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auditing • california • church of scientology international (csi) • church of scientology of california (csc) • cost • david miscavige • fair game • fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation • gerald "gerry" armstrong • gold base (also, "int base") @ gilman hot springs • heber c. jentzsch • internal revenue service (irs) • l. ron hubbard's credentials • lawsuit • legal • mary sue (whipp) hubbard • medical claims • membership • michael j. flynn • narconon (aka scientology drug rehab) • operation snow white • protest, picket • real estate • sea organization (sea org, so) • tax matter
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Jun 1, 2001
Losing his religion? — L.A. Weekly (California)
Type: Press
Source: L.A. Weekly (California)
In other Scientology news, OffBeat was amazed to read in US weekly earlier this month that Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman had begun severing their ties to the Church of Scientology. US also reported that Cruise, while filming the Warner Bros. film Eyes Wide Shut, had “hinted” to the studio that releasing the John Travolta project Battlefield Earth would be a mistake. A week later, however, US Weekly ran a “For the Record” notice declaring that the magazine had subsequently “found” ...
Jun 1, 2001
Surf’s up for Scientologists — L.A. Weekly (California)
Type: Press
Author(s): Christine Pelisek
Source: L.A. Weekly (California)
Admirers of L. Ron Hubbard have launched a major environmental and morality offensive in Southern California’s beach cities, rankling critics who say the proselytizers have been less than forthcoming about their ties to the Church of Scientology. The controversy first flared when Scientology Surf Club president Rob Hoover asked the city of Malibu to proclaim March 13 L. Ron Hubbard Day, in honor of Scientology’s founder. The request made the City Council agenda, but was withdrawn by Hoover when March 13 ...
May 10, 2001
Arraignment // Ashlee Shaner died after hitting a tractor operated by Thomas Nove of Moreno Valley — Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Erin D. Randolph
Source: Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)
Hemet — A man involved in a traffic collision that killed a 16 year old San Jacinto girl pleaded not guilty to a charge of vehicular manslaughter Wednesday. Thomas Nove, 35, of Moreno Valley was taken into custody on an unrelated matter following the arraignment in Hemet. He is charged with misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter in connection with the death of Ashlee Shaner last year. She was killed the night of May 17 when her car crashed into the bucket of a ...
May 2, 2001
Co-Founder of EarthLink is accused of investor fraud — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Author(s): Liz Pulliam Weston, Myron Levin
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
Courts: Lawsuits allege Reed E. Slatkin bilked friends out of $35 million. SEC is also conducting an investigation. Investors are accusing Reed E. Slatkin, a co-founder of the giant Internet service provider EarthLink Inc., of operating a Ponzi scheme that may have resulted in the loss of least $35 million of their funds. Slatkin—a Santa Barbara socialite and venture capitalist—also is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission for his financial activities, which allegedly included a day-trading operation that promised ...
Feb 22, 2001
Faith-Based Welfare Puzzles Televangelist / He fears public funding of cults — San Francisco Chronicle (California)
Feb 12, 2001
Leaving the fold // Third-generation Scientologist grows disillusioned with faith — San Francisco Chronicle (California)
Type: Press
Author(s): Don Lattin
Source: San Francisco Chronicle (California)
Astra Woodcraft, apostate and defector, is the latest enemy of the Church of Scientology. Woodcraft, 22, never really joined this controversial psycho-spiritual movement, at least not as a free-thinking adult. Astra was born into it. Founded in the 1950s by L. Ron Hubbard, a prolific science fiction writer and freelance philosopher, Scientology describes itself as "the only major new religion established in the 20th century," as a bridge to increased awareness and spiritual freedom. Woodcraft, a third-generation Scientologist, paints a different ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Feb 12, 2001
Scientology founder's family life far from what he preached — San Francisco Chronicle (California)
Type: Press
Author(s): Don Lattin
Source: San Francisco Chronicle (California)
When it came to marriage and family life, the late L. Ron Hubbard did not practice what he preached. According to its official teachings, the Church of Scientology "regards the family as the building block of any society and marriage as an essential component of a stable family life." According to his unofficial biographers, Hubbard, who lived from 1911 to 1986, had at least seven children by three different wives, including one bigamous marriage. His first son, L. Ron Hubbard Jr., ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jun 27, 2000
Scientologist accident victim is identified — Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)
Type: Press
Author(s): Karin Marriott
Source: Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)
