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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Serve Miscavige in an ad? Scientology honcho: ‘But you haven’t tried hard enough to find me!’

More than a year after Danny Masterson’s rape accusers filed a lawsuit claiming that they’ve been harassed by the Church of Scientology since coming forward to the LAPD in 2016, Scientology’s leader David Miscavige, who was named in the suit, still hasn’t been served to make him an official defendant.

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VALERIE HANEY SEEKS WRIT: Victims’ rights groups show support, Scientology cries bigotry

In a court document, the Church of Scientology is accusing the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, formerly known as Morality in Media, of “religious bigotry” because it is siding with Valerie Haney, Leah Remini’s assistant, in her lawsuit against the church and its leader, David Miscavige.

NCOSE and another victims’ rights group, the National Crime Victim Bar Association, are both urging a California appellate court to grant Haney an appeal in a lawsuit that Scientology successfully derailed at the trial court level, and Scientology is not happy about it.

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Now that Scientology mega-donor Trish Duggan is famous, will the ditched-kid story blow up?

[Trish and Trump at the 2017 inauguration]

Politico had a tremendous scoop yesterday, as reporter Matt Dixon revealed that one of the country’s biggest financial supporters of the Trump re-election effort is none other than the wealthiest Scientologist in the world, Florida’s Trish Duggan.

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VIDEO: See Danny Masterson’s initial court appearance on rape charges

You’ve seen descriptions of Danny Masterson’s first appearance in court on rape charges, but here’s a chance to see what it was like for yourself as we present the video recording of the hearing that took place Friday in Los Angeles.

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SCIENTOLOGY BLACK OPS, Episode 6: Dirty tricks are a sacrament in this ‘church’

‘Dirty Tricks,’ the sixth 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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How should we judge the rejection Scientology received in the heartland this week?

[The KCK building Scientology wanted to turn into a dormitory.]

What a week it’s been here at the Underground Bunker. On Monday, Episode Four of the ‘Scientology Black Ops’ series leaked to the Internet, with Bryan Seymour’s damning look at how in 2004 Tom Cruise fired his legendary publicist Pat Kingsley with the help of Scientology’s dirty tricks department. Then that evening we celebrated the stunning news that Leah Remini had won a second Emmy award for her A&E series, this time for the show’s final episode, which featured two of Danny Masterson’s rape accusers.

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Read Danny Masterson’s ‘demurrer’ he’s hoping will get his criminal charges dismissed

[Danny Masterson and his attorney, Tom Mesereau]

Our legal experts tell us that our perception yesterday wasn’t incorrect: They say that it is unusual for a “demurrer” to be filed in a criminal prosecution at this stage, which gives Danny Masterson a chance, however slim, to get his charges dismissed before he’s even entered a plea.

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Scientology celeb Danny Masterson to be arraigned today for raping three women

[UPDATE: Masterson’s attorney Tom Mesereau filed a demurrer and had the arraignment delayed until Oct. 19. See our reports from court down below.]

At 8:30 am Pacific today at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center on West Temple Street in downtown Los Angeles, Scientology celebrity and That ’70s Show actor Danny Masterson is scheduled to make an appearance and be arraigned on criminal charges. We expect to have someone on the scene and we’ll be bringing you reports as they come in.

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