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SCIENTOLOGY BLACK OPS, Ep 9: Director Paul Haggis responds to a lawsuit’s rape allegations

 
‘Accused,’ the ninth 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 once again confirms our estimates for its tiny size

 
Oh, Dave, you did it again.

We want to thank the tipster who sent us the most recent issue of International Scientology News. In recent years, ISN has emerged as the biggest, glossiest snoozefest put out by the church as David Miscavige has turned it into the print version of his interminable event speeches.

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STUNNING LEAK: Scientology’s entire asset portfolio the year it got IRS church status

[David Miscavige in 1993, and the War Is Over announcement that October]

It’s one of those jaw-dropping moments in a jaw-dropping film.

In Alex Gibney’s 2015 HBO documentary Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, Marty Rathbun, Scientology’s former top enforcer, explains the stark situation facing the organization and its ultimate leader, David Miscavige, at the end of the 1980s, after decades of the church refusing to pay any taxes and engaging in a war with the IRS.

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New in court docs: Scientology bashes victims’ rights group, trashes Mike Rinder

[RTC lawyer Matthew Hinks, and Mike Rinder]

Last week, we reported that Valerie Haney had filed a petition with a California appellate court, asking for a writ so she could appeal the ruling by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge who derailed her lawsuit in favor of Scientology’s internal “religious arbitration.”

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SCIENTOLOGY BLACK OPS, Episode 8: The secret Paul Haggis shared with the wrong person

 
‘Betrayal,’ the eighth 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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Could Danny Masterson’s odd legal fight over his Hollywood house endanger his freedom?

[Masterson’s Hollyridge house is notable for the loop it sits in at the base of the Hollywood Hills]

A few days ago we were doing some random online searches of court records, as we do, when we had a thought.

We have been closely following Danny Masterson’s criminal and civil litigation, which is all based at Los Angeles Superior Court. But out of curiosity we wondered if Masterson was involved in any federal lawsuits.

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Leah Remini podcast: Attorney Ray Jeffrey on Marty Rathbun’s betrayal

 
Leah Remini and Mike Rinder have one of our favorite people on their podcast this week, Texas attorney Ray Jeffrey, who has made plenty of Scientology lawyers break out in a cold sweat.

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Hip, hip hooray! Scientology success stories you weren’t meant to see

 
We’re dipping into the Scientology social media stream again, bringing you communications that Scientologists are sending to each other, so we can get another glimpse of how things are going in David Miscavige’s fun house.

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SCIENTOLOGY BLACK OPS, Episode 7: Celebrities who seek godhood through David Miscavige

 
‘Celebrity,’ the seventh 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 ex-Sea Orger with ties to dark secrets running for city council in Oregon

 
We’re always interested when a Scientologist runs for political office. It doesn’t happen very often, and in recent years it’s been particularly rare. There was a married couple who each ran for office in Nevada (one of them, Brent Jones, did serve as a state legislator but failed in his bid to move up to lieutenant governor). And there was a county clerk in Texas who left office last year, and he is now running for Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector.

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