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Scientology meltdown: L. Ron Hubbard 2.0 in crisis after indictments publicized

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We can’t help being fascinated by Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, the ex-con sitting in a Tennessee jail with followers who believe he is the reincarnated Scientology leader. But now he’s admitted to a shocking crisis []

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Scientology makes it official: New Paris ‘Ideal Org’ is best thing ever

[Paris gets its first Clear]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology’s new Paris ‘Ideal Org’ is in a somewhat shabby corner of town. How many people are going to pull off the A1 for a personality test? But David Miscavige []

Bruce Hines: Scientology is one strange journey, sailor

[Welcome back, thetan!]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: On the surface, Scientology presents itself as a business-like self-help group. But as Bruce Hines explains in another of his detailed narratives, the strangeness is never far away. [What is this Substack []

When Father’s Day 2024 reminds you that Scientology ripped apart your family

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: [What is this Substack thing, []

Scientology’s outlook is grim, but the church never gives up with its real obsession

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Scientology to clear planet with killer new marketing campaign: ‘Are you lonesome?’

[Disseminating in Moorpark]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: What few Scientology missions survive today are barely hanging on. And we’ve suspected that they serve an aging population holding on to the idea that Scientology is a living, growing thing. Well, []

Trish Duggan, Scientology’s richest, is keeping another donor in jail in… Switzerland?

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: EXCLUSIVE: We describe a bizarre situation that involves Scientology’s richest donor, Trish Duggan, having another church donor jailed in Switzerland as a private accuser. But the jailed man says Trish invested in his company []

Why does Scientology get to hold up the Danny Masterson lawsuit in its entirety?

[Judge Upinder Kalra and Danny Masterson]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Danny Masterson’s victims want to bolster their lawsuit against Scientology by adding racketeering charges, and they’ve asked Judge Kalra to reconsider his ruling putting the entire case on hold. []

On trial: Scientology PI accused of assaulting woman he was hired to follow

[David Smith and Susanne Gold-Smith, and Yanti Greene]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Five years after David Smith and his wife Susanne filed lawsuits against several private investigators, a trial is starting today on Long Island, and we will be []

Scientology suicide: How Quentin Hubbard’s death was covered in the press

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: After we posted the most recent version of our ‘Not Forgotten’ memorial, which included Quentin Hubbard, the troubled son of #Scientology’s founder, we received this touching tribute from Val Ross, looking back at the []