Tony Ortega is a journalist who was formerly the editor of The Village Voice. He's written about Scientology since 1995, and in May 2015 released a book about Scientology's harassment of Paulette Cooper titled 'The Unbreakable Miss Lovely.' He continues to monitor breaking developments in the Scientology world from an undisclosed location in an underground bunker he shares with four cats and one of them wrinkly Shar Pei dogs. Despite his super-secret security protections, you can still reach him pretty easily by sending him a message at tonyo94 AT gmail.com (Drop him a line if you'd like to get an e-mail whenever a new story is posted.) [Header image courtesy John Rickard]
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Scientology’s elder abuse: The legal demand that even the church couldn’t ignore

[Graham Berry does it again]

If you’ve been watching Mike Rinder’s YouTube channel, you know he’s been detailing a horrific case of elder abuse spelled out by whistleblower Mike […]

September 29th, 2023 | Category: Scientology Jurisprudence | Leave a comment
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Scientology: SCOTUS ruling says judge can’t rule on duress in trafficking lawsuit

[Justice Antonin Scalia (1936-2016) and Judge Thomas Barber]

Tampa federal Judge Thomas Barber asked both sides in a labor trafficking lawsuit to file 10-page answers to his question about contracts signed under duress, and they came in yesterday on […]

February 28th, 2023 | Category: Scientology Jurisprudence | Leave a comment

Graham Berry shares a Scientology secret with us that might explain everything

[Graham Berry shares some thoughts on Valerie Haney’s lawsuit]

We’re still getting our feet back under us after a festive holiday, but we thought we might take a look at the current status of the lawsuits facing the Church of Scientology as we start […]

January 2nd, 2020 | Category: Scientology, Scientology Jurisprudence | Leave a comment

HBO appeals in ‘Leaving Neverland’ fight with Michael Jackson estate over a 1992 contract

 Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

[Regarding this Hollywood Reporter story: HBO Taking Michael Jackson ‘Leaving Neverland’ Dispute to Appeals Court]

This is pretty interesting. Michael Jackson’s estate wasn’t happy with HBO’s “Finding Neverland” documentary, so it looked to the boilerplate non-disparagement and arbitration clauses in a wholly unrelated […]

October 22nd, 2019 | Category: Pilutik | Leave a comment

Why no one should ever join Scientology’s ‘Sea Org’

Frequent contributor Jeffrey Augustine told us he was surprised to see how some of the language in Scientology’s latest court filing — in the Laura DeCrescenzo lawsuit — dovetailed in such interesting ways with the recent explorations he’s been making into the church’s legal underpinnings. We told him to let that take him where it […]

August 15th, 2015 | Category: Scientology Studies | 1,436 comments

DOX: How Scientology ensnares the unsuspecting in a series of binding contracts

We’re getting ready for tonight’s big extravaganza in San Francisco. In the meantime, Jeffrey Augustine sent us another great piece that he cooked up from the work he’s doing over at his own site, the ScientologyMoneyProject. Take it away, […]

May 22nd, 2015 | Category: Scientology Studies | 1,707 comments

Sunday Funnies: There’s a new contract for Scientology staff workers, and we have a copy

On Sundays we enjoy showing you the Scientology mailers and fliers that our tipsters have forwarded to us. And this week, we have a real treat.

Besides a nice collection of fundraising come-ons from around the world, we also received an e-mail from a tipster who tells us that he was a member of org staff. […]

February 23rd, 2014 | Category: Sunday Funnies | 553 comments