Tony Ortega is a journalist who was formerly the editor of The Village Voice. He's written about Scientology since 1995, and in May 2015 released a book about Scientology's harassment of Paulette Cooper titled 'The Unbreakable Miss Lovely.' He continues to monitor breaking developments in the Scientology world from an undisclosed location in an underground bunker he shares with four cats and one of them wrinkly Shar Pei dogs. Despite his super-secret security protections, you can still reach him pretty easily by sending him a message at tonyo94 AT gmail.com (Drop him a line if you'd like to get an e-mail whenever a new story is posted.)
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TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: The Scientology defendants in the Whitney Mills wrongful-death lawsuit have asked for another 30 days to respond. And while that’s not too unusual on its own, there are some interesting statements and suggestions about […]
[Judge Robert Broadbelt and defendant David Miscavige]
Two weeks from today, the forced-marriage lawsuit filed by Jane Doe 1 will face its biggest challenge so far, and one that readers here at the Bunker are only too familiar with: A motion from Scientology asking the court to force the case into its own internal “religious […]
[Attorney John Kucera and Danny Masterson]
We have a couple of legal developments for you this morning. First, in the Bixler lawsuit, the plaintiffs have answered Scientology’s motion to […]
[Gavin Potter, David Miscavige, and attorney Graham Berry]
There’s a new filing in Jane Doe 1’s lawsuit against David Miscavige, Scientology, and a Sea Org executive named Gavin […]
Last Friday evening, we got the news that another lawsuit filed by former Scientologists had been torpedoed by a […]
[You got him, Valeska]
Naturally, after yesterday’s news that David Miscavige had finally been found by a court to be evading service in the Baxter v. Scientology labor trafficking lawsuit, and that the court had officially named him a defendant in the case, there was much rejoicing in the […]
[Judge Thomas Barber. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM]
Is it nailbiting time in the Baxter v Scientology […]
Last week, we reported that Scientology had tipped its hand that, once again, it would be trying to derail a lawsuit filed by former Scientologists with its “religious arbitration” […]
[Plaintiff Valeska Paris and the Freewinds]
Scientology is still several days away from its deadline to make its first answer to the major new labor trafficking lawsuit that was filed against the church in April, but in a new court document, Scientology’s attorneys have revealed that they will be using their favorite strategy to try and […]
[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 […]
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