Even today, more than 70 years later, you will hear about L. Ron Hubbard’s near-miraculous transformation in 1950 from a modestly well known pulp fiction writer into a sensationally known expert on the human mind with the publication of his bestseller, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.
Across the country, Americans experimented with re-experiencing their time in the womb and their births with Hubbard’s odd notions of “pre-natal engrams” through hands-on counseling. It was the launch of what would eventually become the “Scientology” movement and later a “Church of Scientology” that still exists today, 38 years after Hubbard’s death in 1986.
What you tend to hear less about, and certainly nothing from Scientology which is totally silent on the matter, was that Hubbard’s sudden and impressive success in 1950 was followed by probably the worst year of his life. In 1951, his second wife Sara Northrup went public with accusations about him that are kind of amazing he survived at all.
We have referred to this numerous times, and we have always meant to dive into it a little more, and the reason we are doing it now is that our stalwart friend, the helper who dives into newspaper archives for us, sent us a bundle of things when we told him that we had a special interest in the year 1951.
We’ve put together a collection of items that appeared in American newspapers that year, and when you see them assembled this way, well, you do have to wonder how Hubbard came out of it as unscathed as he did. Give it a look and see how it hits you…
Feb 26, 1951 (LA Examiner)
Efforts of Dianetics Founder L. Ron Hubbard to reconcile with his estranged wife, Sara, yesterday kept police busy after she was reported missing under mysterious circumstances.
The strange episode was punctuated with a report that Mrs. Hubbard was whisked away in an automobile — and later, by her telephoned assurances from Yuma, Ariz., that she left Los Angeles of her own accord.
The incident was touched off Saturday when Mrs. Hubbard left the couple’s 9-month-old daughter, Alexis, at Hubbard’s Dianetic Research Foundation, South Hoover and Adams boulevard, hub of the nation-wide “mental healing” system.
Miles F. Hollister Jr., a former official of the group, told police Mrs. Hubbard — separated from her husband for several months — returned late Saturday from a hurried airplane trip to San Francisco.
Hollister said she decided to spend the night in her husband’s apartment, 1251 South Westmoreland avenue, upon finding it unoccupied. Hollister said he and a private detective were requested by Mrs. Hubbard to stay in the neighborhood.
At 1 a.m. two cars parked near the apartment and a short time later drove off — with Mrs. Hubbard beside her husband. Hollister and the detective gave chase.
They lost the Hubbard auto. The other was traced to Frank Bernard Dessler, 42, a foundation official of 128 South Camden drive, Beverly Hills.
Dessler told Beverly Hills officers that Hubbard, 39, had sought to reconcile with his wife and she agreed to accompany him to Tampa, Fla.
As police questioned Dessler, Hubbard telephoned from Yuma to say Sara had decided to return to Los Angeles by airplane. Detective Sgt. Ray Borders heard her assurances she had made the trip voluntarily.
“But my husband won’t tell me where the baby is,” she complained to the officer.
She was informed the child had been left by Hubbard and Dessler at the Westwood Nurses Registry Agency, 10838 La Grange avenue, Westwood, where they had paid for a week’s care in advance.
Vince McGonigel, owner of the registry, told police he would have to see an attorney before releasing the child.
McGonigel had reported the placement to Beverly Hills police when the men aroused his suspicions by identifying themselves only as “Mr. Olson” and “Mr. Frank” — which Dessler admitted to police were fictitious names.
Last December 18 Hubbard was fined $50 by Municipal Judge Kenneth Holaday for leaving the baby unattended in his automobile while he delivered a lecture. A 10-day jail term was suspended.
Apr 10, 1951 (LA Daily News)
Sensational charges that he had kidnaped his young wife by force and “imprisoned” their 13-month-old daughter were hurled today at L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Dianetics movement.
The accusations were contained in a petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed by Hubbard’s wife, Mrs. Sara Northrup Hubbard, 25, to regain possession of the child.
Superior Judge Mildred L. Lillie issued the writ and sheriff’s deputies were directed to serve it on Frank B. Dessler, identified as one of Hubbard’s disciples.
