How a decaying landmark became Scientology’s legendary Hollywood Celebrity Centre

Yacht Apollo, early 1974. “The Commodore says if you don’t handle this situation he’s going to punch you on the nose.”

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Scientology royalty: Why it makes sense for Tom Cruise to host the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

A few days ago ITV announced plans for next month’s elaborate celebrations of Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee, which will be broadcast live from Windsor Castle.

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AUDIO LEAK: Scientology leader David Miscavige announces ‘Golden Age of Admin’

[David Miscavige in Clearwater on New Year’s Eve, also site of the Birthday Event on March 12]

We have another exclusive for you today at the Underground Bunker: We’ve been leaked audio of David Miscavige’s presentation at the L. Ron Hubbard Birthday Event that was held on Saturday, March 12 at the Fort Harrison Hotel ballroom in Clearwater, Florida.

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When Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard revealed how crazy your afterlife will be

[L. Ron loved his space opera]

On Easter Sunday, we joined in with Mike Rinder to tell you about L. Ron Hubbard’s history of describing Christianity as a fraud perpetrated by a galactic overlord.

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Scientology’s saddest celebrity, Eddie Deezen, committed after latest arrest

[Eddie Deezen in ‘Wargames,’ and today]

On April 11 we broke the news that actor Eddie Deezen had been arrested again in Cumberland, Maryland, this time for burglary and trespassing. Three days later, TMZ added the detail that Eddie had pushed his way into a nursing home and refused to leave, resulting in the arrest.

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How Scientology turns you into an unthinking soldier, defending the indefensible

[After Snow White, Clearwater rose up, temporarily, against Scientology. Photo: St. Petersburg Times]

Today we have another dynamite piece from Bruce Hines, who has been giving us new looks at some of Scientology’s most important mind-bending practices. — ed.

After a red-eye flight from LAX to Tampa airport, I was getting off the plane, walking through the jetway, and I felt like I was walking into a green house. The damp, hot air was a shock. I had been living in LA where the humidity is generally much lower, and I had grown up in semi-arid Denver. I was not accustomed to that Florida weather in June. The year was 1979.

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When L. Ron Hubbard assigns you to the deep: A slice of Scientology in new book

Debbie Norwitz reached out to us last year with some questions about Paulette Cooper and Scientology’s Snow White caper, telling us that she was working on putting together a memoir.

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More proof that Hollywood is over Scientology: Netflix openly mocks it with billboard

We’ve been saying for several years that Hollywood’s fascination with Scientology is long over, and increasingly the entertainment industry is showing its disdain for the once formidable group with veiled and not so veiled mocking references in various shows.

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California Supreme Court denies Scientology’s petition to review ‘religious arbitration’

[Plaintiff Chrissie Carnell-Bixler and accused rapist Danny Masterson]

January’s stunning defeat of Scientology’s “religious arbitration” strategy was just compounded with another loss, this time at the state’s highest court.

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Scientology knows it can get your cash with a Great Gatsby party, New Yorkers!

[The Fabos Factor!]

Scientology knows that New Yorkers are a more sophisticated and less gullible bunch, and so the church has to up its game if it’s going to get the kind of cash donations it collects in other parts of the country.

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