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VIDEO: An unprecedented glimpse inside Scientology’s royal family

[Hold still, Denise!]

Social media is such a wonderful thing. People post the most interesting stuff, and reveal quite a bit about themselves in the []

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Scientology’s Los Angeles center is rumbling again, and we’re here for it!

 It’s been a bit since we heard from the Los Angeles Ideal Org, so we thought we’d help Scientology get the word out on these new []

Another ‘Chase Wave’ witness, and Scientology’s ‘ludicrous’ money grab!

 We have a couple of updates for you on this Monday. First, we’ve received yet another account from a source who says they witnessed the “Chase Wave” shenanigans, which overtook Scientology finances around []

Is Scientology clown prince Grant Cardone slagging on super-richie Bob Duggan now?

[Happier days: Cardone, Elena, Duggan]

A reader brought to our attention that Grant Cardone, at his Instagram account, has posted a video of himself talking about how he turned down a $20 million investment from someone named “Bob” who had spent a lot of time with him about three years []

Scientology leader David Miscavige praised in videos on David Miscavige’s website

 A reader brought to our attention that they were actually served, as an advertisement at Facebook, a link to a tribute video featuring tech luminary Craig Jensen, a longtime Scientologist, extolling the virtues of church leader David Miscavige, who is really just a regular, funny, great guy, []

Scientology celebrates the sheer competence of a superpower OT 8, and so will we

 When someone reaches the pinnacle of Scientology achievement — completing the auditing level of Operating Thetan Level Eight — it’s really a big deal. This is someone who has dedicated years to the pursuit, has spent something like half a million to two million dollars to get there, has completed the level itself while aboard []

Another Scientology ‘Chase Wave’ eyewitness drops by, and brings a check

 We are still hearing from Scientologists (current and former) about an effort by the church, in the years between about 2015 and 2019, to saddle members with huge debts by deceptively opening new credit card accounts for them, and from Chase Bank in []

Here’s proof that David Miscavige’s real estate approach to Scientology leadership pays

 Back in 2014 we provided a jolt to Scientology watchers when we got a look at some actual figures representing the amount of money that Scientology is worth, and all []

PI stalking Leah Remini for Scientology was unlicensed, it turns out

 Last June we brought a big scoop to the Daily Beast: We’d got our hands on some remarkable text messages between private investigators stalking Leah Remini and Jennifer Lopez on behalf of the Church of []

Scientology’s global conquest: Founder L. Ron Hubbard stressed ‘put in ethics’ to foil enemies

 

We were going through a pile of early Scientology materials and ran across a 1966 account of his African travels from L. Ron Hubbard that we found particularly entertaining. It has been posted to the Internet before, but we don’t think we’ve discussed it here at the Bunker. We do remember a few years ago []