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EXCLUSIVE: First Interview with the Principal of Will & Jada Smith’s Shuttered Scientology School

In 2007, Jacqueline Olivier was hired by Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith to turn their home-schooling experiment into an actual bricks-and-mortar institution. A year later, the New Village Leadership Academy opened its doors as protesters showed up to picket the school — by then, it was known that the Smiths had asked Olivier to []

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The Tom Cruise Smear Machine: Accusations From His Deposition You Haven’t Heard

Hundreds of pages of court documents in Tom Cruise’s $50 million lawsuit against Bauer Media, publishers of In Touch and Life & Style magazines, were put into a public court file recently, and yesterday, RadarOnline pounced on a short excerpt from a deposition given by Cruise.

We have more pages from Cruise’s deposition than Radar posted, []

LEAH REMINI AGREES TO TESTIFY IN SCIENTOLOGY HARASSMENT LAWSUIT

Leah Remini and dancer Tony Dovolani on Dancing With the Stars

The Underground Bunker has learned that King of Queens actress Leah Remini has agreed to give a deposition in Monique Rathbun’s harassment lawsuit against the Church of Scientology. The deposition will take place in Los Angeles on October 15, we were able to []

JASON BEGHE ON LEAH REMINI: She’s Right, Scientology Does Want Her to Fail

Last night, on Dancing With The Stars, Leah Remini was heard telling her dance partner, Tony Dovolani, that Scientology, which she left this summer, wants her to fail on the program so its members would think that’s what happens to anyone who leaves. “You’re used to taking a lot of negativity on yourself,” she said []

LEAH REMINI: Scientology Wants Me to Fail on Dancing With The Stars

Leah Remini continues to use her access to a huge media platform to jab the Church of Scientology in the ribs.

Previously, she had prominently displayed ex-Scientologist Marc Headley’s book about escaping Scientology, Blown For Good, while on her way into rehearsals for ABC’s Dancing With The Stars.

And tonight, on the show itself, she was heard []

TOM CRUISE IN CLEARWATER: Scientology Gathering Big Names For Product Launch

Hey, Oblivion ‘s out on DVD!

After Tom Cruise made a disastrous decision to be more public with his involvement in Scientology in 2005, he’s been relatively low-key about the church, and he’s not been seen at many of its major events. Now, we have evidence of Tom’s presence at a surprsingly small-scale church []

ANETTE IREN JOHANSEN: “I Auditioned To Be Tom Cruise’s Wife”

Once again, The Underground Bunker has teamed up with Woman’s Day, Australia’s largest selling magazine, to bring you an exclusive story.

Anette Iren Johansen recently left the Church of Scientology and has been blogging about her experiences, citing “terrible abuses committed within the church.” But she saved until now her biggest secret: She was one of []

Nicole Remini: John Travolta Has NOT Called Leah, Despite National Enquirer Unnamed Source

Last week, Leah Remini’s sister Nicole had to call bullshit on an unnamed source who told the Chicago Sun-Times that Leah and Kirstie Alley were “chatting” to make sure there was no “loss of friendship” between the two. Didn’t happen, Nicole told us.

Now, the National Enquirer is saying it talked to an unnamed source who []

Scientology Continues to “Handle” the “Black PR” of Leah Remini’s Defection

Scientology continues to “handle” the defection of Leah Remini and the subsequent media uproar. We have now learned that the church has produced a video about the controversy, and is asking Scientologists in the Los Angeles area to come to local facilities to view it and learn how to think about “Black PR” — Scientology []

Perez Hilton Has Poor Reading Skills: Here’s a Leah Remini Primer for the Word-Challenged

Oh, Perez. You look fabulous after all that weight loss. But you just have no reading comprehension, apparently.

We say that because we’ve just watched Perez mangle the Leah Remini story out of all recognition, and the thing is, he’s obviously getting nearly every one of his “facts” from stories we published earlier this week.

Perez, for []