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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Last night’s family on ‘Leah Remini’ found themselves targeted by Scientology attack site

[The Reisdorf boys, Brandon, Craig, and Brett]

Yesterday, as previous episodes of Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath were being shown on the A&E network in the run up to last night’s “season finale,” we were casually chatting with Brandon Reisdorf on Facebook []

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Tonight on ‘Leah Remini’: Once again, Scientology’s a horror show for the mentally ill

 Tonight, A&E airs the “season finale” of Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, the eighth episode (including a “Reddit AMA” special) but actually not the final installment of what has turned out to be an extraordinary hit for the cable []

L. Ron Hubbard’s writing about women that Scientology DOES want you to see!

[Mary Sue and L. Ron Hubbard]

Recently, we were putting together a new “Best of the Bunker” page that we thought would be helpful for all the new readers joining us. And in order to assemble it, we spent some time rummaging through our old Village Voice []

Talking to the FBI agent who canceled her talk at Scientology’s ‘mecca’

 Rod Keller has the latest developments for us in a situation that flared up on Friday…

On Friday, Mike Rinder revealed that the FBI was planning to take part in an event held by a Scientology front group. []

Phil and Willie Jones launch a new effort for billboard about Scientology disconnection

 Phil and Willie are back! After putting up billboards that call attention to Scientology’s ‘disconnection’ policy in Los Angeles and Largo, Florida last year, Phil and Willie Jones say they’re launching a new effort to get their billboard put up again in L.A. And that’s where you come []

Scientology’s disgusting secret: Young teens used to interrogate adults about their sex lives

[Serge Gil]

Serge Gil first reached out to us more than a year ago. It’s taken a lot of time for his story to get to a large audience, but tonight he’s going to be featured on an episode of ABC’s 20/20 that we were also interviewed for. []

Scientology cash-in! Top church attorney puts her beach bungalow on market for $2.4 million

 Washington DC tax attorney Monique Yingling continues her star-turn as Scientology’s top legal mercenary after she totally stole the show during Ron Miscavige’s 20/20 appearance in April, and now she’s set to cash in handsomely after years of high-paid work for Scientology leader David []

Aaron Smith-Levin appears on ‘Leah Remini,’ hours later gets own Scientology attack site

 We were thoroughly blown away last night watching Aaron Smith-Levin talk about his family’s complex history in Scientology. We couldn’t believe how much territory Aaron and Leah Remini and Mike Rinder covered on the latest episode of Leah’s A&E series, Scientology and the Aftermath, from the IRS granting Scientology tax exempt status in 1993, to []

Tonight on ‘Leah Remini’: Aaron Smith-Levin on how families get so screwed up in Scientology

 We first learned the horrible disconnection story of the Smith family when we traveled to Clearwater in 2012. We told our Village Voice readers about the terrible decision that Gayle Smith was forced to make, but back then, we couldn’t reveal Gayle’s name. []

David Miscavige has plenty of new Scientology buildings set to open in 2017

 Rod Keller is back with his first social media round up of the new year. And once again, he keeps us updated on Scientology’s plans for new buildings around the []