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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]

Grant Cardone’s chief exec on why this is Scientology’s moment

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox, or go to this link: Sheri Hamilton has been the COO of Grant Cardone’s ’10X’ enterprise since 2011, and like him is a dedicated Scientology donor. We thought the timing was interesting for her […]

Grant Cardone sues for being called not a billionaire, but his own emails suggest it

[Grant Cardone licking a gold brick, and John Legere inset]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: You may have heard about a court fight in Miami between Scientology donor Grant Cardone and former T-Mobile US CEO John Legere, which in part […]

Scientology ham hock Grant Cardone lambasted for suggesting gov’t sent Hurricane Milton

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Tomorrow, Hurricane Milton may run smack into Scientology’s Florida headquarters, the Flag Land Base in Clearwater. And professional ham hock and major Scientology donor Grant Cardone chose this moment to make an even bigger […]

Why doesn’t Scientology want you to see its wealthy donors, including Grant Cardone?

[Grant Cardone and the case of the missing donor trophies]

Scientology’s latest takedown demand of images we’ve posted at the Underground Bunker is a bit of a head-scratcher, but we figured we’d raise a stink about it […]

Grant Cardone selling superhuman med beds to the wealthy sounds very Scientological

The person in the video you see below is Dana White. He’s president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, a mixed martial arts organization obsessively followed by its fans, who tend to be younger men. Dana has been dealing with some controversy since he was caught on tape on New Year’s Eve slapping his wife in […]

Grant Cardone at Flag: Again, Scientology turns to its professional ham hock to fill seats

In 2019, we found out that Grant Cardone, professional ham hock, had pulled in a big crowd at Scientology’s Hollywood Celebrity […]

Scientology propaganda masterpiece: Grant Cardone’s COO coughs up $1.1 million

We have some terrific researchers who send us fascinating examples of Scientology social media and propaganda. It helps us keep a close watch on how the organization is doing, and here and at Mike Rinder’s great blog we have watched a steady dwindling of the ‘coolest religion on […]

Is Scientology clown prince Grant Cardone slagging on super-richie Bob Duggan now?

[Happier days: Cardone, Elena, Duggan]

A reader brought to our attention that Grant Cardone, at his Instagram account, has posted a video of himself talking about how he turned down a $20 million investment from someone named “Bob” who had spent a lot of time with him about three years […]

Scientology’s hammy Grant Cardone and the political operator: A significant connection?

[Wakley and Cardone, a match made in Arslycus]

If motivational speaker Grant “10X” Cardone is Scientology’s “professional ham hock,” as we like to call him, then London Org’s Charlie Wakley is surely the movement’s aspirational pork product. Its British banger, as it were.

Their online summit this week felt like some sort of minor cosmic shift in […]

Expert: Scientology’s Grant Cardone ‘helping sell fake stem cell products to the public’

[Dr. Chris Centeno, Grant Cardone]

Last May, the New York Times published a lengthy story about the explosion of stem cell therapy as a business and questions about whether it actually worked as […]

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