Karen#1
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TONY ORTEGA
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In February, we marked the 75th anniversary of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s bizarre kidnapping of his second wife, Sara Northrup, which ended in Yuma, Arizona.
Convinced that Sara was going to have him committed, Hubbard figured he should get the jump on her. He had one of his goons, Frank Dessler, take their infant daughter Alexis to a nursing agency, then grabbed Sara in the middle of the night and, with his assistant Richard B. DeMille driving, tried to find a psychiatrist in San Bernardino who would declare Sara nuts.
When they ended that fiasco in Yuma, Ron made Sara sign a statement that she had not been kidnapped and let her go, but he still didn’t tell her where the baby was.
Now, two months later, Sara began to exact her revenge. On April 12, 1951 she filed a writ about the kidnapping of the child, and it made headlines. Then on April 23, she filed a suit for divorce with explosive allegations about Hubbard.
She alleged that in fact Hubbard was a paranoid schizophrenic who had tortured her, had tried to convince her to kill herself, and had drugged her nearly to the edge of death. She wanted a divorce, she wanted damages, and most of all, she wanted her baby Alexis back.
And all of it was in a public court document, which created a press explosion.
We thought we’d mark the anniversary by posting Sara’s divorce complaint in full. (We know how much our readers are document hounds.) Just imagine what it must have been like for reporters to get their hands on this back then!
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[/td]Convinced that Sara was going to have him committed, Hubbard figured he should get the jump on her. He had one of his goons, Frank Dessler, take their infant daughter Alexis to a nursing agency, then grabbed Sara in the middle of the night and, with his assistant Richard B. DeMille driving, tried to find a psychiatrist in San Bernardino who would declare Sara nuts.
When they ended that fiasco in Yuma, Ron made Sara sign a statement that she had not been kidnapped and let her go, but he still didn’t tell her where the baby was.
Now, two months later, Sara began to exact her revenge. On April 12, 1951 she filed a writ about the kidnapping of the child, and it made headlines. Then on April 23, she filed a suit for divorce with explosive allegations about Hubbard.
She alleged that in fact Hubbard was a paranoid schizophrenic who had tortured her, had tried to convince her to kill herself, and had drugged her nearly to the edge of death. She wanted a divorce, she wanted damages, and most of all, she wanted her baby Alexis back.
And all of it was in a public court document, which created a press explosion.
We thought we’d mark the anniversary by posting Sara’s divorce complaint in full. (We know how much our readers are document hounds.) Just imagine what it must have been like for reporters to get their hands on this back then!
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75 years ago today: Sara Northrup's epic divorce of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard
In February, we marked the 75th anniversary of Scientology founder L.
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