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]

Jerry Minor didn’t get quite the star-turn he deserved on the ‘Aftermath’ JW special

Leah Remini’s JW special was outstanding, there’s simply no doubt about it. But it dawned on us later that the program did miss out on one opportunity, and that was to make a slightly bigger deal about one of its guests. […]

Can Scientology be tripped up by consumer protection? You must hear this pitch.

We recently learned about an attempt by a UK resident to turn Scientology in to the consumer protections agency there. In November, a detailed description of Scientology’s abusive business practices was submitted, and we’ve been given access to the report as well as the response it received from UK Trading Standards. To get more background […]

Keith Raniere attorney assures judge she can avoid conflict with father Mark Geragos

[Teny Geragos and Keith Raniere]

There’s a fun new letter in the Nxivm case file to Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis from Keith Raniere’s lead attorneys asking the judge to look past the odd situation involving Raniere’s lawyer Teny […]

Shannon Rowland on the JW paradox: ‘You’re set up for failure, but too terrified to leave’

We were really impressed by Shannon Rowland’s appearance on the Aftermath Jehovah’s Witnesses special, so we decided to ask her about […]

Scientology denied: Eleventh Circuit brushes aside church attempt to stop Garcia appeal

[Luis Garcia, right, and his attorney Ted Babbitt]

What’s this? Some good news in the Luis and Rocio Garcia lawsuit against Scientology? You don’t […]

Lloyd Evans on ‘Aftermath:’ The most significant TV journalism ever done on JW

We finally got a chance to catch up with Lloyd Evans to ask him about his appearance on Leah Remini’s special Aftermath episode about Jehovah’s Witnesses. […]

Let’s start off our new Nxivm watch with that chock-full indictment, shall we?

[Keith Raniere, Clare Bronfman, Allison Mack, Lauren Salzman, Nancy Salzman]

We’ve long had an interest in Keith Raniere and Nxivm. Way back in 2007, we edited a cover story at the Village Voice about Raniere that we were put onto through Rick Ross, someone we had written about in Arizona in 1995. […]

When Scientology’s ‘disconnection’ is forever, and other developments

[Denise Byrne and Adam Holland]

We have some follow-ups to recent stories that we collected for you today. Up first, we told you on Friday about the suicide of former Sea Org member Adam Holland. After leaving Scientology, his father Paul Holland cut of all ties from him in the Scientology way, and it devastated the […]

What’s creepier than a Scientology street fair? Apparently, not much.

We were thrilled to learn that our man in Los Angeles, Jeffrey Augustine, took his camera down this weekend to Scientology’s attempt to relate to the people who live in its […]

Scientology made him suicidal, but that was only the beginning of his problems

We were approached recently by a man who wanted to describe what he’s been through in the Church of Scientology. We decided to let him tell you his story in his own words, and we’ve spoken to his attorney and examined his documentation to corroborate his tale. We think you’ll find that, once again, the […]

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