The 20-year-old Hemet woman died after she fell in a transformer vault. SAN JACINTO — A woman killed on the Church of Scientology's film studio grounds near San Jacinto is 20-year-old Hemet resident Stacey Myer, according to the county coroner. She apparently was electrocuted when she fell in a transformer vault at Golden Era Productions north of San Jacinto, said Riverside County sheriff's spokeswoman Perri Feinstein-Portales. "Her autopsy was performed today," Feinstein-Portales said Tuesday. "Right now the cause of death is ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
May 15, 2000
Travolta's Religious Battlefield: Critics say movie bolsters Scientology — San Francisco Chronicle (California)
Type: Press
Author(s): Don Lattin
Source: San Francisco Chronicle (California)
John Travolta insists that Battlefield Earth, his $90 million screen homage to L. Ron Hubbard, has nothing to do with his longtime devotion to the Church of Scientology. Hubbard is both the founder of that controversial religious movement and the author of the 1982 science-fiction novel that forms the basis of Travolta's latest movie. Battlefield Earth is just a great story, Travolta says, and he finally has enough Hollywood leverage to push his pet project onto the big screen. Mark Bunker ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
May 1, 2000
Combatants in Cult War Attempt Reconciliation / Peacemaking conference is held near Seattle — San Francisco Chronicle (California)
Type: Press
Author(s): Don Lattin
Source: San Francisco Chronicle (California)
(05-01) 04:00 PDT Seattle — They're calling it the "Camp David of the cult wars." Leaders from both factions in the decades-long dispute over danger posed by new religious movements came together over the weekend at a woodsy retreat center on the shores of Puget Sound. There were a few screaming matches, and a bit of the old backbiting and rumormongering, but it was a largely peaceful gathering of defectors, devotees, heartbroken families and assorted cult experts. "We've reached the point ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Mar 19, 2000
Life as Satanist propelled rocketeer — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Cecilia Rasmussen
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
I height [sic] Don Quixote, I live on peyote, marijuana, morphine and cocaine. I never knew sadness, but only a madness that burns at the heart and the brain. –John Whiteside Parsons * He was an unorthodox genius, a poet and rocket scientist who helped give birth to an institution that would become mankind's window on the universe. He was also a devotee of the black arts, a sci-fi junkie and host of backyard orgies on Pasadena's stately Millionaires' Row. John ...
Mar 7, 2000
Letters to the Times // Scientologists in France — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
So the French want to disband the Church of Scientology (Feb. 29). Which of the other 172 "sects" on the French list will be next? The French action is a blatant human rights violation that is opposed by many religious and human rights groups. The French government claims the right to dissolve religious organizations that have never been charged with a crime and never provided with due process of law. Apparently the French want the government to protect them from "false" ...
Feb 29, 2000
Report urges dissolution of Scientology church in France / Europe: Panel calls group a danger to the public and a threat to national security — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link
Nov 26, 1999
L. Ron speaks! — L.A. Weekly (California)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: L.A. Weekly (California)
"Affection could no more spoil a child than the sun could be put out by a bucket of gasoline." Don’t go looking for this maxim in your Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations — but you just might find it in your local newspaper, courtesy of Scientology. The IRS-designated religion — ministry to the stars (John Travolta, Jenna Elfman, Tom Cruise), owner of vast worldwide holdings and co-sponsor of this year’s Hollywood Christmas Parade — has been mailing out this and other pearls from ...
Nov 20, 1999
French Scientologists sentenced in fraud — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
A former French Scientology official has been sentenced to two years in prison for fraud, along with four other Scientologists who received suspended sentences of six months to two years. Xavier Delamare, former head of Scientology's branch in the southern French city of Marseille, was sentenced Monday in connection with a 10-year-old case in which he was found guilty of operating sham "purification" courses between 1987 and 1990. As with the others, Delamare will not go to prison because 18 months ...
Aug 13, 1999
Valley women misidentified selves at Scientology event — Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)
Two San Jacinto Valley women posed as two other women Saturday during a grand opening program at the Church of Scientology's Golden Era film studio in Gilman Hot Springs. Kathleen Racela, an emergency room nurse at Hemet Valley Medical Center, and Patty Duffy, a nurse in a Hemet physician's office, gave a reporter other names when interviewed at the grand opening. They have not publicly explained why they identified themselves as two other nurses at the hospital: Teri Pino and Debb ...
