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Judge sets Jan 20 hearing for motion to serve Scientology leader in trafficking case

[Attorney Neil Glazer is still trying to serve Scientology leader David Miscavige]

 Now this is the showdown we were telling you just the other day that we’d like to see!

After Scientology leader David Miscavige finally had a lawyer appear for him in the Tampa federal labor trafficking lawsuit (and simply in order to keep him out []

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VIDEO: If Danny Masterson had testified about ‘DJ Donkey Punch’

 We want to thank the reader who brought a 2012 video to our attention that we hadn’t seen before. We’ve taken an excerpt from it that we think you might find interesting, because it answers the question: What might Danny Masterson have answered if he’d testified in his trial and was asked about his notorious []

PODCAST: If Scientology expert Claire Headley had testified at the Danny Masterson trial

 We’re still going through the wreckage of the Danny Masterson Trial, which ended with a hung jury on November 30. And one thing that surprised us about the interview we did with Chris Shelton of the jury foreman, was the revelation that the jury had largely ignored the Scientology component of the []

Florida Bar past president hired to stop court from serving lawsuit on David Miscavige

 On Thursday, we brought you some of the language from a motion filed by Valeska Paris that is seeking to have a Tampa federal court declare Scientology leader David Miscavige an official defendant in a labor trafficking lawsuit that Valeska and two other former Sea Org workers filed against Miscavige and the []

Valeska Paris asks court: Declare Scientology leader David Miscavige served, finally

 In April, Valeska Paris and two other former Sea Org workers, Gawain and Laura Baxter, filed a major new lawsuit against Scientology in Tampa, Florida, alleging that they had been trafficked as children and adults, forced to do labor and treated horribly on Scientology’s floating cathedral, the cruise ship []

PODCAST: Part 2 of Tricia Vessey on testifying as Jane Doe 4 in the Danny Masterson trial

 We’re continuing our conversation today with Jane Doe 4, the actress Tricia Vessey, who testified as a “past bad acts witness” at the Danny Masterson trial on November 9 and []

PODCAST EXCLUSIVE: Jane Doe 4, actress Tricia Vessey, on testifying in Danny Masterson trial

[Tricia Vessey and Cillian Murphy in 2001’s On the Edge]

Yesterday, we brought you the first interview with a juror from the Danny Masterson trial. Today, we have the first interview with a Jane Doe witness since the case ended in a mistrial on November []

EXCLUSIVE: The Danny Masterson jury foreman speaks in first public interview

[Your proprietor and Chris Shelton, interviewing Earl]

On November 30, the jury in the Danny Masterson rape trial in Los Angeles informed Judge Charlaine Olmedo that it was hopelessly []

Scientology leader David Miscavige unloads epic rant about Leah Remini after mistrial

[Scientology leader David Miscavige and his nemesis, Leah Remini]

We want to thank the reader who brought something rather amazing to our attention that we had overlooked.

Immediately after a mistrial was declared Wednesday in the Danny Masterson trial in Los Angeles, a Scientology website posted a statement that has to be seen to be []

Scientology scolds Valerie Haney for nominating Tom Cruise to be an arbitrator

[Valerie Haney and Tom Cruise]

In August Valerie Haney told the Church of Scientology that if she could not have Elisabeth Moss as an arbitrator in her dispute with the church, then she was nominating Tom Cruise, with Shelly Miscavige as a []