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Two can play that game: Leah Remini presses for another judge change

[Leah Remini and defendant David Miscavige]

We’re still stunned by what happened yesterday in Los Angeles, where Scientology leader David Miscavige sent his personal attorney Jeffrey Riffer down to Superior Court before a scheduled hearing in Jane Doe’s forced-marriage […]

Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s nightmare year, 1951, told in news clippings

[L. Ron Hubbard and Sara Northrup in 1951]

Even today, more than 70 years later, you will hear about L. Ron Hubbard’s near-miraculous transformation in 1950 from a modestly well known pulp fiction writer into a sensationally known expert on the human mind with the publication of his bestseller, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental […]

Leah Remini lawsuit will get a new judge after David Miscavige challenge

[David Miscavige sent Judge Randolph Hammock packing]

Judge Randolph Hammock clearly didn’t want to give up handling Leah Remini’s lawsuit after he had spent so much time producing a 37-page ruling for […]

Scientology said Leah Remini inspired his ‘crime.’ Now he’s talking.

It was a stunning allegation that came out in Leah Remini’s lawsuit in December, and was repeated in last week’s Los Angeles Times investigation of Scientology interference in the Danny Masterson criminal case. The accusation? Last year, Scientology attorney Kendrick Moxon had tried to tamper with a criminal prosecution to frame Leah […]

OOH LA LA: Scientology opens its ‘Ideal Org’ in Paris today and we’re on the scene!

[The view yesterday, with ribbon in place!]

Alas, the moment we’ve all been waiting for is finally here. Today, the new 78,500 square foot Church of Scientology and Celebrity Centre of Grand Paris (to use its full official title) will open its doors for the first time and boy, are we […]

Resurfaced video: An afternoon in 1963 with Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard

We want to thank the reader who brought to our attention that a pretty remarkable film featuring L. Ron Hubbard talking about Scientology from 1963 has […]

Need a job, thetan? Scientology’s sneaky business front has your listings

Among Scientology’s sneaky front groups, one of the most insidious is WISE, the World Institute of Scientology […]

Scientology and the Great American Eclipse, 2024 edition

Is it really less than a week away, this singular day that we’ve been looking forward to for nearly seven years […]

Flying under the radar: Scientology’s unexpected reprieve in Russia

[Ivan Matsitsky’s case ended with a surprisingly light sentence]

Since the 1990s, Scientology has faced both boom and bust in post-Soviet Russia, swinging from lucrative success in the “wild capitalism” era of Boris Yeltsin to facing a ruthless crackdown under Vladimir Putin. The writing seemed to be on the wall for Scientology after the Russian police […]

Val Ross: After the FBI raid, what it was like to return to work there — as a Scientology spy

I am certain I am not the only one who woke up with this feeling, that Scientology had co-opted my soul, that I was not a good person, and that everything bad that was happening in my life was something I deserved to have […]

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