Maria Pia Gardini
Former scientologist, reached OT8 level (highest level
attainable in Scientology).
| «I became involved in Scientology through the
Narconon program.» — Maria
Pia Gardini |
Maria Pia
Gardini: OT VIII, Class 9 Auditor Exposes Scientology
| «In January of 2001, Maria Pia Gardini
contacted the LMT to ask them to help her recover 1.5 million
dollars from Scientology. The story she told of fraud and
abuse was so terrible that they asked her to come to Clearwater
to tell
her story on video. «Maria's daughter got into Scientology via the
Narconon
program in Italy. Maria was very close to her daughter and
extremely concerned about her daughter's drug use. Her daughter
told her Scientology had helped her. At the same time, Maria was
very sad about the death of her father, and her daughter begged
her to get some auditing to help relieve her grief, so Maria did
it. As luck would have it, Maria had a very sympathetic auditor
to talk to about her father's death. This auditor helped Maria
tremendously during a difficult time in her life. That was the
beginning for Maria Pia.» |
Affidavit of Maria
Pia Gardini (19 January 2001, part 1)
| «3. My name is Maria Pia Gardini. I am an
Italian citizen. The Flag Service Organization
defrauded me of $1,000,000 while I was working
on their staff as a highly trained Class IX
auditor.» |
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Affidavit of Maria
Pia Gardini (19 January 2001, part 2)
| «9. At 6:00 p.m. Charmaign woke up. She was
yelling and screaming, "Why did you let me sleep!" We told her
she was so drunk she couldn't stand up from the chair. She then
started right in telling me she wanted $35,000 from me for a
Cornerstone donation to the project. She told me she would not
leave the house until I paid. This went on until 8:00 p.m. as I
tried to resist her in every way, even locking myself in the
bathroom for half an hour with her banging on the outside saying
she would never leave.» |
Affidavit of Maria
Pia Gardini (14 February 2001)
| «78. The night I attested to OT VIII, I went
ashore with some friends to see the casino in Nassau. Guess who
was gambling there? David Miscavige, Guillame Leserve and Ray
Mithoff. Isn't gambling an overt in Scientology? When I saw
this, I was ready to leave Scientology. Between the gambling and
the OT VIII, it was like garbage. I wanted to leave, but this
was very difficult.» |
Maria Pia
Gardini Interview
| «Maria: It's not a religion. It's a money
making group. It's not a religion at all. And I feel that
Scientology doesn't help anybody. It helps only the pockets of
the INT management. That I know.» |
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