Archive-name: scientology/celebrities alt.religion.scientology,rec.arts.movies.people,alt.showbiz.gossip,alt.gossip.celebrities "Celebrities are very Special people and have a very distinct line of dissemination. They have comm[unication] lines that others do not have and many medias[sic] to get their dissemination through" L. Ron Hubbard, from Flag Order 3323, 9 May 1973 http://www.xenu.net/archive/celebrities/ Hi there. My name is Tilman Hausherr this is the official "scientology celebrities FAQ" of alt.religion.scientology, posted from time to time on the usenet. My e-mail address is tilman at snafu dot de, more info about scientology can be found at http://home.snafu.de/tilman/ This file can be found at http://home.snafu.de/tilman/faq-you/celeb.txt Please do not HTMLize it. 0. Change history 1. Disclaimers 2. How names get in this FAQ 3. Names 4. Testimony of Diana Canova 5. Affidavit of Andre Tabayoyon 6. Harassment of Mike Farrell 7. Why do celebrities get into scientology ? 8. Identification of not well-known sources 9. Credits 0. Change history 21.6.2015: Updated Melanie Safka 8.7.2012: Added "Louis Farrakhan" 7.2.2011: Update on Michael Fairman, added Josh Brolin 12.6.2010 Added Elisabeth Moss 25.10.2009: Update on Haggis 4.7.2008: Added Richard Kiel 28.8.2006: Added Franz Rampelmann 20.6.2005: Full entry on Jason Lee 27.5.2006: Added Katherine McPhee 1.7.2005: Added Andrew Loog Oldham 23.6.2905: Added Jason Dohring 19.2.2005: Added full entry on Beck Hansen alias Beck Campbell 23.7.2004: Added mother and sister of Tom Cruise 16.3.2003: Added Kimberley Yates 1.1.2003: Added girlfriend of Danny Masterson Added husband of Juliette Lewis 16.8.2002: Added full entry on Seinfeld 31.7.2002: Added Christopher Masterson and Laura Prepon 4.4.2002: Added Kalle Pohl 26.8.2001: Added link to Jeffrey Scott inserting Scientology concepts into Muppet Babies episodes 13.1.2001: Added Erika Christensen 31.12.2000: Added Darby Crash, Leah Remini 25.12.2000: Added Dini Petty 2.9.2000: Added Cruise/Kidman children being sent to Scientology school 30.8.2000: Added J.D. Salinger 14.3.2000: Added Chaka Khan 25.2.2000: Added Haywood Nelson 8.11.1999: Added Ricky Martin 7.11.1999: Added Danny Masterson admitting that he is a dork! 13.10.1999: Added Catherine Bell spam page 18.7.1999: Added more on Sonny Bono (from "George") 21.3.1999: Added Danny Masterson 19.3.1999: Added real name of Jenna Elfman 29.12.1998: Corrected Helnwein 18.10.1998: Added Catherine Bell, Jennifer Aspen 20.8.1998: Added Corin Nemec 18.4.1998: Update on Jerry Seinfeld 5.4.1998: Update on Mimi Rogers 3.11.1997: Added Jenna Elfman 8.8.1997: Added mention from Evans' book 28.6.1997: More on Peggy Lipton, Fenton Jones, Gottfried Helnwein 10.5.1997: Added Puthoff's patent 20.4.1997: Added Jason Beghe 26.3.1997: Update on Haggis 28.2.1997: Charles Lakes e-mail addr, Oliver Stone, update on Kidman 20.1.1997: More on Helnwein 29.12.1996: More on Cass Warner 26.10.1996: More on Helnwein (court decision) 14.10.1996: More Canova facts 28.9.1996: More on Gottfried Helnwein, John Coale, Karen Nelson-Bell 20.9.1996: More on Melanie, more on "Incredible String Band" 4.8.1996: Added Bernadette Peters, Tony Jacklin 28.7.1996: Added Gabor Szabo 21.7.1996: Added Amanda Ambrose's husband 18.7.1996: Added Ingo Swann newest cult 6.7.1996: Added Shannon Roberts, added Anne Archer on OT3, added URL for Manson 22.6.1996: Added Helga Wagner, full entry on Nicky Hopkins 15.6.1996: Added some original LRH quotes in chapter 7, added more info on Karen Black 20.5.1996: Added info on Lee Purcell, Karen Black, The Ribisi's, Kimberley Kates' sister Wendy Lebel, Priscilla Presley, Cass Warner, Al Jarreau, Neil Gaiman, Michael Schnitzler full entry for Judy Norton-Taylor and Karen Nelson-Bell Added Gloria Gaynor, Michael Fairman 20.4.1996: Added Deborah Rennard 5.4.1996: Full Entry for Campbell 25.3.1996: Added Melanie's response, Helnwein's distancing 24.3.1996: Added http://www.isham.com 24.2.1996: Added sources for Sharon Stone, Shirley MacLaine, Linda Blair, Kate Ceberano, Eric Sherman Added Anna Corea 31.1.1996: Added who got Kelly Preston in, Martin von Haselberg 21.1.1996: Added info about Horst Buchholtz, added Diane Venegas 20.1.1996: Added so much that I can't mention it all. Read the whole document again. The main list is now sorted. 2.1.1996 Added info on Greta van Susteren 1.1.1996: Added Melanie, added remark about Greta van Susteren, added name of Travolta C/S 21.12.1995: Full entry for Vonni Ribisi, Geoffrey Lewis 17.11.1995: Added excerpt on harassment of Mike Farrell 14.11.1995: Added Leif Garrett's occupation, corrected attribution error for Hal Puthoff and added information, more on Linda Blair 25.10.1995: more on Linda Blair and Van Morrison; full entry for Gaiman added Lou Rawls, John Dalmas 7.10.1995: more on Travolta, Isaac Hayes, Anne Archer full entry on Mario Feninger, Lee Purcell added Mark Isham, Marissa Ribisi, more "awards" for Sonny Bono 5.9.1995: added "The road to freedom" CD 1.9.1995: mentioned that Sonny Bono is on a Copyright committee 23.8.1995: added remark about Linda Blair 13.8.1995: added Greta van Susteren and John "Bhopal" Coale 30.7.1995: added level of Tom Cruise 16.7.1995: added Charles Manson 25.6.1995: added Anne Archer's job 14.6.1995: added Katselas, California Magazine, Michael D. Roberts 11.6.1995: added some structure, and answer to "why" question, added movies to Lehman 27.5.1995: more exact newspaper references 21.5.1995: Added a source for Peggy Lipton Candice Bergen Demi Moore Emilio Estevez 16.5.1995: Cohen music in "NBK" 12.5.1995: Sonny Bono thanks Elron 8.5.1995: slightly corrected Damian Pope's part 6.5.1995: Added Alley's start in the cult 29.04.1995: Peggy Lipton, also added some names from NPoorman, deleted Helmut Berger. Bernard Paul (Circus Roncalli) Corea "liner notes" 17.04.1995: William Burroughs (correction again) 16.04.1995: Leonard Cohen Kate Ceberano William Burroughs (correction) added info from Damian Pope "libeled" Sonny Bono some more 1. Disclaimers Legal disclaimer: Being in the FAQ means that "I have read somewhere that someone is a scientologist". * If you feel that someone is wrongly placed on this FAQ, please tell me, and I'll see what I can do. * If you want a name added, please try to give a reference. If you don't have one, then YOU are the reference (if I feel you are credible), which means that if you can't prove this, the celebrity can successfully sue you. * If you find an error (wrong profession, typo, person left scientology), please tell me as soon as possible. * Newspapers or scientology publications are not always accurate. For example, a person listed in a scientology publication might claim in court that it didn't know it was listed there and that it proves nothing. And in very rare cases, a non-scientologist could have the same name as a scientologist. Social disclaimer: I do NOT advise you to get into scientology ! Do not buy their books, except from a used book shop. Do not read their books, unless you also read books critical about scientology. Just because a celebrity does something silly doesn't mean YOU should. Doing weird things is a tradition of stage actors, and there is no need that the rest of the world population takes this as an advice. Carrying a celebrity in this FAQ shouldn't be considered as a "public statement" of me. It doesn't mean that any action should be taken by the reader. In most cases, the status of those celebrities is not known (only taken courses, OT, ...). If you're a scientologist, you'll be happy to be in good company. If you're not, maybe you'll think twice before writing fan mail. 2. How names get in this FAQ I will keep only e-mail names where I don't have any book or newspaper reference, i.e. I will delete names as soon I get a confirmation. Those e-mail references are only about the celebrity name, not necessarely about the description text. "name withheld" means that I know who the person is. I will do this only with persons that I already know and trust. I will also name persons who are no longer scientologists, i.e. who have been declared, or who "simply" left. More entries on ex-scientologists are welcome ! The part "greatest achievements" will depend highly on my opinion, and won't be "politically correct". 3. Names Name: Kirstie Alley Profession: interior decorator, then actress Status: in since 1979, Patron, New OT6, Freedom Medal international spokesperson for Narconon International claims Narconon International's substance abuse center in Los Angeles helped her kick her cocaine habit in 1979. Achievement: "A bunny's tale", "Star Trek 2", "Look who's talking", "Cheers", "Veronica's Closet", "Fat Actress" Sources: TIME May 6/91, Premiere 9/93, Daily Oklahoman 11.10.90, Impact #34, #42, Wichita Eagle 25.3.1995, People 26.7.1982 Celebrity #314 http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/k/kirstie-alley.html Name: Amanda Ambrose Profession: singer, vocal teacher Status: in, new OT8, SHSBC, LO Achievement: "never quite made it in Hollywood, type media person" sang a song from Elron that went like this: "There was a being who did secret acts he had to hide hide hide hide hide" _ http://www.lronhubbard.org/eng3.ram Sources: The Auditor 136, Impact #12, Magie, Celebrity #278, Source #20 Factnet & L. Wollersheim about achievement St. Petersburg Times 11.11.2007 Misc: Her husband is Fenton E. Jones, an attorney. He is a trustee for Gottfried Helnwein (see Peter Reichelt book, p. 177) Name: Anne Archer Profession: actress Status: in since 1976, Key to Life, OT4, Freedom Medal 1997 International spokesperson for "Applied Scholastics" Achievement: wife in "Fatal attraction", secretary in "Body of Evidence", wife in "Patriot Games" and in "Clear and present danger" Sources: WIS, TIME May 6/91, Premiere 9/93, California Magazine 6/91 Celebrity #280, #281, #289, #294, "Sunday Express" 19.7.92 IMPACT #75, Rolling Stone 3/2006 married to Terry Jastrow, producer of golf shows on ABC Son Tom Davis heads the LA Celebrity Center PA 22.10.2006 about entry date According to The New Yorker 14.2.2011 intro by Milton Katselas Name: Jennifer Aspen Profession: actress Status: in, grade 4 introduced by Bodhi and Jenna Elfman has Milton Katselas and Jeffrey Tambor as teacher Achievement: Party of five, Rodney Sources: Celebrity #314, #331, #337, #341, #353, Yahoo chat 15.9.1998 The Santa Cruz Sentinel 10.10.2004 Married to Scientologist David O'Donnell (UPI 3.9.2006) http://www.our-home.org/davidodonnell/myself.htm Name: Beck alias Beck Hansen alias Beck Campbell Profession: singer Status: in (born into) Achievement: Sources: Celebrity #358, Impact #103 NYT 6.3.2005, The Age 27.3.2005 http://lermanet.com/beck/ Married to Marissa Ribisi since 4.4.2004 Parents David Campbell and Bibbe Hansen are also Scientologists Stepfather Sean Carrillo too Stepmother Raven Kane Campbell too Name: Jason Beghe Profession: actor Status: out 2008; in since 1994, OT5, PTS/SP Achievement: "monkey shines" Sources: George 4/97, Celebrity #314, #341, #286, #367 http://www.fundamentaltraining.org/page07.htm Introduced by Bodhi Elfman Why he left: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07m-IvvpK2E The Village Voice 8.4.2008 Name: Catherine Bell Profession: actress Status: in, L11, L12, Clear, PTS/SP Achievement: JAG Sources: Celebrity #314, #331, #341, #347, #323 Source #135, #137, #138, #139 Student of Milton Katselas (LA Daily News 11.6.1999, Celebrity #347) Entertainment Tonight 4.11.1999, WP 13.6.2000 US Newswire 3.8.2003 Name: Candice Bergen Profession: actress Status: Factnet & L. Wollersheim: "out for years, but was in in the early days, and will have nothing to do with them. She was audited on the early, low levels." Achievement: Murphy Brown, Oliver's Story, Starting Over, Gandhi, Stick Sources: DWTripp@aol.com: "she was 'around' LA Org and AOLA in 1969" and "I saw her at the original celebrity center", but does not know if she did take courses / had auditing Factnet & L. Wollersheim where mentioned Name: Karen Black (real name: Karen Blanche Ziegler) Profession: actress Status: in also introduced Lee Purcell former spokesperson for CCHR Achievement: "The Monkey" in "Portnoy's complaint", "Family Plot" "Five easy pieces" (with Oscar nomination) "Invaders from Mars" (The boy, Hunter Carson, is her son) "Caged Fear" (probably yet another "girls in jail" movie) "Zapped again" (she plays the principal) Sources: Premiere 9/93, California Magazine 6/91, Impact #12, Celebrity #269, San Diego Union 15.4.1990, PRN 5.2.1991 Factnet & L. Wollersheim: husband, Steve Eckelberry, is also in (#287 says he is "clear") Stephen Eckelberry 27.11.2005: "Karen and I are both active in the church and have been married since 1987; My mother Renee Duke is active as well" TIME 9.6.1975 Chicago Tribune 19.9.2008 Name: Linda Blair Profession: actress Status: out, Factnet & L. Wollersheim: "Was in for a very brief while" Achievement: threw up lots of pea soup in "The Exorcist", having her skirt ESPed in "Zapped again", film-mother of "seven" on MWC, "Chained Heat 1" I wonder if the film "deep death" was financed by CCHR, since it deals with an evil psychiatrist who practices a "deep sleep" therapy. Coincidence ? CCHR had uncovered a "deep sleep" therapy in Chelmsford hospital, Sydney, Australia. _ http://www.scientology.org/reform/new/5chelms.htm Sources: "Der Sektenkonzern", "Berliner Zeitung" 23.7.92 (only for the name), Factnet & L. Wollersheim where mentioned, "Sunday Express" 19.7.92 tonym@jolt.mpx.com.au (Tony McClelland): This is the only event that I am aware of where the CofS has benefited the community in their 45 year history. Name: Arnaud Boetsch Profession: tennis player Status: out Achievement: Sources: DER SPIEGEL 41/96, STERN 97/26, Paris Match 2.2.2006 Name: Darius Brubeck Profession: musician, member of the "Brubeck Band" Status: OT2 or higher Achievement: Sources: Auditor WW #80 (1972), Jon Atack Name: Sonny Bono Profession: singer, actor, republican rep., pizza delivery man in congress member of the House Subcommittee on Copyrights and Intellectual Property Status: introduced by Mimi Rogers; took some courses, says he's a roman catholic, not a scientologist (LA Times), but probably still in (used the word "enturbulate" in public around 26.4.1997) He says in Esquire: "I openly studied scientology to the degree that they did some courses on ethics, and then said thank you and left. (...) The scientology - there was no cult thing there." From drogers@huey.csun.edu (David D. Rogers): According to Corydon's book, he was quoted as saying: "My only sorrow is that L. Ron Hubbard left before I could thank him for my new life," in a full-page ad featured in several newspapers