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Episode 6: The Leader’s Father is Fair Gamed

September 1, 2020 By Mike Rinder 25 Comments

  Leah and I talk with our old friend Ron Miscavige, father of scientology leader David Miscavige. We discuss how he has been Fair Gamed by $10,000 a week Private Investigators, disconnected from his family and his daughter-in-law Shelly. We also talk about the involvement of Lisa Marie Presley in Ron's journey, how she was abused by Ron's daughters at the behest of David, which resulted in her walking out of scientology. We talk about other celebrities in scientology and what Ron hopes will happen in the future. We discussed a few things, here are the links. This is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fair Game Podcast Tagged With: David Miscavige, fair game, Fair Game Podcast, LA Times, Ron Miscavige, Ruthless

Ruthless/SuMP

May 1, 2016 By Mike Rinder 150 Comments

Been a few interesting days leading up to Miscavige's birthday bash. Though they apparently sent out decoy messages that the event was canceled (maybe it was and then changed to being back on again which would not be unusual) it seems this was the "gift of expansion" that Dave wanted for his birthday. So he went ahead and yanked his ribbon to commemorate the occasion. Apparently there were dozens of security people surrounding the place yesterday as the faithful awaited the arrival of the Grand Ribbon Yanker.  The stage was built and the anticipation was high. I don't have confirmation of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: David Miscavige, Ron Miscavige Tagged With: Church of Scientology, David Miscavige, public relations, Ron Miscavige, Ruthless

Dave the Octopus

April 26, 2016 By Mike Rinder 167 Comments

This is an excerpt of the vacuous legal threat letter sent to the UK publisher of Ron Miscavige's book, Ruthless. Tony Ortega published the letter on his blog today. It also mentions letters sent to the US publishers (which have not yet been made public). No doubt the assault from high-paid lawyers aimed at the US publishers has been even more concerted than this limp Johnsons effort. Hopefully those letters, and the ones inevitably sent to ABC, will all be made available at some point to document once again the emptiness of their threats. But two particular sentences caught my eye among … [Read more...]

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