The petition charged Hubbard, Dessler, and Richard B. DeMille, 29, described as the son of film director Cecil B. DeMille, entered into a conspiracy last Feb. 24 to spirit the child away and abduct its mother to Arizona.
It set forth the child, Alexis Valorie, was placed in a West Los Angeles nursing home under an assumed name.
The wife alleged she was kidnaped from bed in her apartment at 1251 Westmoreland avenue and taken as a prisoner to Yuma, Ariz., by DeMille and Hubbard.
The same night, she charged, the child was taken from a nursery in Hubbard’s Dianetic Research foundation at 2600 South Hoover street and placed in the West Los Angeles Nursing Home by Dessler.
The petition described Hubbard as doing a business of $1,000,000 a year.
On the drive to Yuma, Mrs. Hubbard claimed, her husband told her that if she “really loved him she would kill herself and thus save him further bother with her.”
“Hubbard falsely accused” his wife, the petition recited, “of having injected a hypnotic solution of codium pentathol into his eyes with a hypodermic needle during his sleep for the purpose of subjecting him to her supposed hypnotic powers.”
Upon reaching the California-Arizona border, the wife charged, Hubbard forced her to sign a statement declaring that she had left her apartment with him voluntarily, had crossed the border of her own will and had sustained no injuries.
She signed the paper after he threatened to kill her and conceal the baby, he said.
They then drove into Yuma and Hubbard, accompanied by DeMille, took a plane for the east and she drove the car back to Los Angeles, the petition continued.
The wife’s attorney, Caryl Warner, said Hubbard is now believed to be in Wichita, Kan., or Elizabeth, N.J.
Judge Lillie directed that the child be produced in court April 16.
Apr 16, 1951 (LA Daily News)
Dianetics founder L. Ron Hubbard’s infant daughter, whom Hubbard last week was accused of snatching and hiding somewhere in the country, is instead with her father in New Jersey, court testimony indicated today.
The testimony came from Vincent J. McGonigle, operator of the West Los Angeles nursery where Hubbard’s wife had said the infant, Alexis Valerie, was secreted under the name, “Anne Marie Olson.”
The wife, Mrs. Sara Northrup Hubbard, 25, charged her child was placed in the nursery the same night Hubbard allegedly forced her from her apartment and drove her to Arizona under threats he would kill her.
She said the placement was made by one of Hubbard’s disciples, Frank B. Dessler, who was ordered to produce the baby in the court of Superior Judge Mildred L. Lillie today in response to Mrs. Hubbard’s writ of habeas corpus.
However, Dessler told the judge he had not seen the baby since it was put in the nursery. McGonigle then took up the story with testimony he and his wife took the infant to Hubbard in Elizabeth, N.J., last March 5.
Mrs. Hubbard’s attorney Caryl Warner, then sought and won a continuance of the matter from Judge Lillie so he might question Dessler and McGonigle further.
Torture, kidnaping and bigamy charges today were made by his wife against L. Ron Hubbard, [40], fabulous leader of Los Angeles’ “Dianetics” cult.
Mrs. Sara Northrup Hubbard, 25, daughter of a wealthy Pasadena family, charged in suing Hubbard for divorce that “he is hopelessly insane and crazy.”
She expressed fear for the life of their daughter, aged 13 1/2 months, victim of an alleged kidnaping by Hubbard and Richard B. DeMille, son of Producer Cecil B. DeMille.
She also charged Hubbard, head of the $1,000,000 Hubbard Dianetics Research Foundation, 2300 S. Hoover St., “repeatedly subjected her to systematic torture.”
It included “loss of sleep, beatings, strangulations and scientific torture experiments,” the young wife declared in action filed in Superior Court by Atty. Caryl Warner.
Following one ordeal of torture, the suit charged, Mrs. Hubbard was hospitalized for five days and kept under guard by her husband, who, she said, had been diagnosed as insane by competent psychiatrists.
Mrs. Hubbard also accused her husband of marrying her bigamously Aug. 10, 1946, and asked $500,0000 damages if the court proves her bigamy charges true.
Hubbard, head of a new psychology whose followers practice self-analysis, “dominated her physically, mentally and emotionally,” her suit alleges. It quoted Hubbard as telling her once:
“I do not want to be an American husband…I can buy my friends whenever I want them.”