after Elron's death. died 6.1.1998 His widow, Mary Bono, has also done scientology courses Celebrity #240 http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/m/mary-bono.html Cher in Access Hollywood 7.2.2008 "I have to say, I don't understand the scientology thing because I don't understand it, you know. Sonny was a scientologist. I didn't understand that either." Achievement: Congressman (R), Palm Springs Mayor, Cher's ex-husband. Cher: "A politician is usually a null, so the job fits him". "The Progressive": (first mentioned to me in october 1995) "#8 on the list of 'The Ten Dimmest Bulbs in Congress' "Bono's mental shortcomings have long made him a subject of scorn among California politicians." Sources: TIME May 6/91, Premiere 9/93, LA magazine 10/93, "Bigger Secrets", LA Times 5.12.91, Esquire 11/94, California Magazine 6/91, "Sunday Express" 19.7.92 People 3.6.1985, Chicago Tribune 8.9.1988 MSNBC 9.11.1998 - about Mary Bono in George 8/1999 Mary Bono says "When I met Sonny, he was very involved in it" and "Sonny did try to break away at one point, and they made it very difficult for him" but Mike Rinder says "I had numerous conversations with Sonny until he died. Any estrangement is untrue" The magazine says also: "Though Sonny avoided the topic publicly, he quietly maintained his ties." Heber Jentzsch in a letter to the editor: "Sonny Bono was a friend. He was in regular contact with the church until he died. And he called us (emphasized) - on all manner of subjects, from the political to the personal" Name: Shirly Brener Profession: actress Status: ? Achievement: ? Sources: http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/s/shirley-brener.html http://celebritybabyscoop.com/2010/10/06/shirly-brener Mentioned in 2010 that she does PR for Narconon and sends her child to an Applied Scholastics "school". Name: Josh Brolin Profession: actor Status: out Achievement: Sources: The New Yorker, 14.2.2011: tried auditing in a moment of real desperation, quickly decided that Scientology wasn't for him Name: John Brodie Profession: football player Status: introduced by Mimi Rogers when she was 15, she was his auditor. Was in from 1970-1982, went up to OT7. he says: "I was involved for specific purposes. When I completed those, I moved out". : "He dropped out dissatisfied after being a real spokesman for Scn. Scn goes through these people like Kleenex and no one remembers the used-to-be's. Like Brodie. In the 70s, he was BIG, not only as a football name but for Scn!! Then - poof - gone! He dropped out and so they dropped him, of course. Brodie prefers to not talk about it." more from California Magazine: "I will talk about the gains I've had, but I won't talk about all the mishmash that some people seem concerned about. I'm not part of the organization, so how can I speak about it ? I can only speak about the integrity of the services delivered, and I feel very good about that" (Another source tells me that he was introduced by Phil Spickler) Achievement: quarterback for the SFO 49ers Sources: California Magazine 6/91, UPI 28/29.1.1986, LA Times 25.6.1990 San Francisco Chronicle 4.1.2004, TIME 5.4.1976, SI 20.9.1971 Name: William Burroughs Profession: writer Status: Clear# 1163 in the 60ies, but later satirized the movement in several essays, which were later collected in the book "Naked Scientology" [Expanded Media Editions 1985, Bonn, Germany, 3-88030-011-9] Achievement: "Naked Lunch" Sources: "A piece of blue sky" Name: David Campbell Profession: big media producer for sound scores, actor Status: in, Patron, CL5, New OT5 Achievement: Oscar nomination for Sound as "re-recording mixer" for "Dick Tracy" in 1990 Impact #12 (appeared in 1987) also claims an Oscar Sources: Celebrity #240, #271, #280, #283, #367 Impact #12, #64, #76 Factnet & L. Wollersheim about profession wife Raven Kane Campbell (real name: Pauline Frechette, see http://www.cchr.org/art/eng/page33.htm) also a member, also CL5 & New OT6 Los Angeles Times 16.1.1999 Name: John Campbell / John W. Campbell Profession: science-fiction editor ("Astounding Science Fiction") Status: out, only in the Hubbard Dianetics Foundation Sort of a "pre-scientologist". Resigned in 1951 Achievement: attracted numerous science-fiction writers into his SF publications, among them Asimov and Clarke. "Dianetics" was published first in the magazine. Sources: Bare-Faced Messiah Name: Diana Canova alias Diana Rivero Profession: actress, singer Status: out (see below) Achievement: Corinne in "soap" (the long hair girl) Sources: Premiere 9/93, Celebrity #17, #24 Also read her testimony in this FAQ Former wife of Geoff Levin Name: Nancy Cartwright http://www.nancycartwright.com Profession: actress Status: in, New OT VII, Key to Life, Life Orientation, PTS/SP represents "The Way to Happiness" http://www.thewaytohappiness.org/html/wthceleb.htm http://www.thenancyshow.com Achievement: voice of Bart Simpson Sources: WIS, WP 10.12.94 & 25.12.94, TIME May 6/91, Premiere 9/93 California Magazine 6/91, Celebrity #280, #314, #333, #345, #355, #359, #309 LA Times 5.3.2000, Dayton Daily News 29.10.2000 The Scotsman 20.6.2004, The Guardian 2.8.2004 Husbands: Warren Murphy, later Steve Brackett had Milton Katselas as a teacher Says she learned about scientology "through her acting class" around 1988 Waterloo Record 26.7.2007: says she joined scientology to get husband Phone robocall in 2009 at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnoMGqcN554 Name: Sharon Case Profession: actress Status: in Achievement: daytime soaps like "Days of our lives", "The young and the restless", "General Hospital" Sources: JAARobin@aol.com Name: Erika Christensen Profession: actress Status: in, born into, L11, Grade 4, PTS/SP Achievement: "Traffic" Sources: USA Today 10.1.2001, Talk 12/2000, Source #136, Celebrity #335, #367 US Newswire 3.8.2003, Seattle Post-Intelligencer 22.3.2005 Name: Leonard Cohen Profession: songwriter, poet Status: out Achievement: "Suzanne", ... really cool music at the end of the prison escape in "natural born killers" Sources: himself in interview with the "jewish book news": http://www.serve.com/cpage/LCohen/interview.html Q: "Some of the articles about you over the years have indicated that you've dabbled or more than dabbled in various kinds of spiritual paths. Is the line, "Did you ever go clear?" from "Famous Blue Raincoat" a Scientology reference? A: "It was a Scientology reference. I looked into a lot of things. Scientology was one of them. It did not last very long. But it is very interesting, as I continue my studies in these matters, to see how really good Scientology was from the point of view of their data, their information, their actual knowledge, their wisdom writings, so to speak. It wasn't bad at all. It is scorned, and I don't know what the organization is like today, but it seems to have all the political residue of any large and growing organization. Yes, I did look into that and other things." also mentioned by Cyril Vosper in "The mind benders" and by Paulette Cooper in "The Scandal of scientology" "Falter": was member in 1968 for a few months Name: Kate Ceberano Profession: jazz singer http://www.kateceberano.com Status: "Who weekly" from June 27th, 1994: "As a third generation Scientologist, Ceberano periodically sends herself off on 'self-imposed sabbaticals', often to Florida" but Kate says: "The Church has helped me maintain my sense of purpose. You work bloody hard studying and Scientology provides you with the means and the tools to be the best you can be." OT5 Achievement: Successful recording career as a musician for years, had her own late night jazz music and talk show, but it didn't go into a 2nd season. claimed that there is no Xenu in Scientology: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KTTirB9ZFo Sources: WIS, damianp@physics1.physics.monash.edu.au (Damian Pope) Woman's day 19.2.96 husband Lee Rogers and mother Cherie are also in Celebrity #331, #341 http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/k/kate-ceberano.html Name: Stanley Clarke Profession: jazz bassist Status: out Achievement: Friend of Chick Corea Sources: "name witheld" (for the above) Celebrity #21 From Factnet & L. Wollersheim: "Stanley Clarke is a real interesting person. He and his wife came to realize what a scam it was and he is one of the only celebrities who had the guts to speak out and talk to people and tell them it's a scam." Name: Keith Code Profession: motorcycle racer and trainer "California Superbike School" http://www.superbikeschool.com/ http://home.scientologist.org/keithc/ (with interruption between 1993 - 1995 when his backers mysteriously withdrew their financial support, now open again with less ambitious schedule) Status: in since the late 60ies, Patron, freedom medal His ex-wife, Barbara Code, was "Communicator" (secretary) to Deputy Guardian United States, Henning Heldt (one of the convicted 11), during the time he committed his crimes. Achievement: Two of his students, Eddie Lawson and Wayne Rainey, are multiple World Grand Prix winners His books (Twist of the Wrist I & II) and related video are considered the best available tutorials. 1987 Redesigned part of Laguna Seca Race Course to conform to World GP Motorcycle Racing. 1992 (ca) named Motorcyclist of the Year by Motorcyclist Magazine (U.S.) Tried to prove the validity of Dianetics in 1994 by competing with age 46 in 250cc AMA championship, withdrew after failing badly in the first few races. Sources: WIS, Celebrity #280, #281, Impact #25, #42, #66 smokesig@ix.netcom.com (Neal Hamel) for the details current wife is Judy Code, also Patron Name: Chick Corea Profession: jazz pianist Status: in, joined 1968, also introduced Nicky Hopkins New OT8, Patron with honor, Freedom Medal, Study certainty course Achievement: getting "canceled" from a concert in germany Sources: himself in ads, FOCUS Dec 12/94, TIME May 6/91, Source #103 WIS, Impact #12, #34, #42, Celebrity 1982, #240, #284, California Magazine 6/91, "A piece of blue sky"; LA Times 18.8.2001, Orlando Sentinel 21.4.2006 he also thanks LRH on inside his CD covers His wife Gayle Moran is also involved (Impact #7, Source #103) His mother Anna Corea is also involved (Celebrity #278, #286) Statement in Impact #12, p.20: "I have some personal policies as a performer. I consider it's my job to audit an audience." About acknoledging Ron in his records: "But many Scientologists and even Sea Org members have told me that it is because of that simple action that they are now Scientologists." Name: Darby Crash (born Jan Paul Beahm) Profession: punk rocker Status: out Achievement: Sources: L.A. Weekly 29.12.2000 Name: Raven de la Croix, alias Raven De Lumiere, alias Lynne Chrystie Ana, born Lynn De La Croix Profession: actress, stripper, psychic Status: Factnet & L. Wollersheim: "think she's out" Achievement: "Up!" (1976) Sources: Director Russ Meyer in an interview for german book "Russ Meyer", he called scientology "one of the nastiest cults" "Dianetic Clear" in Celebrity 1979 Factnet & L. Wollersheim for "stripper" and status Skip Press She was a Narconon staff member: http://www.rantingsofamadwoman.com/delumiere/counsel.htm Interview with her: http://www.rantingsofamadwoman.com/delacroix/realmspirits.htm http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/r/raven-de-la-croix.html Name: Cathy Lee Crosby Profession: actress Status: out npoorman@aol.com (NPoorman): one AOLA reg told me, "Oh, she's crazy!" now with Deepak Chopra and James Redfield (Celestine Prophecy) Achievement: "Wonder Woman" (1974, before Lynda Carter) Sources: npoorman@aol.com (NPoorman), deirdre@sover.net (Deirdre) Factnet & L. Wollersheim jimdbb@aol.com (Jim Beebe) Celebrity 1980 Name: Tom Cruise Profession: actor Status: got in after marrying Mimi Rogers (Premiere - this would be 9.5.1987), but in People he said he entered 1986 OT6, studying OT7 "in for 16 years" (himself in interview for ABC 24.3.2002) Achievement: "Top Gun", "The Firm", "Mission Impossible" Sources: TIME May 6/91, Premiere 9/93, LA magazine 10/93, AP 14.10.2001 Andre Tabayoyon decl., IMPACT #95, Vanity Fair 1/2002, Larry King 9.12.2001, TIME 24.6.2002, People 21.7.2003 The Observer 12.9.2004 The East Grinstead Observer of 30.8.2000 mentions that Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman are sending their children to the infamous Scientology "Greenfields School". But the New York Post 7.2.2001 said that they are going to school in Sydney. Sisters: Marian, Lee Anne, Cass Mother: Mary Lee South Father: Thomas Cruise Mapother III Lee Anne DeVettte is also a Scientologist (NY Daily News 13.3.2003) Mary Lee South is also a Scientologist (Celebrity #357, #359) The Independent 3.6.2005, The Observer 5.6.2005, MSNBC 24.6.2005 The Toledo Blade 26.6.2005, ISN #29 Name: Olivia D'Abo Profession: actress Status: out now, went to Apple school [Note from TH: This school was only a scientology school from 1974 - 1985, at the time Bonnie Bishop ran it. See LA Times 16.2.1985] Achievement: played Kevin's sister in "The wonder years" Sources: Factnet & L. Wollersheim Name: Eddie Deezen http://www.eddiedeezen.com Profession: actor (plays a nerd) Status: in, sponsor, CL3 auditor or higher, Hubbard Dianetics Auditor Grade 4 (this is just below clear - so he probably is) Achievement: "Grease", "Beverly Hills Vamp" - he was hilarious ! Sources: Factnet & L. Wollersheim, IAS 10th anniversary report Source #67, #68, #70, Celebrity #240 Peoria Journal Star, 27.8.1998 (Author was asked whether this document was the source, but did not respond) Name: Xavier Deluc alias Xavier Lepetit Profession: actor Status: in, Clear, L 11 & 12 rundown, Patron with Honors Achievement: lost his lawsuit against UNADFI (french cult info org) in 1994 "Section de recherches" (french "CSI" clone) Sources: Impact #42 Name: Placido Domingo, Jr. Profession: Factnet & L. Wollersheim: Placido Domingo's son songwriter Status: out, OT3, Sunshine Rundown, Method One Word Clearing, Past Life Remedy, New Era Dianetics Drug Rundown, Marriage Counseling, OT Prep, OT1, OT3 Achievement: Sources: Celebrity #271, #278, "Sunday Express" 19.7.92, Source #137 also listed are Maria Domingo and Marilu Domingo A&E of 14.12.1998 mentions a "Joe Domingo" and say it is P's son The Sunday Times, 28.5.2000 mentions him as "Jose", Source #141, #143, #145, #147 http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/p/placido-domingo-jr..html http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/p/jose-domingo.html About leaving: Village Voice Jul. 9 2011 http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/07/placido_domingo.php Name: Jenna Elfman, alias Jenna Butala Profession: actress Status: in, OT7, PTS/SP introduced 