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Leah Remini’s second season of Scientology and the Aftermath started off with a hammer blow to the church — a devastating episode about child molestation in Scientology that was condoned and covered up. Continue reading Mirriam Francis: Picturing Scientology parents who abandon their children to abuse
[Hungary’s Attila Péterfalvi]We’re glad to have back Chris Owen, author of the important work Ron, The “War Hero.” After last week’s police raid of Scientology’s “Ideal Org” in Budapest, Chris is helping us make sense of what the government there is doing. Continue reading Chris Owen: How one country, at least, is savaging Scientology’s privacy nightmare
Tonight, at 10 pm A&E airs the second “special” episode in the second season of Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, an episode which tries to come to grips with Scientology’s rapacious business model and how people get caught up in it. Continue reading Tonight on ‘Leah Remini’: The business of Scientology, and the pitfalls of suing it
On Saturday, Scientology leader David Miscavige opened his newest “Ideal Org,” his ongoing and very expensive effort to create a Potemkin Village of new and empty cathedrals to pretend that the rapidly shrinking church is actually undergoing “unprecedented expansion.” If this weren’t just all about fakery and PR, then Scientology wouldn’t expend so much energy keeping out onlookers and the press. But we’re fortunate that one of our regular readers, “Graham,” managed not only to visit the event but get inside. He sent us this account, and we figured you’d enjoy it. Continue reading Despite Scientology’s best efforts, a Bunker reader attended Saturday’s grand opening
Wally Hanks, the employee at the 1990s Scientologist-run Mace-Kingsley Ranch in New Mexico who was heard terrorizing a child on an audio tape played back for an episode of Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath that aired on October 10, died Friday night at a hospital in Southern California. He was 70 years old. Continue reading Wally Hanks, Scientology ranch terror recently portrayed on ‘Leah Remini,’ dies at 70
Tuesday night, Leah Remini’s A&E series once again provided harrowing stories of what it can be like to grow up in Scientology. Her guests, Mimi Faust and Christi Gordon, spoke about the frightening result when Hubbard’s ideas about children being adults in small packages gets put into action. Continue reading KID CORPS: Scientology’s internal documents lay out its disturbing ideas about children
[Scientology’s playground for wealthy patsies]December 5 will mark the 22nd anniversary of the death of Lisa McPherson. Two years ago, for the 20th anniversary, we produced a lengthy series re-reporting her final days in real time, to get a sense of how her terrible experience played out over several weeks. Continue reading Scientology’s Flag Building brain injury: In Clearwater, it’s déjà vu all over again
[Police outside the Budapest org. Photo: Szabó Gábor]Yesterday, when we saw news stories pop up briefly announcing that the Budapest Scientology “Ideal Org” was raided by police, we knew just who to turn to. Those stories said that some 50 police officers carried out the raid, but there were virtually no other details. So we asked our man in Hungary, Péter Bonyai, for the inside scoop. Here’s what he told us late last night… Continue reading Raid in Hungary: Scientology’s Cold War tactics are colliding with 21st Century data privacy
Continuing its unbroken record for doing exactly the wrong thing every time its reputation is in question, Scientology responded to this week’s Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath in characteristic fashion with an overheated slut-shaming of reality TV star Mimi Faust, and by calling Christi Gordon “disturbed.” Continue reading Scientology slut-shames Mimi Faust after destroying her family because … it’s a church!
In 2012, we talked to Mimi Faust for the Village Voice after she had dropped a bombshell on VH1’s popular show Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta. At 13, Mimi had been abandoned by her mother, who chose Scientology’s Sea Organization over raising her own daughter. Mimi then became homeless. Continue reading On tonight’s ‘Leah Remini,’ reality star Mimi Faust takes on Scientology’s harm to family
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