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Sep 18, 2009
Will Smith gives $70,000 to Scientology groups: Exclusive — The Hollywood Reporter
Sep 11, 2009
What goes on inside Will Smith, Jada Pinkett-Smith's school? — ABC News
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Heather Downie Source:
ABC News The New Village Leadership Academy Allegedly Mimics Some Scientology Teaching Methods Like many modern celebrity power couples, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith are not satisfied with just being actors. The couple, who met on the set of "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" in 1995, have had a lot of different roles over the years, most recently founding the New Village Leadership Academy (NVLA), a private elementary school in Calabasas, Calif., which opened its doors this week for the start of the ...
Aug 9, 2009
Will Smith's Scientology ties — New York Post
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New York Post WILL Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, deny they are Scientologists and deny the school they founded is a Scientology school — yet they've replaced the head of the New Village Leadership Academy, Jacqueline Olivier, with a woman who's studied Scientology, Piano Foster. The superstar couple had home-schooled their kids, Jaden, 9, and Willow, 7, before opening the school last September in Calabasas, Calif. They reportedly quarreled with Olivier over the school's Study Tech curriculum, which was devised by Scientology ...
Aug 7, 2009
Will & Jada new school head’s Scientology connection — Radar Online
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Radar Online The new head of superstar Will Smith’s New Village Leadership Academy is a Scientologist, RadarOnline.com can reveal. On Wednesday we broke the story that Jada had fired the original hire after her position became “untenable” due to her disagreement with the Study Tech curriculum devised by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.
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Jada called Jacqueline Olivier to inform her of their decision and the couple filled the position at the private school in ...
Aug 5, 2009
Will and Jada fire head of their school — Radar Online
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Radar Online Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith have fired the head of their controversial private school The New Village Leadership Academy, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively. Jacqueline Olivier - the woman the famous husband and wife enlisted to set up their Calabasas campus - was axed from her $200,000 a year position via a telephone call from the Matrix actress. "Jada phoned Jaqueline and told her that they had 'decided to go in another direction' with the school,” an insider told ...
Apr 19, 2009
An apology to Will Smith and the New Village Leadership Academy — Daily Mail (UK)
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Daily Mail (UK) Contrary to saying last week that the New Village Leadership Academy in Los Angeles is a Church of Scientology school in fact we are assured that the academy, founded by the actor Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith, is secular, with no religious affiliation and welcomes children from all backgrounds. Apologies for our misunderstanding.
Mar 11, 2009
Jada Pinkett Smith adds 'schoolmaster' to resume — Associated Press
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Author(s):
Sandy Cohen Source:
Associated Press Jada Pinkett Smith adds `schoolmaster' to resume By SANDY COHEN â⒬†3 hours ago LOS ANGELES (AP) â⒬†Jada Pinkett Smith is adding another title to her resume: schoolmaster. The actress-producer and her husband, Will Smith, opened the New Village Leadership Academy in Calabasas, Calif., last fall. The school is for pre-kindergarten through sixth grade. Now Pinkett Smith hopes to open a companion high school. Pinkett Smith says she decided to open the elementary school after developing a home-school program for ...
Jun 29, 2008
Scientology is focus of flap over Will Smith's new school — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Carla Rivera Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) In Los Angeles' rarefied world of private schools, where tuitions are high, academics are tough and educational philosophy is taken seriously, the newest member of the tribe is getting the kind of breathless attention reserved for a music or film star. That may be because the founders of New Village Academy are themselves such stars: Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith. Entertainers have long flocked to private schools on the Westside and in the San Fernando Valley, where campuses ...
Jun 12, 2007
Cruises's clinic OK — New York Post
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Steve Dunleavy Source:
New York Post SHOCK and grief turned to horror when Joe Higgins helped pull the body of his brother and fellow firefighter, Tim, from the rubble of the World Trade Center. "We found him about three weeks after Sept. 11, and later, there was a bunch of us on the pile one night and I looked up," Joe was saying. "I saw this haze of dust was like a rainbow - red, blue, yellow tiny particles - and I said to the guys, 'You ...
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