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Scientology makes another attempt to defeat its terrible image, this time with Millennial OTs!

 
As many of our readers have commented over the years, because Scientology’s heyday was several decades ago, many of the people we see in the organization’s social media, fliers, and videos today tend to be on the geriatric side of the ledger.

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New witness spills tea on Danny Masterson, ‘The Ranch,’ and attorney Andrew Brettler

[Masterson and Kutcher in the Netflix series The Ranch]

On March 3, 2017, we broke the news that Scientology celebrity Danny Masterson was being investigated by the LAPD on rape allegations from three women.

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Would you purchase a Scientology E-meter from this man?

 
David Miscavige wants to sell all Scientologists his official RTC-approved and CST-patented Scientology Mark Ultra VIII E-meter.

And for only $5,000.

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Danny Masterson’s civil attorney adds Prince Andrew as a client and Twitter loses its mind

[Danny Masterson, attorney Andrew Brettler, and Prince Andrew]

If you saw the 2020 Netflix documentary Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich, you learned that one of the more sordid chapters of the Epstein saga involved one of his alleged victims, Virginia Giuffre, and her claims about having been set up by the financier as an underage treat for Prince Andrew.

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Scientology sends out creepy letters to lure you back in, and other gems from our mailbag

 
We have great tipsters, and some new helpers have started sending us things and we wanted to say how happy that makes us.

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Scientology’s new campaign to get you to sign its billion-year contract is here!

[Jasper has company!]

We started seeing new ads for Scientology’s Sea Org a few weeks ago, and now it’s coming in a flood.

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On 9/11, Scientology leader’s ‘wake-up call’ was supposed to expand the church

[David Miscavige in 2001, just weeks after 9/11]

On this solemn 20th anniversary, we are continuing to look back at the events that changed our lives in such significant ways on September 11, 2001.

Yesterday, we had a piece at The Daily Beast about Scientology’s reaction to 9/11, and described how Bruce Hines was on the roof of the 46th Street org when the attacks began. We also talked to Mike Rinder about how underwhelming he found the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Program, which started in 2003, when he took Barbara Walters through it.

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After Scientology’s 9-11 fakery, a Sea Org slave makes his dicey run for freedom

[Bruce Hines at the time he was in the Sea Org, with his sister Lindy]

Over at the Daily Beast today we have a story looking back at Scientology’s reaction to the 9-11 attacks in New York for the 20th anniversary of that infamous day. In the story, we featured Bruce Hines, who was actually on the roof of the New York org that morning when the attacks began. His work at Ground Zero aiding first responders had a profound effect on him and led him, two years later, to ditch Scientology altogether. But making that decision was just the beginning of an amazing story, and he tells it himself in this gripping narrative.

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Let’s help the new Scientology ‘Ideal Org’ in Austin get staffed up!

 
We understand that a lot of our liberal friends are unhappy with the state of Texas right now, thanks to its insane new law that aims to turn the state’s residents into anti-abortion bounty hunters. But Scientology has a new “Ideal Org” that needs opening in the hippie-liberal blue island of Austin, and we’re here to help!

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Anne Archer is still pitching her Scientology front group ‘Artists for Human Rights’

 
Academy Award-nominated actress and Scientology celebrity Anne Archer is still going strong with her very own Scientology front group, Artists for Human Rights.

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