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Scientology celeb Danny Masterson to be arraigned today for raping three women

 [UPDATE: Masterson’s attorney Tom Mesereau filed a demurrer and had the arraignment delayed until Oct. 19. See our reports from court down below.]

At 8:30 am Pacific today at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center on West Temple Street in downtown Los Angeles, Scientology celebrity and That ’70s Show actor Danny Masterson is scheduled to []

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Scientology chiro Dennis Nobbe drops dead after being informed he’s going to jail

[Dennis Nobbe and his former clinic]

Scientology donor and Miami chiropractor Dennis Nobbe, 63, learned on Monday that the US district court had decided to revoke his bond and put him in custody while awaiting trial on Medicare fraud and PPP loan abuse. He immediately called his attorney to tell him the news, and while on []

Scientologist chiro Nobbe: There’s an innocent explanation, judge. Prosecutors: No there isn’t.

[US Attorney Ariana Fajardo Orshan, Dennis Nobbe, and H. Dohn Williams]

[ICYMI: Last night, Leah Remini’s Emmy victory for the Danny Masterson ‘Aftermath’ episode.]

We have a couple of legal briefs for our document hounds today, and they present two radically different versions of []

RIFFER: David Miscavige too busy saving Scientology from Covid to be served lawsuit

[Jeffrey Riffer and David Miscavige]

For more than a year, Scientology leader David Miscavige and his attorneys have been working hard to keep him from being served in a lawsuit filed by Danny Masterson’s rape accusers. And right from the beginning, our readers were asking whether that problem could be solved by serving the elusive Miscavige []

Scientology’s ‘Super Power’ couple slammed down by appeals court over tax debt

 Yesterday the US Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals handed down yet another stunning rebuke of Matt and Kathy Feshbach, a major Scientology power couple who have been battling the government for more than 20 years over unpaid []

Prosecutors: Judge isn’t getting the point about Dennis Nobbe’s post-arrest shenanigans

 On Friday, federal prosecutors filed an appeal of a judge’s decision not to throw Scientologist chiropractor Dennis Nobbe into jail for some pretty outrageous behavior after he was arrested in July for Medicare fraud and PPP loan []

After arrest, Scientologist chiro Dennis Nobbe in even more trouble for contacting witnesses

 When he was charged with Medicare and PPP loan fraud in July, Scientology donor and Miami chiropractor Dennis Nobbe put up a $200,000 bond and, as part of an agreement to stay out of jail while awaiting trial, promised not to contact former employees that the government planned to call as []

Danny Masterson presses for Jane Does suing him to identify themselves as hearing nears

 On Wednesday we saw the objections that Danny Masterson’s accusers were making to his legal attempt to get himself out of a lawsuit they filed against the Scientologist actor and the church itself. Now, we have Masterson’s reply, in which he’s not only refuting their arguments but pressing the point that two of his accusers []

Ahead of next week’s hearing, Danny Masterson’s accusers blast his attacks on their lawsuit

[Chrissie Carnell Bixler doesn’t think much of Danny Masterson’s “demurrer”]

On Friday next week, a hearing is scheduled at Los Angeles Superior Court that will consider Scientologist actor Danny Masterson’s “demurrer,” a legalistic attack on a lawsuit filed by four women who allege that they were raped by Masterson, and after they came forward to police []

Danny Masterson changes his tune about criminal case in new civil brief

 We suspect that things are really going to heat up in the civil lawsuit filed by four women against Danny Masterson and Scientology in anticipation of next week’s big hearing. []