1991 by her husband Bodhi Elfman Achievement: "Dharma and Greg" Sources: PRN 1.11.1997, 17.11.1997, Celebrity #312, #314, Source #131 Celebrity #363 Jam! 14.3.1999, Advance #153, #156, #157, #159 is a student of Milton Katselas LA Times 20.6.2004 http://www.jennaelfman.com Name: Bodhi Elfman (nephew of composer Danny Elfman, son of Rick Elfman) Profession: actor Status: in, KTL/LO, Grade 4, Clear, OT2, Asthma Rundown Achievement: plays in movie "Shrunken heads" - bwahaha! Sources: PRN 17.11.1997, Celebrity #290, #304, #312, #286, Source# 120, #136, #138 Jam! 14.3.1999, Source #143 More: Danny Elfman is *not* a scientologist Name: Ron Ely Profession: actor Status: Achievement: "Tarzan", "Doc Savage" Sources: deirdre@sover.net (Deirdre): "I know this one only because I saw him there once and later saw his pc folders" But: luvalle@primenet.com (John Luvalle) believes that a different Ron Ely was a student at ASHO, and it was his folders that Deirdre saw. Name: Emilio Estevez Profession: actor Status: out, and won't discuss it. "I don't want my phones tapped" (refers to 1978 verdict) Achievement: "Repo Man" (in that film they make fun about "Dioretix", see more about this in the fun section of my web page) "Young Guns", "Loaded Weapon" Factnet & L. Wollersheim: "had affair with Mimi Rogers" Was "best man" at Rogers/Cruise wedding (AP 17.6.2005) Sources: CLEO 6/95, Factnet & L. Wollersheim where mentioned Name: Louis Eugene Wolcott alias Louis X alias Louis Farrakhan alias Louis Farrakhan Muhammad, Sr Profession: leader of "nation of islam" Status: in since 2006 at least Achievement: Sources: https://whyweprotest.net/community/threads/alfreddie-johnson-and-the-nation-of-islam.78240/ ("Friend of Mankind" award to Louis Farrakhan in 2006) http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/National_News_2/article_9004.shtml "Min. Farrakhan's desire for the first Nation of Islam public Dianetics Seminar came two years after he first introduced the study to his followers on May 8, 2010 in Chicago." Name: Michael Fairman Profession: actor Status: out, sponsor of the IAS, new OT6 Achievement: small supporting roles in a lot of TV series: A-Team, Quantum Leap, General Hospital, McGyver, Seinfeld, Lou Grant, Alien Nation, Brisco County Jr, Tour of Duty Sources: JAARobin@aol.com, FACTNet and L. Wollersheim, Celebrity #280, IAS 10th anniversary report, Source #89 http://www.myhomepage.org/michaelfairman/ (deleted 2/2011) out in 1/2011: http://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2011/01/23/michael-fairman/ Name: Mario Feninger Profession: composer and concert pianist Status: in since 1951, Class VIII auditor Achievement: Sources: Celebrity #278, #294, Ursprung #45, The Auditor EU/AF #187 (he is the "Antonio Ferraro" in Margery Wakefield's book "The road to Xenu") Name: Neil Gaiman Profession: writer (sandman comics) Status: Clear #6909, SP in 1983; was Class VIII auditor, ran the Birmingham org for a while but scientologist Mark Pope (MarkPope@aol.com) claims on 4.4.1995: "Neil is a long time Scientologist". (This might be wishful thinking, i.e. not believing that a son of a scieno in good standing is an SP) Achievement: Sources: informe@best.com (Mike MacLeod): "My auditor is a friend of the elder Gaiman." + for most of it The Times, 13.8.1968 David Mayo : "he was a case supervisor at the G.O. at the time of the CMO takeover of the G.O. and the transition to RTC/OSA" Neil Gaiman is the son of David Gaiman, who was a high co$ official (GO, from 66-83) and is currently active in Russia. (DG's involvement was/is much, much too big to cover here; DG was an SP for a time) Emerald : I believe Neil Gaiman was active in Co$ later than 1983. His name appears in graduate lists in The Auditor Worldwide (published by AOSH UK): Auditor #202 (copyright 1986) - Neil completed the Hubbard Senior Sec Checker Course #222 (1988) - completed the 21 Dept Org Board Course #227 (1988) - completed the Hubbard Basic Art Course. The Auditor #150 http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/clears/auditor_150.html Name: Josele Garza Profession: racing driver (from Mexico) Status: Patron, New OT5 His mother Nadina is New OT7 and CL4 Achievement: Impact #12 does not mention that he ever won a race, so he probably didn't. Sources: Impact #12 Name: Gloria Gaynor Profession: singer and "disco queen" Status: out; tried everything in the spiritual shopping mall (Scientology, Buddhism, Catholicism, TM, JW) Achievement: songs "I will survive", "Never say goodbye" Sources: Berliner Zeitung 11.11.1995, The Scotsman 9.4.1996, Daily Telegraph 17.7.1993 Name: Paul Haggis (phaggis@earthlink.net) Profession: screenwriter, story editor, TV producer Status: out Lifetime member on the Honor Roll Trustee of "Foundation for Religious Freedom" Achievement: "The Facts of Life", "Thirtysomething", "EZ Streets", "Red Hot", "Due South", "Walker, Texas Ranger" "Million Dollar Baby", "Crash" Oscar for "Crash" screenplay Sources: Impact #12, #68, IRS application, Celebrity #240 IHT 23.3.2005, MacLean's 30.10.2006 Village Voice blog 25.10.2009 about exit Married to Deborah Rennard (FOXNews 17.2.2006) Name: Martin von Haselberg Profession: commodities trader, performance artist Status: Achievement: Bette Midler's husband ! Sources: Jon Atack: "I coached him on TRs 6-9 at St. Hill UK in 1976. I coached tens of people on different TRs, but I never met anyone who was as good as von Haselberg. He never smiled, never fluffed a line. Nothing distracted him. But then he told me he was an actor, so he was already well trained in bullbait lockjaw. He described the performances that he and his partner did. They had shaved heads and communicated only through what sounded like cartoon noises. They packed a set of suitcases one inside the other. Each suitcase contained a 'ceremony'. In one they had toothpaste, which they squeezed all over one another. They performed in Germany and had recently annoyed a leading politician, so he said. It was very much in tune with what Joseph Beuys and his chums were doing in the German art world. I liked him, he was bright and interesting and far from being a drone." http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/clears/auditor_188.html Name: Isaac Hayes Profession: composer, musician, actor Status: got in thru "Alfreddie" Johnson Happiness Rundown, plans to train up to Class VIII spokesman for "World Literacy Crusade", a front group which promotes scientology's "Study Technology" Freedom Medal Clear Achievement: Oscar for "Theme from Shaft" Mel Brooks' Robin Hood Voice of "Chef" in "South Park" "The Duke" in "Escape from New York" Sources: St. Petersburg Times 25.2.94 & 6.12.94, WP 10.12.1994 Celebrity #278, #283, #314, #331, #345, #347 Name: Phillipe de Henning Profession: racing driver, fashion designer Status: New OT5, IAS lifetime member, IAS sponsor, Freedom Medal Achievement: won "24 heures du Mans" in its own class, with the "Dianetique" car (this is incorrect - he never won "Le Mans" according to racerdave@net1plus.com) Sources: Impact #12, Source #55 http://www.antisectes.net/vetements.htm http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/p/philippe-de-henning.html Name: Gottfried Helnwein http://www.helnwein.de Profession: graphic artist Status: ? introduced by Jochen Wahl in 1972 Achievement: James Dean picture, Man with forks in his eyes Sources: Celebrity #225, #262, Source #49, Source #65, jaarobin@aol.com STERN 9/93, Impact #19, #25, #34, but *not* in Impact #42 ! In "Die Scientology Kirche stellt sich vor", a publication of the Munich org in 1982, he says: "Scientology ist super!" taz 29.2.1996 (there he distances himself from the cult) Sueddeutsche Zeitung 8.8.1996 (about not being CL4, and he says: "I shit on scientology") banhut@mail.hh.provi.de: "In 78/79 Helnwein was presented to us as a model scientologist, together with Roehrig" Freewinds #2: Renate Helnwein did new OT8 Cyril Helnwein did Student Hat concern@atnet.at (Heidrun Beer) claims that he was the Vienna Mission holder in 1977 and recruited her as staff member See also OLG Frankfurt, 16 U 163/95 (21.6.1996): Helnwein may be called "Class 4 Auditor", "Minister of Scientology", and more; This decision was revoked by the german supreme court and was sent back to the OLG Frankfurt - Helnwein dropped the case. Press release from Alex Jones 14.1.1997 faxed to dpa, mentions Helnwein who complains that he, a scientologist, is discriminated in Germany; mentioned in dpa 15.1.1997 and in REPORT Muenchen See also great book by Peter Reichelt, his former manager See also "Planetary Dissemination News", 1998, Vol II, Issue 2 Name: Nicky Hopkins Profession: rock pianist Status: joined 1978, introduced by Chick Corea claims he got off drugs with scientology Achievement: played on some Stones and Beatles records. He estimates the number of records he has played on as "in the thousands" Sources: San Diego Union-Tribune 26.11.1989, PRN 18.10.1990, AP 10.8.1990 informe@best.com (Mike MacLeod): "I sat next to him one day at Flag. Nicky died last year." [= 1994] Impact #12, Celebrity 1981 Name: The Incredible String Band: Robin Williamson Mike Heron Licorice McKechnie Rose Simpson and Malcolm LeMaistre Susie Watson-Taylor, manager Profession: music Status: introduced around 1968 by one David Simons Robin: out Mike: out Licorice: vanished Rose: out Susie: probably in Achievement: Sources: Joe Boyd in The Guardian 4.1.1997 The Auditor WW #68, #80: see also http://www.roughguides.com/RG_WWW/rock/final_rock_entries/THE_INCREDIBLE_STRING_BAND.html http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/square/ac455/isb_scn.htm The Guardian 29.9.1997, Washington City Paper 18.10.1996 Name: Mark Isham Profession: composer, see also http://www.isham.com Status: in, clear, Patron, "L" Rundown, False Purpose Rundown, OT3 Jon Atack: "involvement must be fairly deep - Impact #16 shows his 16th confessional folder in a photo on p.25." Achievement: Oscar nomination for "A River Runs Through It" grammy award winner Composed the music for at least 15 films (CINEMANIA) Ironically, one of the movies is titled "A midnight CLEAR" Sources: WIS, Celebrity #278, #280, #290, #341, Advance #161, #162 Impact #16, #42, Source #66, #72 Name: Tony Jacklin Profession: golfer Status: Jon Atack: "involved for many years" probably out Achievement: PGA tour, UK & US Open, got "Order of British Empire" award Sources: Daily Mail, 17 July 1979 (thru Jon Attack) Sports Illustrated 18.9.1989, Golf Magazine 7/1994 Name: Al Jarreau Profession: singer Status: out since 1986 "I have been interested in it, but I did not do anything for eight years" (quote in the paper: "Ich habe mich für Scientology interessiert, das stimmt, aber schon seit acht Jahren bin ich nicht mehr aktiv") Achievement: "Moonlightning" theme song Heber Jentzsch claims to be a "good friend" of him Sources: "Der Sektenkonzern", LA Times 16.1.1992 UPI 25.5.1985, People 18.1.1982, WP 1.12.1985 Berliner Zeitung 8.7.1994 about status Factnet & L. Wollersheim also say "out" but Cosmopolitan 8/1991 mentions him with a "success story" Name: Quincy Jones Profession: record producer Status: out Achievement: Sources: Seattle Times 16.9.2008: "discovered L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics" Name: Terry Jastrow Profession: producer/director ABC sports president of Jack Nicklaus Productions Status: in, OT2, KTL Achievement: Emmy Awards Sources: WIS 1992, Celebrity #271, #280, #289, #283, #341, IMPACT #75 married to Anne Archer Name: Carolyn Judd Profession: writes and produces ads Status: in, New OT8, Key to Life Achievement: clio award for JEEP ad Sources: Celebrity #280 Name: Kimberley Kates Profession: actress Status: in, Clear, Key to Life and Life Orientation Course, HQS Achievement: "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure", "Chained Heat 2" Sources: WIS, Premiere 9/93 Celebrity #240, #269, #280, #278, #286, #314, #312, #313, #315, #317 Her sister Wendy Lebel is also in http://www.scientology.org/wis/WISENG/17/17-15.htm http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/k/kimberly-kates.html Name: Chaka Khan alias Yvette Marie Stevens Profession: musician Status: ? Achievement: Sources: The Washington Post 14.3.2000 (does not mention Scientology by name, but the article has all the fingerprints of a scientology membership: purif + mega-vitamins, hate against psychiatric drugs) Cincinnati Enquirer, 28.7.2000 about World Literacy Crusade U.S. Newswire, 26.2.2004 about CCHR Other indirect involvement: http://www.freedommag.org/english/cw/iss18/page12.htm http://www.scientology.org/en_US/news-media/news/2005/050222.html Son Damien Patrick Holland has done at least one course: http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/d/damien-holland.html Daily Telegraph 10.11.2007: denies being a scientologist NYT 30.12.2007: denies being a scientologist, but says: "I've taken some courses in Scientology, and they've been very, very helpful through life's ups and downs." Name: Milton Katselas Profession: acting teacher, director Status: in, also introduced Kelly Preston, Anne Archer and possibly Cass Warner, Jenna Elfman, Priscilla Presley, Nancy Cartwright Achievement: one of Hollywood's most successful acting teachers, heads the Beverly Hills Playhouse, "Butterflies are free", Sources: Premiere 9/93, California Magazine 6/91, Details 2/96, Buzz 3/98 NYT 15.7.2007 Factnet & L. Wollersheim: "Acts as a front group and inadvertently gets a fair amount of actors in" Celebrity #347 Source #67 Name: Lamia Khashoggi (formerly Laura Biancolini), Adnan Khashoggi, Ali Khashoggi, Nabila Khashoggi Profession: Status: The mail: "She donated over 3,000,000 UKP. Bob Rich is assigned to look after son Ali as his permanent shadow" Factnet & L. Wollersheim: "She rented the presidential suite of Fort Harrison Hotel from Summer '91 to Summer '92. She was a VIP. Her husband was there only once, and received introductory Book one auditing" Achievement: being married by Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi (2nd wife) Sources: On Lamia & Ali: The Mail on Sunday, 13.10.1991, 24.1.1993, 22.5.1995 On Nabila: The Mail on Sunday 7.12.1997 und The Express on Sunday 8.2.1998 Celebrity #323 Getty Images 2/6/98: http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/details_pop.aspx?iid=904634&cdi=0 http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/details_pop.aspx?iid=904650&cdi=0 http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/details_pop.aspx?iid=904638&cdi=0 On Adnan: Factnet & L. Wollersheim Name: Nicole "nic" Kidman Profession: actress Status: ex-scientologist (OT2), catholic Achievement: wife of Tom Cruise, "Far and away", "Batman forever", "Bewitched", "The Stepford