TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: She’s known for her pro-Trump dresses at the Grammy Awards going back to 2017, but this year Joy Villa really changed things up, revealing an outfit consistent with her defection from Scientology, which she’s […]

[Joe Cecala and Dwain J. Kyles of Dream Exchange]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Million-dollar Scientology donor Joe Cecala is suing former employee Jeff Ferrell for speaking out about Cecala’s failed attempt to get stock exchange status for his Chicago […]

[Cardone, Headley, Hawkins]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: The recently departed Jefferson Hawkins was known for his accounts of being assaulted by Scientology leader David Miscavige. A reader tipped us there’s a connection to Grant Cardone in that tale, and […]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: People who knew Romey Beliles describe him as one of the friendliest and most resourceful people they knew. But he had a dark secret: His decades of frustration with the Church of Scientology which […]

[Alex mans a table, circa 2011]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Alex Barnes-Ross reminds us that Scientology’s real cost isn’t counted in dollars or pounds, but in human lives. [What is this Substack thing, […]