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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Miss Lovely is still unbreakable: It’s Paulette Cooper’s birthday!

Once again, the very reason for the Underground Bunker’s existence is here again, as we celebrate Paulette Cooper’s birthday on July 26. It was while working on our book about Paulette, The Unbreakable Miss Lovely, that we created our website back in 2012 to keep in touch with our audience so they’d know when the []

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PODCAST: Paulette Cooper has been exposing Scientology’s abuses for more than 50 years

[Paulette Cooper in 1967, before all the trouble started]

This week at the podcast, we’re coming back around to why we created the Underground Bunker to begin with. In 2012, we began working on a book that eventually gained the title The Unbreakable Miss Lovely, and we created our website in order to make sure the []

Scientology tried to destroy her, but Paulette Cooper is living her best life

 We love catching up with Paulette Cooper on her birthday, because she always has fabulous things to catch us up []

Paulette Cooper writes her own story: Her struggle against Scientology and so much more

 You’ve probably (hopefully) read Tony’s book The Unbreakable Miss Lovely, and perhaps you’ve seen me on Leah’s great show, or you know my story from another source. But I have finally finished writing up the story of me and Scientology along with several other interesting tales about my life. It’s all in my new just-out []

He was Scientology ‘I/C’ — ‘in charge’ — of Paulette Cooper’s harassment. And now he’s dead.

[Paul Pflueger and his target, Paulette Cooper]

When we were doing the reporting for our 2015 book The Unbreakable Miss Lovely: How the Church of Scientology tried to destroy Paulette Cooper, we did our best to find Scientologists who might finally come forward and talk about what they put Paulette through from 1969 to 1985 during []

Leah Remini’s podcast: Paulette Cooper, Scientology’s ‘OG of Fair Game victims’

[Paulette in 1971, when her book about Scientology came out]

We already told you how excited we were to find out that Paulette Cooper had talked to Leah Remini for her new podcast, and in that story we provided a lengthy excerpt from our 2015 book about Paulette, The Unbreakable Miss []

Paulette Cooper tells us she’s been interviewed for Leah Remini’s new Scientology podcast

[Leah with Paulette Cooper and her husband Paul Noble in 2015]

Yesterday, Leah Remini and Mike Rinder let the cat out of the bag that their new podcast would be titled ‘Scientology: Fair Game’ and would start on iHeartRadio on Tuesday.

If there’s a person we think of in relation to Scientology’s Fair Game retaliation operations, it’s []

Happy Birthday, Miss Lovely! And look what Paulette Cooper gave herself for a gift

[Paulette and her husband Paul Noble, with the books they published this past year. Photo by Tina Valant]

On July 26, 1942, a remarkable life began in Belgium that has become a huge part of why we watch Scientology year and year out. And now that it’s Paulette Cooper’s birthday again, we couldn’t wait to check []

Paulette Cooper’s ‘Scandal of Scientology’: The book that made Miss Lovely a target

 This week we’re looking back at ‘The Scandal of Scientology,’ a book that drove L. Ron Hubbard to distraction. It was written by a New York magazine writer named Paulette Cooper, who was only 28 when it came out on June 1, 1971. Even before its publication, Paulette became an obsession with Hubbard as he []

On sale today: Battlefield Scientology — the best of the Bunker, with Paulette Cooper!

 Some time ago, Paulette Cooper came to us with an idea for a book. Not everyone keeps up with the Underground Bunker on a daily basis, she pointed out, and others are arriving here for the first time every day. Wouldn’t it be useful if some of the best stories from our years of Scientology []