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Closing arguments today at the Danny Masterson trial: Come along for the ride

[Defense attorney Philip Cohen and Deputy DA Reinhold Mueller]

Well, it’s all come down to this: Five years after we first learned that Danny Masterson was under investigation by the LAPD, more than two years after he was charged by the DA’s office, and after four weeks of testimony from his alleged victims, today we’re going []

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Leah Remini remembers when Mackenzie Phillips was rooting against Scientology

[Leah Remini and Mackenzie Phillips]

Leah Remini has really been on fire lately. Yesterday we told you about the Twitter thread she unleashed about the LAPD and Shelly Miscavige that went viral. Her tweetstorm kicked up such a fuss, the LAPD felt forced to []

PODCAST: Looking back at the fourth week of testimony in the Danny Masterson trial

[Tricia Vessey and Cillian Murphy in ‘On the Edge’ (2001)]

The fourth week of testimony at the Danny Masterson trial in Los Angeles was another abbreviated one, as the court is dark today for Veterans Day. But what a week of big []

Prosecution in Danny Masterson trial scheduled to rest after odd turns on Wednesday

[Philip Cohen and his client, Danny Masterson]

The prosecution in the Danny Masterson trial is supposed to rest its case today, we []

Danny Masterson sis-in-law Chynna Phillips after watching trial: Seeing the light?

[Chynna Phillips Baldwin]

On November 2, we put in our “morning break” report at the Danny Masterson trial that we were excited to see that Danny’s wife Bijou Phillips had arrived to court that morning with her half-sister, Chynna Phillips Baldwin, []

Deposition: Scientology’s targeting of Paul Haggis that isn’t speculation

[Tommy Davis and Paul Haggis]

We’ve been very busy with the Danny Masterson trial here in Los Angeles, so we’ve been unable to keep much of an eye on what’s going on back in New York, where a civil trial has been unfolding between Crash director Paul Haggis and a former publicist, Haleigh Breest, who is []

PODCAST: Looking back at the third week of testimony in the Danny Masterson trial

[Philip Cohen and his client, Danny Masterson]

The third week of testimony at the Danny Masterson trial in Los Angeles was a short one, but it still had its []

WHOA: Jane Doe 2 and Jane Doe 3 now represented by David Boies firm for their ‘rights’

[David Boies]

For a couple of years now, we’ve been taking it upon ourselves to bring something up with other news []

Scientology’s favorite LAPD shill now in hot water over Les Moonves ‘allegiance’

[Cory Palka]

One of the interesting things we heard from Jane Doe 2 during her testimony yesterday at the Danny Masterson trial was that she and the other victims were very suspicious of the LAPD detective who was initially assigned to their case. She testified that the detective’s behavior was so strange, they suspected she might []

PODCAST: Looking back at the second week of testimony in the Danny Masterson trial

[Danny Masterson and his defense attorney, Philip Cohen]

The second week of testimony at the Danny Masterson trial in Los Angeles had more surprises for us than we were expecting. And we’ve been glad you’ve been with us on this rather crazy []