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]
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Liz Gale: The Scientology auditing of kids at Mace-Kingsley was my childhood

 We got a big reaction to our piece on Monday about the Scientology affiliate, Mace-Kingsley in Clearwater, Florida, that targets infants and toddlers for their first experiences of a lifetime of L. Ron Hubbard []

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More proof that governments are aware of how Scientology abuses its own members

[Attila Péterfalvi, still on the case in Hungary]

In 2017 Chris Owen wrote a story for the Bunker about the efforts by Hungary’s government to investigate Scientology’s abuse of the information its members are required to hand []

Valerie Haney to state supremes: Scientology abuses less real than deadlines in a pandemic?

 We told you last week that Valerie Haney has taken her fight against Scientology ‘arbitration’ to California’s state supreme court, but we didn’t have a copy yet of her actual petition for []

JANE DOE DROPS CHILD SEXUAL ASSAULT SUIT AGAINST SCIENTOLOGY AND DAVID MISCAVIGE

[David Miscavige]

The Underground Bunker has learned that on Friday, a day after she learned the Clearwater Police Department was closing a criminal investigation of her allegations against the Church of Scientology, the woman going by the name Jane Doe instructed her attorneys to drop her lawsuit that was based on the same allegations against the []

Dianetics at 70: Scientology’s bible, endorsing child molestation since May 9, 1950

 Seventy years ago today, L. Ron Hubbard published the book that changed his life and sparked a movement, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental []

New amended complaint packs a wallop in Miami Scientology child sex assault lawsuit

[Defendant David Miscavige]

Just days before a major showdown hearing was scheduled for April 20 (and was likely to be put back for the pandemic), “Jane Doe” has filed a new amended complaint in her lawsuit against the Church of Scientology and its leader David Miscavige that will upend scheduling in the case. []

David Miscavige deposition in sex abuse lawsuit canceled after Scientology pushes back

[David Miscavige and the attorney who won’t be questioning him next week, Ricardo Martinez-Cid]

In recent weeks, attorneys for Jane Doe, a Florida woman suing Scientology for what she alleges was years of sexual abuse that she endured as a child employee for the church, boldly filed notices in court that they intended to subject three []

David Miscavige in Miami sex abuse lawsuit: Catch me if you can, suckers

[David Miscavige]

The national legal team suing Scientology in three important lawsuits has asked a Miami court for more time — up to May 15, if necessary — because they still haven’t located David Miscavige to serve notice to the Scientology leader in a suit alleging a cover-up of child sexual abuse. The request was granted []

If Scientology forced your children to disconnect from you, what would you do?

[Phil Jones and his son Mike]

On Saturday, we posted Skip Young’s update about how he tried to defy Scientology disconnection by flying across the country to see his two grown daughters. It didn’t go well. We got a couple of interesting responses to that, and we wanted you to see this one today. It was []

Nan McLean, 1923-2019: One of the bravest women who ever exposed Scientology’s abuses

[Nan with Jon Atack in Toronto in 2015]

Last night, we learned from Nan McLean’s granddaughter Phaedra Fairwell that Nan, a veteran of vicious Fair Game attacks after leaving Scientology and going public in the 1970s, died yesterday at Southlake Regional Hospital in Newmarket, Ontario. She was 96 years []