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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Richie Acunto, Scientology donor and ‘Survival Insurance’ mogul, dead at 70

 Richie Acunto, a colorful Scientology “whale” who had donated at least $10 million to the church, and who was once a major player in auto insurance in California, was found dead this week in Marina del Rey on his boat, where he had been living for several []

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Jan 6th Committee recommends charges against Trump as ‘central cause’ of insurrection

 Some links to Q-related items today…

The January 6th Committee goes []

Chris Owen and Jon Atack remember Jane Kember, Scientology’s ultimate spymaster

 On Friday, we reported on the death of Scientology’s former “Guardian,” Jane Kember, at 85. We had learned about her passing the day before, and scrambled to put together a basic outline of what an important figure she is in Scientology. Since then, we’ve heard from two of the very best researchers and historians of []

Did Elon just poll himself out of his CEO position at Twitter?

 Some links to Q-related items today…

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VIDEO: If Danny Masterson had testified about ‘DJ Donkey Punch’

 We want to thank the reader who brought a 2012 video to our attention that we hadn’t seen before. We’ve taken an excerpt from it that we think you might find interesting, because it answers the question: What might Danny Masterson have answered if he’d testified in his trial and was asked about his notorious []

Med Beds are Q-flavored fantasy, but that doesn’t mean you can’t spend money on them!

 Some links to Q-related items today…

The grift goes on and []

PODCAST: If Scientology expert Claire Headley had testified at the Danny Masterson trial

 We’re still going through the wreckage of the Danny Masterson Trial, which ended with a hung jury on November 30. And one thing that surprised us about the interview we did with Chris Shelton of the jury foreman, was the revelation that the jury had largely ignored the Scientology component of the []

That’s some flex, Elon: Twitter reinstates some journalists after one-day suspension

 Some links to Q-related items today…

The Twitter roller coaster keeps []

Florida Bar past president hired to stop court from serving lawsuit on David Miscavige

 On Thursday, we brought you some of the language from a motion filed by Valeska Paris that is seeking to have a Tampa federal court declare Scientology leader David Miscavige an official defendant in a labor trafficking lawsuit that Valeska and two other former Sea Org workers filed against Miscavige and the []

Q patriots are doing their best to spin Trump’s NFT ‘major announcement’

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Before the []