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TODAY: Arguments on Scientology honcho David Miscavige being served in trafficking suit

[Attorneys Neil Glazer, left, and William Schifino]

There’s an interesting showdown happening in Tampa today, and we’ll have someone on the scene who will give us a report on it.

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Tonight: Our conversation with Mike Rinder on ‘A Billion Years’ for Mark Twain House

 
Our first trip to the Mark Twain House in Hartford was with our friend Dan Perkins, the man behind Tom Tomorrow and the This Modern World comic strip. We got a special tour, and at one point found ourselves in Twain’s upstairs billiards room where his writing desk was tucked away in a corner. It shook us to stand there, by that desk, and think about what the man had created there during the years 1874 to 1891.

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‘WHOA’: Scientology selling ‘Total Immortality’ in slick new video!

 
Yes, once again we have another of Scientology’s newer promo videos that encourage members to pay for expensive upper-level “technology,” and this one is selling total immortality!

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Shelly Miscavige and her beagles: A Group Therapy podcast extra

 
A couple of weeks ago we started a new podcast for our subscribers that we call Group Therapy.

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Grant Cardone at Flag: Again, Scientology turns to its professional ham hock to fill seats

 
In 2019, we found out that Grant Cardone, professional ham hock, had pulled in a big crowd at Scientology’s Hollywood Celebrity Centre.

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Chris Shelton talks again to the Masterson trial jury foreman — and his daughter

PODCAST: Our never-heard 2021 interview with Ron Miscavige about daughter-in-law Shelly

[Shelly Miscavige and her father-in-law, Ron]

 
This week, a story we have been covering for a long time, the disappearance of Shelly Miscavige, suddenly became national news, thanks to a joke by comedian Jerrod Carmichael as he was hosting the Golden Globes Awards.

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Lisa Marie Presley dies at 54 after apparent cardiac arrest

[From the album that declared LMP’s break with Scientology]

TMZ broke the news earlier today that Lisa Marie Presley was rushed to hospital after what appears to be a cardiac arrest. Now, this evening, it is being reported that she has died. She was 54.

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The prosecution’s argument that won the day for a retrial of Danny Masterson

[Deputy DAs Ariel Anson and Reinhold Mueller. Photo by Meghann Cuniff]

On Tuesday, we were back in court to find out if Scientology celebrity and accused serial rapist Danny Masterson would get a retrial after his first trial ended on November 30 with a hung jury.

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Why the Golden Globes is joking about Tom Cruise, Shelly Miscavige, and Scientology

[Jerrod Carmichael made a funny]

 
Thank you to everyone who messaged or tweeted us last night about host Jerrod Carmichael’s joke about Tom Cruise, Shelly Miscavige, and Scientology on the Golden Globes broadcast.

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