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Scientology critic obtains documents of church plot against him

[Alex answers Scientology’s ‘Fair Game’]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Character assassination is how Scientology reacts to questions about its abuses, and for Alex Barnes-Ross it’s coming at him from all sides. He let us into the details of just […]

GOLD RUSH: Another Scientology youngster asks thousands for online course

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Australian Scientologist Luke Ayers has a slick website where he’s asking 3 grand for photography lessons. Is that a fair price? We don’t know. But we were thrilled to see Ayers again as an […]

Fed up with Scientology’s court delays, Leah Remini puts her foot down

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We’ve pointed out numerous times that Scientology has slowed lawsuits by filing appeals of preliminary matters, and asking for filing extensions. Well, this week Leah Remini apparently decided that she’d had enough of her […]

Expert: Why the state’s response is likely to kill Danny Masterson’s criminal appeal

[Masterson and his current digs]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Last week we brought you the California AG’s 42K-word response to Danny Masterson’s criminal appeal. Masterson is serving 30 years-to-life and he’s trying to walk out of prison with his […]

Ron and Leni: The project that was just too much for Hitler’s favorite filmmaker

[Hubbard and Riefenstahl (Illustration by The Daily Beast)]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: 4 years ago for The Daily Beast we dove into a little-known 1960 collaboration in London between L. Ron Hubbard and Leni Riefenstahl. Later that year, Ron […]

What it was like to run a Scientology drug rehab in Narconon’s heyday

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Scientology lifer writing letters to dead people instead of to her own grandkids

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: [What is this Substack thing, […]

BUSTED: Image suggests Scientology has begun work on IAS tent without permit

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Apostate Alex broke the news as we were recording the Group Therapy podcast last night: New photos show Scientology has begun putting up its big tent for the annual IAS gala despite not applying […]

Why doesn’t Scientology icon Tom Cruise want to be a Kennedy Center Honoree?

[Cruise gets his Freedom Medal of Valor, 2004]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Tom Cruise being on stage with President Trump at the Kennedy Center where Scientology’s biggest donor Trish Duggan is a board member might have been another win […]

The state’s entire 42,000-word response to Danny Masterson’s criminal appeal

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Late last year Danny Masterson’s attempt to reverse the conviction that has him serving 30-years-to-life blasted the court for allowing so much testimony about Scientology. We’ve been looking forward to a response from the […]

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