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Shelly Miscavige and her beagles: A Group Therapy podcast extra

A couple of weeks ago we started a new podcast for our subscribers that we call Group […]

Why the Golden Globes is joking about Tom Cruise, Shelly Miscavige, and Scientology

[Jerrod Carmichael made a funny]

Thank you to everyone who messaged or tweeted us last night about host Jerrod Carmichael’s joke about Tom Cruise, Shelly Miscavige, and Scientology on the Golden Globes […]

PODCAST: How Tory Christman saved Rosie O’Donnell from joining Scientology

One of the people we were happy to see in Los Angeles when we were covering the Danny Masterson trial was our old friend Tory […]

Chris Owen and Jon Atack remember Jane Kember, Scientology’s ultimate spymaster

On Friday, we reported on the death of Scientology’s former “Guardian,” Jane Kember, at 85. We had learned about her passing the day before, and scrambled to put together a basic outline of what an important figure she is in Scientology. Since then, we’ve heard from two of the very best researchers and historians of […]

How Scientology manufactured New York Times bestsellers for L. Ron Hubbard

We’ve received another account from a former Scientology manager who previously told us about the development of contracts in the church after the death of Lisa McPherson. This time, they gave us another timely look into Scientology’s […]

Scientology’s Flag Land Base lost money in 2020? We beg to differ.

Six years ago we wrote about government data that researcher RM Seibert uncovered showing without a doubt that Scientology was abusing “R-1” religious visas in order to bring indentured servants to its “Sea Org” […]

PODCAST: Paulette Cooper has been exposing Scientology’s abuses for more than 50 years

[Paulette Cooper in 1967, before all the trouble started]

This week at the podcast, we’re coming back around to why we created the Underground Bunker to begin with. In 2012, we began working on a book that eventually gained the title The Unbreakable Miss Lovely, and we created our website in order to make sure the […]

How Scientology churchified itself to capitalize on its IRS tax exemption

[David Miscavige in 1993, and the War Is Over announcement that October]

We have a special treat for you today. A former Sea Org member who worked in Scientology’s management wanted to add some more detail to something Sunny Pereira wrote for us recently. Sunny had pointed out that after Lisa McPherson’s death in 1995, Scientology […]

Confirmed: Law enforcement was informed about another alleged Danny Masterson victim

[Danny Masterson]

In June 2020, Scientology celebrity Danny Masterson was charged by the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office with forcibly raping three women who were Scientologists at the time (they aren’t today). The DA’s office also revealed that it had considered the allegations of five different women before choosing to charge Masterson based on the allegations […]

The Scientologists doing battle with the SEC over a $1 billion pile of cash

[Scientologists Matt Judkin and David Gentile]

In February 2021, we told you that Scientologist David Gentile was charged by the New York Attorney General’s office for operating what it called a $1.8 billion Ponzi scheme, paying older investors with money from newer investors of a company called GPB Capital […]

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