[Steely Tom]

Sorry, I erred.

Sara Northrup was the sister of Jack Parson's wife.

However, Parson did have a sexual relationship with Sara Northrup before she married Hubbard; for all I know, it may have continued after that marriage.

Parson's killing himself by blowing his own face off in a rocket fuel definitely ended it.

[\/\/ayne]

Reading more, I see Sara Northrup stole Jack Parson from her sister when (sister) Helen was out of town - which was ok with Alister Crowley's "Ordo Templi Orientis" that they were all part of. Her sister Helen then hooked up with Parson's mentor Wilfred Smith and had a baby with him.

When Hubbard and Sara Northrup took off with the money and bought a boat, they got married illegally while L Ron was still married to his first wife. He romanced her by giving her a stolen valor story of wartime heroics but then had to threaten to kill himself to get her to marry him later.