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Leah Remini: No such thing as Scientology ‘arbitration’ — judges are being duped

 “I wish people would stop using the word ‘arbitration.’ There is no arbitration in Scientology. There is no such thing at all.”

Leah Remini had some choice words last night about the judges who have accepted the Church of Scientology’s litigation strategy of shutting down lawsuits by forcing ex-members into “religious []

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VIDEO: See Danny Masterson’s initial court appearance on rape charges

 You’ve seen descriptions of Danny Masterson’s first appearance in court on rape charges, but here’s a chance to see what it was like for yourself as we present the video recording of the hearing that took place Friday in Los []

Scientologist chiro Nobbe: There’s an innocent explanation, judge. Prosecutors: No there isn’t.

[US Attorney Ariana Fajardo Orshan, Dennis Nobbe, and H. Dohn Williams]

[ICYMI: Last night, Leah Remini’s Emmy victory for the Danny Masterson ‘Aftermath’ episode.]

We have a couple of legal briefs for our document hounds today, and they present two radically different versions of []

Leah Remini wins second ‘Aftermath’ Emmy, for episode about Danny Masterson

 Leah Remini just took home her second Emmy award for her three-season A&E series ‘Scientology and the Aftermath,’ this time for the special episode that ended the series last []

All of former Scientology mouthpiece Tommy Davis’s appearances in ‘Melania and Me’

 Stephanie Winston Wolkoff’s eye-opening book about the price she paid helping out the Trump administration and her longtime friend Melania Trump, which came out on September 1, turns out to have some passages we thought would interest []

Leah Remini podcast: Scientology leader’s Fair Game campaign against his own father

[Ron Miscavige]

In the latest episode of Leah Remini’s podcast, which we have embedded for you below, Leah and Mike talk with Ron Miscavige, father to Scientology’s leader David Miscavige and author of the 2016 book Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, And []

LEAKED: ‘SCIENTOLOGY BLACK OPS’ EPISODE THAT WAS SPIKED BY AUSSIE NETWORK

 The Underground Bunker has learned that the initial episode of ‘Scientology Black Ops,’ a special 7NEWS Australia investigation that was cancelled by the network in July, has been leaked to the Internet.

We had time to watch the episode and prepare a transcript of it, and we’re posting the video as an embed for you to []

Leah Remini podcast: Scientology’s atrocious ‘Fair Game’ campaign against Mike Rinder

 What starts out as an episode about the general background of Scientology’s “Fair Game” retaliation operations soon settles down into the specific ways that Mike Rinder was targeted after he left the Sea Org in 2007, and it’s a harrowing []

Leah Remini’s podcast: Paulette Cooper, Scientology’s ‘OG of Fair Game victims’

[Paulette in 1971, when her book about Scientology came out]

We already told you how excited we were to find out that Paulette Cooper had talked to Leah Remini for her new podcast, and in that story we provided a lengthy excerpt from our 2015 book about Paulette, The Unbreakable Miss []

Leah Remini’s podcast: Forbes and Time writer Richard Behar on being a target of Fair Game

 What a treat for us this week as Leah Remini and Mike Rinder spoke with journalist Rich Behar for their podcast. Rich, of course, wrote perhaps the single most important investigation of Scientology of all time with his May 1991 Time magazine article that called Scientology the “Thriving cult of greed and power,” and which []