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PODCAST: The three lives of Dennis Erlich, Scientology’s original Internet nemesis

 
November 1966. February 1995. December 2021.

Those are the three epochal turning points in a remarkable life that is the subject of this week’s podcast.

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Scientology leader David Miscavige once again denies he’s been served Leah Remini’s lawsuit

Last month, we told you that Leah Remini submitted proof that she’d made another set of attempts to notify Scientology honcho David Miscavige that she’s suing him by sending out process servers to perform “substitute service” on the elusive church leader.

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Mike Rinder and Claire Headley tie RTC to Scientology mayhem for Leah Remini lawsuit

[Mike Rinder ‘handling’ BBC’s John Sweeney before his 2007 defection]

And here it is — the declarations from Mike Rinder and Claire Headley that should keep the Religious Technology Center in Leah Remini’s Scientology lawsuit.

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Leah Remini applauds an MP’s call for investigation of Scientology in the UK

[Leah Remini and British MP Diane Abbott]

Last week we talked to Alexander Barnes-Ross about his stunning news: After writing to his local Member of Parliament (MP) last September about his experiences in Scientology, former Shadow Home Secretary and MP Diane Abbott responded by telling Alex that she has asked HMRC — the UK’s equivalent of the IRS — to open a widespread investigation of what she called Scientology’s “history of fraudulent activity internationally.”

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Did Marc and Claire Headley just find Shelly Miscavige’s new location?

 
In a new video they posted yesterday, Marc and Claire Headley revealed that a “Michele Diane Miscavige” registered to vote in 2017 at a Scientology address in Petrolia, California.

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More new Scientology harassment detail in the lawsuit from Danny Masterson’s victims

[During the trials]

Last week we described how Scientology is trying to strike portions of the lawsuit filed by Danny Masterson’s victims, and they are fighting back by posting more details of the harassment they’ve been going through since they came forward to the LAPD in 2016.

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Scientology, abuse, and forgiveness: Val Ross on the men who did her wrong

[Valerie Ross’s story last week created such a reaction we asked her for another one, and we’re glad we did.]

When I was growing up, we used to rotate our summer vacations between Salt Lake City, where my mom’s family lived, and St. George, where my dad’s family lived. I loved my dad’s brother, Bert. We chatted all the time, or, more accurately, I prattled on and on to him and he patiently listened to me.

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Here’s Danny Masterson’s motion for bail while on appeal, in all its pricey detail

[Danny Masterson and his new appellate attorneys, Gardner and Multhaup]

We were just out of court yesterday at the hearing in Leah Remini’s lawsuit when we heard the news that Danny Masterson’s new appellate attorneys had moved for him to be freed on bail while he’s appealing his convictions.

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We’re back in court today as Leah Remini’s lawsuit faces early hurdles

We’ll be back in the courtroom this morning as Judge Randolph Hammock once again takes up some important early matters in Leah Remini’s lawsuit against the Church of Scientology.

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VIDEO: Apostate Alex’s MP calls for government investigation of Scientology!

Alexander Barnes-Ross continues to produce results, and this time he has a remarkable update: His meddling with Scientology’s affairs has resulted in an MP calling for an investigation of the Church in Britain.

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