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New witness spills tea on Danny Masterson, ‘The Ranch,’ and attorney Andrew Brettler

[Masterson and Kutcher in the Netflix series The Ranch]

On March 3, 2017, we broke the news that Scientology celebrity Danny Masterson was being investigated by the LAPD on rape allegations from three women. []

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Danny Masterson’s civil attorney adds Prince Andrew as a client and Twitter loses its mind

[Danny Masterson, attorney Andrew Brettler, and Prince Andrew]

If you saw the 2020 Netflix documentary Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich, you learned that one of the more sordid chapters of the Epstein saga involved one of his alleged victims, Virginia Giuffre, and her claims about having been set up by the financier as an underage treat for []

What is it going to take for the LA Times to take the threat of Rizza Islam seriously?

[Rizza Islam gets the Alex Jones endorsement, August 3]

Alex Jones admitted that he was envious. On August 3, the guest on his Infowars program was Rizza Islam, who, we told you earlier, had been named one of the 12 biggest sources of online disinformation about []

Judge Charlaine Olmedo on point: What was said in court about Danny Masterson’s subpoenas

[Danny Masterson and his legal team, Appelbaum and Mesereau, last September]

On August 9 we were on a family trip but we were able to appear at a court hearing in Los Angeles with a web link supplied by the court. We were there to watch our attorneys, Scott Pilutik and Graham Berry, ask Judge Charlaine []

Danny Masterson accusers answer Scientology’s salvo at California appeals court

[Chrissie Carnell-Bixler and Danny Masterson]

[UPDATE: Laura Prepon follows Beck’s lead by mentioning in a People interview today that she’s been out of Scientology for five years. Given her association with Danny Masterson and past intimidation of one of his victims, she has more to explain. We’ve asked Leah Remini for her thoughts, but she’s taping []

Danny Masterson’s nutty lawsuit involving his house loan is finally kicked out of court

[Danny and his circular Hollywood property]

While we’ve been covering Scientology celebrity Danny Masterson’s very serious criminal investigation and court case over the last several years, we also happened to discover something not to so serious that he was also involved with in federal []

Judge in Danny Masterson case quashes ‘fishing expedition’ done for Scientology’s benefit

[Judge Olmedo, and Danny Masterson at a September appearance]

Our readers might remember that after the preliminary hearing in Danny Masterson’s rape case that happened in May, we made the observation that the missteps in the hearing by defense attorney Tom Mesereau sure looked to us that they were either dictated by Scientology or they were []

Evidence from Danny Masterson’s preliminary hearing aired on KABC Ch 7 in Los Angeles

 Last night our Los Angeles readers got a chance to see an excellent 7-minute report put together by KABC Channel 7 on how much Scientology itself was a factor in the May preliminary hearing which now has actor Danny Masterson facing trial and the possibility of life in prison for raping three different []

Danny Masterson delays motion to dismiss, and other recent mysteries for Scientology celeb

 Hey, what’s Danny Masterson up to lately as he awaits trial on rape charges that could put him in prison for the rest of his []

Court file: Brian Statler was never asked to leave Scientology org before being shot

[Brian Statler]

Last week we learned a lot more detail about the 2019 shooting death of Brian Statler, 30, at the Scientology “Ideal Org” in Inglewood, California. We obtained evidence submitted in the Statler family’s wrongful death lawsuit by the attorneys for the Inglewood police officers who shot and killed Statler. Those officers are asking for []