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Report: LAPD covered up that Shelly Miscavige’s fingerprints didn’t match in 2013

[Shelly Miscavige in the 1990s, and her 2010 driver’s license photo]

Journalist Yashar Ali posted a bombshell investigation to his Substack last night. After six years of reporting, he found that when the LAPD met with Church of Scientology executive Shelly Miscavige in 2013 after Leah Remini had filed a missing person report, the fingerprints that []

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New Shelly Miscavige sighting actually took place earlier than you may have heard

 Reporting on things like missing persons can be very tricky. We hear rumors all the time, but we do our best to make sure we have some confidence about sourcing before we bring things to []

Who takes over Scientology after Dave? Surprising answers from our experts

[John Goodwin and Emily Jones, and Shelly Miscavige (circa 1990)]

Well, we did it once again this week.

We got into some newsy stuff on our new podcast that we created for our subscribers, which we call Group []

PODCAST: Our never-heard 2021 interview with Ron Miscavige about daughter-in-law Shelly

[Shelly Miscavige and her father-in-law, Ron]

 This week, a story we have been covering for a long time, the disappearance of Shelly Miscavige, suddenly became national news, thanks to a joke by comedian Jerrod Carmichael as he was hosting the Golden Globes []

LAPD responds to Leah Remini tweets about Shelly Miscavige, gets stuff wrong

[Leah Remini, center, with Shelly Miscavige, right, circa 2004]

Last week, we told you about a story by Gene Maddaus at Variety that laid out some stunning allegations about a former LAPD Hollywood Division commander named Captain Cory Palka, who is accused of using his influence to kill a sexual assault investigation of Les Moonves, CEO []

Trafficking lawsuit: In Scientology, the tables turn quickly on abusers and the abused

[The new lawsuit focuses on hellish tales from Scientology’s cruise ship by Valeska Paris and others]

One of the really remarkable things about the new labor trafficking lawsuit filed against the Church of Scientology is that its 88-page complaint names so many []

What’s going on at the compound where Scientology is keeping Shelly Miscavige?

 Remember “Rachel”? She’s the person who tipped us off several years ago about a possible sighting of Shelly Miscavige in the town of Crestline, just about a mile from the small Scientology mountain compound in Southern California where we believe that Shelly’s been kept since the summer of []

SHELLY MISCAVIGE ON VIDEO: Never-before-seen footage from before her disappearance

 We have something very special for you today: The first new footage of Shelly Miscavige in many years and the best look at her on video ever, a brief glimpse from the year 2001, four years before she []

Does Shelly Miscavige know it’s Christmas 2020?

 Two years ago we decided that on Christmas Day it would be a good time to review what we knew about the disappearance of Shelly Miscavige, wife to Scientology’s leader David Miscavige, who vanished from Scientology’s Gold Base in summer 2005. We wondered if Shelly, kept hidden in a remote mountain compound, even knew it []

Kirstie Alley is wrong on Leah Remini & Shelly Miscavige. We know because we broke the story.

 Yesterday, Kirstie Alley actually responded to a Twitter reader who asked her about Leah Remini and Shelly []