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Predictable: Scientology tries to derail Jane Doe 1 lawsuit with ‘religious arbitration’

[Defendants Gavin Potter and David Miscavige, and attorney Graham Berry]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Predictably, Scientology is trying to derail the new lawsuit from Jane Doe 1 by filing a court motion to force it into ‘religious arbitration.’ This []

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When Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard tried for the 2nd time to become a bigamist

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: 10 years ago, Lawrence Wright stunned us in his book ‘Going Clear’ with an attempt by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard to get married in 1949 (while he was already wed to someone else). []

Bijou Phillips divorcing Danny Masterson: A marriage over, or a purely legal maneuver?

center>[Photo by Meghann Cuniff]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Monday, Bijou Phillip filed divorce papers in Santa Barbara County, where she and Danny Masterson have a farm. And almost right away, we saw people saying they assumed it was more []

Scientology targets another international capital city, and we have the hype video!

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We hear it all the time — ‘My country/state/city is too smart for Scientology, they’ll never get a foothold here, etc. etc.’ But even as David Miscavige’s organization suffers bad press and a shrinking []

‘Ellen’ from the Scientology ‘Day Care from Hell’ story comes forward

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: This weekend Leah Remini and Yashar Ali posted the first online photo of Julian Swartz, the notorious Scientology enforcer in a day-care scandal we wrote about in 2015, featuring a woman we named Ellen. []

A Julian Swartz production: The Scientology day-care from hell

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: During Danny Masterson’s 2nd trial, DAs posted a photo of #Scientology enforcer Julian Swartz. Leah Remini & Yashar Ali have made that photo public, and said he was known for a day-care scandal. We []

VIDEO: Russell Miller on how he was targeted by Scientology for his Hubbard biography

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: If you read only one book about Scientology, let it be Russell Miller’s epic biography of L. Ron Hubbard, ‘Bare-Faced Messiah.’ And now, Karen de la Carriere has done us all a favor and []

SCIENTOLOGY PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR UNDER OATH: Quizzed about following Leah Remini

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: It’s not every day that we get a Scientology private investigator under oath, so this is really something. This former NYPD detective was quizzed this week about stalking Leah Remini in Manhattan in 2017, []

Greek church calls BS on Scientology: Why doesn’t this happen more often?

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Historian Chris Owen has been writing about #Scientology in places like Greece for us for years, so when we saw that the Greek church had put out a statement denouncing Hubbardism, we knew Chris []

More letters — from Ethan Suplee and others — on behalf of Danny Masterson to Judge Olmedo

 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 created a firestorm when we published letters by Ashton Kutcher & Mila Kunis asking for leniency for Danny Masterson. We said then that there were more letters that were difficult to []