Wives", "Moulin Rouge", "The Hours" "Eyes wide shut" Golden Globe for "To die for", "The Hours", "Moulin Rouge", Oscar for "The Hours" Sources: She was frequenly mentioned as a scientologist, but in The Sydney Morning Herald's Good Weekend (a Saturday supplement magazine) Sat 1/2/97 she says she is not a scientologist In LA Magazine 10/93 Tom Cruise suggests she is one Celebrity #252 http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/n/nicole-kidman.html The East Grinstead Observer of 30.8.2000 mentions that Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman are sending their children to the infamous Scientology "Greenfields School". But the New York Post 7.2.2001 said that they are going to school in Sydney. Later media mentioned that she is deepening her catholic faith, and that she has always been a catholic girl Bruce Hines in talk show "Beckmann" 29.3.2010 Name: Charles Lakes (probably green15881@aol.com and vorshell@aol.com) Profession: gymnast Status: joined 1984 after failing to make the US Olympic Team, in Achievement: US olympic team in Seoul 1988 (19th) Sources: LA Times 25.6 & 4.7.1990, PRN 27.12.1990, AP 11.10.1988 St. Louis Post-Dispatch 11.10.1989, LA Times 24.6.1990 Factnet & L. Wollersheim about "in" Name: Jason Lee Profession: actor Status: in, purif, Grade 1 Achievement: "Chasing Amy", "Dogma", "Mallrats", "Almost famous", "My Name Is Earl" Sources: Celebrity #325, #345, #349, US Newswire 3.8.2003 NZ Herald 30.3.2006, NY Daily News 30.4.2006, WENN 25.5.2006 Playboy June 2006 http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/j/jason-lee.html Name: Ernest Lehman Profession: screenwriter, producer, director Status: in, out for decades - now in again ! Achievement: "The Sound of Music", "Portnoy's complaint", "Family Plot" Sources: Premiere 9/93, Celebrity #280 Factnet & L. Wollersheim about status Name: Geoffrey Lewis Profession: actor, Juliette's dad Status: in since 1969 Achievement: sidekick in Clint Eastwood movies "Every Which Way but Loose" Sources: Premiere 9/93, Celebrity #291 http://www.primenet.com/celestial/lewis.htm Name: Juliette Lewis Profession: actress, producer, Lightfield's younger sister Status: in, out, drugs, in clear according to Molyneaux@aol.com (Mark List) false purpose rundown, L12 Achievement: "Meet the Hollowheads", "Natural born killers", "Dusk till Dawn" Sources: Premiere 9/93, St. Petersburg Times 25.2.94, FOCUS Dec 12/94 Factnet & L. Wollersheim about status ("out"), Source 111, Source 120, NY Daily News 21.2.1999, Freewinds #31 The Daily Telegraph 16.9.1999, The Guardian 25.9.2006 Ex-Husband Steve Berra is also a scientologist (Celebrity #331, #335, #337, #341) Daughter of Geoffrey Lewis and Glenis Batley http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/j/juliette-lewis.html Name: Lightfield Lewis Profession: actor, director, Juliette's older brother Status: in, Expanded Grade completition Achievement: "Meet the Hollowheads" "The Underground Comedy Movie" Sources: Celebrity #280 Name: Bobby Lipton Profession: actor Status: out 1971 Achievement: Sources: Premiere 9/93 Name: Peggy Lipton Profession: actress Status: out, Factnet & L. Wollersheim: "from my memory, she went OT3" she later joined SYDA Achievement: "Twin Peaks" (the nice restaurant owner) "The Mod Squad", a 60ies TV series (the "d" is not a typo) Sources: NPoorman@aol.com (Noel Poorman): She DID take Scn. courses. I know, because she and KAREN BLACK twinned as students on Foundation (nights and weekends) in the early '70s at C.C./L.A. the same time I was on course. "Premiere" 9/93 says that they pressured her brother Bobby to get her in. DWTripp@aol.com saw her when he was ethics officer Factnet & L. Wollersheim for status Cosmopolitan 8/91 about SYDA Book "Revelations From The Memphis Mafia" (she tried to get Elvis Presley into scientology, but failed) Name: Robert F. Lyons Profession: actor and drama teacher; Factnet & L. Wollersheim: runs an acting school Status: in since 1969, Factnet & L. Wollersheim: "very in", SOLO NOTs Achievement: rather a grade "b" actor Sources: Factnet & L. Wollersheim where mentioned, npoorman@aol.com (NPoorman): "He stayed active for years and could be seen around the A.O.L.A. frequently." The Auditor EU/AF #187 Name: Lenny Macaluso Profession: musician, song writer, producer Status: in since 1968, New OT8, CL5, Key to Life, Life Orientation, Patron Achievement: worked 4 years for Tina Turner Sources: Impact #12, #42, Celebrity #240 Name: Shirley Maclaine Profession: actress Status: ? Achievement: making a fool of herself on David Letterman's show Sources: "Der Sektenkonzern", "Berliner Zeitung" 23.7.92 The London Evening Standard 15.7.1999 The Sunday Times 15.9.1996 The London Times 11.9.1999 Factnet & L. Wollersheim: "never in" Name: Charles Manson Profession: murderer Status: out *before* the murders got 150h of auditing while in prison (before), later sympatised with the squirrel group "The Process". Achievement: head behind the Sharon Tate (Roman Polanski's wife) / LaBianca murders Sources: "Blue Sky", Bugliosi's "Helter Skelter", inForm@primenet.com (Rev. Dennis L Erlich): I was on staff in the LA Org in the late 60's when the GO ordered us to search the entire org premises find all records involving him, for destruction. The order was given to find and hand over every scrap of evidence that Manson had ever been in the org so they could be destroyed. See also http://www.gate.net/~shipbrk/Co$/docs/manson.html Name: Anita Mally Profession: actress, screenwriter Status: in, New OT8, Key to Life, Life Orientation, Patron with Honors Dynamics of Money, L11, suicide Achievement: managed to write (and get aired and rerun) a german TV series that had scientology elements (engrams, auditing) in it ("Die Trauminsel"). Praised IAS for "fighting the enemy" Sources: Impact #42, #76, Celebrity #283, Source #56 http://www.freiescientologen.de/rb04.htm abput suicide Name: Ricky Martin Profession: singer Status: out Achievement: Sources: AP 31.5.1999 quoting interview in TV Guide; says he has "explored" Catholicism, Scientology, Judaism, Hinduism and currently, Buddhism. New York Times 20.5.2003 Name: Christopher Masterson alias Christopher Kennedy Masterson Profession: actor Status: in Achievement: "Francis" in "Malcolm in the middle" Sources: New York Daily News 31.7.2002, Boston Globe 6.8.2001 USA Today 14.3.2005 Celebrity #335, #337, #367 Freewinds #24 http://www.our-home.org/chrismasterson/myself.htm Laura Prepon is his girlfriend Name: Danny Masterson Profession: actor Status: in, PTS/SP (2nd generation), Grade 3 Achievement: "Cybill" ("Justin", Maryann's son) "That '70s show" (Steve Hyde) Sources: BW 3.8.1988, The National Post 29.12.1998, USA Today 14.3.2005 himself on A&E 14.12.1998, Celebrity #313, #314, #335, #337 http://www.whatisscientology.org/html/part05/chp19/pg0318.html Entertainment Tonight 4.11.1999: http://www.xenutv.com/us/et1199.ram "My brother wrote DORK on my chest at the beach when we were kids and I am sitting here, this is 10 years later, and I am turning bright red getting this radiation out, and you see the word DORK across my chest! That was from a suntan oil 10 years before" His girlfriend was Chrissie Carnell, Clear (Celebrity #341) http://www.myhomepage.org/chrissiecarnell/myself.htm Married to Bijou Philips Name: Katharine McPhee Profession: singer Status: out, did the purif Achievement: "American Idol" finalist Sources: http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/k/katharine-mcphee.html herself in interview on 12.5.2006 on KROQ 106.7 at 6:25 mms://kroq.wmod.llnwd.net/a168/o1/kbaudio/mcphee_2.asf "I am not a Scientologist. I was actually dating somebody who was a Scientologist. I was madly in love and sure I was like I'll dabble in Scientology and I was quickly out the door." herself in interview on CNN 26.5.2006: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0605/26/lkl.01.html herself on PEOPLE (no date): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49hQOtUGL1A&search=scientology Name: Melanie Safka Profession: folk singer Status: participated in the "Portland crusade" after the (later overturned) $35,000,000 judgement for Julie Christopherson-Titschbourne Factnet & L. Wollersheim: "was in for a very short while" Melanie on http://thok.let.rug.nl/~s0745294/melanie/: "I am not a scientologist. I was born and raised a Catholic. Any information connecting me to the Church of Scientology is unfounded and untrue." A reliable source has informed me that she *was* at the "Portland crusade". And Sonny Bono and Travolta claim also to be "catholics". Achievement: Woodstock participant, famous in the 70ies: "Look what have they've done to my song, ma", "Lay Down", "Brand New Key", "Animal Crackers", "Ruby Tuesday" remake having *me* as a fan for her 70ies songs Sources: Chicago Tribune 21.5.1985, LA Times 20.5.1985, UPI 12/20/25.5.85 (about "Portland crusade") St. Petersburg Times 17.12.1992 (scientology-sponsored performance) Cosmopolitan 8/1991 (mentions her "success story") : She performed at scientology's International "Conference for World Peace and Social Reform" held at the Anaheim Convention Center in 1976. PR.com 17.6.2015 about an "award" by scientology to her Name: Julia Migenes Profession: opera singer (soprano) Status: in since 1966, New OT5, Freedom Medal luvalle@primenet.com (John Luvalle): LRH had her leave Sea Org to pursue her career. Achievement: Grammy award winner Sources: WIS, WP 10.12.94, Impact #12, #42, #84, Calgary Herald 7.8.2000 told a man who left scientology: "I was audited today and I just learned that you killed me in the last fifteen lives" (Malko, p168) Name: Demi Moore Profession: actress Status: out: was seen leaving the Celebrity Centre but gave up when Bruce Willis made it clear that he didn't want his children raised in scientology Factnet & L. Wollersheim: "was never in but heavily courted" Her current guru is Deepak Chopra Achievement: "Disclosure", "Ghost", cool "Vanity Fair" covers Sources: CLEO 6/95, The observer 19.3.95 (name only), "Sunday Express" 19.7.92, Sunday Times 24.1.1993, 15.9.1996, Evening Standard 12.7.1994 Hana Whitfield in the Sally Jesse Raphael show 9.7.91 Factnet & L. Wollersheim where mentioned Name: Elisabeth Moss Profession: actress Status: in Achievement: "Mad men" Sources: NYT, 7.6.2009 The Times, 12.6.2010: "She grew up with the faith" ABC news 7.6.2013 Name: Floyd Mutrux Profession: screenwriter, director, producer Status: out according to Factnet & L. Wollersheim also introduced Don Simpson Achievement: Executive producer of "Dick Tracy" Sources: WIS, Premiere 9/93, Celebrity #278, #240 Name: Maxine Nightingale Profession: singer Status: in Achievement: Sources: WIS, St. Petersburg Times 25.2.94, Celebrity #280 Name: Haywood Nelson Profession: actor Status: in Achievement: played "Dwayne" in the series "What's Happening?" Sources: himself http://myreligion.scientology.org/haywoodnelson/myself.htm Name: Karen Nelson-Bell Profession: producer Status: in 1974; clear, New OT4, NED auditor, L, PTS/SP introduced by one Billy Tragesser Achievement: producer of "Country Tonite" show Sources: Celebrity #289, #291, #282, #283 Husband is Duncan Guertin, New OT8 & CL4 http://home.earthlink.net/~tdg332/index.htm Name: Corin Nemec / Joseph Charles Nemec III Profession: actor Status: in Achievement: "Parker Lewis", "I know my first name is Steven", "Stargate" Sources: himself http://www.oursites.org/corinnemec/ Freewinds #31 Name: Noelle North Profession: dancer, actress (voice-overs) Status: PTS/SP Achievement: Sources: Impact #12, Celebrity #343, #240, #323 Name: Judy Norton-Taylor Profession: actress Status: in already before "The Waltons"; purif; freedom medal, new OT7 Achievement: Mary Ellen on "The Waltons" Sources: WIS, Premiere 9/93, Source #70, Celebrity #240 Name: Andrew Loog Oldham Profession: writer Status: In since 1998, possibly 1995 Achievement: Manager of Rolling Stones 1963-1967 Sources: The Independent 21.5.2000 The Daily Telegraph 23.5.2000 The Express 30.5.2000 The Toronto Globe and Mail 8.7.2003 Name: Bernhard Paul Profession: clown, manager of "Circus Roncalli" Status: out, according to himself Achievement: not getting bankrupt with a circus Sources: "Der Sektenkonzern": It is often alleged that the name "Roncalli" comes from "I call Ron". He disputes this, and says that it comes from a script "Sarah Roncalli - the daughter of the moon" (other sources say it is the "widow of the moon"). It is also inspired by pope John 23, who's last name was Roncalli. Anyway - today he says that he has nothing to do with scientology. "College" #12 (Zeitschrift des Stuttgarter Dianetic College): In Wien gibt es den ersten SCIENTOLOGY-ZIRKUS der Welt. Gründer ist BERNHARD PAUL. Mit von der Partie ist der inzwischen weltberühmt gewordene ANDRE HELLER." DER SPIEGEL 48/1984 Mentioned in Peter Reichelt's book, p. 93, 182, 238: Martin Ottmann says he has $100,000 unused in Flag Name: Bernadette Peters Profession: actress Status: Achievement: "Silent movie", "The Jerk", "Pink Cadillac" Sources: The Bergen Record 3.10.1985 Name: Dini Petty Profession: talk-show host Status: Out Achievement: Sources: McLean's June 1974, Toronto Globe and Mail 20.1.1998, NOW 13.1.2000 Name: Kalle Pohl Profession: comedian Status: Out (date unknown) Achievement: "7 Tage 7 K”pfe" Sources: himself in "Kerner" (ZDF) 30.4.2002, spent almost 6000 DM in 3 months Hamburger Morgenpost 29.1.2003, Rheinische Post 16.4.2003 Name: Brad Pitt Profession: actor Status: out Premiere: "drifted thru", took his courses while dating Juliette Lewis. Interest waned after it. Achievement: Sources: Premiere 9/93, CLEO 6/95 Name: Jeff Pomerantz Profession: actor Status: in, New OT7, Sea Org member, Freedom Medal, Senior Honor Roll "Hollywood says no to drugs" campaign, got an invitation by Nancy Reagan to The White House. luvalle@primenet.com (John & Michele LuValle): "We saw him and Richie Ettricks chatting and laughing with some folders of the Fishman case in the LA courthouse on 15.8.1995; later that day, the papers were sealed." Factnet & L. Wollersheim: "acting career is nowhere for a long time" Achievement: "General Hospital", "One life to live", "Dynasty" He's mentioned on none of these in the internet movie DB Sources: Premiere 9/93, LA Times 5.11.1985, Impact #12, #63 Factnet & L. Wollersheim where mentioned Name: David Pomeranz Profession: composer (Hollywood scores), singer Status: in Achievement: Sources: WIS, Celebrity #280, #278, Impact #12, Philippine Star 24.8.2002 Celebrity #309 Name: Priscilla Presley Profession: actress Status: in since 1979, L11, Grade 2, introduced by John Travolta Achievement: "The naked gun", "Dallas", perfumes, wife of Elvis Sources: Premiere 