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Danny Masterson accusers signal they’ll go to higher court to fight ‘religious arbitration’

[Chrissie Carnell Bixler, at a 2019 protest]

Yesterday afternoon we told you that former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson testified before a Congressional subcommittee and brought up the lawsuit against actor Danny Masterson and the Church of Scientology that we’ve been watching so closely since it was filed in 2019. The lawsuit was brought by Masterson’s []

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Scientology icon and double OT 8 Chick Corea dies at 79 of cancer

[Corea at the Scientology 1977 ‘OT Summit’]

Chick Corea’s Facebook account announced this afternoon that the legendary jazz artist died Tuesday of a “rare form of cancer which was only discovered []

Gretchen Carlson slams Danny Masterson and Scientology ‘arbitration’ to Congress

 Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson took her battle against forced arbitration and secrecy agreements that keep sexual harassment under wraps to a House Judiciary subcommittee today, and as an example of the way women are prevented from getting justice she brought up the case of Danny Masterson’s rape accusers, who have been forced into []

Scientology at its peak, part 2: See the excitement for ‘OT’ secrets in leaked 1991 video

[Tory Christman loves the new OT materials!]

Yesterday we showed you the first half of a secret Scientology briefing held at the Fort Harrison Hotel in Clearwater, Florida in May 1991. In today’s second half, we pick up with Captain Ray Mithoff as he continues to reveal the nifty new “OT” releases and then we get []

Scientology at its peak: A 1991 confidential briefing to take you into orbit with OT secrets!

 May 1991. You Scientology historians know what a crossroads that was for the organization built on the ideas of L. Ron []

The pandemic isn’t over, but Scientology leader David Miscavige is ready for his bow

 A big thanks to attorney Graham Berry for giving us a head’s up that at Scientology’s website right now there’s a slick new online slideshow that’s long on the kind of glitz and glam that church leader David Miscavige loves, especially when he’s busy congratulating []

NARCONON SHRINKAGE: Scientology lists only five US locations as ‘Fresh Start’ is removed

[The Warner Springs Narconon Fresh Start, yesterday]

In 2015 we reported that the entire Northern California Narconon rehab network had cut ties with Scientology, and some longtime Narconon critics were skeptical. But then we watched as Per Wickstrom’s Midwest centers also pulled out of Scientology’s []

Here’s Scientology’s 2021 Super Bowl ad: A pandemic-flavored ‘mystery sandwich’

 So much has been different this year, but Scientology remains consistent and is serving up another mystery sandwich for the Super []

VIDEO: Jon Atack talks to Mike Rinder about his first months aboard Scientology’s ‘Apollo’

[Mike Rinder at 18, in Madeira]

I’ve spoken with more than a thousand Scientologists over the years, but Mike Rinder’s interview is the most vivid and appalling account of daily life aboard the ship run directly by []

Judge to Valerie Haney: You need to get this Scientology ‘arbitration’ underway

[Valerie Haney and Judge Burdge]

On Tuesday, a hearing took place at Los Angeles Superior Court in Judge Richard Burdge’s courtroom that had been scheduled a year earlier, when the judge first derailed Valerie Haney’s lawsuit against the Church of Scientology and told her to take her complaints to Scientology’s internal “religious []