Here’s the 2022 Scientology Super Bowl ad, this year’s ‘mystery sandwich’

Right at midnight on February 13, the day that the Super Bowl will take place, Scientology revealed its ad for the big game this year. And once again, it’s a mystery sandwich.

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Chill EB? Joy Villa? Kuba Ka? All hail the next Scientology celebrity superstar: Wicked Witch!

If you go to the Super Bowl tomorrow in Los Angeles, you might run into Scientologists handing out copies of The Way to Happiness and pamphlets from Drug Free World. And if you’re lucky, the person who hands you that DFW literature is a music hustler by the name of Wicked Witch.

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Ned McCrink, 1954-2022: The OC Ideal Org’s biggest donor sailed away from Scientology

We were stunned and saddened to learn that Ned McCrink, formerly Orange County, California’s top Scientology donor, ended his life on Monday morning. He was 67.

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VIDEO: Sure you don’t want to join Scientology staff? These people seem pretty stoked.

[NOTE: Please see last night’s breaking story.]

The Orlando “Ideal Org” continues to pump out the recruitment hoopla, including a new video, and we thought we’d help them get the word out.

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Danny Masterson accuser Jane Doe 1 hires lawyer who helped topple Jeffrey Epstein

[Attorney Bradley Edwards]

We have learned that just weeks after a major court victory restored a lawsuit filed against Danny Masterson and the Church of Scientology, one of the plaintiffs, who goes by “Jane Doe 1,” dropped the vaunted Philadelphia-based legal team representing her and hired Bradley Edwards, a nationally known trial attorney who represented some of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims and helped bring down the predator financier.

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Ford Greene to appeals court: Formally publish the ruling against Scientology arbitration!

[Ford Greene on “Scientology and the Aftermath”]

Last month’s stunning appeals court ruling in Bixler v. Church of Scientology International that reversed a win for Scientology’s ‘religious arbitration’ continues to have reverberations.

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Scientology intervenes at Danny Masterson hearing, judge refuses to dismiss rape charges

[Scientology attorney William Forman and Danny Masterson]

Today’s event in the criminal prosecution of Danny Masterson was scheduled to be a short hearing on a defense motion to dismiss, but it started out with a surprising appearance by attorneys for the Church of Scientology.

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Danny Masterson’s ‘Dream Team’ lawyer angers ‘Aftermath’ producers with repeat subpoenas

[Attorney Shawn Holley and her client, Danny Masterson]

[UPDATE: Judge Coen denied the defense’s motion and refused to dismiss Danny Masterson’s rape charges. Judge Olmedo quashed the subpoenas discussed in this story. See update below.]

In January we told you that we’d heard from one of Danny Masterson’s accusers and a witness in the case that a new set of subpoenas had been issued by Danny’s criminal defense lawyers, and process servers were loudly banging on their doors, agitating their already frayed nerves.

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Scientology will be central in tomorrow’s Danny Masterson rape case hearing

[Chrissie Carnell-Bixler and Danny Masterson]

We’re stuck in chilly New York, so we won’t get a chance to attend the next important hearing in Danny Masterson’s criminal prosecution in Los Angeles like we did at his preliminary hearing last May.

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Shekter: How Scientology intervened in an intimate affair of the heart

[Sick Kids]

January 1991, Toronto. I take a spot in one of those molded plastic orange seats tied together in a rack, that have been there forever in the cardiology waiting room at the Hospital for Sick Children – affectionately known to all as Sick Kids.

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