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Here’s our story about big 2023 donors Scientology doesn’t want you to see

 Here we go again!

Substack has taken down one of our entire posts (published December 24) reporting on legitimate news about Scientology after the church complained about the use of their images, and Substack did it without even giving us the opportunity to remove the images before taking down the story as a []

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Scientology’s celebration of its biggest donors was even more ultra than we realized

Sunday, we were excited to bring you images from Scientology’s annual orgy celebrating its biggest donors, the Patrons Ball that was held on Saturday, November 4 under the big tent at Saint Hill Manor in East Grinstead, []

Here they are, the wealthy whales keeping Scientology afloat into 2024!

[Photo montage by the Proprietor]

Wow, we didn’t expect to see these photos from Scientology this soon. We’re talking about the whales — what we call the big donors — that Scientology recognized on Saturday, November 4 at the IAS gala under the big tent at Saint Hill Manor in East Grinstead, []

Scientology makes an exception for ABCMouse honcho, will hold memorial for Doug Dohring

Our readers know that we’ve become accustomed over the years to writing remembrances for Scientology figures because the church itself is usually silent about the passing of even some of its most important []

Scientology has a new champion donor for US church construction — $62.1 MILLION!

 Just a week ago we showed you evidence that Scientology’s big whales are being hit up for huge donations not only for the membership organization, the IAS, but also for building []

Scientology celebrates Nancy Cartwright for upping her donations to $21 million

 The new issue of Scientology’s Impact magazine is here, and it contains a surprise!

Impact is our favorite of Scientology’s publications because it provides us with reports from the church’s celebrations of its biggest donors. (We call them []

DONOR DRAMA: Stunning new data on the life cycle of a Scientology whale!

 For years, we’ve been fascinated by the behavior of Scientology’s whales. These are the really big donors, the ones who give the church more than $1 million just in straight donations, above and beyond what they spend for courses, auditing, accommodations and the []

Richie Acunto, Scientology donor and ‘Survival Insurance’ mogul, dead at 70

 Richie Acunto, a colorful Scientology “whale” who had donated at least $10 million to the church, and who was once a major player in auto insurance in California, was found dead this week in Marina del Rey on his boat, where he had been living for several []

There she blows! More Scientology whales spotted, including some surprises

 On Wednesday we celebrated the arrival of the new Impact magazine, the Scientology publication that annually (and sometimes more frequently) names the biggest donors to the International Association of Scientologists (IAS), which is Scientology’s membership []

Scientology’s richest in 2022: Where have all the whales gone?

 Our many thanks to the reader who forwarded us Scientology’s newest Impact magazine, our favorite of all the publications that Scientology denudes entire forests to put []