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".
<name withheld>:
"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."
+ <name withheld> for most of it
The Times, 13.8.1968
David Mayo <mayo@lightlink.com>:
"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 <emerald@nym.alias.net>:
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")
<name withheld>:
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
<name withheld> 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. <g>
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 <skippress@earthlink.net>
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 <name withheld>: "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:
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"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:
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"Berliner Zeitung": Berlin daily newspaper, rather liberal
"STERN": Weekly news magazine (It's the magazine who screwed
up on Hitler's diaries <g>)
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:
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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.
