Deposition: Scientology’s targeting of Paul Haggis that isn’t speculation

[Tommy Davis and Paul Haggis]

We’ve been very busy with the Danny Masterson trial here in Los Angeles, so we’ve been unable to keep much of an eye on what’s going on back in New York, where a civil trial has been unfolding between Crash director Paul Haggis and a former publicist, Haleigh Breest, who is suing him because she alleges that Haggis raped her in his apartment after a movie premiere in 2013.

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PODCAST: Looking back at the third week of testimony in the Danny Masterson trial

[Philip Cohen and his client, Danny Masterson]

The third week of testimony at the Danny Masterson trial in Los Angeles was a short one, but it still had its surprises.

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WHOA: Jane Doe 2 and Jane Doe 3 now represented by David Boies firm for their ‘rights’

[David Boies]

For a couple of years now, we’ve been taking it upon ourselves to bring something up with other news organizations.

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Scientology’s favorite LAPD shill now in hot water over Les Moonves ‘allegiance’

[Cory Palka]

One of the interesting things we heard from Jane Doe 2 during her testimony yesterday at the Danny Masterson trial was that she and the other victims were very suspicious of the LAPD detective who was initially assigned to their case. She testified that the detective’s behavior was so strange, they suspected she might be “corrupt.”

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Scientology propaganda even more tone deaf than usual with trial going on

We want to thank the reader who sent us the latest mailer she received from Scientology along with this note for us: “In light of recent revelations in court, what genius thought now would be a good time to market Chaplain services? In all my years of receiving mailings, I don’t remember ever seeing this before. (Or maybe I just wasn’t paying attention).”

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The Insider: David Miscavige makes a telling change to Scientology’s ‘Ideal’ scam

Late last year, we got some eye-opening reports on how hard the pandemic has been on Scientology from someone inside the organization. We dubbed them The Insider, and they told us about chaos caused by Covid, new details on the ‘Chase Wave’ financial debacle, a detailed description of the Ideal Org scam, and predicted the new ‘Golden Age of Admin’ that was on the way. Now they wanted to give us another update, this time about the Ideal Org program going through some changes. – T.O.

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This Halloween, Scientology is up to its old tricks again

[An Ideal Haunted House, maybe]

While we’ve been very busy with the Danny Masterson trial here in Los Angeles, we have managed to keep up on a few other stories that are developing. And one has really hit a critical stage.

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Paul Morantz is remembered for Synanon rattler, but he also faced Scientology’s fangs

On Friday, the Los Angeles Times had a very good piece about attorney Paul Morantz, who died in Santa Monica last Sunday at 77.

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PODCAST: Looking back at the second week of testimony in the Danny Masterson trial

[Danny Masterson and his defense attorney, Philip Cohen]

The second week of testimony at the Danny Masterson trial in Los Angeles had more surprises for us than we were expecting. And we’ve been glad you’ve been with us on this rather crazy ride.

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Danny Masterson shatters suppression, Scientology style, as his trial heats up

[Marc Headley and Danny Masterson, back in the day]

What does it look like when an upstat Scientologist shatters suppression in real time? Marc Headley told us all about it in yesterday’s end-of-day video!

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