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May 2, 2010
Scientology leader David Miscavige accused of snooping in secret celeb confessional files — NY Daily News (New York)
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Author(s):
Joanna Molloy ,
George Rush Source:
NY Daily News (New York) [Picture / Caption: Scientology leader David Miscavige (l.) is being accused of gossiping about Lisa Marie Presley and Michael Jackson after snooping in her confidential confessional file.] The Church of Scientology is bringing down the hammer on a renegade member who alleges leader David Miscavige loves to gossip about his star parishioners. Former high-ranking member Amy Scobee claims in her just-out book, "Scientology: Abuse at the Top," that Miscavige and other officials "snooped" in confidential confessional files - a charge vehemently ...
Jan 20, 2010
Scientologists barred — NY Daily News (New York)
Nov 8, 2009
Scientologists: Did Tom Cruise offer to give a beatdown to disobedient members? — NY Daily News (New York)
Nov 3, 2009
Holy Family students join others in drug-free pledge — The Daily News (New York)
Oct 1, 2009
John Travolta's lawyer: Paramedic in extortion plot thought actor 'intentionally killed' his son — NY Daily News (New York)
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Author(s):
Lisa Lucas ,
Carrie Melago Source:
NY Daily News (New York) It was a twisted scheme playing on a broken dad's unbearable grief.
A blackmailing medic and his brazen lawyer threatened to tell the world John Travolta "intentionally killed" his son unless they got $25 million in hush money, the star's lawyer testified Thursday.
Paramedic Tarino Lightbourne planned to make public a routine waiver Travolta signed initially refusing local medical treatment after his autistic son, Jett, 16, suffered a massive seizure in the family's Bahamas resort villa.
The actor had considered flying ...
Sep 21, 2009
The Assclown Offensive: How to enrage the Church of Scientology — Wired
Jun 13, 2009
Fox's axed man blames Scientologists — NY Daily News (New York)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Joanna Molloy ,
George Rush Source:
NY Daily News (New York) Fox News bowed to pressure from Kelly Preston, Tom Cruise and other members of the Church of Scientology when it fired columnist Roger Friedman, the entertainment journo is expected to charge in a wrongful termination lawsuit this week.
In April, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. announced it had “terminated” Friedman after he wrote on FoxNews.com about watching a pirated Internet copy of 20th Century Fox’s “X-Men Origins: Wolverine.”
Friedman is convinced that was a cover story. Last August, Friedman went to Memphis ...
Jan 15, 2009
How not to protest Scientology — Village Voice
Jan 4, 2009
John Travolta, EMT struggled to save 16-year-old Jett — NY Daily News (New York)
Jan 3, 2009
Don't blame death on rare childhood illness, say docs — NY Daily News (New York)
Dec 1, 2008
'The Complex' author John Duignan cites Tom Cruise control — NY Daily News (New York)
Oct 10, 2008
Chorus of boos awaits Katie Holmes — NY Daily News (New York)
Type: Press
Author(s):
George Rush ,
Joanna Molloy Source:
NY Daily News (New York) Katie Holmes and hubby Tom Cruise can count on seeing some familiar mustachioed faces when "All My Sons," in which Holmes stars, opens on Broadway Thursday. The anti-Scientology critics of the group Anonymous are gearing up for another protest against the couple's controversial faith outside the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. Last month the group, whose members often don "V for Vendetta" masks with mustaches, heralded the play's first preview by carrying signs that read "Scientology Kills" and "Free Katie, keep Tom." Count ...
Aug 22, 2008
Scientology fight with 'Anonymous' hits home in New York — NY Daily News (New York)
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NY Daily News (New York) The war between the Church of Scientology and the group that calls itself Anonymous is heating up. New York City has become one of the chief battlefronts. Critics of the church - which counts John Travolta and Tom Cruise among its members - have staged at least nine protests here in the last year. Last Saturday, Anonymous members picketed the Scientology Center on W. 46th. Many came dressed as nurses and doctors to lampoon what one protester tells us is "the ...
Jul 1, 2008
Anti-Scientology group on attack — NY Daily News (New York)
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NY Daily News (New York) Critics of Scientology say they plan another theatrical protest against the church — this time targeting its intelligence division. The anti-Scientology group known as Anonymous says its July 12 "Spy vs. Sci" demonstration will be held in "cities all around the world," according to a press release. Anonymous members — who include former Scientologists — are focusing on alleged "abuses" of the church’s intelligence agency, known as the Office of Special Affairs (OSA), says the release. It asks, "Why does something ...
Jan 20, 2008
Scientologist elects to be bigoted — NY Daily News (New York)
Jan 7, 2008
Tell-all has Tom Cruise in overdrive — NY Daily News (New York)
Aug 23, 2007
The business of Cruise control — NY Daily News (New York)
Type: Press
Author(s):
John Clark Source:
NY Daily News (New York) It's been a year since Tom Cruise's war of words with Paramount resulted in one of Hollywood's biggest splits - and, apparently, new days of thunder for the 45-year-old superstar.
Previous to the much-publicized split, the 5-foot-7 actor was riding high. How high? Cruise has had seven consecutive films that made $100 million or more (a record he shares with Tom Hanks). He has won three Golden Globes, and has been nominated for an acting Oscar three times. He has worked ...
Apr 20, 2007
It's Hollywood in Chelsea at WTC 'detox' bash — NY Daily News (New York)
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NY Daily News (New York) [Picture]Tom Cruise and his wife Katie Holmes arrive at the Altman Building for his Detox Center Benefit.
[Picture]Michael Pena and his girlfriend, Breen Schaefer, were among the attendees at the Detox Center Benefit.
Superstar actor and Scientology pusher Tom Cruise headlined a Chelsea soiree with all the excitement of a movie premiere last night to raise money for his controversial effort to "detox" Ground Zero workers.
