Voice of Bart Simpson is honored by Church of Scientology for donating $21 MILLION: Nancy Cartwright is feted on stage next to CEO David Miscavige
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| 16 May 2023 | JOE HUTCHISON
Voice of Bart Simpson is honored by Church of Scientology for donating $21 MILLION: Nancy Cartwright is feted on stage next to CEO David Miscavige - and calls it 'the most beautiful acknowledgement' Cartwright, 65, was pictured at an event in Clearwater, Florida, last year She is well known as being the
voice of Bart Simpson as well as other characters in The Simpsons, including Nelson Muntz, Ralph Wiggum and Todd Flanders Cartwright converted to the Church in 1991 Simpsons star Nancy Cartwright has been awarded by the Church of Scientology for donating over $21 million to the organization. The...
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Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige is 'actively concealing his whereabouts' to avoid federal human trafficking lawsuit and is now officially considered served, judge rules
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daily mail ^
According to local outlets in Tampa, Florida, process servers have attempted on nearly 30 occasions to deliver court papers at 10 different church properties. The
drops occurred between May and August and the servers were all turned away by security guards, including at the Hacienda Gardens facility where former members say he lives. On January 25, lawyers for the plaintiffs asked attorneys for the Church of Scientology's leader if they would accept service and they declined. Court papers were also delivered to Scientology properties but all attempts resulted in unsigned returned receipts. Some were refused at the location. 'For years,...
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Scientology leader disappears after being named in child trafficking lawsuit
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Biz Pac Review ^
| 12/30/22 | Kate Anderson
Florida prosecutors are trying to find a missing Scientology leader who is listed as a defendant in a federal lawsuit concerning child trafficking. David
Miscavige, chairman of the board of the Religious Technology Center, is the leader of the controversial Church of Scientology and the sect’s company Sea Org, according to the Tampa Bay Times. Process servers visited 10 Church of Scientology properties and have made 27 attempts to serve Miscavige, but the church leader has been missing for months, according to the Tampa Bay Times. Plaintiffs Gawain and Laura Baxter and Valeska Paris, former Scientologists, claim in the lawsuit...
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Where is Shelly Miscavige? Scientology’s First Lady still missing after 15 years
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OnlySky ^
| NOV 15, 2022 | JONATHAN MS PEARCE
Cost people with even a passing interest in Scientology will have heard of David Miscavige. He is the infamous leader of the Church of Scientology, Tom Cruise’s best man at his wedding to Katie Holmes, and husband to Shelly Miscavige. Shelly has been missing for 15 years. When
famous suppressed (Scientology’s form of disfellowship) Scientologist Leah Remini left the cult-like religion in 2013, she immediately filed a missing person report. The case was closed within hours. And now, rather publicly, with a further nine years elapsing and no sign of Shelly Miscavige, Leah Remini is shouting about it—and for good...
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INSIDER: Scientology has been devastated by the pandemic and is coming apart at the seams
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The Underground Bunker ^
| December 18, 2021 | An Insider
For several days we have been communicating with a new source who claims to have devastating inside information about the current state of the Church of Scientology... When the pandemic struck, the Church’s response was a program which laid out “protocols” that all staff and all public Scientologists had to follow. These
included wearing a mask and gloves at all times while not in your own home, as well as other rigid mandates, some of which bordered on impossible to follow. The most ridiculous mandate was that the staff of Class V orgs had to keep a statistic of “Number...
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Scientology wouldn’t pull its ‘Chase Wave’ scam on military veterans, would it?
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The Underground Bunker ^
| 3 December 2021 | Tony Ortega
...After he saw our story on the “Chase Wave,” he wanted us to know that something very similar happened to him.... If you remember, we posted a document sent in by a new source who said it was a step-by-step instruction sheet that Scientology’s “registrars” were given, explaining to them how to
lie to Chase credit card operators in order to open up new credit card accounts for cash-poor Scientology members, and then max out those cards with Scientology charges in order to saddle members with huge debts. The “Chase Wave” involved opening up a series of different Chase cards...
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Evidence that Scientology is still taking Sea Org women to clinics for forced abortions
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The Underground Bunker ^
| 11/18/2021 | Tony Ortega
One of the most shocking revelations about Scientology abuses, and one of the best documented, was Tom Tobin’s masterful reporting in 2010 about the church’s decades-long policy of forcing women in the Sea Org to undergo unwanted abortions. We
consider it one of the two or three best articles ever written on the subject of Scientology, and it featured some women we hold in high esteem for coming forward and telling their stories of undergoing forced abortions: Laura DeCrescenzo, Claire Headley, and Sunny Pereira. In the Sea Org, recruits sign billion-year contracts and then work nearly around the clock, 365...
