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Sep 27, 2009
Bankrupt 'widow' of Saudi king seeks £12m from prince — The Independent (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Michael Gillard Source:
The Independent (UK) London socialite alleges a secret royal marriage, hush money and dodgy defence contracts
A Saudi prince is being sued in London for allegedly breaching a contract to pay £12m to the "secret wife" of his father for retracting damaging allegations about the late King Fahd.
Lawyers acting for British creditors of Janan Harb are bringing the High Court action after the socialite went bankrupt last year owing £3m.
Allegations about King Fahd in Mrs Harb's sworn witness statement, written to support ...
Sep 23, 2009
Travolta to testify over death of teenage son — The Independent (UK)
Jun 16, 2009
Scientologists wanted me out, claims journalist sacked by Fox — The Independent (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Guy Adams Source:
The Independent (UK) Travolta and Cruise deny pushing for the dismissal of entertainment reporter In a conspiracy as contorted as the plot of one of their action movies, Tom Cruise and John Travolta have been accused of persuading Rupert Murdoch's Fox News to sack an influential entertainment journalist who had a history of criticising the Church of Scientology. Roger Friedman, who was dismissed in April after a decade covering the TV channel's Hollywood beat, announced yesterday that he intended to sue his former employer ...
May 26, 2009
Tom Cruise and a trial that could drive Scientology out of France — The Independent (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
John Lichfield Source:
The Independent (UK) Movement accused of 'organised fraud' against two female members persuaded to part with €20,000 The Scientology movement went on trial in Paris yesterday for "organised fraud" in a case which could lead to the cult's organising bodies being outlawed in France. The French state prosecution service has failed to back the trial but denies that its decision was influenced by the lobbying of French politicians, including Nicolas Sarkozy before he became President, by leading Scientologists, including the actor Tom Cruise. After ...
Feb 21, 2009
First person: I escaped Scientology after 22 years — The Independent (UK)
Jan 25, 2009
Plot thickens in Travolta extortion case — The Independent (UK)
Jan 24, 2009
Arrests over Travolta extortion plot — The Independent (UK)
Jan 7, 2008
Cruise is second most powerful Scientologist, Morton book claims — The Independent (UK)
Jul 23, 2007
Cruise is 'Goebbels of Scientology', says German church — The Independent (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tony Paterson Source:
The Independent (UK) The German Protestant Church compared the Hollywood film star Tom Cruise to the Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels yesterday and claimed the actor was using his celebrity status to publicise the controversial Church of Scientology, of which he is a prominent member.
The criticism of Mr Cruise, who is in Germany to make a film about an attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler, was the most vitriolic in a series of attacks on the actor over his membership of Scientology - regarded ...
Oct 23, 2006
Devotees mix with doubters at Scientology ceremony — The Independent (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Terry Kirby Source:
The Independent (UK) Tom Cruise was, unfortunately, absent, along with his partner and biggest recruit, Katie Holmes; and John Travolta, that other high-profile Hollywood convert to the Church of Scientology, was away filming. So those who turned up in rain yesterday for the opening of its imposing new premises in London had to make do with a pipe band and the solid figure of Chief Superintendent Kevin Hurley, local divisional commander of the City of London Police. There cannot have been many such occasions ...
Apr 18, 2006
The secrets of Scientology — The Independent (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Sara Lawrence Source:
The Independent (UK) Tom Cruise says Katie Holmes is now a fully-fledged follower of L Ron Hubbard. So what is it about the sci-fi writer's 'religion' that exerts such a hold? Sara Lawrence goes undercover to find out Sitting on a red velvet chair in the middle of a majestic, oak-panelled hall in East Grinstead, I have rarely felt more fearful for my sanity. On the wall in front of me, a creepy, larger-than-life-sized portrait of an old man seems to be staring straight ...
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