Laura Prepon claims she’s out: ‘For Scientology this is catastrophic’ says Mike Rinder

[Laura Prepon, just six years ago, in a Scientology magazine]

We saw a lot of people on social media celebrating yesterday’s People magazine interview with Laura Prepon, in which the Orange is the New Black actress said she hasn’t practiced Scientology for the last five years.

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Danny Masterson accusers answer Scientology’s salvo at California appeals court

[Chrissie Carnell-Bixler and Danny Masterson]

[UPDATE: Laura Prepon follows Beck’s lead by mentioning in a People interview today that she’s been out of Scientology for five years. Given her association with Danny Masterson and past intimidation of one of his victims, she has more to explain. We’ve asked Leah Remini for her thoughts, but she’s taping six episodes of her game show today so it may be a while before we hear from her.]

“I changed my mind” is not a defense: That’s what Scientology told a California appeals court last month, asking the court to uphold an earlier decision that essentially killed a lawsuit filed by Danny Masterson’s rape accusers against the That ’70s Show actor and the Church of Scientology itself.

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Danny Masterson’s nutty lawsuit involving his house loan is finally kicked out of court

[Danny and his circular Hollywood property]

While we’ve been covering Scientology celebrity Danny Masterson’s very serious criminal investigation and court case over the last several years, we also happened to discover something not to so serious that he was also involved with in federal court.

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Underground Bunker readers assemble, and Scientology spies freak out

[Willie and Pan]

Willie and I drove into the city yesterday to meet up with some good friends at the Toronto Scientology Org at 696 Yonge St. Aside from meeting with some awesome people I wanted to have a look to see if Scientology had finally, after years of raising millions of dollars, even gotten started with renovations.

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Tom Cruise’s Scientology superpowers, No. 10: Drying out from space coke

We’ve been counting down the Scientology superpowers that Tom Cruise can expect as an OT Scientologist and million-dollar donor.

One of our favorite Scientology superpowers is something we learned about a few years ago, and we think it’s been criminally undercovered by the media.

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Tom Cruise’s Scientology superpowers, No. 11: Levitating an ashtray

Last week, we began our countdown of Scientology superpowers that Tom Cruise can expect as an OT Scientologist and million-dollar donor.

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Scientology in England faces huge tax bills on its properties, and keeps failing to evade them

[The staff at the swingin’ London Ideal Org]

In a recent blog post, Mike Rinder reports Scientology’s failure to obtain tax exemption for three of its buildings in England. On this side of the pond, an annual tax is paid on the ratable value of a building – whether domestic or commercial.

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Tom Cruise’s Scientology superpowers, No. 12: Resisting illnesses with his mind alone

On Friday we began our countdown of Scientology superpowers that Tom Cruise can expect as an OT Scientologist and million-dollar donor.

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Judge in Danny Masterson case quashes ‘fishing expedition’ done for Scientology’s benefit

[Judge Olmedo, and Danny Masterson at a September appearance]

Our readers might remember that after the preliminary hearing in Danny Masterson’s rape case that happened in May, we made the observation that the missteps in the hearing by defense attorney Tom Mesereau sure looked to us that they were either dictated by Scientology or they were done with church leader David Miscavige’s encouragement.

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Tom Cruise’s Scientology superpowers, No. 13: Communicating with anyone on any subject

UPDATE: Subpoenas by Danny Masterson quashed in court. See below.