He “further said that he did not want to be married, yet divorce was impossible for a divorce would hurt his reputation,” the suit charges, “and that she should kill herself if she really loved him.”
Mrs. Hubbard declared her 13 1/2-month-old daughter, Alexis Valery, was “abducted from her crib” last Feb. 23 by Hubbard and Frank B. Dressler, a “Dianetics” associate, and hidden from her by them and DeMille.
Her suit detailed a nightmare incident at 1 a.m. the following day in which Mrs. Hubbard allegedly was “dragged out of bed attired in a nightgown” by Hubbard, DeMille and Dressler.
“By use of threats, strangulation, torture and false promises to return her child,” the suit said, “they carried and kidnaped her to Yuma, Ariz.”
Hubbard is still in Yuma and the child — “if alive” — is in hiding under an assumed name in West Los Angeles, Mrs. Hubbard charged.
“Even now she would not bare the truth to the world,” the suit declared, “except for the compelling advice of her attorney…that she tell the truth, for the truth…will bring back her baby, if alive.”
In torturing her, Mrs. Hubbard said, her husband once kept her awake in their Hollywood apartment for 96 hours, then gave her an overdose of sedatives which resulted in her hospitalization for five days.
On another occasion, she declared, Hubbard caused her “serious personal injury” by starting up the car “intentionally” as she alighted from it.
“By reason of the foregoing crazy misconduct of Hubbard,” the suit said, “she is in hourly fear for both the lives of herself and her infant daughter.”
Seeking divorce, annulment or separate maintenance, the suit also asked the court to compel Hubbard to submit to psychiatric examination. Competent psychiatrists, the suit declared, already have recommended that he be confined “for treatment of a mental ailment known as paranoid schizophrenia.”
The suit charged Hubbard “frequently” strangled his wife and that shortly after last Christmas “he violently strangled her and sadistically ruptured the Eustacian tube in her left ear, resulting in an impairment of hearing.”
Hubbard kidnaped the child and abducted his wife to Yuma, she said, when he learned that she had informed his superiors in the “Dianetics” cult of his mental condition.
Mrs. Hubbard’s 12-page complaint identified Hubbard’s previous wife as Margaret Grubb Hubbard, of Bremerton, Wash., whom he divorced Dec. 24, 1947, in Port Orchard, Wash., over a year after his present marriage began.
Apr 24, 1951 (Wichita Evening Eagle)
Dianetics offers a “positive hope” of eliminating a large portion of the factors of insanity and crime in our population, according to L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Hubbard Dianetics foundation.
Hubbard arrived in Wichita last week end to make his home here. Main offices of the foundation opened at 211 West Douglas last week after being moved from Elizabeth, N.J.
“Dianetics” Founder L. Ron Hubbard’s treatment of his wife in depriving her of their baby was “disgraceful and reprehensible,” Superior Judge Mildred L. Lillie declared yesterday.
However, the Domestic Relations Court is powerless to act to recover 13-month-old Alexis inasmuch as Hubbard and the baby are not in California, Judge Lillie ruled in denying assistance to Mrs. Sara Northrup Hubbard, 25.
In ruling, Judge Lillie agreed with Mrs. Hubbard’s attorney, Caryl Warner, that “some further action” should be taken against Hubbard and two associates accused of conspiring to steal the baby and kidnap Mrs. Hubbard last February.
The associates are Richard B. DeMille and Frank B. Dessler, local manager of Hubbard’s “mental healing” organization.
Mrs. Hubbard’s request that the court order Dessler to produce the baby was denied by Judge Lillie on the ground that she has no control over Hubbard or the baby.
In a separate suit for divorce or annulment, Mrs. Hubbard accused her husband of “being hopelessly insane.”
May 2, 1951 (Citizen News)
Ron Hubbard, dianetics founder, is in Cuba, his wife says.
She said he had received a letter from him saying he has been in a military hospital there. The letter states he is being transferred to the United States as a “classified scientist immune from interference of all kinds.”