9/93, Celebrity #280, #290, #294, #355, Source #32 "Child Bride" by Suzanne Finstad (also says she is not yet OT3) New York Post 28.8.2005 Celebrity 1980 had Milton Katselas as a teacher Children Lisa Marie Presley and Navarone Garibaldi also members Name: Lisa Marie Presley http://www.lisamariepresley.com Profession: Elvis heir Status: entered 1978, OT5, possibly out Achievement: Elvis heir Sources: Premiere 9/93, Reuter 5.10.88, Source #103 Source #94 (mentioned in Peter Reichelt's book) Celebrity 1980 See also: http://www.i-lisa-marie.com about the allegation that LMP is another person possibly out: http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/05/lisa_marie_presley_says_so_long_to_scientology.php Name: Lee Purcell Profession: actress Status: in since 1975, clear, introduced by Karen Black Achievement: 2 Emmy nominations, "Big Wednesday" "Mr. Majestyk" (girlfriend of the killer) Sources: Premiere 9/93, Celebrity #269, #280, PRN 17.11.1997 Factnet & L. Wollersheim where mentioned Son Dylan Purcell: http://myreligion.scientologist.net/dylanpurcell/myself.htm Name: Harold Puthoff Profession: mathematician, physics scientist, ESP researcher currently works on "stochastic electrodynamics" see "http://www.ibg.uu.se/elektromagnum/physics/Puthoff/" Status: OT3, says that he severed all ties a couple of decades ago Achievement: holds patent on tunable laser and another http://patent.womplex.ibm.com/details?patent_number=3624421 http://patent.womplex.ibm.com/details?patent_number=5208844 "analyzed" psychics Uri Geller and Ingo Swann, and soiled the reputation of SRI Sources: Randi's "Flim Flam!", Randi's "The truth about Uri Geller", noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) about "severed all ties" See also: http://www.mindspring.com/~biomind/Pages/CIA-InitiatedRV.html Name: Deborah Rennard Profession: actress Status: probably out Achievement: J.R.'s secretary "Sly" in "Dallas", also plays part in "Due South" Sources: Freedom Magazine 1995 (Canada "conspiracy revealed" issue) Celebrity #289 Married to Paul Haggis (FOXNews 17.2.2006) Name: Michael D. Roberts Profession: actor Status: in, Patron, IAS Field Disseminator, Senior Honor Roll, New OT7 Achievement: "Baretta", "Rain Man", "The Ice Pirates" Sources: California Magazine 6/91, Premiere 9/93, Celebrity #280, WIS, Impact #12, #42, IAS 10th anniversary list, Source #67 Name: Pamela Roberts Profession: actress, clothes designer Status: in, Patron, Field Disseminator Achievement: appearances in "General Hospital" and "Hill Street Blues" Sources: Impact #12, IAS 10th anniversary list married to Michael Roberts; daughter Shannon also in Name: Elena Roggero Profession: italian singer, songwriter Status: in since 1991, Freedom Medal, IAS sponsor, clear "say no to drugs" spokesperson for Italy Achievement: Sources: Impact #63 http://www.oursites.org/elenaroggero/myself.htm Name: Laura Prepon Profession: actress Status: in, Purif Achievement: "That 70's show" Sources: Celebrity #333, #335 Christopher Masterson is her boyfriend Name: Kelly Preston, alias Kelly Kamalelehua Palzis Profession: actress Status: lifetime member of IAS, introduced by Milton Katselas, L11, L12, OT6, PTS/SP Achievement: "Twins" (she is the good-looking girl), married to Travolta Sources: WIS, TIME May 6/91, Impact #49, Details 2/96, Celebrity #283, #331, #351, Source #93, #137 Name: Leah Remini Profession: actress Status: born into, Clear, OT 1, out Achievement: "King of Queens" Sources: U-WIRE 17.2.2000, The Times Union 18.2.2000 The New York Daily News 12.5.2000, The Scotsman 29.4.2000 CNN 20.4.2001, Celebrity #240, #314, #341, Advance #159, #160 http://www.leahremini.net/worth/worth.htm http://web.archive.org/web/20010224002021/http://www.our-home.org/leahremini/myself.htm US Newswire 3.8.2003 11.7.2013 Possibly out? http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/remini_quits_scientology_kPy6Yw4WymA6dSg9VQYVEN http://tonyortega.org/2013/07/05/has-leah-remini-left-the-church-of-scientology/ 18.7.2013 Yes out, according to her sister nicole http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/remini_finds_support_actress_lo_TucZtCZWLR2NluMGgg3ZVM http://www.sheknows.com/entertainment/articles/1006765/is-tom-cruise-behind-leah-reminis-scientology-defection http://www.christianpost.com/news/leah-remini-left-scientology-older-sister-nicole-tells-all-its-going-to-be-ugly-100318/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2367456/Leah-Remini-left-Scientology-Tom-Cruise-David-Miscaviges-weird-relationship.html Name: Franz Rampelmann Profession: actor Status: in since 2001 Achievement: "Lindenstrasse" Sources: FAZ 27.8.2006, SPIEGEL Online 28.8.2006, taz 30.8.2006 http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/f/franz-rampelmann.html Name: Vonni Ribisi alias Giovanni Ribisi (Marissa's brother) Profession: actor Status: in (born into), Key to Life and Life Orientation Course, OT4, Drug Rundown Achievement: "My two dads", "Saving Private Ryan", "Boiler Room", "Gone in 60 seconds", "Friends" Sources: Premiere 9/93, Celebrity #269, #271, #280, #289, #312, #341, #353, #309 Source #136, ADVANCA #162 U-WIRE 17.2.2000, The Times Union 18.2.2000 The New York Daily News 12.5.2000, The Scotsman 29.4.2000 In the Howard Stern show of 25.2.2003, she claimed not to know anything about Xenu - although she is OT4 !!! Name: Marissa Ribisi (Vonni's sister) Profession: actress Status: in, Key to Life and Life Orientation Course, PTS/SP, Clear (twice!) Achievement: "The Brady Bunch Movie" Sources: Celebrity #286, #269, #271, #280, #289, #331, #333, #335 Source #176 http://www.our-home.org/marissaribisi/myself.htm Her mother Gay Ribisi is a producer: http://www.our-home.org/gayribisi/myself.htm Married to Beck Hansen / Beck Campbell since 4.4.2004 Name: Amanda Rice, formerly "Raven" (Not to be confused with Raven de la Croix) Profession: stripper Status: "residential counselor" for Narconon Achievement: being the "other woman" in the Kiefer Sutherland - Julia Roberts breakup Sources: Portland Oregonian 29.6.92 Name: Pablo Roehrig, alias Carl W. Roehrig Profession: painter Status: Patron, False Purpose Rundown, L10 Achievement: Sources: STERN 9/93, Impact #34, #42, Die Woche, The Auditor EU/AF #187, Source #49, #62 banhut@mail.hh.provi.de: "In 78/79 Helnwein was presented to us as a model scientologist, together with Roehrig" Celebrity #309 Name: Mimi Rogers Profession: actress Status: unknown (2nd generation) also introduced Sonny Bono, Tom Cruise?, John Brodie? Achievement: ex-wife of Tom Cruise (1987 - 1990) and Jim Rogers (1977 - 1980) lingerie appearance on "Dream On" (wow !) born-again fundamental christian in "The Rapture" Sources: CINEMANIA, TIME May 6/91, Premiere 9/93, LA magazine 10/93, Chicago Tribune 14.8.1988, Los Angeles Times 6.10.1991 John Atack: "She is the daughter of former Mission Holder and Hubbard crony Phil Spickler (whom I interviewed in 1986). He is out" The Sun Herald 22.8.1992: "I don't really follow any religious denomination. I think some sort of spiritual education is important for some sort of integrity. New York Post 5.4.1998: "Though Rogers is no longer 'actively involved' with the church, she holds on to its tenets. 'Scientology is so much a part of how my thought processes were formed,' she says. 'It's always within me.'" Name: Jim Rogers (is called JR, not Jim, by friends) Profession: Factnet & L. Wollersheim: celebrity producer manager Status: in Achievement: ex-husband of Mimi Rogers, dated Sharon Stone Sources: Chicago Tribune 14.8.1988, DWTripp@aol.com, Factnet & L. Wollersheim Name: Gloria Rusch Profession: singer, vocal teacher Status: in, OT3, died in 2000 Achievement: Sources: WIS, Celebrity #278, #280, #283 married to John Novello (New OT8, CL4) http://www.primenet.com/~novello/ Name: Bert Salzman Profession: producer Status: out, according to Factnet & L. Wollersheim Achievement: Won Oscar in 1975 for short film, thanked LRH publicly Sources: Factnet & L. Wollersheim, Magie, The Auditor EU/AF #187 Name: J.D. Salinger Profession: writer Status: out Achievement: The Catcher in the Rye Sources: his daughter in NYT 30.8.2000: "... Mr. Salinger pursued Scientology, homeopathy and Christian Science..." Name: Jerry Seinfeld Profession: comedian Status: ? Achievement: "Seinfeld" Sources: Seinfeld: The making of an american icon by Jerry Oppenheimer Playboy 10/93: "I took a couple courses a number of years ago that thought were fabulous. I learned a lot and I had a good experience with it." WP 16.4.1998: "I think the stuff I learned there really did help me a lot," he said. When reminded then that Time magazine had just run a cover story about Scientology that included charges it was a "thriving cult of greed and power" and a "ruthless global scam," Seinfeld scowled and dismissed the article as "poor journalism." PARADE Magazine 18.10.2007 Nancy Many in the Village Voice blog 14.7.2011 Name: Billy Sheehan Profession: rock bassist Status: in since 1972, Clear in 1978, L Rundown, Expanded Grades completition, Happiness Rundown Achievement: plays in band "Mr. BIG" Sources: WP 10.12.94, WIS, Celebrity #240, #278, #280, #283, #289, #304, Impact #42 http://www.billysheehan.com/ Name: Andrik Schapers Profession: singer (from The Netherlands) Status: Patron, Freedom Medal Achievement: Sources: Impact #12, SOurce #136 Name: Greta van Susteren and John Coale (Also listed as John P. Coale or John "Bhopal" Coale) http://home.snafu.de/tilman/prolinks/greta.html Profession: lawyers Status: in; Patrons; Greta: "I like the ethics" introduced by husband John is New OT8 Achievement: Greta is a legal talker for CNN, e.g. for the OJ trial, co-hosts CNN's "Burden of Proof". Now at Fox. Photos: http://home.snafu.de/tilman/prolinks/greta.html Their law firm was charged by the West Virginia's disciplinary board for active soliciting, which is illegal there. (And their law firm did it *again* after the ValuJet crash !!) The lawfirm "Coale, Allen and Van Susteren" represented Amy Frith on a lawsuit against Wellspring, a cult recovery facility. Greta was named one of the 20 Outstanding Young Lawyers in America by "American Bar Association Barrister Magazine." John filed Lisa Marie Presley's divorce (CNN 18.1.1996), represent(ed) a Waco victims family member (Stan Sylvia), and is currently litigating against the tobacco industry !!! Coale was also involved in Prozac and Ritalin litigation and praised CCHR: "They are very efficient and a wealth of information" Sources: Washington Post's Mark Gunther 12.8.1995, WSJ 17.1.1996, Dallas Morning News 6.5.1993, UPI 23.5.1996 on Amy Frith About Coale's CCHR litigation: National Law Journal 23.11.1987 & 28.3 & 22.10.1990, AP 3.4.88, CS Monitor 28.1.1988 Source #67, #70, Freewinds #2, Cornerstone Feb 2004 Coale is new OT8, Senior Sec Check, PTS/SP Impact #25 (the Patron status is not mentioned in later editions; maybe it was moved to the lawfirm Coale, Kananack and Murgatroyd (Impact #34), no longer today) W 5/98, St. Petersburg Times 13.12.1998, MSNBC "The Scoop" 13.4.1999, New Times LA 9.9.1999 George 11/1999, New York Post 11.4.2001, Newsday 29.6.2003 LA Times 20.7.2005 Name: Jeffrey Scott Profession: script writer, grandson of Moe Howard Status: new OT7, Patron with honors Achievement: emmy award, helped develop Muppet Babies Sources: Impact #12, (also refers to Impact #6), Premiere 9/93 Business Wire 11.10.1990, Source #68, Impact #67 He admits inserting Scientology concepts in shows: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Realm/4173/scott.html Name: Ingo Swann Profession: writer, psychic, now a painter see also http://www.newshare.com/Reporter/archives/reporter12-06.1.html http://www.webcom.com/~way/ingo.html http://www.biomindsuperpowers.com/Pages/RealStoryCh24.html Status: OT7, now SP, and involved with "The Way" was in from 1967 - 1975 Achievement: Exteriorized to Jupiter (Randi's "Flim Flam!") "Star fire" Sources: informe@best.com (Mike MacLeod), DWTripp@aol.com Martin Gardner's book for "OT7" Name: Misha Segal http://www.mishasegal.com Profession: composer Status: in, clear, PTS/SP Achievement: Sources: Celebrity #240, #280, #291 Name: Don Simpson Profession: producer Status: out He said, "I've now almost gone clear, why ain't I happier ?". Response: "Things will be okay when you go through OT3." At that point he realized it was a con. Introduced by Floyd Mutrux Don Simpson died 19.1.1996 Achievement: "Top Gun" Factnet & L. Wollersheim: "former head of Paramount Studios" Sources: Premiere 9/93, Factnet & L. Wollersheim where mentioned Name: Oliver Stone Profession: movie director, producer Status: out Achievement: "Natural born killers", "JFK", "Platoon", "Wild Palms" Sources: himself in DER SPIEGEL 27.1.1997 interview "I flirted once briefly with Scientology, when I returned in 1969 from the Vietnam-War. I attended a course, but my involvement was finished after about 4 months. It hasn't interested me enough, to make me stay." Name: Sharon Stone Profession: actress Status: "she is going to courses" (Berliner Zeitung) "out for years, never really in. Dated Jim Rogers, a field group auditor" (Factnet & L. Wollersheim) Achievement: screaming in movies with Richard Chamberlain, spreading her legs on the silver screen Sources: "Der Sektenkonzern", Berliner Zeitung 23.7.1992, Sunday Express 19.7.1992, Sunday Times 24.1.1993, Evening Standard 12.7.1994 Factnet & L. Wollersheim where mentioned Daily Express 12.11.2000, The Independent 31.5.2008, x Name: Frank Stallone (brother of Sylvester Stallone) Profession: actor, singer, songwriter Status: out Achievement: bartender in "Barfly", Street singer in "Rocky" Sources: "Bigger Secrets", Chicago Tribune 21.5.1985 UPI 12.6 & 25.6.1985, People 10.6.1985, WP 1.6.1985 Factnet & L. Wollersheim about status sings "The evil purpose" http://www.ronthemusicmaker.org/eng4.ram said in the Howard Stern show ~ 7/98 that he isn't a scientologist, that he just wanted to meet other musicians Name: Gabor Szabo Profession: jazz guitarist and composer Status: in 1978, out 1980, sued scientology for embezzlement and kidnapping, but dropped it in 1981, and died 1982 of liver failure. got in thru "Vanguard Artists International" Achievement: "Mizrab", music score for Polanski's "Repulsion" Sources: AP 6.2.1980, AP 31.1.1981, AP 6.3.1982 Name: John Travolta Profession: actor Status: in, joined 1975, introduced by Joan Prather lifetime member of IAS, OT5 or higher, Key to Life, L10 freedom medal Achievement: "Grease", "Look who's talking", "Pulp Fiction", "Get Shorty" "Phenomenon", "A civil action" member of the french "Legion D'Honneur" Sources: himself in ads, himself on "Entertainment tonight", Celebrity #17, #271, #280, WIS, News of the World 17 & 24.3.1996, The