"It is an injustice that after six years people who were down there are still ...
Apr 18, 2007
Critics: Scientologists' Va. trip a time to prey — NY Daily News (New York)
Type: Press
Author(s):
George Rush ,
Joanna Molloy Source:
NY Daily News (New York) The Church of Scientology has dispatched "ministers" to provide "grief counseling" for shell-shocked youth at Virginia Tech - but critics suspect the sect hopes to convert the vulnerable students. "It's shameless, how they milk human tragedy to promote their organization," charges Rick Ross, whose CultNews.net has long tracked the group, which counts Tom Cruise, John Travolta and Kirstie Alley among its members. "These young people [at VT] are experiencing trauma. What they need are qualified mental health professionals." HollywoodInterrupted.com's Mark Ebner ...
Oct 14, 2005
Getting behind the ruckus over 'silent births' — Chicago Tribune
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Author(s):
Nara Schoenberg Source:
Chicago Tribune Just when Tom Cruise was starting to look good again, we hear from the New York Daily News that Cruise's pregnant fiance, Katie Holmes, is supposed to sign on for a "silent birth," without screams or painkillers. Ouch. But is "Quit yellin', it's only childbirth," as the News headline so succinctly put it, the true position of the Church of Scientology, of which Cruise is a member? Not according to Greg LaClaire, vice president of the Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre ...
Jul 3, 2005
An expanding universe // Scientology believes in aliens - and in buying lots of Manhattan real estate — NY Daily News (New York)More: rickross.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Adam Nichols Source:
NY Daily News (New York) TOM CRUISE's leap of faith into Scientology is a visible example of the religion's hold on its followers — but the Church of Scientology already has a multimillion-dollar grip on Manhattan. The controversial group, now blitzing the media after Cruise became its most outspoken advocate, has a massive city empire used by tens of thousands of devotees. And New York's church president the Rev. John Carmichael said, "Interest is increasing markedly." Its huge seven-story city headquarters was opened last year at ...
Apr 4, 2005
Homophobia Claims Dog Scientology — NY Daily News (New York)
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NY Daily News (New York) John Travolta and Tom Cruise have forcefully denied allegations that they turned to Scientology to "cure" them of their supposedly gay urges. But critics continue to claim the religion is rife with homophobia. Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard wrote in his 1950 best seller, "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health," that gays were "sexual perverts" and "very ill physically." That apparently went for Hubbard's son, Quentin, who was said to have been confused about his own sexual orientation. "[Ron] thought ...
Oct 29, 2004
Subway-tology! // MTA poster full of plugs for religion — NY Daily News (New York)
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Author(s):
Owen Moritz Source:
NY Daily News (New York) A poster being sold to mark the 100th anniversary of the subway has an underground message - and it has nothing to do with trains. The poster, which depicts a crowded Times Square subway station, contains what seems like an endless number of plugs for the controversial Church of Scientology. On the left side is a plug to visit Scientology's Purification Center on W. 46th St. and a promotion for a book by the late L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of ...
Dec 13, 2003
Bravest taking the Cruise cure — NY Daily News (New York)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Greg Gittrich Source:
NY Daily News (New York) Not many medical clinics frame and display a filthy gym towel.
But then, not many medical clinics are bankrolled by Tom Cruise, target ailing firefighters who worked at Ground Zero and follow the teachings of the Church of Scientology.
"We're helping people," Jim Woodworth, director of Downtown Medical, said the other day as several firefighters sat in the clinic's 168-degree sauna.
As for that soiled towel in the frame above his desk, Woodworth said its purple stains prove toxins still lurk ...
Aug 11, 1988
On the Ron — NY Daily News (New York)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Anne L. Adams Source:
NY Daily News (New York) A brutal bio of L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology, will get to see the light. Again. The News' Alex Michellini reports that New Era Publications, a Danish corporation related to the church, tried to enjoin the distribution of Russel Miller's "Bare-Faced: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard." New Era charged that the book and its publisher, Henry Holt & Co. infringed on certain copyrighted material. Maybe it does, just a little, said Federal Judge Pierre Leval. ...
Dec 1, 1980
Scientology's war against judges — The American Lawyer
Type: Press
Author(s):
James B. Stewart Source:
The American Lawyer On September 5, 1980, as U.S. District Court Judge Charles Richey was recuperating from two pulmonary embolisms and exhaustion, lawyers for the Church of Scientology and the Justice Department gathered before Judge Aubrey Robinson, Richey's successor in the two-year-old conspiracy case against 11 members of the Church of Scientology. Judge Richey had already convicted and sentenced nine of the original 11 defendants, but the remaining two, recently extradited from England, were about to go on trial. "Particularly from the standpoint of ...
May 7, 1977
DA to probe six deaths — NY Daily News (New York)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Vincent Cosgrove Source:
NY Daily News (New York) Queens District Attorney John Santucci said yesterday that his staff was looking into charges by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights that six unexplained deaths have occurred at the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Bellerose. Santucci said that the commission, reportedly affiliated with the Church of Scientology, had presented his office with some 180 pages of charges, the majority alleging patient abuse. He said that while he understood that the Church of Scientology was opposed to the psychiatric treatment of mental patients, ...
Aug 1, 1951
Boiled Engrams — American Mercury
Type: Press
Author(s):
Willard Beecher ,
Calder Willingham Source:
American Mercury In May of last year, from the modest little town of Elizabeth, New Jersey, came a voice that promised complete salvation for mankind on this earth. That in itself is nothing new, but this particular voice was a powerful roar, worth at least a footnote in any account of our troubled age. It was the voice of a man by the name of L. Ron Hubbard. Until this moment, Hubbard had been known as a writer of science fiction fantasies. But ...
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