SCIENTOLOGY BLACK OPS, Episode 4: Tom Cruise’s dirty plot against publicist Pat Kingsley

‘The Star,’ the fourth episode of ‘Scientology Black Ops,’ a special 7NEWS Australia investigation that was cancelled by the network in July, has been leaked to the Internet.

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What Scientologists are telling each other on social media right this very minute

Rod Keller is taking some well-deserved time off, and we look forward to the return of his weekly up-to-the-minute reports on what’s happening inside Scientology, which he has such a good knack at finding out.

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RIFFER: David Miscavige too busy saving Scientology from Covid to be served lawsuit

[Jeffrey Riffer and David Miscavige]

For more than a year, Scientology leader David Miscavige and his attorneys have been working hard to keep him from being served in a lawsuit filed by Danny Masterson’s rape accusers. And right from the beginning, our readers were asking whether that problem could be solved by serving the elusive Miscavige through the publication of notices in a newspaper.

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SCIENTOLOGY BLACK OPS: Episode 3 leaks online, with bizarre kidnap attempt in broad daylight

‘Taken,’ the third episode of ‘Scientology Black Ops,’ a special 7NEWS Australia investigation that was cancelled by the network in July, has been leaked to the Internet.

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Scientology’s ‘Super Power’ couple slammed down by appeals court over tax debt

Yesterday the US Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals handed down yet another stunning rebuke of Matt and Kathy Feshbach, a major Scientology power couple who have been battling the government for more than 20 years over unpaid taxes.

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The Top 25 People Enabling Scientology, No. 15: Jeffrey Riffer

In 2011 we spent the month of August counting down a list of the “Top 25 People Crippling Scientology.” Nine years later, Scientology is still hurting, but church leader David Miscavige learned long ago that paid membership was only one resource that kept him in business. He also relies on a small army of enablers, some paid, some not, who help him stay in business even though they aren’t Scientologists themselves. So we thought we’d recognize them with this countdown.

We’ve been watching Scientology litigation for a long time, and we can tell you that one interesting evolution of it has been the way lawsuits in recent years have targeted not just the church but its leader, David Miscavige, and also the way he has responded.

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All of former Scientology mouthpiece Tommy Davis’s appearances in ‘Melania and Me’

Stephanie Winston Wolkoff’s eye-opening book about the price she paid helping out the Trump administration and her longtime friend Melania Trump, which came out on September 1, turns out to have some passages we thought would interest you.

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Prosecutors: Judge isn’t getting the point about Dennis Nobbe’s post-arrest shenanigans

On Friday, federal prosecutors filed an appeal of a judge’s decision not to throw Scientologist chiropractor Dennis Nobbe into jail for some pretty outrageous behavior after he was arrested in July for Medicare fraud and PPP loan abuse.

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New letter about Scientology by J. Edgar Hoover shows up in FBI records search

[Hoover in 1959]

In three weeks, it will be 19 years since we wrote one of our favorite stories of all time, about Tory Christman’s wild defection from Scientology which happened live on the early Internet, and thanks to a friend she had made on the other side of the planet, the generous, patient, and wise Andreas Heldal-Lund.

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The Top 25 People Enabling Scientology, No. 16: James Packer

Australian billionaire James Packer was a member of the Church of Scientology for only a few years, from about 2001 to 2006, according to Steve Cannane’s reporting in his excellent history of Scientology in Australia, Fair Game. But a couple of recent stories suggest that Packer continues to be a powerful friend of Scientology even as he’s moved on in his seemingly endless mid-life crisis.

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