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East Grinstead council gets an earful about Scientology, whether it wants it or not

[Zooming with the burghers of Scientologyville]

Fallout from last November’s protests of Scientology’s “IAS gala” continues to produce interesting results in East Grinstead, England, the burg that is the site of Saint Hill, Scientology’s UK headquarters, and where founder L. Ron Hubbard oversaw Scientology’s golden age between 1959 and 1966.

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Court showdown over Scientology leader David Miscavige evading service coming next week

[Judge Robert Broadbelt III and David Miscavige]

On Friday, we brought you up to date on Scientology leader David Miscavige’s attempts to keep himself out of Leah Remini’s lawsuit.

Once again, Dave is dodging process servers while he has his tetchy attorney Jeffrey Riffer complaining that Leah isn’t looking in the right places.

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38 years ago: The eerie Hollywood Palladium sendoff for Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard

 
Thirty-eight years ago yesterday, Scientologists in the Los Angeles area were instructed to come to the Hollywood Palladium for a special briefing.

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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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