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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Activists find Scientologist French police tried for years to question about 2006 suicide

[Gloria Lopez]

Activists have tracked down a woman French police tried for years to question about the 2006 suicide of a Scientologist — and she’s still working for the []

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MASTERSON: Scientology wants Bobette Riales dismissed, others forced into arbitration

[Bobette Riales and the Hollywood Celebrity Centre]

Back on December 13, we broke the news that Scientology was planning to force some of the former Scientologists suing Danny Masterson into “religious arbitration” as a way of killing their lawsuit. []

That $35 million judgment against Jehovah’s Witnesses? Montana’s high court just voided it.

[Montana’s supes]

John Redwood (a/k/a ex-JW activist Mark O’Donnell), just posted this shocking statement to his Facebook account, announcing that Montana’s Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling awarding $35 million to a woman who had been sexually abused as a child as a member of Jehovah’s []

Wyoming employer settles to prevent trial on forcing worker into Scientology

[Attorney Steven L. Murray]

Back in December 2018, we posted a federal complaint filed by a woman in Wyoming named Julie L. Rohrbacher, who was suing her former employer, Teton Therapy, for trying to force her into Scientology []

If Scientology forced your children to disconnect from you, what would you do?

[Phil Jones and his son Mike]

On Saturday, we posted Skip Young’s update about how he tried to defy Scientology disconnection by flying across the country to see his two grown daughters. It didn’t go well. We got a couple of interesting responses to that, and we wanted you to see this one today. It was []

Henning Heldt, 1945-2020: Scientology’s 1970s spymaster went to prison for L. Ron Hubbard

 The Underground Bunker has learned that 1970s Scientology spymaster Henning Heldt, the target of one of the largest raids in FBI history, died Sunday of cancer. He was []

Pathologist saying Epstein killed also Scientology hire to say McPherson an accident

[Baden and Epstein]

Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

[Regarding this story: Why You Might Not Want to Believe Michael Baden, Celebrity Pathologist, on Epstein’s []

Scientology’s ‘Purif’ detox gets the ‘Reckless Ben’ treatment in video debuting here today

[Michael, left and Ben enlighten us about Scientology]

Who are these guys? That was one of the reactions we had when we saw the dynamite first two videos put out by a couple of young infiltrators who have brought out some of the most fascinating (and hilarious) undercover video from inside Scientology in a long []

Does Mexico really need a Scientology ‘Advanced Org’? We’ll soon find out.

 The seals on the gates of the Palmas Plaza have been removed and work has started again to renovate the former shopping mall into Scientology’s Advanced Org for Latin America. Scientology purchased the building in 2008 and began renovating without permits in 2017. How Scientology convinced officials to issue a permit and remove the seals []

Scientology, disconnection, and the worst Christmas ever

[Skip Young and his daughters]

One of our favorite stories of 2016 was the lengthy piece we wrote about Skip Young. At one point, he had worked as an operator for the Church of Scientology while he was a police officer, and he became a footnote in the Snow White Program of the 1970s. Years later, []