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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.) [Header image courtesy John Rickard]

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, […]

That time the Church of Scientology proved that it should never, ever be trusted

It’s Boxing Day in some of the countries that read the Underground Bunker, and while we don’t really understand this strange custom, we’re just happy if you’re enjoying yourself on this day after […]

Does Shelly Miscavige know it’s Christmas 2023?

Five 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 […]

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, […]

The Underground Bunker’s 2023 Scientology year-in-review starts today!

A very happy winter solstice to our northern hemisphere readers, and to our antipodean friends, enjoy your summer! Once again it’s time to take stock of the year just past with our annual review, and there’s no doubt about it, this year really […]

New court leak: Scientology lied that Leah Remini had ‘blood on her hands’ in knife slay

As Leah Remini’s Emmy-winning A&E network series Scientology and the Aftermath neared the end of its three-season run in 2019, it was a refrain we were beginning to hear constantly from the Church of Scientology itself: Leah Remini had blood on her […]

Mike Rinder exposes Scientology ‘Fair Game’ for Leah Remini’s lawsuit

Yesterday we told you that Leah Remini had fired back at Scientology’s attempt to gut her lawsuit with a motion to strike and […]

‘Brothers Broken’ gets its New York premiere, with Mike Rinder and your Proprietor

[A previous movie premiere, ‘Going Clear’ at Sundance in 2015]

What would you do if every day you woke up to a nightmare? Mine was being trapped in a cult for 46 […]

He helped launch Scientology’s cruise ship, and later was cast aside by the church

[Bill Straass]

Recently I got word that my good buddy Bill Straass had passed […]

VIDEO: Scientology’s IAS tent is up, and the London staff is so stoked!

[Sandrine loves the big tent!]

Much thanks to Alexander “Apostate Alex” Barnes-Ross who tipped us that the London Org kids are at it […]

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