Mrs. Sara Hubbard, 26, filed the letter in court yesterday in support of her charge that he kidnaped their baby Feb. 24. She is suing for divorce or annulment and seeks custody of the child, Alexis Valorie, 13 months old. The letter said “Alexis is getting excellent care.”
There was no explanation of the latter’s reference to Hubbard as a “classified scientist.” In military parlance, “classified” means “secret.” Hubbard’s system of dianetics deals with self-analysis.
Dianetics founder L. Ron Hubbard, missing target of a sensational divorce suit, allegedly has been found “hiding” in Wichita, Kan., by Arthur W. Wermuth, the legendary one-man army of Bataan.
Discovery of the 40-year-old mental-movement mogul was claimed in a petition by his estranged wife, Sara Northrup Hubbard, 25, asking that her missing mate’s California assets be put in receivership.
Superior Judge Mildred L. Lillie granted the petition, which was prepared by the wife’s attorney, Caryl Warner, thus tying up the local headquarters of the Dianetics foundation at 2600 South Hoover street and Hubbard’s bank account. Not affected, however, .was the foundation’s operations at its present site, 715 Parkview street.
Judge Lillie made it clear she signed the petition on the strength of the wife’s contentions the foundation was solely owned and controlled by Hubbard and was in fact his “alter ego.”
Last April 24 Mrs. Hubbard filed her divorce suit, charging her husband had fled the city with the couple’s daughter, Alexis, 14 months, after first snatching her, the wife, from her apartment and taking her on a frantic ride to Arizona under threats he would kill her.
The wife said medical advisers have concluded Hubbard is “hopelessly insane.”
Mrs. Hubbard said two weeks later she received a letter from the dianetics king saying he had their child with him in Cuba.
In the receivership petition the wife said Wermuth, who now is a marshal in the Wichita area, found that Hubbard “was hiding” in the Kansas city, “but that he probably would leave town upon being detected.”
The wife also included in her petition a letter she said was written to her last May 2 by Hubbard’s previous wife, Margaret Grubb Hubbard, of Bremerton, Wash.
The letter said:
“If I can help in any way, I’d like to. You must get Alexis in your custody. Ron is not normal. I had hopes that you could straighten him out.
“Your charges probably sound fantastic to the average person. But I’ve been through it — the beatings, threats on my life, all the sadistic traits which you charge, 12 years of it…”
Hubbard or his attorney must show cause before Judge Lillie next week why the receivership, now temporary, should not be made permanent.
Jun 13, 1951 (Wichita Eagle)
L. Ron Hubbard, head of the Hubbard Dianetics foundation was granted an emergency divorce decree from Sara Northrup Hubbard, Tuesday afternoon. William C. Kandt, judge pro-tem, made the award in district court.
Hubbard, represented by Franklin Hiebert, had filed a cross-petition asking for divorce to a separate maintenance petition which had been previously filed for Mrs. Hubbard by Harry Gillig, Jr. Both petitions had charged extreme cruelty and gross neglect of duty.
The emergency decree of divorce was allowed by Judge Kandt to permit Hubbard to leave immediately for Bremerton, Wash., where his father is seriously ill.
A property settlement and support for one minor child had been agreed upon by the divorced couple. Property awarded to Mrs. Hubbard amounted to $2,000 and the sum of $200 monthly is to be paid by Hubbard for child support.
Nov 21, 1951 (Wichita Eagle)
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, identified as the founder of Dianetics, Inc., 211 West Douglas, was named defendant in a child support action filed here Tuesday by his former wife, Louise G. Hubbard, Bremerton, Wash.
The action was filed under a new reciprocal enforcement act under which authorities in one state collect child or wife support from a husband in another. Kansas’ 1951 legislature enacted the statute.
Mrs. Hubbard obtained a Bremerton court decision Oct. 15, under which she was awarded $1,397.25 for support of the couple’s daughter and $297 for support of their son, who for some time has been with his paternal grandparents, according to the petition.
The children are Lafayette Ronald, Jr., born May 7, 1934, and Katherine May, born May 15, 1936, the petition states. The woman said she was awarded custody of the children when she obtained a divorce in 1947 on grounds of desertion and non-support, and that Hubbard was ordered to pay $25 monthly support for each child. He has not paid anything toward their support, the wife said.
