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[Danny Masterson and appeals attorney Cliff Gardner]TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: The appeal brief for ‘That ’70s Show’ actor and Scientology celeb Danny Masterson was due tomorrow, but yesterday his lawyer Cliff Gardner was granted a 30-day extension. Gardner has been very busy with other cases, including the new public interest in the Menendez brothers. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Danny Masterson attorney Cliff Gardner gets a month extension for appeal brief
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Just in time for the big event happening this Friday through Sunday at Saint Hill Manor, Scientology’s UK headquarters, someone has anonymously posted an incredibly detailed and high resolution drone shot of the entire place. ‘Apostate Alex’ helps us navigate it! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading A drone’s-eye view of Scientology’s UK headquarters before this week’s gala!
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Every year, Scientology embraces the trappings of Christmas as a marketing tool, and this year you can sail with Santa on the high seas! But before you walk that plank, you might want to see what founder L. Ron Hubbard said in this 1968 lecture about this planet’s scary past! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Scientology gets the jump on the holidays (that it believes are an alien plot)
[Ivan Gaspari, when he was being celebrated as a donor by David Miscavige]TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: One of the strangest criminal prosecutions we’ve ever seen, involving accusations between two of Scientology’s most wealthy donors, concluded yesterday when a trial in Lugano, Switzerland resulted in a ‘Diamond Meritorious’ donor being sentenced to 5.5 years in prison. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Former Scientology donor sentenced to 5.5 years on accusations by Trish Duggan
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Even more good news is coming out of Scientology’s UK headquarters ahead of next week’s big event there. Finally, decades after the publication of founder L. Ron Hubbard’s books ‘Dianetics’ and ‘A History of Man,’ a solution has been found for clamminess. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Scientology breakthrough: Finally, after 74 years, a solution for clamminess
[R. Lee Ermey in Full Metal Jacket, and Stanley and Vivian Kubrick on the set]TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Controversy has erupted over former President Trump’s use of Stanley Kubrick’s 1987 anti-war film ‘Full Metal Jacket,’ which Stanley’s daughter Vivian says her dad would have approved of. But the press covering it seems to have forgotten that Vivian is a nutty Scientology loon. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Scientology fruit loop Vivian Kubrick says her dad Stanley would have supported Trump
[Ivan Gaspari, left, faces a criminal trial based on allegations by Trish Duggan, right]TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology ‘Diamond Meritorious’ ($5 million) donor Ivan Gaspari is on trial today in Lugano, Switzerland, accused of stealing $7 million from billionaire Scientologist Trish Duggan. But Gaspari insists the money was part of a scheme to donate even more to the church. Bizarre! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Swiss trial pitting two Scientology mega-donors against each other opens today
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Rebecca Minkoff gave a pretty classic celebrity Scientology performance this week, telling the ‘Real Housewives of New York City’ that she wasn’t ‘uncomfortable’ talking about the church, but then offering blatant lies about it with responses designed to shut down discussion. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Did Rebecca Minkoff really say that Scientology has no secrets?
[Bruce Hines and his then four-year-old boy in Los Angeles]TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Parents learn the hard way how bad Scientology is for their kids
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