David Miscavige: Valerie Haney’s lawsuit is a publicity stunt and I want no part of it

Poor Scientology leader David Miscavige. You know, you give someone a job for years as an indentured servant out at your Worker’s Paradise on a secluded 500-acre California compound, make them cater to your every need 24 hours a day in your private quarters and blow a gasket every time your morning eggs aren’t just right, and then after demoting them, make sure they can’t leave the compound ever again to see family or friends because they know too much about you.

And then, after they escape in the trunk of a car, they sue you? What’s the world coming to?

Since Scientology’s ultimate honcho can’t imagine why his former servant and base escapee would sue him, he can only come to the conclusion that she’s taking part in a publicity stunt in order to harm his reputation.

What other reason could she possibly have?

Well, the 59-year-old Scientology pontiff will have plenty of time to ponder that as three recent lawsuits slowly make their way through the courts, including one filed by Valerie Haney, formerly his private steward at Gold Base. In a new filing from the lawsuit we have for you, Miscavige is moving to quash the service of the summons and complaint on him, which took place in October. Miscavige says the attempt to serve him papers was a “fraud,” and that the process server lied to the court about it.

But then, the motion, written by Miscavige’s attorney Jeffrey Riffer, digs into Valerie herself.

Plaintiff’s fraudulent proof of service is just her most recent stunt aimed at generating media attention and harassing Mr. Miscavige. Plaintiff alleges no facts that Mr. Miscavige engaged in any wrongdoing. But, by naming Mr. Miscavige as a defendant, Plaintiff could tell the media that she sued the leader of the religion, in an effort to ensure that the allegations were widely disseminated. This lawsuit was brought to generate media attention as leverage.

That emphasis is in the original, by the way.

Miscavige also points out that Valerie initially filed the case as a “Jane Doe,” and he says that she did it in order to generate publicity.

But then, after filing the suit, she waited 121 days to attempt to serve Miscavige, a violation of the rule that she serve it in 60 days, he says. (We don’t know if this matters or not.)

When Valerie later replaced the Jane Doe designation with her own name on an amended complaint on September 30, we thought it was a brave act. But Miscavige brings it up in order to say that it too was a publicity ploy.

(The funny thing is, even bigger lawsuits that will generate even more publicity are coming, and if Miscavige is upset now, he’s really going to be tearing his hair out later.)

He points out that well before the lawsuit was filed, Valerie had spoken publicly about her allegations. In fact, she did so in a big way in the premiere episode of Leah Remini’s third season of Scientology and the Aftermath. But so what? None of this has anything to do with quashing a process server. Miscavige just can’t help himself, and his attorneys are too afraid of him to tell him that this stuff doesn’t belong in this kind of motion.

The document then goes into the same litany of complaints about the process server that the RTC motion did, and again, it all looks like such minor complaints that we can’t imagine the court will have any trouble resolving this stuff pretty easily.

“In summary, Plaintiff never made any attempt to personally serve Mr. Miscavige. There was no due diligence. Hall’s Declaration of Due Diligence is a fraud on the court. The purported substitute service on October 17 does not subject Mr. Miscavige to the court’s jurisdiction.”

So Miscavige, with this “special appearance,” is saying that he shouldn’t be considered a defendant in the lawsuit. Well, perhaps not yet. Maybe a few more trips to the HGB building by a more wisened process server will do the trick.

Notably, however, unlike the motions filed by other defendants in this lawsuit, and by all of the defendants including Miscavige in the Danny Masterson lawsuit, there’s no request for sanctions here. Did Miscavige think that was a step too far for a plaintiff who knows him so personally well? We don’t know.

Meanwhile, the case itself has been transferred to a new courtroom.

We told you last week that Valerie’s legal team had made a peremptory challenge to Judge Teresa A. Beaudet, which they can do one time without stating a reason. So now, the case has been assigned to Judge Richard J. Burdge Jr.

We find that Judge Burdge made the news in a couple of Hollywood cases, so he’s accustomed to lawsuits that generate a lot of publicity, even if that seems to singe David Miscavige’s hide.

Here’s the document…

Haney v. Scientology: David… by Tony Ortega on Scribd

 
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Leaked document of the day

From the Mace-Kingsley Ranch documents release comes this item.

The Church of Scientology is quick to deny any connection to the Mace-Kingsley Ranch, which was started up by a couple of Scientologists. But as this leaked copy of a child’s record at the ranch shows, he couldn’t “graduate” until he’d completed numerous steps that are nothing but Scientology.

“Ruin found.”

 
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Source Code

“Once in a while, you will exteriorize a thetan and he will try to steady himself by putting a beam on the wall, and the wall will eat up the beam. The beam, you see, is very, too close to the wavelength of that wall, and the, he’ll stick….It isn’t that he’s drifted down in combating the wavelength forever, he just mocks up on that level with great ease, and he’s got a real body. He’d be visible, to some slight degree, even to MEST eyes. They’re, scare people stiff if they happen to turn around and see one of these boys, because they’re real rough-looking characters, there’s no doubt about it. Of course, they have a sort of a humor about their roughness. I ran into one, one time, that had a beautiful tail. This solid black, sort of furry, with a beautiful tail, and a cat’s face, and long electronic — this sounds like something out of a nightmare, I know — and long electronic claws. And, I asked this character a few questions, one way or the other, I mean, I exteriorized him just that way, you see, exteriorized him in his body, and I asked him to knock a piece of paper off the desk, and he simply reached over and he knocked the piece of paper all right, but he also charred it! And, he reached around a moment later and took hold of the sofa and stuck to it. He couldn’t get his hand free instantly, startled him, and he did an immediate flip back into the body. But he was quite visible to MEST eyes. It was like a dark shadow standing in the room. If you can imagine a shadow, a quite plain shadow, standing upright in the room with a quite bright set of streamers coming out of its hands, you’d have this. This is very, very strange. This fellow, by the way, was quite afraid of demons. And he’d mocked his, he had mocked himself up this way because for many centuries he had fought demons. And of course he went in and mocked up, then, the winning valence: the demons.” — L. Ron Hubbard, November 26, 1953

 
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Overheard in the FreeZone

“I think LRH’s own case got the better of him ultimately. Researched alot of processes, but did he GET ALOT? (Hell, even Hubbard’s own auditor tapes of him auditing SUCK!…he double and triple acks….invalidateive and even supercilious.) He put FAR TOO MUCH ATTENTION on NAYSAYERS. You DON’T ACKNOWLEDGE them or give them credence. ACT as if ALREADY disconnected from them. If Arnold Schwarzenegger listened to all naysayers, he’d still be in Bavaria somewhere parking trucks or driving tanks!”

 
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Random Howdy

“Third party law was specifically created by Hubbard to handle mothers-in-law.”

 
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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] When the person who certified Scientology ‘Clears’ discovered that there were no Clears
[TWO years ago] EXCLUSIVE: Scientology interrogated Danny Masterson and accuser, didn’t notify LAPD
[THREE years ago] ‘Radar’ magazine latest to peddle ‘Tom Cruise leaving Scientology’ fake news
[FOUR years ago] We’re giving thanks here in the Underground Bunker, and we hope you’ll help us out
[FIVE years ago] Scientology asks court in Monique Rathbun’s case to take note of Vance Woodward’s loss
[SIX years ago] Bizarre and Pricey! Auditing Scientology’s Operating Thetan Level 2 with Claire & Bruce
[SEVEN years ago] Florida Court Hears Scientology Testimony in Strict Secrecy
[EIGHT years ago] Scientology Leftovers: Commenters of the Week!

 
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Posted by Tony Ortega on November 26, 2019 at 07:00

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