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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 []

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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 []

Scientology didn’t want you to know that Elisabeth Moss attended the LRH Birthday

[Actor Jason Dohring, John Travolta, Elisabeth Moss, and Trish Duggan (in red)]

Mike Rinder tells us he was surprised to see in our story yesterday that we had blown up photos Scientology posted in a press release and found that John Travolta and Elisabeth Moss were front and center at the March 16 L. Ron Hubbard []

PODCAST: Phil Jones on the billboard, Scientology, and the Aftermath Foundation

 What a week Phil Jones has had, with his stealth operation in Los Angeles to put up a billboard on behalf of the Aftermath Foundation, and then the controversy that then []

Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard is 113 today: Let’s celebrate with his own words!

Lafayette Ronald Hubbard was born 113 years ago today in Tilden, Nebraska, and the reason he’s still remembered today, more than 38 years after his death in January 1986, is that he was a pulp fiction hack who churned out turgid magazine dreck by the yard during the Great []

Scientology does not want racketeering added to lawsuit from Danny Masterson victims

[Judge Kalra and defendant Danny Masterson]

In December, we reported that Danny Masterson’s victims were proposing to enhance their 2019 lawsuit against him and Scientology in a big way. They proposed to add a new plaintiff (the actress Tricia Vessey, who had testified in Masterson’s first criminal trial to being attacked by him twice in 1996), []