Scientology leader David Miscavige has now been served in the third of three highly visible lawsuits filed against him earlier this year, court records in Miami show.
A national legal team headed by Philadelphia-based attorneys Brian Kent and Marci Hamilton have filed lawsuits against Miscavige on behalf of Leah Remini’s assistant Valerie Haney in Los Angeles, on behalf of four women who allege that they were violently raped by Scientology actor Danny Masterson also in Los Angeles, and in the third lawsuit on behalf of a woman referred to as Jane Doe who alleges that she was sexually abused as a child at multiple Scientology or Scientology-affiliated facilities, and that her abuse was covered up in a conspiracy headed by Miscavige. That third lawsuit was filed in Miami-Dade County circuit court on Sept 18.
According to the court record, substitute service was used to serve Miscavige in the Miami Jane Doe lawsuit on October 29 at his 6331 Hollywood Boulevard address (the Hollywood Guaranty Building, where the church’s highest officials have offices on the 11th floor) and the document says that he has 20 days from that date to respond to the court in writing. Records show that the other four defendants have also been served: The Church of Scientology International, the Church of Scientology Flag Service Organization (FSO), the Religious Technology Center, and the private school Clearwater Academy.
Here are some of the allegations in that third lawsuit…
60. This abuse included, but was not limited to:
a. Multiple instances when the employee forced Jane Doe and other young girls to perform sexual acts on each other;
b. Multiple instances when the employee masturbated in the presence of Jane Doe and ejaculated on Jane Doe; and
c. At least once instance when the employee forced his penis into Jane Doe’s mouth.
61. Jane Doe reported this abuse to other employees of Clearwater Academy on multiple occasions and no action was taken to remove the employee from the school.
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64. After this time, when Jane Doe was only eleven years old, she was sent by Scientology to live in Caracas, Venezuela, without her parents.
65. During this time, when Jane Doe was twelve years old, Jane Doe was violently sexually assaulted on the premises of the Caracas Org by the adult son of wealthy, high-ranking scientologists.
66. Jane Doe immediately reported this incident to her auditor. Jane Doe’s auditor got extremely angry at Jane Doe, instead of her attacker, and subjected her to punishment as a result of the report.
67. Specifically, the Institutional Defendants “sentenced” Jane Doe to three months of hard, physical labor. Other members were ordered not to speak to Jane Doe during this time. The Institutional Defendants issued a “non-enturbulation” order against Jane Doe, which is a form of punishment warning Jane Doe that she was at risk of losing good standing with Scientology because of her actions of “bringing-in” (or causing through her own actions) the sexual assault.
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72. Eventually, in 2018, Jane Doe escaped from Scientology. After that time, the Institutional Defendants have launched a fair-gaming campaign against Jane Doe. The Institutional Defendants’ fair game attacks include, but are not limited to, tampering with Jane Doe’s vehicle, including cutting her brake lines; vandalizing her property; following her; surveilling her; and conducting hundreds of spam/crank phone calls to Jane Doe’s phone.
Of the counts in the lawsuit aimed specifically at Miscavige, he’s accused of racketeering, false imprisonment, intentional infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy, and civil conspiracy.
So Miscavige has now been personally served in all three lawsuits, and we believe that the legal team has more lawsuits yet to file.
In the few responses the church has made so far to reporters asking about the legal actions, it has maintained that the lawsuit allegations are untrue and that it will defend itself vigorously.
Judge dread
Meanwhile, there was also some action in Valerie Haney’s lawsuit. Yesterday her legal team filed a challenge to peremptorily remove the judge in the case before it really even gets started.
Under California’s code of civil procedure, the Haney team can do this once without any reason at all, so they must have not liked something about Judge Teresa A. Beaudet, who had been assigned to the case.
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Bonus items from our tipsters
Meanwhile, in Canada…
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Belleair Mission goes Ideal! Sadly, David Miscavige usually skips these grand openings, as Ideal as they are…
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“We understand God because of the Devil; we understand this, we understand that. These are double data. The basic unit of the universe is two, not one. And we suddenly announce, ‘Theta has as its potentiality the location of matter and energy in space and time, and can, as well, create space and time.’ Well, once we say that, and the same time we say it has no wavelength, it — boy, we’re really describing a beast here. This thing couldn’t possibly have any position in the real universe. And sure enough, it doesn’t.” — L. Ron Hubbard, November 14, 1956
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“Aliens used 1/4 of earth animal DNA, and 3/4 theirs from another planetary race. This may explain the wild disparity between different pictures — different places….LRH collected data from Dianetics sessions for a couple of years before he wrote History of Man. A lot of this material was amazing just for the reason that the people had not communicated to each other and had the same incidents. Hubbard really thought he had all of these things correct. It turns out that some of these were in error because of people’s concept of science (their personal belief in ape-man-evolution and use of the faked Piltdown model). Hostile authors like Russell Miller and Jon Atack seized on this to make Hubbard look bad.”
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“Hubbard had it wrong from the very beginning. Man is an animal and nothing more. Detachment from the material world is one of the main reasons humanity is destroying the material world. Spiritualism is our get out of jail free card.”
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Scientology’s celebrities, ‘Ideal Orgs,’ and more!
We’ve been building landing pages about David Miscavige’s favorite playthings, including celebrities and ‘Ideal Orgs,’ and we’re hoping you’ll join in and help us gather as much information as we can about them. Head on over and help us with links and photos and comments.
Scientology’s celebrities, from A to Z! Find your favorite Hubbardite celeb at this index page — or suggest someone to add to the list!
Scientology’s ‘Ideal Orgs,’ from one end of the planet to the other! Help us build up pages about each these worldwide locations!
Scientology’s sneaky front groups, spreading the good news about L. Ron Hubbard while pretending to benefit society!
Scientology Lit: Books reviewed or excerpted in our weekly series. How many have you read?
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THE WHOLE TRACK
[ONE year ago] Records of Scientology leader David Miscavige’s speeding tickets contain a small surprise
[TWO years ago] Tonight on ‘Leah Remini’: L. Ron Hubbard gets the Russell Miller treatment
[THREE years ago] At an early age, Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard learned how to captivate the press
[FOUR years ago] Jeffrey Augustine: Just a friendly reminder — Scientology prices are outrageous
[FIVE years ago] Classic Scientology shenanigans as class action lawsuit is filed against legal opponent NAFC
[SIX years ago] Jefferson Hawkins Drops In To See What Condition Our Scientology Condition Is In
[SEVEN years ago] Lawrence Wright’s Book on Scientology — Going Clear — Hits Bookstores January 17
[EIGHT years ago] Scientology’s Sales Pitch: “Pure and Simple Blackmail”
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Bernie Headley has not seen his daughter Stephanie in 5,628 days.
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Posted by Tony Ortega on November 14, 2019 at 07:00
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