Donald Trump Ordered to Stop Playing Issac Hayes Music

Last month the estate of Isaac Hayes filed a cease and desist notice demanding the Donald Trump campaign for president stop using his music [click here if you missed that].

An injunction has been granted...

Issac Hayes Estate Presses Trump Campaign

Last week The Estate of Isaac Hayes sent a cease and desist notice to the Donald Trump campaign demanding they stop playing his music at Trump rallies [click here if you missed that].

Now The Estate is moving forward...

Issac Hayes Hits Trump Campaign with Cease and Desist

The Estate of the late Isaac Hayes has sent a cease and desist notice to the Trump campaign, demanding they stop playing his music at their rallies...

The Late Isaac Hayes' Home

has been foreclosed on and will be sold on the courthouse steps next month. His estate is in default on a $1.1 million loan on his 7,205-square-foot home. The house sits on 2.88 acres in the Bluffs of Riveredge subdivision, just east of Forest Hill-Irene Road in Cordova.

And So It Begins

Soul legend ISAAC HAYES' family is set to launch legal action to retrieve the rights to his hit songs. The singer's back catalogue, which includes classics such as Do Your Thing and theme from Shaft, was sold for $30,000 on the orders of a court following his bankruptcy in 1976. Now his relatives are planning to recover the rights to the material - which is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in royalties - to provide financial security for his widow and two-year-old son. An elder son, Isaac Hayes III, says, "He definitely was done wrong. I'm very passionate about that (providing security for the family). If that means me trying to get my father's material back, I'm all for it."Hayes' attorney, Allen Arrow, says, "I can't rule out litigation... I would hope that we can retrieve a good part of what he lost." And Lance Armstrong, president of Rondor Music, which owns the publishing rights to Hayes' songs, added: "He lost millions, and it was morally and ethically wrong to take it from him. He was devastated."The soul singer died from a stroke earlier this month.

Issac Hayes' Funeral

First of all, Isaac Hayes had two funerals. There was the one on Monday that was open to the public and a private one on Sunday that was organized by the Scientologists. The Sunday one was filled to the brim with celebrities including Isaac's fellow scientologists Doug E. Fresh, Chick Corea, Tom Cruise, Anne Archer and Kelly Preston, as well as his non-Scientology celeb pals Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes, Bootsy Collins, Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, Sam Moore, Aretha Franklin, Chuck D, Maurice White, John Singleton, Richard Roundtree, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson any many others. Anyway, folks are whispering about how weird the Scientology funeral was because they barely mentioned his music, no one sang any of his songs and they didn't talk about his film or television career. They say the whole memorial, if you could call it that, was mostly his Scientology pals talking about themselves while being filmed by Scientology leaders. Also, according to witnesses, the Scientology speakers and performers — there were seven in all — made little reference to Hayes’ 11 grown children, just to his wife of three years and their 2-year-old son. The snubs were so blatant, Isaac's oldest daughter Veronica, who didn’t get to speak until nearly two and a half hours had passed, felt the need to declare, "Just to clear it up, there are 11 children." Isaac's family members are also upset because he was not buried next to his grandmother, but instead buried in what they referred to as "the white cemetery."