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VIDEO: If Danny Masterson had testified about ‘DJ Donkey Punch’

 
We want to thank the reader who brought a 2012 video to our attention that we hadn’t seen before. We’ve taken an excerpt from it that we think you might find interesting, because it answers the question: What might Danny Masterson have answered if he’d testified in his trial and was asked about his notorious DJ moniker?

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PODCAST: If Scientology expert Claire Headley had testified at the Danny Masterson trial

 
We’re still going through the wreckage of the Danny Masterson Trial, which ended with a hung jury on November 30. And one thing that surprised us about the interview we did with Chris Shelton of the jury foreman, was the revelation that the jury had largely ignored the Scientology component of the case.

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Florida Bar past president hired to stop court from serving lawsuit on David Miscavige

 
On Thursday, we brought you some of the language from a motion filed by Valeska Paris that is seeking to have a Tampa federal court declare Scientology leader David Miscavige an official defendant in a labor trafficking lawsuit that Valeska and two other former Sea Org workers filed against Miscavige and the church.

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JANE KEMBER DIES: Led Scientology’s 1970s worldwide spy corps in ‘Snow White Program’

 
A close family friend to Jane Kember informed us yesterday that the former Scientology spymaster died on Wednesday. She was 85.

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Valeska Paris asks court: Declare Scientology leader David Miscavige served, finally

 
In April, Valeska Paris and two other former Sea Org workers, Gawain and Laura Baxter, filed a major new lawsuit against Scientology in Tampa, Florida, alleging that they had been trafficked as children and adults, forced to do labor and treated horribly on Scientology’s floating cathedral, the cruise ship Freewinds.

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Photo appears to confirm small Scientology service for Kirstie Alley at Flag Land Base

 
We like to brag on Sunny Pereira, one of our favorite correspondents at the Underground Bunker, who has given us many good pieces over the years describing what it is like to grow up as a second-generation Scientologist, what it was like to work at the Hollywood Celebrity Centre, and what it is like to have your family ripped apart by Scientology ‘disconnection.’

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Kirstie Alley: Forgotten by the Scientology Hollywood Celebrity Centre?

 
I’m glad I won’t be dying at the hands of Scientology.

I don’t even know (or care) if my death will ever be remembered, but hey, a couple of “goodbyes” would be nice, when the time comes.

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SEASON’S GREETINGS: Mark Bunker shares fan mail from Scientology members

 
We’re finally getting a chance to go through our backlog of email that piled up during the Danny Masterson trial, and we were glad to see that we’d been sent a message from our old friend Mark Bunker, the Clearwater, Florida city councilman.

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VIDEO: This right here is why Scientology is going to clear the planet, you doubters

 
On Wednesday we shared a slick new Scientology video that’s intended to get church members to spend lots of money by coming to Clearwater, Florida so they can run around a lighted pole until they hallucinate.

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PODCAST: Part 2 of Tricia Vessey on testifying as Jane Doe 4 in the Danny Masterson trial

 
We’re continuing our conversation today with Jane Doe 4, the actress Tricia Vessey, who testified as a “past bad acts witness” at the Danny Masterson trial on November 9 and 10

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