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Confirmed: Lisa Marie Presley, Marty Singer on witness list in Danny Masterson trial

[Hollywood fixer Marty Singer and Lisa Marie Presley]

Jury selection continued yesterday as we served our second day as pool reporter in the Danny Masterson rape […]

The Scientology spy in the hallway: The Danny Masterson trial gets underway

[Hallway at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, photo by California Historical Society]

Yesterday morning, the Danny Masterson criminal trial began with jury selection, and your proprietor was feeling on the […]

Jury selection begins today in the Danny Masterson trial, and we’re there for you

[Law & Crime’s Jesse Weber and a field correspondent]

Jury selection begins today in the trial of Danny Masterson. Wow, we can tell you that for some people, it’s been an incredible struggle and a harrowing journey to get to hear those […]

The case against Danny Masterson: Details from the prosecution brief on the eve of trial

[Danny Masterson in 2003]

Jury selection begins tomorrow in the criminal rape trial of Scientology celebrity and That ’70s Show actor Danny Masterson. He’s accused of forcibly raping three women between 2001 and 2003 who were Scientologists at the time. (They no longer are today.) If he’s found guilty of all three counts, he’s facing 45 […]

How a major Scientology donor family is caught up in the Danny Masterson case

[The $10 million couple: Steve Fabos and Peggy Oppenheim-Fabos]

In court on Monday, Deputy DA Reinhold Mueller described to Judge Charlaine Olmedo one of the witnesses the prosecution plans to call in Danny Masterson’s criminal rape trial, which starts […]

Olmedo Rules: Details of the court’s decision on Scientology in Danny Masterson’s case

[Judge Charlaine Olmedo and defendant Danny Masterson]

On Monday and Tuesday, crucial pretrial matters were hammered out in Judge Charlaine Olmedo’s Los Angeles courtroom, and with defendant Danny Masterson in attendance (even though he wasn’t required to be […]

With a trial looming, here’s what it’s like to go up against Scientology’s code of silence

[Mirriam Francis in her episode of Scientology and the Aftermath]

In 2017, Mirriam Francis appeared in the premiere episode of the second season of Leah Remini’s A&E series, ‘Scientology and the Aftermath.’ She also helped us out with a couple of pieces here at the Bunker, but it has been a few years since we heard […]

Prosecution plans to call Lisa Marie Presley as witness at Danny Masterson rape trial

This week, the two sides in the upcoming Danny Masterson rape trial have been arguing over what evidence would be allowed, and which witnesses would be called. Yesterday, Judge Charlaine Olmedo issued some rulings in the case, denying a delay that Masterson had asked for, but also denying an expert witness for the […]

Prosecution plans to call 1996 victim in Danny Masterson trial

At a courtroom in Los Angeles yesterday, the two sides preparing for Danny Masterson’s rape trial that is scheduled to begin next week spent the day fighting over what evidence will be allowed […]

Scientology is fuming about Mike Rinder, Valeska Paris testimony in trafficking case

[Mike Rinder and Valeska Paris]

Scientology was so incensed by the responses to its attempt to derail a new labor trafficking lawsuit in Tampa, it asked for the chance to make a special […]

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