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Sep 7, 2010
Travolta ends $25m extortion case linked to death of his son — The Independent (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Guy Adams Source:
The Independent (UK) Two people accused of attempting to extort $25m (£16m) from John Travolta following the death of his son are to walk free after a judge in the Bahamas dismissed the case against them, apparently at the actor's request. A court in Nassau was about to begin the retrial of Tarino Lightbourne, a local ambulance driver, and Pleasant Bridgewater, his former lawyer and local politician, yesterday when prosecutors announced that Mr Travolta had contacted them saying he no longer wished to give ...
Jan 27, 2010
Scientology plants its flag in Haiti — The Independent (UK)
Nov 30, 2009
Leave Churchill out of Scientology, says family — The Independent (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Guy Adams Source:
The Independent (UK) Images of Britain's wartime leader are being used in recruiting posters Fight them on the beaches if you will. But the descendants of Sir Winston Churchill have decided that a more effective way to prevent the Church of Scientology from hijacking the memory of Britain's wartime leader involves stern cease-and-desist letters and the threat of a costly PR battle. In an unlikely dispute that pits Sir Winston's grandchildren against followers of the late L Ron Hubbard – the science-fiction writer who ...
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)
May 8, 2008
Scientology and the Blackfeet — Missoula Independent
Type: Press
Author(s):
Paul Peters Source:
Missoula Independent Tribal members are getting advice, free trips—and perhaps a new rehab program—from their connection with L. Ron Hubbard's church. Is this the help they need? In 1964, when Rayola Running Crane was just 13, her parents sent her away from her home in Browning on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. She and her friends were drinking alcohol on a regular basis, and she had already been in an alcohol-related car accident that caused her permanent back injuries. She says her parents gave ...
Jan 7, 2008
Cruise is second most powerful Scientologist, Morton book claims — The Independent (UK)
Sep 23, 2007
Madman or messiah? — Independent.ie
Type: Press
Author(s):
Carol Tobin Source:
Independent.ie She was open-minded enough about Scientology, if a bit dubious about some aspects of the life of its founder L. Ron Hubbard. Imagine Carol Tobin's surprise, then, when her hopes of a private jet and a Hollywood career with Tom Cruise were dashed as its adherents appeared to reject her
Is it just cynical old me or is Scientology a load of old cobblers or, as we would say here in Ringsend, a load of bullshit?
Oh, I can hear the ...
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 ...
Jan 1, 2002
Clear Expansion Committee Directory 2002 — Church of Scientology Flag Service Organization (CSFSO)
Dec 10, 1999
Scientologists are refused charitable status — The Independent (UK)More: rickross.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Damien Pearse Source:
The Independent (UK) THE CHURCH of Scientology failed in its attempt to become a registered charity yesterday because the organisation was not of "public benefit". The Charity Commission rejected the application for charity status after detailed consideration and despite taking a "broad and flexible" view of the law, it emerged. The Church of Scientology had sought to be registered as a charity on the grounds that "it was established for the advancement of religion or to promote the moral or spiritual welfare or improvement ...
Nov 20, 1997
TV [re. Channel 4's Secret Lives] — The Independent (UK)
Nov 9, 1997
Travolta begs Channel 4 not to attack Scientology — The Independent (UK)More: link
Mar 31, 1995
Why Kathy won't come home — The Independent (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tim Kelsey Source:
The Independent (UK) Two weeks ago, a man was cleared of trying to abduct Kathleen Wilson after he said he was saving her from a cult that had brainwashed her. Kathy doesn't see it that way. At the garage on the road into East Grinstead, the cashier smiles. "Scientologists?" he says. "You'll find them on the way into Turner's Hill. Just follow the road round. "It's a religious sect," he adds, politely. "Ah, yes," I say. "I'm afraid so," he replies. It isn't far. ...
Apr 12, 1994
The 'religion' with a cross, but without any prayers — The Argus (UK)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Paul Bracchi Source:
The Argus (UK) [Picture / Caption: Canon Walker: No tenets of Christianity] THEY call themselves a Church and their symbol is a cross. But the Scientologists' religious image fails to stand up to scrutiny, experts say. The Vicar of Brighton, Canon Dominic Walker, says the sect should not be described as a Church. He said: "Scientology does not have any of the central tenets of Christianity and yet they use a cross as a symbol and their ministers wear clerical collars. "In calling themselves ...
Jan 31, 1994
The prisoners of Saint Hill — The Independent (UK)More: cosmedia.freewinds.cx , link
Dec 9, 1993
Cult prosecuted over safety of commune — The Independent (UK)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tim Kelsey Source:
The Independent (UK) THE Church of Scientology, one of Britain's largest cults, is being prosecuted by a local authority for failing to ensure one of its largest communes is safe for human habitation. The Independent has been leaked documents from the church headquarters that show it may have misled safety inspectors over the number of adults and children living in the commune.
The church, founded by L Ron Hubbard, an American science fiction writer, after the Second World War, has its European headquarters in ...
Feb 26, 1993
Hanged man had feared attack by Scientologists — The Independent (UK)More: link
Jan 23, 1993
Church of Scientology a big loser in S.B. case / Can the road map to salvation be copyrighted? — Santa Barbara Independent (California)More: lermanet.com
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