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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Tonight on Leah Remini’s series, two more families get ripped apart and ‘fair gamed’

[Mike Rinder and Christie Collbran]

Watching the second episode of A&E’s Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, we were suddenly struck by the advantage of this show having the luxury to explain Scientology concepts over eight episodes. []

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EXCLUSIVE: Scientology tried to derail Remini series by calling 14-year-old ‘aggressor’ in rape

[Amy Scobee]

The Underground Bunker has obtained a document which shows that just days before A&E premiered its new series Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, a Church of Scientology attorney tried to derail the program by claiming that the subject of the first episode, Amy Scobee, was lying about being raped at 14 years old. []

A new technology shows promise for treating depression, so Scientology wants to kill it

 Rod Keller keeps his eye on Scientology’s front groups, and he’s back this week with CCHR’s latest []

In Scientology, dancing in a conga line might end up costing you thousands

[Kiwis dancing in a conga line in order to pledge money on a whiteboard]

After the week we’ve had — with the heart-wrenching scenes with Bonny Elliott and Amy Scobee in Leah Remini’s A&E series, for example — we thought it would be good to start things off today with a little []

You saw Bonny Elliott talk about her battle with Scientology; Now hear it from her husband

 If you saw the premiere episode of A&E’s Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, you know that the emotional center of the show is the awful choice the Church of Scientology forced on Bonny []

Leah Remini: Scientology’s new attack has a Katie Holmes angle they aren’t talking about

[A dapper David Miscavige finally takes a swing at Leah Remini]

 Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath premiered Tuesday night to the highest ratings for an A&E series debut in two years. The audience of 2.1 million viewers even outpaced the 1.65 million who tuned in last year for the debut of HBO’s 2015 Scientology documentary []

Amy Scobee: ‘Even on her deathbed, my mom was fighting Scientology and disconnection’

[Mat Pesch and Amy Scobee, while Angelo Pagan photobombs]

When we called up Amy Scobee last night, she still hadn’t seen the episode of Leah Remini’s A&E show that featured her so prominently. But she had a pretty good idea of what would be in []

Live blogging ‘Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath’ during its A&E premiere

 The press build-up to the premiere of tonight’s episode has been almost overwhelming. Between Leah’s AMA at Reddit and numerous reviews of her show (all but one of which were very positive), it’s been a day of growing []

As you watch Leah Remini’s show tonight, keep these people disappeared by Scientology in mind

[Shelly Miscavige, Angelo Pagan, and Barbara Ruiz, circa 2004]

UPDATE: We’re living blogging Leah’s show in the comments at a new post. Please join us!

Forty five years ago this week, on Saturday, November 27, 1971, the daily notices that were sent to the crew of the yacht Apollo, known as the “Orders of the Day,” included []

How Liz Gale came to disconnect from her own mother, Scientology style

 “Today I cut ties with my mother, the most dedicated Scientologist I know.”

That’s how Liz Gale opened an essay published last month at former Scientology spokesman Mike Rinder’s []