Aug 8, 1999
Scientologists throw a party for film studio opening — Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Laurie Koch Thrower
Source: Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)
The promise of a free dinner in an estate-like atmosphere, plus live entertainment, were enough to entice Barbara Moke to spend her Saturday evening behind the gates of Church of Scientology's newest film studio. Moke, a volunteer at the Hemet Police Department, said her office received an invitation to the opening of The Castle, the sprawling film studio operated by Golden Era Productions in Gilman Hot Springs. "This is the perfect place for a party," she said, while partaking of the ...
Aug 1, 1999
Ready to roll — Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Sybel Alger
Source: Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)
The Scientologists prepare to open a studio in Gilman Hot Springs. Films will be educational and won't star Tom Cruise. Talk of movies and Scientology usually leads to mention of John Travolta and Tom Cruise. But don't expect to see the church's best-known members on the set when its new $7 million film studio in Gilman Hot Springs opens Saturday. Golden Era Productions makes religious training and education films, not blockbusters needing big-name talent to sell tickets, general manager Ken Hoden ...
Jul 14, 1999
'Eyes' in focus — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Patrick Goldstein
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
Q&A: Tom Cruise, co-star of Stanley Kubrick's final opus, talks about the challenges and rewards of working with the director he says was wrongly labeled as an eccentric. When Stanley Kubrick was first wooing Tom Cruise about starring in "Eyes Wide Shut," the director learned that Cruise was a pilot, as Kubrick himself had been before he crash-landed one day and never flew again. So the most all-controlling cinema master of our time decided that if Cruise was going to zoom ...
Jul 14, 1999
Tom Cruise's PR firm seeks extensive TV restrictions — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Brian Lowry
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
Television: As interviews for 'Eyes Wide Shut' begin, the actor's representatives go to new lengths. The publicity machinery surrounding "Eyes Wide Shut" raised the hackles of some television news organizations this week by attempting to place restrictions on TV accounts regarding the film's star that would ratchet up control over information to a new level. PMK, the publicity firm that represents Tom Cruise, distributed a waiver at the movie's press junket asking to see rough cuts in advance of any TV ...
Jun 28, 1999
Defenders of the faith should stand at ease — Daily Variety (Hollywood, California)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Peter Bart
Source: Daily Variety (Hollywood, California)
THE MOST MAIL Daily Variety has received this year about a single article has come in response to a story that the newspaper will never run. The subject was Scientology and its influence on Hollywood. The story was in the process of being researched by our film editor, Dan Cox, who recently left the paper to accept a job as a literary agent without finishing the article. In approaching his story, Cox was impressed by the fact that the Scientologists, who've ...
Feb 27, 1999
Moscow police raid Scientology center — Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)
Feb 5, 1999
Readers' Open Forum -- Scientology — Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)
Feb 4, 1999
Scientology's Europe chief sees progress — Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)
Feb 1, 1999
Scientology: A church and its foes / Scientologists, Florida city at odds — Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)
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Jan 31, 1999
Scientology: A church and its foes / Bitter partings — Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)
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Jan 31, 1999
Scientology: A church and its foes / Church's roots run deep in the Inland area — Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)
Jan 31, 1999
Scientology: A church and its foes / Ex-church member fight for right to speak out — Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)
Dec 14, 1998
Investigative Reports: Inside Scientology [Part 10 of 10] — Arts and Entertainment Channel
Type: TV
Source: Arts and Entertainment Channel
outside Celebrity Centre; newspaper article titled “Scientology–A Long Trail of Controversy”; another shot of Celebrity Centre; part of newspaper article title “struggle for credibility” VO: Over its rocky 45- year history, Scientology has driven for mainstream acceptance. DAVID MISCAVIGE (interview): People have been searching for thousands of years for spiritual release and freedom, and what we have in Scientology is the answer. How to achieve that. JOHN TRAVOLTA (on movie set in Army camouflage outfit): Ultimately, the whole purpose is to ...
Dec 4, 1998
"I see Scientology work every day" [Advertisement] — Los Angeles Times (California)
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