Observer 2.10.1994, Reuter 12.6.1996, Source #20, #136 joeh@server.nlbbs.com (Joe Harrington): "Travolta was working on OT5 early spring of 1990. He used to call his Case Supervisor on the phone and discuss his case. This is STRICTLY forbidden as per Hubbard's "Ivory Tower Rule". But, money talks. When he came to Flag, he would drive around Clearwater in his 65 Mustang convertible and they would keep the restaurant open after hours for him and his entourage. ALL staff members were forbidden to speak with him." (Joe later named the C/S as Richard Reiss. Reiss was also the auditor of Mega-Critic Jon Atack) Married to Kelly Preston. Son's name is scientologically correct: "Jett" from Hubbard's book "Mission Earth" According to the Boston Globe 23.6.1996, he has an apartment in the Celebrity Center --> too afraid of real world! According to the The Omaha World-Herald 20.6.1999, he is a high-school dropout Le Soir 24.10.1998 (about french award) WP 28.11.1999 (about dropping out of School and Joan Prather) Name: A.E. van Vogt Profession: science-fiction writer Status: Prominent advocate of Dianetics, recruited by fellow-SF writer Hubbard in 1950 and called him "the boss". He ran the Los Angeles Dianetics Foundation in late 1950: "Financial disaster was inevitable". Endorsed LRH's "Battlefield Earth" as a 'masterpiece' on its cover, but confessed in an interview with RM that he had been daunted by its size and had not actually bothered to read it. Sort of a "pre-scientologist". elbonian@my-dejanews.com says he met him in 1972, and that he no longer believed in any of the stuff put out by Hubbard Achievement: "Slan", the "Null-A" books Sources: Bare-Faced Messiah, Obituaries LA Times 31.1.2000, RT 1.2.2000 Name: Helga Wagner Profession: jewelry designer Status: new OT6 Achievement: dated Prince Charles and Sen. Ted Kennedy Sources: WP 16.5.1978, AP 29.7.1981, WP 13.3.1980, Source #25, #32, #68 Name: Cass Warner, alias Cass Pool, Cass Hauser, Cass Warner Pool, Cass Warner Sperling, Cass Sperling Profession: granddaughter of Harry Warner, writer, cosmetics saleswoman spamming the usenet Status: in; had Milton Katselas as teacher Key to Life and Life Orientation course Compiled the "2D book" Achievement: Book "Hollywood be thy name" about her grandfather Sources: Celebrity #271, #280, http://wwww.warnersisters.com/ Source #3, #5, #9 (as "Cass Hauser") married to Stan Gerson, "Patron" of the IAS (impact #67) Name: Howard Wilkins Profession: pizza businessman Status: out according to Factnet & L. Wollersheim Achievement: founder of Pizza Hut / Pizza Corporation Sources: Factnet & L. Wollersheim "Pizza Hut", Magie "Pizza Corporation" Name: Edgar Winter Profession: blues player Status: in Achievement: Sources: Andre Tabayoyon decl, California Magazine 6/91, Celebrity #280, #367 San Diego Union 15.4.1990 His wife Monique Winter is also involved Name: Kim Yates Profession: Soft porn actress Status: ? Achievement: http://home.tiscali.be/robertj1/celebrities/kimyates.jpg Sources: http://myreligion.scientology.org/kimy/myself.htm "I am much more free emotionally as an actress and have so much more vitality that I am already getting new parts." http://myreligion.scientology.org/kimy/success.htm "My ability to study new things accelerated and a director has chosen me to star in the lead of a feature film. Life is a game and I am winning!" The pages were removed at the end of 2003 Celebrity #313, #323, #347, #309 Misc: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0197953#comment Name: Dick Zimmerman Profession: celebrity fotographer Status: in for over 20 years (in 1992), New OT6, IAS sponsor Achievement: Sources: Impact #42 Name: Glenn Zottola Profession: trumpeteer Status: in 1974, new OT 7 Achievement: Sources: Celebrity #278, #313, Source #70, #78 http://www.our-home.org/glennzottola/myself.htm Some minor scientology actors / actresses / others: Michelle Stafford ("The Young and the Restless") OT7, Advance #155, #156, OT5, Celebrity #240, #348, #351, #309 http://www.mstafford.com Denice Duff ("The Young and the Restless") http://www.deniceduff.com/ Sofia Milos ("The Sopranos", "CSI:Miami") The Daily Lobo 12.10.2004 Jim Meskimen (Son of actress Marion Ross) http://www.appliedsilliness.com/ , Celebrity #303, #309 Lynsey Bartilson ("Grounded for life") http://www.our-home.org/lynseybartilson/myself.htm http://www.lynseybartilson.com She is the daughter of scientology attorney Laurie Bartilson Celebrity #297, #332, #333, #335 ; she is clear Ernie Reyes, Jr http://home.oursites.net/erniereyes/myself.htm student of Manu Tupou http://www.erniereyesjr.com/manu_tupou.html Celebrity #355 Tom Fair alias Tom Feher, lyrcist for the 60s rock group the Left Banke http://myreligion.scientology.org/tomf/myself.htm Lee Konitz, Jazz musician, out since 1990 Down Beat 8/2002 Calista Carradine Celebrity #341, #343, #345 http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/carradine1.html Haywood Nelson The Mineola American, 23.10.1998 Ethan Suplee ("My Name Is Earl") http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/e/ethan-suplee.html Suplee is engaged to Brandy Lewis, sister of Juliette Lewis e-mails / posts from different persons that are not classified yet. I have deleted names with "weak" references, or names which are already in public sources. If anyone has more information, e-mail is welcome. From informe@best.com (Mike MacLeod) Moon Martin (obscure rock star; wrote "Bad Case of Lovin' You") "SCN promo (finished such-and-such course)" Wings Hauser (actor) [Factnet & L. Wollersheim: out] "from SCN literature" [Also mentioned by zorrosblade@earthlink.net ] [Also mentioned in Source #3 with L10, L11] From npoorman@aol.com (NPoorman) Stephen Boyd (actor, "The Oscar" et al) [Factnet & L. Wollersheim: out and now dead] [Also mentioned by jimdbb@aol.com] [Pacific Stars and Stripes, 9 March 1969] Joan Prather (actress: got a refund?) [Factnet & L. Wollersheim: out] Clive Clerk (actor, singer) Jim McMullin (actor, "Downhill Racer" w/Redford) John Savage (actor, "Onion Fields" et al) [Factnet & L. Wollersheim: "don't think so"] MICHAEL WADLER and BARBARA BECKLEY, leading lights of the Colony Theatre, a little theatre rep group, in L.A. They've won many L.A. Drama Critics Awards for their productions. It was Michael who, earlier, as director, cast the unknown John Larroquette in a production of "Enter Laughing" in the mid-'70's (the Cast Theatre, L.A.), where an agent saw him and the rest, as they say, is history. Larroquette met his future wife, a Scientologist, Elizabeth ('Liz) Cookson, in that production. They're still together. Horst Buchholtz: I saw him at the C.C./L.A. briefly, with his wife, being disseminated to in the privacy of her office by Yvonne Gilham in the late '60s. [TH: Yvonne Gilham = Yvonne Jentzsch] DIANA VENEGAS, a beauty queen from South America (represented her country [Venezuela?] in either Miss Universe or Miss World contest), started in N.Y., then moved to L.A. where she became a classed auditor and an OT. She opened her own lace-gowns boutique in Beverly Hills with her mother in the latter '70s. [Patron with Honors = $100,000 donation, Impact #42, WIS: husband is Dr. David Singer, from "Singer Consultants", now divided into / added to "IMV" and "Singer Enterprises"] From Damian Pope: I also have a copy of a Scientology publication called "The Church of Scientology - A vital force in your community" :) It seems to be a Church of Scientology International publication as it was copyrighted by Church of Scientology International in 1991. It also lists singer Maxine Nightingale, John Travolta, musicians Nicky Hopkins and Dave Gibbons, and Olympic gymnast Charles Lakes as being Scientologists. (does also list Kate Ceberano) From gisle@oslonett.no (Gisle Hannemyr) Leif Garrett actor, "Outsiders" [Factnet & L. Wollersheim: "out for years"] [Anima: actually a pop star] [Performer on "The Road to Freedom"] Carlos Palomino jock [Factnet & L. Wollersheim: "out I think"] [jock = not very famous athlete] Bruce Penhall actor [Factnet & L. Wollersheim: "don't think in"] Didn't preserve sources, but most of these are from CoS promotional literature and informercial TV-spots where the celebrities were doing "testimonials". Also Irish musician Van Morrison dedicated his 1983 album "Inarticu- late speech of the heart" to L. Ron Hubbard. It has been claimed that at one point, he was involved with scientology to the point where he was serving as an "auditor". Van denies this, and has said that he did some courses, then dropped out. [Atack: VM was associated with scientology for a short while] (( There is a lot of references to religious and mystic experiences in Van Morrison's music, and it ranges from tributes to Jehova's Witnesses ("Kingdom Hall") to Zen ("Enlightment"), so the LRH reference can be considered just be another of Van Morrison's skirmishes with religion. )) Mentioned also in The Sunday Times, 7.3.1999 From julian@zoom.com (Alex France): Van Morrison was also involved briefly as you suspected. I suspect that his album (a terrific album) 'No Guru, No Method, No Teacher', refers at least partly to his leaving Scn. [smokesig@ix.netcom.com (Neal Hamel): that was his first album after leaving] Another very prominent person who has been involved is Lou Rawls. A photograph of Rawls graduating from the Communications Course (the standard first course for new members) is shown in an old G.O. publication in my collection. (The Indispensability of Scientology, Vol 1 Issue 3) The photo is cited as being from the Las Vegas Voice, 9/25/75. I've never seen Rawls mentioned in connection with Scn elsewhere, so it would be reasonable to assume that he is another who 'drifted through'. [AF added later that Lou Rawls is a singer] [Factnet & L. Wollersheim: "in heavily, now out for years"] A name I think you missed was John Dalmas, a moderately successful writer of SF. John's early books (The Scroll of Man, Emergence) are absolutely packed with Scn references - for instance, the former of these starts with a restating of LRH cosmology in biblical language. John also has published in the Free Spirit (Vol 10, Issue 2) so mark him as another ex. [Factnet & L. Wollersheim: if so (publishing in "Free Spirit") then he's out] more infos: http://www.mrshowbiz.com/starbios/vanmorrison/a.html http://www.desert.net/tw/06-15-95/music.htm http://www.harbour.sfu.ca/~hayward/van/reviews/1996june.html "At one point I took courses in Scientology over a period of 18 months but I'm not a joiner, I don't join things." (More infos available on request) From Skip Press Kate Capshaw (Spielberg's wife - got auditing at CC, is out) From Premiere 9/93 [with comments from Factnet & L. Wollersheim]: Lesser-known Scientologists in show biz: child TV actor Michael Wiseman (Predator 2) and Gary Imhoff [*in* TH: see #291] (the forthcoming Thumbelina). Then there are actor and acting teacher Manu Tupou [*in*] (Hawaii); and director Dror Soref [*in*] (The Seventh Coin), who cut his teeth on Scientology films and now has a deal at Paramount. People who have drifted through Scientology include Jerry Seinfeld, Patrick Swayze, Harvey Haber (brother of CAA cofounder Bill Haber). [Factnet & L. Wollersheim about Harvey Haber: "was in for years, now out for years. had taken refuge in monastery in 80ies"] [TH: Haber also blew the whistle about the manipulation of the LRH book sales] "The Road To Freedom" album of LRH songs: _ http://www.lronhubbard.org/music/listen.htm Unclassified: Celebrity #271: Harriet Schock, KTL Ursprung# 45: Judy and Bob Mazzarella Ursprung# 77: Ludwig Fisher, actor and artist Impact #12: Ron Moss, Chick Corea's manager The Auditor EU/AF #203: Ryan Paris, clear, musician and singer The Auditor EU/AF #187: Michael Schnitzler, 1st violinist Wiener Symphoniker Manu Tupou The Auditor WW #80: Peter Winsnes, actor (Jesus Christ Superstar) Impact #12: Peter Schless, composer, synthetisist and producer Margie and Mel Nelson, Gordy Gale, Bill Lorentzen (Patron) Newsday 23.5.95: Eduardo Polomo "award winning latino star" :-) also Celebrity #289 Premiere 9/93: Eric Sherman, director. http://www.warnersisters.com and much more (mentioned also in A&E show 14.12.1998) (Also trustee for "Foundation for Religious Freedom") Celebrity #283: Eric Sherman, New OT8, CL4 Celebrity #290: Gary Imhoff, p.15, nOT5 Michael Wiseman Celebrity #271: Michael Wiseman Celebrity #21, #283: Manu Tupou died 2004 (Fiji Times 12.6.2004) Celebrity #359: Vivian Kubrick (daughter of Stanley Kubrick, see also The Guardian 18.8.2010) Celebrity #359: Marisol Nichols TV Series "Blind Justice" http://www.suppressiveperson.org/hate/pubs/celebrity359-11-1.html http://www.celebritycentre.org/en_US/news/2004/lw0804/ PRWeb 11.8.2006 recruited by Dr. Neil Springer married to scientologist movie propaganda director Taron Lexton in 2008 Celebrity #339: Barbara Niven (formerly Barbara Lee Anderson) Jason Dohring (Son of Doug Dohring and Laurie Dohring) http://www.our-home.org/jasondohring/myself.htm http://www.celebritycentre.org/en_US/news/2004/lw0804/ TV Series "Veronica Mars" Allegations from Factnet & L. Wollersheim, Actors: - Larry Anderson, Hollywood actor - Geoff Levin, actor [TH: this is the former husband of Diana Canova Mentioned in Celebrity #313, #341] - Susie Coelho, a Hollywood actress, and Sonny Bono's ex-wife [TH: Celebrity #297, #312; Source #67, #72; E! says Married 1981; divorced 1984] - Jeffrey Tambor, who is currently on the Gary Shandling Show [Confirmed, in Buzz 3/98 - "Larry Sanders show"] out: LA.com 4.2.2008 "I took some Scientology classes at one time, studied Scientology for a while, but no more. I have nothing against it, but I am no longer a Scientologist - Donna Keegan, Hollywood stunt woman - Tamara Wilcox Smith of a Hollywood improvisation group [TH: Exec. Prod. of "Interplay", with scientologist Jim Meskimen] - Martina Migenes, probably an actress Allegations from Factnet & L. Wollersheim, Producers - Lon Tinney, Hollywood producer - Neal Israel, Hollywood producer/writer Allegations from Factnet & L. Wollersheim, Singers, Musicians and Composers - Michael Sellers, concert pianist Allegations from Factnet & L. Wollersheim, Acting Teachers and similar - Jackson Sousa, Hollywood celebrity trainer Allegations from Factnet & L. Wollersheim, Agents and Managers - Spanky Taylor, Hollywood public relations person / fan mail (?) Allegations from Factnet & L. Wollersheim, Unclassified - Kathy Smith, casting director - The son of actress Cloris Leachman died after an overdose after being involved in the Narconon program. - Jeff Lewis is in. He married a Scientology staff member. - Eve Darling, some Elvis Presley family estate assistant; is involved with the Presleys, Priscilla