The Jane Doe victim statements at Danny Masterson’s sentencing: The transcript

[Listen well, Danny]

On the day of Thursday’s sentencing, we couldn’t be in Los Angeles, but we had several correspondents letting us know what was going on, including one who took detailed notes.

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How Gwyneth Paltrow is helping out Scientology this 9-11

Since Scientology’s TV channel (we hesitate to call it a “network”) first debuted in 2018, we’ve mostly kept away from it because it’s 24 hours of propaganda and nearly unwatchable.

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Today at Daily Beast: Joe Reaiche threatens to sue Danny Masterson’s sibs over court letters

[Former rugby player Joe Reaiche has a scrum on his hands with his kids Jordan and Alanna Masterson]

Hey, gang, we’re back at The Daily Beast this morning, and how sweet it is.

The publication reached out to us during this week’s chaos following Danny Masterson’s sentencing to 30 years to life in prison and our subsequent leak of the letters that had been sent on his behalf by such figures as Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis.

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PODCAST: This week’s sentencing and letters drama left us needing some group therapy

The gang is back together this week for some Group Therapy, but given the magnitude of this week’s Scientology news, we thought we’d make this episode available to everyone.

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LIVE: Meghann Cuniff’s reporting sizzled and her photos from Masterson trial were iconic

One of the reporters we got to know well as we covered Danny Masterson’s two criminal trials was Meghann Cuniff, an independent journalist who writes for her own Substack and was one of the hardest working people we saw at the courthouse.

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Danny Masterson’s attorneys ask for concurrent sentences to lessen his time

We announced last month the reasons that we would not be in court today for Danny Masterson’s sentencing. It’s a great disappointment for us not to be there, after the days we spent in both trials bringing you as much as we could during every moment of this court drama.

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Indie Scientologists go on the attack: Victoria Palmer plans Sep 23 protest at Big Blue

[Victoria Palmer at the Reno gathering last month]

From the very beginning, in the early 1950s, there have always been adherents of L. Ron Hubbard’s “technology” who broke away from his official movement to practice his ideas on their own.

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How Scientology lured a Sci-Fi fan, but drove him away with its lack of imagination

[Ron Kasman, young Scientologist SF artist]

I first heard about Scientology from a cousin at my mother’s kitchen table. From that introduction, I entered the Church of Scientology on Sunday, December 27, 1970 to attend a Sunday service. I wrote about that experience here previously. That story was written fifty years to the day after that first visit.

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Hey, everybody, Scientology’s sneaky school front, Applied Scholastics, is hiring!

While Scientology leader David Miscavige is evading process servers and trying to convince the federal government to keep its legislation out of his E-meters, he also has sneaky front groups to operate!

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RIFFER MADNESS: Scientology’s David Miscavige says he’s not been served Jane Doe 1 lawsuit

[David Miscavige and his attorney, Jeffrey Riffer]

Here we go again.

On July 31, we told you about the efforts that attorney Graham Berry and some process servers were making to serve Jane Doe 1’s new lawsuit against Scientology and its leader, David Miscavige.

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