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TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: Should Swifties be concerned? Last night, Taylor Swift attended her husband Travis Kelce’s first home game of the 2026 NFL regular season, which the Kansas City Chiefs won 31-10 against the Denver Broncos. Travis caught three passes for 71 yards, but no touchdowns...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: Back in 2015, we were on tour for our book about Paulette Cooper, The Unbreakable Miss Lovely, when one of our readers asked a question: Why were we visiting so many places to meet people? We quipped that we were testing out which city to hold an Underground Bunker...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: Thanks to the never-ending stream of slop we are all fed on our digital devices, I recently came across a video of Elena Cardone, who, along with her husband Grant Cardone, are major Scientology donors and seem to be David Miscavige favorites. The interviewer asked...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: We’ve remarked in the past that it strikes us as unusual that among the new L. Ron Hubbard shrines the Church of Scientology has opened, they have recently restored the villa in the Canary Islands where the infamous “OT 3” story was hatched. That was while Hubbard, the...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: [David Miscavige in 2001, just weeks after 9/11] On this solemn occasion, 25 years after the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, we remember that the Church of Scientology tried to turn the tragedy into a sales opportunity. We’re referring, of course, to church...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: [Jeffrey and Karen de la Carriere, and with their borzoi] We first met Jeffrey Augustine on the roof of Marty Rathbun’s house in Ingleside-by-the-bay, Texas. It was November 2012, and we had ridden down to the seaside town near Corpus Christi in a car from San Antonio...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: One of the standard features of Scientology is the “graduation,” when someone is asked to give a little speech about the “wins” they’ve gained after what might be a long and grueling regimen of auditing or coursework. And one of the milestones for a Scientologist along...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: We’re so glad to have Sunny Pereira back. She’s written some terrific pieces for us over the years about her experiences as a Sea Org member who worked at Scientology’s Hollywood Celebrity Centre. Who could forget, for example, her eyewitness report that Brad Pitt had...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: It’s Labor Day here in the US, and traditionally, that’s when political campaigns kick off before a November election. So we asked Mark Bunker, who recently succeeded in a primary to qualify for a run-off against Sam Wilson for a seat on Clearwater’s city council, for...

We’re fortunate to have appellate attorney TX Lawyer at the Underground Bunker to help us understand Scientology litigation. We hope you enjoy this discussion with him! — The Proprietor [music] Welcome back to another conversation with our appellate attorney expert, Texas Lawyer...

[Tom Cummins, always chasing that next trophy] Yesterday, we told you that a new issue of Scientology’s Impact magazine contained a photographic tribute to some of the church’s donors, including the usual megadonors we have come to know so well. One of those was Tom Cummins, an electricity...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: [Trish targets the DC scene] Scientology’s annual celebration of its biggest donors — the Patrons Ball at the annual IAS gala held in England in autumn — is not very far off. That’s when we look forward to seeing those donors get their big trophies for moving up in...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: If you’ve hesitated in the past about ditching your family and turning over all of your cash to an organization founded by a 20th century science fiction writer in order to learn who you were 40 billions years ago, wait no longer. That was one conclusion we came to...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: We continue our dive into the early history of Scientology’s founder L. Ron Hubbard, a history that the church hides from its members. In a series of posts, we’ve been describing how things unfolded 75 years ago in 1951, as Hubbard’s early success with Dianetics...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: Former Scientology film director Mitch Brisker has even more photos for us from the church’s movie sets, and this time he’s given us a great narrative about being sandwiched between L. Ron Hubbard's scripts and David Miscavige's mercurial directives. (See his previous...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: We have what we think is a pretty telling video that suggests just how difficult it’s getting to drag Scientologists to their latest fleecing. As former church members tell us all the time, they dreaded going to Scientology events knowing that whatever “good news”...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: Scientology leader David Miscavige revealed the church’s new initiative aimed at kids — the Golden Age for a New Generation — at the L. Ron Hubbard Birthday Event in March, to a standing ovation from the likes of Tom Cruise and John Travolta, who were in the front...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: [Dave’s big show in Clearwater on August 1] A few weeks ago, we told you that there was mounting evidence which suggested to us that Scientology’s most famous celebrity, Tom Cruise, did attend the church’s big ground-breaking ceremony in Clearwater, Florida for the...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: [JT with Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee, and Tommy] Another tribute to seminal New York punk band the Ramones is happening tomorrow at the Hollywood Forever cemetery, where legendary guitarist Johnny Ramone is buried. The event will mark 50 years since the release of the band’s...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: In February, we received an email from a longtime reader, asking for our help after his wife, whom we have called Dawn, received an unsolicited and unwanted sexual video from Lemonheads frontman Evan Dando. Our story about that blew up across the media, and Dando...