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Mike Rinder: I was in Scientology’s prison with Emily Armstrong’s mom

[Mike Rinder and Gail Armstrong]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: As the Emily Armstrong/Linkin Park story caught fire, we’ve seen the question raised: How much of a Scientologist is she? Mike Rinder supplies part of the answer, revealing that he []

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Emily Armstrong’s tepid response to backlash seems designed to protect Scientology

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: On Friday we recounted our reporting that put Emily Armstrong at a 2020 arraignment for fellow Scientology celeb Danny Masterson. That afternoon she expressed regret that she had been there that day. But there []

One year ago: The sentencing hearing that put Scientology celeb Danny Masterson away

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We couldn’t be in Judge Olmedo’s court for Danny Masterson’s sentencing, but we obtained the transcript of what was said that day. So on the anniversary of the hearing that put away Masterson for []

Uncovering Scientology schemers: A tale of journalistic perseverance

[From Libération’s illustration by Xavier Lissillour]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: A Scientologist indicted for running a company into the ground with Scientology techniques turns out to be behind another questionable scheme. Fortunately for the public, a reporter has been []

She made Scientology pay for its harassment: How did Bonnie Woods do it?

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 been far too long since we’ve mentioned Bonnie Woods, the woman who in 1999 won a legendary court case that resulted in the Church of Scientology not only paying her damages for harassing []

Scientology’s sneaky front groups keep doing their thing — and some are succeeding

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: No matter how challenging things have been for Scientology, it never gives up. You can always count on its sneaky front groups, for instance, to insinuate themselves no matter how many times they’ve been []

Scientology’s founder in King Arthur’s Court: When Ron ran for the hills!

 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 one of our favorite anecdotes about Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard from Russell Miller’s wonderful biography, ‘Bare-Faced Messiah,’ and now we have a fun bonus to go along with it. [What is this []

Scientology encounters rough waters in northern seas

[The Naddoddur]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We hope our American readers are enjoying their long holiday weekend and will not mind too much if we bring your attention to another part of the Scientology world today, where the church []

New details have emerged of mass Scientology fraud, the ‘Chase Wave’

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: In late 2021 we started to hear about a stunning fraud in Scientology, a method for obtaining multiple credit cards for Scientologists who had little or no credit. It even had a name: The []

Leah Remini announces divorce in the most Leah Remini way possible

[Remember the TLC series ‘It’s All Relative’?]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: After Leah Remini posted last night that she and Angelo Pagan were amicably divorcing, there were stories on every entertainment outlet possible. And what a Leah Remini move: []