Feb 22, 1952 (Wichita Eagle)
Hubbard Dianetic Foundation, Inc., 211 West Douglas, filed a petition in bankruptcy through its attorney Jean O. Moore, in federal court here late Thursday afternoon, according to Fred Partridge, clerk of the federal court. The foundation has been in receivership in Sedgwick county district court for some time, Partridge said.
As Russell Miller explains in his epic history of Hubbard, Bare-Faced Messiah, and Lawrence Wright further details in Going Clear, Sara finally got Alexis back in June, 1951, when she agreed to Hubbard’s divorce terms and was willing to make a public statement retracting her previous claims.
Had she exaggerated any of her claims in her frantic effort to get back her missing child? We tend to doubt it. How about you?
As that last clipping suggests, the nightmare year of 1951 had produced a serious problem for Dianetics, which was steadily going out of business. But Ron always had his angels, and in Wichita it was an oil man named Don Purcell, who purchased the assets of the bankrupt foundation, allowing Hubbard to regroup in Phoenix with something he was now calling “Scientology.”
Sara died of cancer in 1997. Her daughter, Alexis, told us years ago that she appreciated that we’d reached out to her from the Village Voice, but that she had no interest in speaking publicly. We’ve honored that request since then.
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Technology Cocktail
“Psychiatry and psychology failed as single practitioners not only because they had no real tech but because they tried to work alone. This turned them toward governments which then used them only to control populations and there went whatever tech they might have developed. The single practitioner theory in Dianetics failed badly as an early Dianetics practice. Auditors that made it only attached themselves to the rich. Others became drifters. The answer, we have found out long since, is the group.” — L. Ron Hubbard, 1969
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THE PROSECUTION OF DANNY MASTERSON
We first broke the news of the LAPD’s investigation of Scientology celebrity Danny Masterson on rape allegations in 2017, and we’ve been covering the story every step of the way since then. At this page we’ve collected our most important links as Danny faces a potential sentence of 45 years to life in prison. NOW WITH TRIAL INDEX.
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THE PODCAST: How many have you heard?
[1] Marc Headley [2] Claire Headley [3] Jeffrey Augustine [4] Bruce Hines [5] Sunny Pereira [6] Pete Griffiths [7] Geoff Levin [8] Patty Moher [9] Marc Headley [10] Jefferson Hawkins [11] Michelle ‘Emma’ Ryan [12] Paulette Cooper [13] Jesse Prince [14] Mark Bunker [15] Jon Atack [16] Mirriam Francis [17] Bruce Hines on MSH
— SPECIAL: The best TV show on Scientology you never got to see
[1] Phil Jones [2] Derek Bloch [3] Carol Nyburg [4] Katrina Reyes [5] Jamie DeWolf
— The first Danny Masterson trial and beyond
[18] Trial special with Chris Shelton [19] Trial week one [20] Marc Headley on the spy in the hallway [21] Trial week two [22] Trial week three [23] Trial week four [24] Leah Remini on LAPD Corruption [25] Mike Rinder 2022 Thanksgiving Special [26] Jane Doe 4 (Tricia Vessey), Part One [27] Jane Doe 4 (Tricia Vessey), Part Two [28] Claire Headley on the trial [29] Tory Christman [30] Bruce Hines on spying [31] Karen de la Carriere [32] Ron Miscavige on Shelly Miscavige [33] Karen de la Carriere on the L’s [34] Mark Bunker on Miscavige hiding [35] Mark Plummer [36] Mark Ebner [37] Karen Pressley [38] Steve Cannane [39] Fredrick Brennan [40] Clarissa Adams [41] Louise Shekter [42] John Sweeney [43] Tory Christman [44] Kate Bornstein [45] Christian Stolte [46] Mark Bunker [47] Jon Atack [48] Luke Y. Thompson [49] Mark Ebner [50] Bruce Hines [51] Spanky Taylor and Karen Pressley [51] Geoff and Robbie Levin [52] Sands Hall [53] Jonny Jacobsen [54] Sandy Holeman [55] Mark Bunker [56] Trish and Liz Conley [57] Trish Conley [58] Alex Barnes-Ross [59] Alex Barnes-Ross [60] Alex Barnes-Ross [61] Alex Barnes-Ross [62] Alex Barnes-Ross [63] Alex Barnes-Ross [64] Tory Christman [65] Tammy Synovec [66] Dennis Erlich [67] Alex Barnes-Ross [68] Valerie Ross [69] Kat in Austin [70] Mark Bunker [71] Phil Jones
