Paul Haggis opposes motion to keep Scientology out of next month’s trial

[Haggis’s attorneys plan to introduce evidence first seen in Bryan Seymour’s ‘Black Ops’ series]

Last week, we told you that Haleigh Breest, the former publicist who is suing director Paul Haggis for allegedly raping her, filed a motion asking that the court not allow Haggis to bring up Scientology in their trial, which is scheduled to begin in New York on October 11.

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Now with no restrictions: Our podcast series on the Scientology docuseries that never aired

In June, we started our experiment with Substack and asked readers to sign up for free emails so our stories would come right to your inboxes. Less than three months later, we now have more than triple the subscriber base we did previously, and you’ve all helped us reach a much larger audience.

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AUDIO: Nation of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan says Rizza Islam is accused of ‘horrible charge’

[Rizza and Farrakhan in happier times]

This week we heard from multiple current and former Nation of Islam members who told us that on Wednesday they were called in for an all-hands ‘Believers’ Meeting’ at their local mosques in order to view a video address from leader Louis Farrakhan.

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Court agrees to issue summons for Scientology leader David Miscavige in trafficking lawsuit

[Playing keepaway: David Miscavige in 2017, photo from his own website]

Tampa federal Judge Thomas Barber has agreed that Scientology leader David Miscavige has been evading service in a major new labor trafficking lawsuit that was filed in April, and he has given the plaintiffs a court summons they were asking for.

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Scientology delivers superpowers, and here are the miracles to prove it!

It’s that time again! Thanks to one of our correspondents, we have a new column from Scientology’s ‘Advance!’ magazine, its beloved feature, ‘OT Phenomena.’ We can’t get enough of it and we know you can’t either.

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PODCAST: Paulette Cooper has been exposing Scientology’s abuses for more than 50 years

[Paulette Cooper in 1967, before all the trouble started]

This week at the podcast, we’re coming back around to why we created the Underground Bunker to begin with. In 2012, we began working on a book that eventually gained the title The Unbreakable Miss Lovely, and we created our website in order to make sure the book had an audience when it came out in 2015.

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Olmedo rules: Read the decision to deny Danny Masterson’s latest trial delay attempt

[Judge Charlaine Olmedo and Danny Masterson]

On August 12 Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Charlaine Olmedo shot down Danny Masterson’s most creative attempt to delay his rape trial.

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Don’t allow Paul Haggis to mention Scientology in trial, woman suing him asks court

[Paul Haggis]

On Tuesday, Haleigh Breest, the former publicist who is suing Paul Haggis alleging that the Crash director raped her in 2013 after attending a movie premiere, filed a lengthy motion asking Judge Sabrina Kraus to limit what Haggis can bring up at their trial, which is scheduled to begin in New York on October 11.

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The best TV show on Scientology you never got to see, Episode 5: Jamie DeWolf

[Jamie filming the Sirens Media series in Los Angeles]

In 2016, the A&E Network had filmed and edited an eight-episode series about Scientology that has never aired.

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How Scientology churchified itself to capitalize on its IRS tax exemption

[David Miscavige in 1993, and the War Is Over announcement that October]

We have a special treat for you today. A former Sea Org member who worked in Scientology’s management wanted to add some more detail to something Sunny Pereira wrote for us recently. Sunny had pointed out that after Lisa McPherson’s death in 1995, Scientology sent out a new contract that included language that enabled the church to declare someone unwell so that it could take over their care. This has been dubbed the “kidnap contract” by critics, and Sunny said that she and others at the Hollywood Celebrity Centre were relieved at the time that the contract would give them the power to take over control of Sea Org members who were causing problems. Sunny also suggested that this may have been the first set of contracts that contained an arbitration clause, or at least the first ones she remembers seeing.

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