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Spanish news website calls out Scientology volcano vultures at La Palma
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The Underground Bunker ^
| 11/07/2021 | Tony Ortega
A few days ago Scientology put out its usual press releases about how it was at the scene of yet another disaster with its yellow-shirted “Volunteer Ministers,” this time on the island of La Palma in the Canaries where a volcano began erupting on September 19. As
we’ve documented time and time again here, what’s actually going on is that Scientology dispatches its members for the primary reason of setting up PR photos like the one you see above. This time, at least, a Spanish news website, El Español, is calling out Scientology for its vulturish opportunism in a substantial...
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Russia bans Scientology: Justice ministry puts key Scientologist groups on list of ‘undesirable’ organizations
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RT ^
| 10-2-21 | RT
Russia’s Justice Ministry has blacklisted two Church of Scientology entities, banning them from operating in the country. Moscow
has taken numerous measures against the group, arguing that it's a business masquerading as religion. An updated list of “undesirable” organizations was released by the country's Justice Ministry on Friday, just over a week after the Russian Prosecutor General’s office advised a ban for several Church of Scientology affiliates. Two California-based holdings, the World Institute of Scientology Enterprises International (WISE) and the Church of Spiritual Technology (CST), also known as the “L. Ron Hubbard Library,” were officially blacklisted. Both were deemed a...
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Maher calls college a 'grift,' compares it to Scientology
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The Hill ^
| 06/05/21 02:13 PM EDT | BY LEXI LONAS
HBO’s Bill Maher went after colleges during his show “Real Times with Bill Maher,” comparing them to Scientology and calling higher education a “grift.” “But
in a grift that is our higher education, when you want to move up … you need to pay for more ‘education’ before we decide you can do what you do,” Maher said in his six-minute rant. “F---, this is what Scientology does. Makes you keep taking courses to move up to the bridge of total freedom,” he added. The liberal comedian’s monologue was spurred by President Biden’s American Families Plan and the idea of...
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Karen Bass Praised the Church of Scientology and Leah Remini Stepped in to School Her
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townhall.com ^
| 8/4/2020 | Beth Baumann
"I know that the Church of Scientology has made a difference because your creed is a universal one that speaks to all people everywhere," Bass said. "I
look forward to helping you bring about the difference for everyone in this city, the Golden State of California and from here, the nation, and from the nation, the world." Remini, who was raised in the Scientology religion and has a show dedicated to exposing the church's wrongdoings, said Americans deserve to have a vice presidential pick that stands "for the good and decent when it’s not convenient, who are willing to fight...
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Top potential Biden VP pick Karen Bass praised Scientology in 2010
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Jerusalem Post ^
| 8/2/2020 | Staff
Karen Bass (D-California), a top candidate for vice president on Democratic contender Joe Biden's ticket, praised the Church of Scientology in 2010 during a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new Los Angeles facility run by the controversial religious group, as reported by the conservative news site the Daily Caller on Friday. Bass, who
is considered to be among one of four top picks as Joe Biden's running mate in the 2020 US presidential election, spoke at the event while she was serving in the California General Assembly. “This day and this new Church of Scientology is an exciting moment because I...
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Rumored Biden VP pick Karen Bass praised the Church of Scientology in 2010 and sympathized with Cubans over death of Fidel Castro
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UK Daily Mail ^
| August 01 2020 | JAMES GORDON
Rep. Karen Bass, a possible top-tier contender to be Joe Biden's running mate has had to row back on remarks she made in 2010 where she was heard praising the Church of Scientology. On Friday, video emerged of an event from 2010 at which the California Democrat spoke at a ceremony for
a renovated Scientology Church in Los Angeles. During her remarks, while calling for peopel to treat one another with respect and fight oppression, she also spoke highly of the Church's controversial founder, L. Ron Hubbard.