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“In the Western world there’s not even a Tradition of philosophy. There’s no Tradition of — what equivalent Western word is there for a guru? There isn’t, and yet an Indian wouldn’t know how to go through his day without knowing this word, guru, somehow or another. You get the idea, see? We did a survey in Washington, DC about 1955 which was a very intriguing survey. Because I wanted to know, I thought these birds would realize that the psychiatrists were — let’s put it in a more elegant sense than it deserves — that the psychiatrists were cutting into their racket. So we got ahold of all the ministers in Washington, DC on the idea that they might have some sensibility with regard to all this and asked them if they thought this was the case. No, No. Any time one of their congregation showed the least signs of becoming nervous, they instantly rushed him to the electric shock machine. Seventeen hundred and eight ministers out of seventeen hundred and ten were wildly in favor of the mental hospital and the electric shock machine as soon as possible. Why, the poor dopes! They didn’t realize that that religious ecstasy was the only thing which kept them whizzing. If anybody had suddenly stood up in their congregation and said, ‘I embrace the Lord,’ or something like that, they would have said, ‘Dr. Sparks, would you please send a wagon over right away, quick.’ See? In other words, the whole field of religion had been eaten up in this particular direction which I thought was rather amazing.” — L. Ron Hubbard, April 14, 1964
“Several people are nominated to the Never-be-a-smuggler Club. Turning on bright lights, flashing flashlights toward the beach, opening up unnecessarily on the radio all disqualify one from being an Expert Smuggler. Such club members wind up in calabogos (jail) on suspicion. Pausing off the port as we did is not very good practise. Thanks to the guys who opened the cattledoor. They should however use lifelines when working so. And please can’t we oil all these reluctant hinges some calm day? Anyway our telex traffic was all good news. You can get off mail you see.” — The Commodore, April 14, 1969
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“Covid came into being about the time Ron was getting into the OT 9 material and the static anti-static case — i.e. existence non-existence sequence. We are witnessing a planetary response and manifestations of confusions blowing off; massive games conditions being as-ised and converted to no-games condition on a planet-wide scale; just from a small handful of us auditing on it. The solution is for us to continue to audit OT 9; which means a major shift and bettered conditions after this all settles.”
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2002: The Associated Press reported that Heber Jentzsch, the president of the Church of Scientology International, has been acquitted of conspiracy and fraud charges. “A Spanish court on Thursday acquitted the American leader of the Church of Scientology of conspiracy and other charges, ending a case that dated back to 1988. In December the Madrid Provincial Court had acquitted 15 members and employees of the Spanish branch of Scientology who had been charged along with church leader Rev. Heber Jentzsch. When Jentzsch did not appear for trial as it began in February, the court decided to try him separately. The court said in December there was no evidence to support prosecutors’ allegations that drug rehabilitation and other programs sponsored by the Church of Scientology in Spain amounted to illicit gatherings aimed at activities such as bilking people of money. In 1988 Jentzsch was arrested when he arrived in Madrid for a Scientology conference. He was held for 4 months before being released, but indicted in 1994.”
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“Brand new account created just for this idiotic hit and run. These people couldn’t troll if their lives depended on it.”
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Full Court Press: What we’re watching at the Underground Bunker
Criminal prosecutions:
— Danny Masterson charged for raping three women: Found guilty on two counts on May 31, remanded to custody. Sentenced to 30 years to life on Sep 7.
— ‘Lafayette Ronald Hubbard’ (a/k/a Justin Craig), aggravated assault, plus drug charges: Grand jury indictments include charges from an assault while in custody. Next pretrial hearing May 17, 2024.
— David Gentile, GPB Capital, fraud.
