Adding insult to injury, Valerie Haney faces a hearing for $160,000 in sanctions this week

In the last few days attorneys for Valerie Haney and the Church of Scientology have filed briefs in preparation for a hearing at Los Angeles Superior Court on Thursday that will consider whether Scientology can saddle Valerie with $160,000 in sanctions as punishment for asking a judge to reconsider his ruling to deny her a right to trial and force her into Scientology’s ‘religious arbitration.’

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Scientology’s tough marketing sell, from the man who sold Dianetics to the masses

Chris Shelton and Jefferson Hawkins. Now that’s a combo we want to hear from.

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Scientology continues to harry Mark Bunker over his every utterance

OK, this is kind of funny. Scientology is apparently panicked because Mark Bunker and your proprietor haven’t been talking on the phone lately.

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Eyewitness: David Miscavige presided at New Year’s Eve party at Scientology’s Flag Land Base

[Miscavige at recent Flag graduation, from ISN magazine]

On the Scientology calendar, after founder L. Ron Hubbard’s birthday on March 13, the next most holy occasion might be New Year’s Eve. But the odd thing about Scientology’s big New Year’s celebration is that it actually takes place a few weeks earlier at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles so video of it can be shown on December 31 at the other “orgs” around the world.

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Danny Masterson’s attorneys scheduled to enter not guilty plea for him today

[Masterson posted this nostalgic image on New Year’s Eve]

UPDATE: Danny Masterson’s attorney Tom Mesereau asked for a delay. The arraignment was rescheduled for January 20.

At the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles today, Scientology celebrity and That ’70s Show actor Danny Masterson is scheduled to be arraigned on charges of raping three different women. He is not required to be in court, and we’ll be interested to find out if his defense attorneys Tom Mesereau and Sharon Appelbaum enter a not guilty plea or find a way to delay the arraignment.

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The wealthy people getting Scientology through the lockdown with their donations

[She’s the tops, once again]

As we promised yesterday, we have for you today the donors that Scientology leader David Miscavige has chosen to celebrate in Impact magazine even though the annual October gala of the International Association of Scientologists (IAS) was not held this year.

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Scientology celebrates its pandemic response in latest Impact magazine

Oh, Impact magazine, how we’ve missed you.

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Scientology social media: Stop being afraid to turn over all your hard earned cash!

Once again we’re indebted to our social media source who lets us in on what Scientologists are sharing with each other online.

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Worst part in the Scientology ‘arbitration’ ruling? Danny Masterson can participate.

[Judge Kleifield and Danny Masterson]

We were jamming Thursday afternoon when we broke the news about the stunning ruling that will force Danny Masterson’s accusers into “religious arbitration.” We barely had time to summarize Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Steven Kleifield’s 15-page order and post it to the blog that afternoon.

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