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Here’s an interesting exclusive story from Mother Jones: Rev. Sun Myung Moon—the founder of conservative paper The Washington Times—reportedly had a secret love child who he made Bo Hi Pak — his right-hand man, Washington Times’ founding president and publisher — raise as his own.

Rev. Moon, who rose to wealth and power as the founder of of the South Korea-based Unification Church — which “claimed to be on a divine mission to salvage humanity by rebuilding the traditional family” — launched the Washington Times and other media outlets to promote the church’s conservative politics and family values. Family values that Moon, you know, didn’t actually take seriously, if you believe today’s report.

The child, named Sam Park, is now 47, and lives in Arizona with his 77-year-old mother, Annie Choi. According to Mother Jones, Choi along with her mother and sister joined Moon’s church in the 1950s, when it was still regarded as something on an “erotic cult.” After Moon started preaching clean family values—including that sex outside of marriage was one of the worst sins one could commit—he was reportedly engaging in that sin outside of his own marriage. One of his mistresses was Choi, who became pregnant with Moon’s child. To protect his reputation, Moon reportedly kept the pregnancy a secret and had Pak’s family raise him.

This news could have destroyed the fledgling American movement, but Moon and Pak made sure that didn’t happen. Choi says Moon instructed her to hide her pregnancy and give the child to the Pak family to raise. As he traveled Asia and Europe over the next few months, Moon sent Choi a string of tender postcards, praising her “noble heart” and giving additional instructions, including what to name the baby: “Deliver the message to Bo Hi [Pak] and his wife to use Kyung.”

According to Choi, the Paks, who already had five children, pretended they were expecting another. Mrs. Pak stuffed her midsection with an expanding mound of cloth diapers to mimic pregnancy. When Choi went into labor, Pak drove her to a Washington, D.C., hospital and passed her off as his wife. The Paks were even listed as the child’s parents on his birth certificate. (Lawyers for Bo Hi Pak and his wife, who now live in Korea, did not respond to interview requests.)

Now, Park and Choi are trying to get a piece of Moon’s massive fortune—$20 million to be exact (the whole money trail of their journey is bizarre and fascinating). Moon died in 2012, at age 92. Park and Choi’s attempts in court haven’t exactly been fruitful though, but they’re hoping going public will help them get what they say they’re owed and put their painful past behind them.