Not Selling Studios to Scientlogists or Anyone Else

[Mark Jeffries]

Certain blogs have been claiming that the historic Charlie Chaplin Studios, currently owned by the Jim Henson Company, was being sold to the Church of Scientology (who already owns the former lot of PBS station KCET,  which was the lot of B picture maker Monogram before then)--the Henson family says that they are not selling the lot to anyone, including the Scientologists:

https://www.thewrap.com/jim-henson-isnt-selling-charlie-chaplin-studio-lot-to-scientology/

Chaplin made many of his most famous films at the studio--Red Skelton bought the studio in 1960 and sold it to CBS two years later, the network filming the last seasons of "Perry Mason" there--Herb Alpert's A&M Records bought the lot in 1966 and the Hensons bought it in 1999, when they still owned the Muppet characters (they sold them to a German company in 1999 and Disney bought them four years later).