Civil litigation:
— Leah Remini v. Scientology, alleging ‘Fair Game’ harassment and defamation: Some defamation claims were removed by Judge Hammock. Leah seeking to amend her complaint.
— Baxter, Baxter, and Paris v. Scientology, alleging labor trafficking: Forced to arbitration. Plaintiffs allowed interlocutory appeal to Eleventh Circuit.
— Valerie Haney v. Scientology: Forced to ‘religious arbitration.’
— Chrissie Bixler et al. v. Scientology and Danny Masterson: motion to file new complaint, hearing on May 29.
— Jane Doe 1 v. Scientology, David Miscavige, and Gavin Potter: Case unsealed and second amended complaint filed. Scientology moves for religious arbitration, hearing on April 16.
— Chiropractors Steve Peyroux and Brent Detelich, stem cell fraud: Ordered to mediation.
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After the success of their double-Emmy-winning, three-season A&E series ‘Scientology and the Aftermath,’ Leah Remini and Mike Rinder continue the conversation on their podcast, ‘Scientology: Fair Game.’ We’ve created a landing page where you can hear all of the episodes so far.
LEAH REMINI: SCIENTOLOGY AND THE AFTERMATH
An episode-by-episode guide to Leah Remini’s three-season, double-Emmy winning series that changed everything for Scientology watching. Originally aired from 2016 to 2019 on the A&E network, and now on Netflix.
SCIENTOLOGY’S CELEBRITIES, from A to Z
Find your favorite Hubbardite celeb at this index page — or suggest someone to add to the list!
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THE WHOLE TRACK
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[SIX years ago] Another Scientologist runs for office in Nevada — but her campaign says she’s not a member
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[EIGHT years ago] GARCIAS BACK IN COURT AFTER SCIENTOLOGY MAKES ARBITRATION IMPOSSIBLE, THEY SAY
[NINE years ago] Announcing a new video series — The stories of young Scientologists not told in ‘Going Clear’
[TEN years ago] Scientology litigation always has surprises: A new wrinkle from Narconon’s attorneys
[ELEVEN years ago] Writers of the Future Live-Blogging! Black Tie Not Required
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Posted by Tony Ortega on April 14, 2024 at 07:00
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Our new book with Paulette Cooper, Battlefield Scientology: Exposing L. Ron Hubbard’s dangerous ‘religion’ is now on sale at Amazon in paperback and Kindle formats. Our book about Paulette, The Unbreakable Miss Lovely: How the Church of Scientology tried to destroy Paulette Cooper, is on sale at Amazon in paperback, Kindle, and audiobook versions. We’ve posted photographs of Paulette and scenes from her life at a separate location. Reader Sookie put together a complete index. More information can also be found at the book’s dedicated page.
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Other links: BLOGGING DIANETICS: Reading Scientology’s founding text cover to cover | UP THE BRIDGE: Claire Headley and Bruce Hines train us as Scientologists | GETTING OUR ETHICS IN: Jefferson Hawkins explains Scientology’s system of justice | SCIENTOLOGY MYTHBUSTING: Historian Jon Atack discusses key Scientology concepts | Shelly Miscavige, 15 years gone | The Lisa McPherson story told in real time | The Cathriona White stories | The Leah Remini ‘Knowledge Reports’ | Hear audio of a Scientology excommunication | Scientology’s little day care of horrors | Whatever happened to Steve Fishman? | Felony charges for Scientology’s drug rehab scam | Why Scientology digs bomb-proof vaults in the desert | PZ Myers reads L. Ron Hubbard’s “A History of Man” | Scientology’s Master Spies | The mystery of the richest Scientologist and his wayward sons | Scientology’s shocking mistreatment of the mentally ill | The Underground Bunker’s Official Theme Song | The Underground Bunker FAQ
Watch our short videos that explain Scientology’s controversies in three minutes or less…
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Our non-Scientology stories: Robert Burnham Jr., the man who inscribed the universe | Notorious alt-right inspiration Kevin MacDonald and his theories about Jewish DNA | The selling of the “Phoenix Lights” | Astronomer Harlow Shapley‘s FBI file | Sex, spies, and local TV news | Battling Babe-Hounds: Ross Jeffries v. R. Don Steele
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