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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Scientology hopes to benefit from Michael Jackson estate’s arbitration win against HBO

 [DON’T MISS yesterday’s evening exclusive: Leah Remini responds to Tom Cruise’s Covid rant and puts it in its Scientology context.]

 If you waded through that long court transcript we posted yesterday, you know that one of the challenges Scientology is facing in Los Angeles Superior Court is that Judge Steven Kleifield has some doubts about Scientology’s []

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EXCLUSIVE: Leah Remini on Tom Cruise’s Covid rant in its Scientology context

 Leah Remini sent us this statement about Tom Cruise’s on-set rant that was caught on tape and released by the Sun []

Was it something they said? The Scientology ‘arbitration’ hearing Judge Kleifield nuked

[Judge Kleifield, Marci Hamilton, and William Forman]

One of the most surprising turns in Scientology litigation in a generation occurred a few weeks ago when Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Steven Kleifield took matters into his own hands and challenged the Church of Scientology over its “religious arbitration” legal []

Tom Cruise rant: Sensible Covid frustration, or insane Scientology screed?

The social media reactions to the Sun’s big scoop, a recording of Tom Cruise going off on the Mission Impossible 7 crew for not being careful enough about social distancing, are all over the []

A new book about escaping Scientology has already made waves overseas

[Diana Dudas]

Péter Bonyai is a name that should be familiar to readers of the Bunker. He’s been a correspondent for us in Hungary, and we’ve covered his own book about his experience in Scientology. For some time now he’s been telling us about a new book by a woman named Diana Dudas that has made []

The Top 25 People Enabling Scientology, No. 7: The litigators

[David Miscavige knows he can count on attorneys like Bert Deixler]

We still consider it one of the most revolting things an attorney has done in the service of the Church of []

More Scientology orgs boarded up, our readers report: What’s going on?

 Last week we pointed out what some of our readers had noticed, that some Scientology orgs and missions are boarded up, and we’re not sure []

Wild scene in court papers: Scientology leader David Miscavige finally, really served?

[The elusive quarry]

While we wait for the major showdown over “religious arbitration” on Dec 18, there’s another update in the lawsuit against Danny Masterson and Scientology which we know you’re going to want to hear []

VALERIE HANEY DENIED AGAIN: State supreme court won’t hear case

[Valerie Haney, right, and her attorney Marci Hamilton]

The California state supreme court has turned down Valerie Haney’s request to review a lower court’s ruling, and so she’s once again back where she started: She faces going through Scientology “religious arbitration” before she can appeal the order that denied her the right to a trial in []

Danny Masterson accusers: Scientology’s illegal behavior shouldn’t count as ‘commerce’

[Plaintiff Chrissie Carnell Bixler and defendant Danny Masterson]

As we near the December 18 showdown over Scientology “religious arbitration” in Los Angeles Superior Court, Danny Masterson’s accusers have now responded to the extraordinary briefing going on, and their argument is a powerful one: Scientology should not get to count its illegal harassment and stalking of former []