and Lisa. - Colleen Camp, a Hollywood actress, married John Goldwyn, the grandson of Samuel Goldwyn from Metro Goldwyn Mayer. [NY Daily News 8.8.2005, Celebrity #252, #264, #317] - Jill Tate, one of the owners/heiresses to Ashton Tate Software (now taken over by Borland), eighty million dollar heiress - Susan Royal, editor of American Premiere, a Hollywood magazine [ Celebrity #333; Susan Royal is now editor at insidefilm.com ] - Brian Adams, a tight end in football - Ellis Lake, a gymnast is still in. He was in Seoul, Korea; didn't really win anything. He was an up and coming gymnast that never came. - Susan Ray, Aldo Ray's daughter - Richard Royce - Peter Medak, a Hollywood screenwriter [TH: celebrity #282, #294: clear] Allegations from Factnet & L. Wollersheim, Celebrity ex-members - Christopher Reeve ("Superman"), was in for awhile, received some services at the New York Scientology Center [Also mentioned in New York Daily News 10.9.2002, Rosie the magazine 10/2002] - Rock Hudson was in for a while, brought in by Flo Allen, the big Hollywood agent and left Scientology before he died. - Barbara Carrera, the actress, was in for a long time but never got very ["Dianetic Clear", "Grade 0 - III" in Celebrity from 1979] high and she left. - Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones, then a member of Spiders From Mars did an early course with a fellow member of the band, Michael Garson when they were both on tour with David Bowie. [TH: May be inaccurate, as Ron Wood was never a member of the Spiders from Mars] - Joel Stevens, Hollywood celebrity manager - Bonnie Ebsen, the daughter of Buddy Ebsen [Info I (TH) received: She tried Scientology courses for about a year and has been out since ca. 1979] - Michael Edwards, a male model and former boyfriend of Priscilla Presley - Peter Lupus, a Hollywood actor (and former star of Mission Impossible) - Wendon Swift, a Hollywood author, manager - Wings Hauser, a grade "b" movie actor. When the Warner heir (Cass Warner Pool) came in he was a staff member for Warner Brothers. He married her real quick and got his start in Hollywood and is a former Sea Org member. The people that you'll go for references. [Contradiction, since CWP is in] - Steven Salinger, Peter Salinger's son - Waldo Salt, Jack Skimmer's son in law - Michael Lembeck, actor / director - Mickey McMeel, Three Dog Knight drummer [Confirmed by : "In 1978 he was active in Scientology, I met him that year"] - Anne Spielberg, Steven Spielberg's sister [ Source 83, 95 as Ann Spielberg] - Cynthia Sikes, actress, married to Jerry Perenchino - John Longenecker, who also won an emmy award for short documentary films, he's Ruth Hussey's son - Alexandra Calder, the famous sculptor's daughter - Soleil Moon Fry, a Hollywood actress [Also mentioned by Mike de Wolf - she went to "Apple school"] - Kit Carson, a somewhat famous motorcycle racer is still in. - Cindy Hall, sister of Jerry Hall, the girlfriend of Mick Jagger - Gordon Lightfoot got involved. - Dale Haddon, actress and model - Patrick Swayze and his wife got involved. [also mentioned in "The Complex", that DM introduced him] - Joan DiVito Vennera and Chick Vennera are out. Chick Vennera "The Milagro Beanfield war" was an actor who was in for quite awhile, does a lot with the Disney studios - Flo Allen, big Hollywood agent - Penny Perry, Hollywood casting director - Hunter Carson, a Hollywood actor - Ed Love and Steven Boyd. He was a Scientology celebrity but got out before he died. He did a lot of promotion for them in the early days. - Lisa Blount, actress, left after a long association, but she is still managed by a Scientologist, Joel Stevens. - Marian Wagner, ex-wife of Robert Wagner - Peter Dohnen, son of Robert Wagner - Mikhail Baryshnikhov was brought in by John Travolta and I think he's out now. - Josh Dohnen is out of Scientology now. He's a big agent at Creative Artists in Hollywood, one of the biggest agencies. - Anne Francis, actress, was in Scientology for quite awhile and did a lot for them, and then she snuck out the back door. - Keith Knudsen of the Doobie Brothers, drummer for years who did the drug program at Narconon and then reverted to drugs and left. - Burton Cummings, the Guess Who lead singer and group leader, did the Narconon program and then reverted to drugs and left. - Eileen Brennan, actress - Horst Buchholtz, actor - Tom Skeritt, actor ("picket fences") - Nan Herst Bowers, Hollywood celebrity and publicist [TH: See article "Catch a rising star", Premiere 9/93] - Richard Kiel ("jaws" in James Bond movies): communication course only was promised that scientology would make chronic pain go away, didn't work (Larry Wollersheim to The Village Voice 30.6.2008) Allegations from Factnet & L. Wollersheim, Celebrities with uncertain status - Kathleen Brown, who ran for Governor of California was allegedly pretty connected into Scientology. We don't know exactly if she ever became a Scientologist. - I believe an actor by the name of Arthur Hubbard, a musician, Hollywood type, had a drug problem, and they don't know if he's in or out. - Maude Adams, actress and high fashion model, status is unknown but is thought to be out. - Janet Greeson, who owns all the Diet Centers, is probably still in. - Helaine Lembeck, actress Allegations from Jon Atack: - Gloria Swanson was involved in 1950. - Lillian Collins, wife of the former MD of William Collins publishers (the biggest publisher in the world, now merged with Harper & Row as Harper Collins), is a longterm member. She left briefly in 1984, but according to rumour was lured back by the promise of OT8. She allegedly told a former member that she had often wondered why she always needed so much more auditing than anyone else, and had realised that it was because she could pay. - Willie B. Wilson has been a member since the 1960s. He is an oil-billionaire and a crony of former president George Bush. Of course, it was Bush's Tax Commissioner who first proposed a deal with Scn in 1991. - Michael Parsons, a Mission Holder, rose to fame for robberies committed in Sacramento. - Eden Vanning - first violin Florida Symphony, Impact 7, p.38. - Helena Rojo, Mexican songstress, Impact 10, p.35. - Sasha Malinin, Russian pop star, Auditor WW 249, p.4. - Hans Gunter Arenz, racing driver, Auditor WW 249, p.4. - Fermin Sanchez, racing driver, Dianetics team, New Era PR file 'Planetary Expansion', 20 October 1987. - Although Aldous Huxley was not impressed by Hubbard's attempts to audit him, his daughter Faith became deeply involved in the 1970s. It is rumoured that she spent $2 million on the word-clearing e-meter. She is believed to have left by 1984. [TH: Aldous Huxley dabbled in scientology. The Economist, 3.2.1990, The San Diego Union-Tribune 26.7.1994, The Daily Telegraph 23.3.2002 The New York Times 2.12.2007, The Independent 17.12.2007] - Laura Archera Huxley - Aldous' second wife, who became a pop psychologist, 'took dianetic auditor training in 1950 and became an HDA, and for a time in the mid-fifties was on the CADA [California Association of Dianetic Auditors - which was not under Scn or Hubbard control] board', A.E. van Vogt in CADA Dianetic Journal Notes, vol.4, no.1. - Lisa London, casting director, Celebrity 264, p.6. - Tony Morales, drummer with the Rippingtons, Auditor Eu & Af, 255, p.2. - Hossam Ramzy, North African percussion ensemble leader, has played with Peter Gabriel (recorded on Passion) and most recently with Page and Plane. Auditor WW 256, p.4. - Oscar Saldarriagia - donated starter packages for 48 countries. Is a Sea Org member at Flag Land Base. From Columbia. [found in Impact #12 - but doesn't seem to be a celebrity?!] -page 48-49, _Cults of Unreason_ by Dr Christopher Evans: In 1950 Dianetics was being taken up with great enthusiasm in San Francisco and Los Angeles, and it had become a fad among the well-to-do movie stars of the time. Gloria Swanson was one of the stars who received lengthy processing and the great jazz pianist, Dave Brubeck, made the claim that it had helped him in his musical career. A relation of Cecil B. de Mille even used his influence to get the phrase `Dianetic processing' inserted into the scripts of a number of `B' movies in place of the word `psychoanalysis', and as a result uncomprehending movie audiences from Harwich to Hong Kong heard a well-known actress announce in one film that she was late for a `Dianetic session'. 4. Interview of Diana Canova Here are some small excerpts from an article from "Premiere" 9/93 (I claim "fair use"): an interview with Diana Canova, showing good reasons for not entering scientology: "I remember having a choking anger against anyone who ever said anything against Scientology," says actress Diana Canova (Soap), a former member. "I would get crazy, I was just so angry. I would have done anything for them." During her seven years in Scientology, Canova experienced the Celebrity Centre from both sides of fame. "When I started, I wasn't in television yet. I was a nobody--I'd done some TV, but I was not one of the elite, not by a long shot--until I did Soap. Then it became . . . I mean, you really are treated like royalty." "There was always pressure to get other celebrities in" Canova found the Scientologists straightforward in their desire for lucre. "The first time I walked in those doors, they said, 'Just give us all the money in your bank account. You'll get it back tenfold.'" When she joined, auditing prices were about $25. "It went up to about $175 in the early '80s," she recalls. "That was shocking to me. I was beginning to wonder, Is it really worth it? They're telling you, 'Don't spend $100 an hour on a shrink's couch, it'll ruin your mind.' Auditing is so much better?" "It took me years before I decided to quit," says Canova. "I guess finally I was so fed up with being afraid. You've heard all these horror stories . . . I believed them." And we listen to Canova when she warns us: "They're capable of doing a lot of things." Canova says she spoke up because she thought it was important. "I see some of my friends having to keep their mouths shut for personal reasons, for business reasons," she says. "I don't believe that's right. If it's going to be termed a religion, or a church, then those kinds of fears have no business being there. Nobody should be afraid. And you can quote me on that." 5. Declaration of Andre Tabayoyon [From the case Church of Scientology International vs. Steven Fishman and Uwe Geertz, US District Court, Central District of California, Case No. CV 91 6426 HLH (Tx), dismissed by CSI against themselves with prejudice.] [David Miscavige is the current leader of scientology] DECLARATION OF ANDRE TABAYOYON I, ANDRE TABAYOYON, declare as follows: (...) 115. I witnessed money from various non profit Scientology organizations, and labor provided by various non profit Scientology organizations being used for the personal benefit it of Miscavige, Tom Cruise, other Scientology senior executives and other Scientology celebrities (such as John Travolta, Chick Corea and Priscilla Presley). 116. I also saw monies and/or personnel from various Scientology non profit religious organizations being used for the personal benefit of Miscavige. We constructed a music room for him, a lounge, a dressing room, a personal exercise room and personnel storage rooms. The approximate cost of this was between $250,000, $300,000. This does not include the cost of labor since RPFers, or slave labor was used on these projects for personal enurement of Miscavige. 117. Miscavige, other senior Scientologists and certain celebrities would also use the movie theater we constructed on the base to view first run movies provided to him by his acquaintances in the movie industry. The cost of this was easily $150,000. This cost does not include labor (again slave labor) or expensive film projection equipment. 118. During the 1980's, Miscavige befriended the actor Tom Cruise and they spend a lot of time together on the Hemet base. Their special chef, Sinar Parman, would prepare them fancy meals. Often they would hang out alone in the space designated for L. Ron Hubbard on the Clipper Ship we built in the desert. This space had a small kitchen, a little dining room, a little bar and a bed. They also had the exclusive use of the officers lounge. On other occasions Miscavige and Cruise would work out in the expensive gym we built for exclusive and restricted use. No one else was allowed to talk to Tom Cruise when he was on the base. One time one of the gardeners spoke to him and this caused a major flap on the base. At Gold, Miscavige is known by his initials DM and Tom Cruise by his initials TC. From the late 1980's until I left the Gold, Tom Cruise was provided a personal and exclusive apartment and storage facilities by the Scientology organization and at Scientology's expense. Tom Cruise kept two Yamaha motorcycles, a Mercedes Benz automobile and a large motor home at Gold. These were stored in what used to be Hubbard's garage and parking lot. Obviously, Miscavige and Cruise have developed a special relationship. One is a young world domineering celebrity. The other is a young domineering cult leader who seeks to 'clear' the world and to rule it according to Scientology beliefs and practices. 119. When Tom Cruise got married to Nicole Kidman, they and David Miscavige went to a Colorado Ski Resort for the marriage ceremony. A Sea Org staffer (Sinar Parman) was taken along to do personal cooking for Tom Cruise and Miscavige at the expense of Scientology not for profit religious organizations. This left only 3 cooks at Gold to cook for 800 people three times a day. 120. I personally participated in the construction of an apartment at the Gold base, using extensive funds from various non profit Scientology religious organizations, for the personal and exclusive use of Tom Cruise. This was done on the orders of David Miscavige. Even though Miscavige has claimed to be Chairman of the Board of RTC, here he is directing the expenditure of CSI money and the deployment of CSI labor -- both paid and slave. Other apartment cottages were built for the use of John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Edgar Winters, Priscilla Presley and other Scientology celebrities who are carefully prevented from finding out the real truth about the Scientology organization. The labor used to construct Tom Cruise's apartment was provided by Gold, a division of CSI, and persons from a myriad of Scientology organizations serving time in the RPF. The RPF (Rehabilitation Project Force) is the Scientology gulag or concentration camp. Using RPFers to renovate and reconstruct Tom Cruise's personal and exclusive apartment at the Scientology Gold base is equivalent to the use of slave labor for Tom Cruise's benefit. The Tom Cruise apartment at the Gold base is located at the golf course end of the Gold base, closest to State Street. When Tom Cruise visits the Gold base, and stays in his personal apartment, he is cared for by a Sea Org steward. 