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How Scientology is coping with COVID-19 as chairman David Miscavige declares crisis 'hysteria' and 'planetary bullbait' and Tom Cruise and John Travolta have 'special bunkers' at secretive base in California
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Daily Mail ^
| 04 02 2020 | Alex Diaz
Scientology appears to be caught in a 'perfect storm', whistleblowers tell DailyMail.com as they believe the virus could have a devastating impact Leader David Miscavige branded the COVID-19 crisis as 'hysteria' while vowing to create a safe environment for business to go on as usual But former highranking member Karen de la
Carierre, describes the situation as a 'disaster waiting to happen' for rank and file members The religion believes illness is a sign of someone being a Potential Trouble Source, meaning infected followers will likely choose to hide their symptoms Sources who spent years at Scientology's base in Clearwater,...
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The Church of Scientology has secretly spent $103 MM to buy the heart of Florida beach town [tr]
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UK Daily Mail ^
| October 22, 2019 | Marlene Lenthang
he Church of Scientology has firmly made Clearwater, Florida its home in the blink of an eye - shelling out $103million to sweep up 101 acres of the city's waterfront downtown area over the course of three years. The
controversial church first landed in Clearwater in 1975 with one hotel property to its name, but the organization had elaborate plans to spread its reach across the entire downtown area. In just three years, starting with a frantic land grab in January 2017, Scientology doubled its footprint in the city. Following a fallout with the City Council, Scientologists started to buy...
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Scientology policy enabled years of child sexual abuse, lawsuit says
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Tampa Bay Times ^
| 9/19/19 | Tracey McManus
In the third lawsuit filed against the Church of Scientology and its leader, David Miscavige, in three months, a 25-year-old woman alleges she was repeatedly sexually assaulted as a child in Scientology’s care, including at the church’s Clearwater Academy. On top of the abuse, the lawsuit explains how church officials allegedly knew
it was occurring and did nothing to stop it or alert law enforcement, actions rooted in policy written by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. When the woman spoke of her alleged abuse after leaving Scientology in 2018, the church deployed a campaign of harassment against her, a tactic...
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Daughter-in-law of opera singer Plácido Domingo reveals Scientology celeb secrets, [tr]
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UK Daily Mail ^
| July 9, 2019 | Chris White
A former Scientology member who was considered royalty within the church has told of her unrivaled access to the group's celebrities, including Tom Cruise, John Travolta and even Jada Pinkett Smith, in an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com. Sam Domingo is the daughter-in-law of the world's most famous opera singer, Plácido Domingo, and
during her 22 years in the Church, rubbed shoulders with the rich and famous at the International Celebrity Centre in Los Angeles. The 51-year-old socialized and studied with Cruise's family. Her children would run around with his kids, Connor and Isabella, and she was especially close to his...
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Lawsuit Against Church of Scientology Alleges Human Trafficking, Intimidation
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Law.com ^
| June 19, 2019 | P.J. D'Annunzio
The action claims the church engaged in human trafficking, child abuse, forced labor, exploitative commercial practices and intimidation campaigns aimed at anyone who spoke out against the church or its leader. A
group of lawyers representing a former member of the Church of Scientology who worked directly with its leader David Miscavige has filed a lawsuit alleging the organization is responsible for decades of human trafficking and intimidation, among other abuses. More at Tony Ortega's blog: Church of Scientology and David Miscavige sued for abuse by major legal players "Attorneys representing Jane Doe filed the first of multiple lawsuits to...
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Scientology Cruise Ship Freewinds Held in Quarantine.
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UK Daily Mail ^
| May 1, 2019 | UK Daily Mail reporter
A cruise ship had to be quarantined in St Lucia's port after a case of measles was confirmed on board. Health
officials docked the cruise ship, which was carrying 300 passengers, on Monday after discovering a female crew member had contracted the disease. According to NBC, officials declined to name the ship, but Sgt Victor Theodore from St Lucia's Coast Guard said it was called the 'Freewinds' - the same name as a 440-foot ship owned and operated by the Church of Scientology.
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60 Minutes: Questions remain about whereabouts of Scientology 'queen'
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9news.com.au ^
| 2/10/2019 | Sammi Taylor
The public face of the Church of Scientology is benevolent. For
decades the church has enjoyed the razzle-dazzle of its celebrity members and high-profile spokespeople, including Tom Cruise and John Travolta. But beneath the glamour and celebrity is a veil of secrecy, with disturbing cult-like practices and serious allegations of violence, abuse and even claims of holding people prisoner. 60 Minutes travelled to Scientology’s California HQ – the ‘Gold Base’ just outside of LA – where reporter Tara Brown went looking for answers on Shelly Miscavige’s disappearance – but instead, 60 Minutes cameras were met with hostility and an angry...
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