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Feb 12, 2001
Scientology founder's family life far from what he preached — San Francisco Chronicle (California)
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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., ...
May 15, 2000
Travolta's Religious Battlefield: Critics say movie bolsters Scientology — San Francisco Chronicle (California)
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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 ...
May 1, 2000
Combatants in Cult War Attempt Reconciliation / Peacemaking conference is held near Seattle — San Francisco Chronicle (California)
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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 ...
Sep 19, 1998
Church of Scientology Wins $3 Million Ruling — San Francisco Chronicle (California)
Jan 15, 1997
U.S. celebrities defend Scientology in Germany — San Francisco Chronicle (California)
Feb 25, 1994
Scientology pulls out of suit against ex-member — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: link
Apr 3, 1990
Ex-employees describe abuse in suit against est's Erhard — San Francisco Chronicle (California)More: link
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Don Lattin Source:
San Francisco Chronicle (California) Former employees of EST founder Werner Erhard say they were forced to obey the pop psychology guru in a manner akin to God and to submit themselves to numerous instances of verbally and physically abusive behavior. In sworn statements, the ex-employees also charge that they were required to worship Erhard as the Source and were controlled with exhausting work schedules, loyalty oaths, threats and emotional abuse. The allegations – by five former staff members of est, of the Forum and of ...
Nov 24, 1988
Spain expels 6 Scientologists in fraud case — San Francisco Chronicle (California)
Nov 23, 1988
Spain seizes Scientology leaders — San Francisco Chronicle (California)More: link
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San Francisco Chronicle (California) Police arrested 69 people in a raid on a hotel and accused 45 of them of fraud, illegal association and forgery for being members of the Church of Scientology. Among those held was Heber Jentzsch, 53, of Los Angeles, worldwide director of the faith, and two unidentified Americans, judicial sources said. In 1986 and again last June, Spain's Justice Ministry rejected a petition by the Church of Scientology for accreditation as a legitimate religious institution on the ground that the group's ...
May 17, 1988
Church of Scientology loses appeal on tax-exempt ruling — San Francisco Chronicle (California)More: link
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San Francisco Chronicle (California) The Supreme Court refused yesterday to review the federal government's decision to strip the controversial Church of Scientology of California of its tax-exempt status from 1970 through 1972. The justices, without comment, rejected the church's appeal of a ruling by a federal appeals court. The court, however, will consider a similar issue next term in connection with another case it has agreed to hear, involving whether Scientologists may deduct from their taxable income money spent on spiritual awareness courses. A spokesman ...
Apr 16, 1987
$26 million in assets left by Scientology founder — San Francisco Chronicle (California)More: link
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San Francisco Chronicle (California) Associated Press San Luis Obispo L. Ron Hubbard, the Scientology founder and author who died last year, left more than $26 million in assets excluding trust funds, according to documents filed by his executor. Total assets listed in the inventory amount to $26,305,706. They include "$25 million even" in copyright and trademark materials and $1,305,706 in oil, gas and business investments, said attorney Charles Ogle of Morro Bay. The estate documents were prepared in Los Angeles by Norman F. Starkey, the ...
Oct 17, 1985
Former Scientology aide wins ruling on church records — San Francisco Chronicle (California)
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San Francisco Chronicle (California) The state Supreme Court yesterday allowed a former Church of Scientology official to obtain church records in a suit against the group. None of the six justices taking part in the case voted to grant a hearing on the church's claim that the documents were records of church confessionals taken under a promise of confidentiality. Chief Justice Rose Bird did not participate in the case. The action lifts the court's order of September 10 blocking release of the records of "audits," ...
May 1, 1978
An author vs. Scientology church — San Francisco Chronicle (California)More: link
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San Francisco Chronicle (California) In the fall of 1971, author Paulette Cooper came out with a book called "
The Scandal of Scientology " and, then, according to her lawyers, friends, family and lawyers, the following things happened to her: She received repeated telephone calls from anonymous people who threatened to kill her. Letters were posted on her neighbors' doors telling them she had venereal disease and should be evicted from her apartment. Her publisher was sued and harassed to the point that he withdrew the ...
May 31, 1971
The story behind Brodie's recovery — San Francisco Chronicle (California)More: link
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Author(s):
Art Rosenblaum Source:
San Francisco Chronicle (California) A TV DOCUMENTARY of John Brodie, the 49er quarterback, was seen on Channel 7 the other night. Brodie came across as a pleasant family man, blessed with deep logic about his trade of professional football, and definitely a person with his feet on the ground. He made his daily golfing trips seem perfectly sound . . . after all, if one earns a substantial sum for subjecting one's blind side to onrushing linemen, it would be well to remain in condition. ...
Aug 25, 1969
Scientology boom // A disputed religion growth — San Francisco Chronicle (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Donovan Bess Source:
San Francisco Chronicle (California) Today and tonight hundreds — perhaps thousands — of Californians will sit down in pairs and stare at one another. One of them will give the other commands such as "Tell me something you wouldn't mind forgetting." The one who is commanded will hold two tin cans attached by wires to an E-meter, a device that measures electrical resistance in the body. The commander will watch a needle on the device's circuit board in the belief that it measures emotional charge. ...
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