Tony Ortega | The Underground Bunker

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]

The Church of Scientology wants feedback about starting a podcast. Oh, pretty please?

Its television network has been such a smash success, the Church of Scientology is now thinking of really moving up in the world and getting one of those podcast […]

Miami chiropractor and Scientology donor Dennis Nobbe charged with COVID relief fraud

Wow! Another Scientologist chiropractor has been charged by the feds with defrauding Medicare, but also defrauding the PPP loan program intended to bail out small businesses during the COVID crisis. And this time, we know him well. It’s Miami Scientology promoter Dennis […]

Scientology donor Jim Mathers has your L. Ron Hubbard mantra for sending kids back to school

As kids begin to head back to school in various parts of the country, parents are naturally apprehensive about how their local district is going to negotiate our ongoing national health nightmare. […]

Leah Remini: In Scientology, all sickness comes from enemies of the church

The second episode of Leah Remini and Mike Rinder’s podcast “Scientology: Fair Game” went live this morning, and we have it embedded here for you to listen […]

EXCLUSIVE: The real Tom Cruise — Leah Remini exposes Scientology’s biggest asset

News of Leah Remini’s departure from the Church of Scientology, which she had grown up in since she was a child of 5, was made public by the Underground Bunker in July 2013. Over the next two years, she worked on a memoir that was published in October 2015 with the title, “Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood […]

Leah Remini blames Tom Cruise for the spiking of Aussie Scientology investigation

On July 2, Australia’s 7News teased an upcoming ten-part news investigation about the Church of Scientology that would feature specific allegations about actor Tom Cruise and his personal connections to the church’s well-known penchant for bullying, spying, and […]

Lisa Marie Presley’s ex-husband accuses her of Scientology tactics: Read the court document

Lisa Marie Presley and her ex-husband, music producer Michael Lockwood, are scheduled to begin their divorce trial on August 3, and Lockwood has filed a trial brief in which he accuses Presley of using Scientology “Fair Game” tactics against him in the grueling war between the […]

Scientology to the rescue: After losing son and wife, Johnny Lewis’s dad is happier than ever

On September 26, 2012, Sons of Anarchy actor Johnny Lewis went on a rampage, killing his 81-year-old landlord Cathy Davis and her cat, then attacking a gardener and a neighbor before either falling or jumping to his death at the Los Feliz home where he’d been living for a few days. It was the sad […]

Weeks after the protests, Scientology in LA remains boarded up and abandoned. What gives?

One of our sources in Los Angeles told us recently that there was something odd going on with Scientology’s buildings there. Although street unrest has dissipated for weeks now, Scientology’s storefronts remain boarded up and some of them appear completely abandoned. At a time when orgs in London and Florida and Paris are boasting about […]

Scientology not only opposes Valerie Haney’s do-over, but wants $160,000 in sanctions

[Attorney Matthew Hinks wants sanctions against Valerie Haney]

On August 11, a hearing is scheduled at Los Angeles Superior Court for Valerie Haney’s request for a do-over in her kidnapping and libel lawsuit against the Church of Scientology. […]

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