121. We also had to renovate the Tom Cruise apartment at the Hemet Base after it was damaged by a mud slide. The repairs had to be performed on an emergency basis. Both the Gold crew and the RPFers were placed on extended hours to restore the apartment. Again, Tom Cruise was benefiting from the use of what is essentially prison slave labor being worked almost around the clock. 122. Tom Cruise also enjoyed use of facilities constructed on the Gold base that were not available to any Scientology staff except the senior most Scientologists on the base, particularly Miscavige and his lieutenants. For example, I saw Tom Cruise use the exercise room which was off limits to at least 98 percent of the staff. Tom Cruise also had unrestricted access to the Ship which has a sauna, jacuzi and a large Olympic sized swimming pool. With regard to the Miscavige/Cruise gym this was built in conjunction with the estates facility in approx. 1989. The gym building cost approx. $150,000 (again using slave labor) and contains a complete lineup of the most modern weight training equipment. It is one of the most incredible gyms imaginable and is for the exclusive use of Tom Cruise, David Miscavige and other specially and specifically approved by him. It also has an incredible shower area. 123. To assure that Tom Cruise's stays at the Hemet base were enjoyable, special provisions were made for him and restrictions were imposed on the staff at the Hemet base. Millions of Church dollars were spent so that millionaire Tom Cruise could regularly visit the Scientology base and be friends with Miscavige. For example, Tom Cruise received special meal services, special room services and the Hemet base staff was restricted in its access to Hemet base facilities. Indeed, a girl by the name of Jennie Matsamura was assigned to take care of him and his renovated cottage. The Hemet base staff was barred from going where Tom Cruise might be present. Construction and renovation work that was done on the base for Tom Cruise's benefit often had to be torn up and redone because the coloring was slightly off or there were a few inches of group that didn't quite match in color. Once we had to pour a concrete walkway so that Tom Cruise would not have to walk on the desert soil. Before the concrete dried it rained. The concrete was spoiled. Miscavige went into a fury over that. 124. On one occasion, prior to a Cruise/Kidman visit, Miscavige decided to redo the meadow in beautiful flowers; Tens of thousands of dollars were spent on the project so that Cruise and Kidman could romp there. However, Miscavige inspected the project and didn't like it. So the whole meadow was plowed up, destroyed, replowed and sown with plain grass. 125. Tom Cruise also received his upper level auditing at the Gold base. All of his auditor training was provided under the auspices of RTC and delivered by RTC. Officially, RTC has no auditing service delivery capability. It exists solely to enforce the Scientology trademarks. This is yet another example of how the purported corporate compartmentalization exists only for the "WOG" world and has no meaning within Scientology. At the time I left Gold, Tom Cruise had completed Dianetics, Level O-IV, the Key to life course, the Life orientation course and he was audited up to OT III. 126. OT III deals with body thetans ("bts") and clustered body thetans ("clusters") . In essence, OT III deals with "the incident" which Hubbard claims to have been the most engramic incident responsible for the current state of man. According to OT III, 75 million years ago, the solution to overpopulation in a space confederacy (consisting of 26 planets) was solved. Now, each leaf on the Sea Org symbol represents one of those planets. Each of these planets had approx. 150-200 billion citizens each. The overpopulation solution was to disembody all the spirits ("mass murder") with the use of glycol (alcohol and sugar) injected into the spinal cord causing an immediate freezing up of the body and the unconsciousness of the being (soon to become a bt or cluster) . The frozen bodies were then collected and transported to earth (called Teegach by Hubbard) in space ships resembling Boeing 707 jetliners. The bodies were piled up, as in the Nazi massacres, on the top of various mountain sites around the then earth. Inside these mountains were 17 strategically placed enormous atomic bombs -- bigger than any built this century. After the citizens who had been selected to be part of the solution were placed on the mountains, the hydrogen bombs were ignited from a remote space station (lunar moon) by the officers of Xenu who ruled the space confederacy. After the explosions the now disembodied thetans were electronically trapped and transported to areas now known as Hawaii and Las Palmas where there were pre-constructed implant stations. Then there was a long and arduous process of packaging the disembodied thetas (spirits) into clusters with ideas, morals, social values, emotions, sensations, pains and attitudes of what we now observe as human life. The clusters were then dispersed over planet earth through the medium of ice. The ice then melted and the first stage of implant command became activated. This is known as 'Survival' in Dianetics. The bts or clusters then seek a human body. When the bt or cluster occupies the body it will either begin running or operating the body or the engramic commands earlier received in the implants take place. This will occur over and over again in what is known as the life cycle -- each time resetting the implant and restarting its effect with a death or end of cycle.' This technology can be used for tailor made psychosis, neurosis and general madness. Indeed, implant technology of this sort can be used for many purposes. Using implant technology, Hubbard teaches how you can cause someone to do whatever you want them to do, starting at the prenatal stage. 127. The purpose of auditing at the OT III level, such as Tom Cruise has received, is to contact and audit the bts and clusters so that the bts and clusters leave the body of the auditor. The purpose of this is to free the person from the determinism of the bts and clusters. However, the bts and clusters that are released by the solo auditor are now back at the beginning of their implant which they received 75 million years ago. Survival then retriggers the basic implant which then picks up a body, or attaches to one that is already occupied, and re begins the whole cycle. 128. The ultimate goal of auditing is the return of self determinism and abilities of the person being audited. In other words, to return the person to the state they were in 75 million years ago before Xenu handled the over-population problem. 129. Tom Cruise also audited Kevin Catano up to grade IV. Kevin Catano was a member of the Sea Org security force at Gold. Usually a Sea Org member in the security force would be audited only by a Sea Org member -- not a public scientologist let alone Scientology celebrity. 130. Tom Cruise's p.c. (pre-clear) folder was kept in the Gold case supervision (c/s) office which I had access to as a security missionaire. It contains supposedly confidential information derived during auditing sessions. However, the contents of such pre-clear folders have been culled and used against people. it is my opinion, based on my Scientology training, education and experience, that such information is collected by the Scientology organization in order to be able to exert control and influence over people such as Tom Cruise or John Travolta should they ever attempt to leave the Scientology organization. 131. In 1989/1990 we also constructed a tennis court at Gold for the exclusive list of Celebrities and Miscavige. Non profit Scientology religious organization funds were used for this inurement project. The tennis court cost at least $200,000 to build. The rubber coating alone, on the tennis court, cost $80,000. Then there was the landscaping and rose garden around the tennis court. (...) I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America and of the State of California that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed in Los Angeles, California this 5th day of March, 1994. Andre Tabayoyon 6. Harassment of Mike Farrell ["Fair Use" excerpt of Premiere, Sept 1993, "Catch a rising star"] To this day, people who tangle with Scientology find themselves subject to aggressive efforts at intimidation. Mike Farrell, who played B.J. on the television series M*A*S*H, crossed paths with the church when he contacted the Cult Awareness Network for information on a film project about child abuse. After gaining great respect for their work, he attended a fund-raising event at a private home in Beverly Hills, where he was confronted by angry picketers. "There were people taking photographs, being very obvious, getting video footage of the guests as they went in and out -- obvious harassment," he says. Farrell says he asked one of the pickets if he was a Scientologist, and the man said yes. In an effort to be fair, Farrell had lunch with Reverend Heber Jentzsch, president of the Church of Scientology International, and investigated Scientology's charges against CAN. The actor says he found them to be based on "sham, invective, and distortion." Later, at a CAN convention near the L.A. airport, Farrell encountered more angry Scientologists. "Not only did they picket, but they sort of get in your face and give you this loud and incessant spiel that doesn't allow for dialogue -- it's just a kind of attempt to intimidate." In the last few months Farrell has gotten numerous strange phone calls, one telling him (falsely, as it turned out) that an old friend had died. There have been so many that now when he gets calls after midnight at his home, he answers, "Hubbard was crazy." Sometimes, he says, there's a long silence before the caller hangs up. 7. Why do celebrities get into scientology ? Why do they join ? Because other celebrities already did, and because some behind the scenes people are working to get them lured in. It is also a stage tradition to maintain small superstitions, like "lucky shoes", etc. Besides that, people usually join a cult when beeing in a "transition state", like starting in college, getting divorced, getting fired, starting new job, etc. And actors are always in transition: after having completed an assignment, they have fears: - Will the film, musical or play be a success ? - Will they get a new job ? This must be terrible, and totally new for most of us, since we get paid every month and only search a new job every few years. The last one makes actors very vulnerable to someone selling certainty or confidence. LRH indicates this in HCOPL 1.1.1963: "Rapid dissemination can be attained (...) by the rehabilitation of celebrities who are just beyond or just approaching their prime" Reason for this: celebrities who *are* currently at the top are not vulnerable enough for scieno-babble. Celebrities won't get subjected to the dirty tactics (hard sell, long silly studies) that average clients get. I assume that they get a "light" version of scientology and will surely not be audited by people who had only a few days training. LRH indicates this in HCOPL 1.1.1963: "A Class IV auditor only may be assigned to do the actual processing" and "The pay is to be 'Any contribution you would care to make if we have helped.' No other pay is demanded." Do they profit from scientology ? The question is if anyone gets a profit from scientology. A good quote from Chris Schafmeister was "Do you attribute it to scientology when you had a 'success' in the restroom ?". The answer is that some people do attribute their successes to scientology. When someone has no success with scientology, then it is policy to attribute the failure to that person, or to a staff member, but never to scientology itself. Factnet & L. Wollersheim's opinion: "It produces more failures than successes; upcoming actors fail to 'come' a lot. Scientology holds most acting careers back." Are they dupes ? A celebrity in show-business is not a celebrity because of smartness, but because of good look or good performance. Celebrities also live in their own "party forever" world. This does surely not include reading TIME magazine or the Washington Post. This doesn't mean that all people who join are dumb, it was just an answer to the question. 8. Identification of not well-known sources US sources: =========== "Celebrity": A publication of the scientology "celebrity centre" "Impact": The magazine of the International Association of Scientologists (IAS) "Source": Another scientology publication WIS: "What is Scientology ?" a doorstopper sent around to promote the cult Factnet & L. Wollersheim: "Fight Against Coercive Tactics Network", an electronic library about cults, *heavily* sued by scientology. The Information was brought to me by Lawrence Wollersheim, and came from the FACTnet files that had been assembled and verified over the last three years. It all comes from information acquired prior to LW's resignation as director. "Malko": Book "Scientology: the Now religion" by George Malko Freedom Magazine: The most infamous scientology propaganda magazine. The best award for a critic is to be attacked there! German sources: =============== "Berliner Zeitung": Berlin daily newspaper, rather liberal "STERN": Weekly news magazine (It's the magazine who screwed up on Hitler's diaries ) rather left-winged "SPIEGEL": Weekly news magazine (wrote a story about the NARCONON scam that was republished in the US, also had recently an article by Robert Vaughn Young), left-winged, hated by consevatives "FOCUS": Weekly news magazine, conservative "Ich klage an": Book by an anti Co$ activist. (See Don Lindsay's FAQ for a review) "Der Sektenkonzern": Book about Co$ by two journalists. (See Don Lindsay's FAQ for my review) "Die Woche": Weekly german newspaper "Ursprung": A scientology publication "Magie": Book by a german theologist: "Scientology - Magie des 20. Jahrhunderts" "taz": Die Tageszeitung, Berlin daily newspaper, very left Australian sources: =================== CLEO: Australian women's magazine Who Weekly: Australian edition of "People" (the name "People" was already taken) 9. Credits Thanks to all who contributed; special thanks to the people who sent me the Celebrity and the Impact magazines; special thanks to FACTNet for their infos.