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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Shakeup at Narconon Arrowhead: Former worker dishes fresh intel on Scientology’s rehab flagship

 Rod Keller has a dynamite new report on big changes that have been happening at Scientology’s flagship drug rehab facility in Oklahoma, where three deaths happened in a nine-month period about five years []

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Read the police report for the 17-year-old injured at Scientology’s ‘Flag’ building

[The atrium on the ground floor of the Flag Building — with the cafeteria one floor below.]

On October 19, Tracey McManus at the Tampa Bay Times revealed that a somewhat strange thing had happened at Scientology’s vaunted “Flag Building” — more colloquially known as the “Super Power Building,” which opened in 2013 after some two []

EXCLUSIVE: DA’s office asked Leah Remini not to air episode about Danny Masterson

[Leah Remini comforts a Danny Masterson accuser in the ‘Aftermath’ opening sequence]

The Underground Bunker has learned that A&E’s Emmy-winning series, Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, filmed an episode featuring interviews with women who allege they were raped by Scientologist and That ’70s Show actor Danny Masterson, but the episode hasn’t been scheduled. []

Read the threatening letter Danny Masterson’s attorney Marty Singer sent a victim’s husband

[Marty Singer and Danny Masterson]

Yesterday, the Los Angeles Times reported that six women, including actresses Olivia Munn and Natasha Henstridge, are accusing director Brett Ratner of sexual misconduct, the latest in what is becoming a crisis for Hollywood since similar accusations were made against producer Harvey Weinstein in stories appearing last month in the New []

Hey, Netflix, why does Scientology actor Danny Masterson still have a job?

[Danny Masterson, right, and Ashton Kutcher, in The Ranch.]

Netflix was very quick to take action when allegations of sexual impropriety about one of its stars, Kevin Spacey, surfaced this weekend. []

The first Scientologist with ‘Super Power’ gets super spanked by bankruptcy judge

[Kathy and Matt Feshbach]

Forbes has a wonderful article about a bankruptcy ruling involving a wealthy pair of jackasses who got their heads handed to them recently by a fed-up []

Tonight on ‘Aftermath’: How Leah Remini’s friends in Scientology put her to the test

[Sherry Ollins]

If you remember Leah Remini’s reality show It’s All Relative, you may remember one of the rare moments when she brought up the subject of Scientology. In one episode, she brought on three of her friends who were also former Scientologists, and we interviewed one of them, Chantal []

Garry Scarff, 1956-2017: A complex figure and dogged researcher

 Thanks to Jeffrey Augustine, we received confirmation Monday night that Garry Scarff died on April 12 at the age of 60, apparently without notice in the Scientology critic []

We got catfished! Tom Cruise’s ‘friend’ rooked us with a lot of lies

 Well, we should have known it was too good to be true. On October 19, we reported that Maryann Carter, a woman in Kentucky, had posted to a Facebook group that Tom Cruise, through a family member, had requested that photos of Suri Cruise no longer appear on the group. “She is no longer part []

Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard as a cop in Los Angeles: What’s the real truth?

 We’re glad to have back Chris Owen, author of the important work Ron, The “War Hero.” Few people are as dedicated to nailing down details of L. Ron Hubbard’s history as Chris. And he has another fine addition to his work for us []