How Scientology broke up Tom Cruise and Mimi Rogers: The story you haven’t heard

[Karen#1]

TONY ORTEGA
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[Mimi Rogers and Tom Cruise at the Academy Awards red carpet on March 29, 1989. Credit: Alan Light]
This story was originally published on April 12, 2015 at our dot org legacy site. With Tom Cruise relationship news back on the menu, we decided to find room for it here at our Substack so it will have an ad-free archival home. — T.O.

When Alex Gibney’s film Going Clear premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, much of the subsequent news coverage focused on revelations by former Church of Scientology executive Mark “Marty” Rathbun that the church actively “drove a wedge” between Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, helping to end their relationship. Rathbun said that Scientology leader David Miscavige had even helped propel that breakup by ordering Kidman’s phone to be tapped, and the organization also worked to have Tom and Nicole’s adopted children, Isabella and Connor, turn away from their mother.

If the Church of Scientology was so active helping to break up Tom Cruise’s second marriage, how involved were they in ending his first, to actress Mimi Rogers?

In 2012, Rathbun told Vanity Fair writer Maureen Orth that Scientology had a hand in ending both relationships: “I participated in the Mimi divorce and in the Nic divorce. Both women got cold on Miscavige. He was integral to the breakup of the marriages,” Rathbun said. But Orth offered no more details on what had happened with Rogers. In Lawrence Wright’s 2013 book, Going Clear, which Gibney’s film is based on, there are a few more details about the split, including a quote from Rathbun about how he took divorce papers to Mimi and told her it was the best thing for Scientology.

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How Scientology broke up Tom Cruise and Mimi Rogers: The story you haven’t heard

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[I M Dex]

I never met Mimi, but her dad Phil Spickler was a much treasured friend. We corresponded by email between visits when I was living in Davis and he had his home on the Stanford U campus as a professor emeritus, an engaging guy with a warm sense of humor who played tennis into his 90's, he addressed me as "the handsome young Jewish prince", LOL! We really didn't discuss Mimi or Tom Cruise, other than to mention that his daughter was happy in her life; we did touch on the subject of Hubbard a few times, but generally not in any great depth. He had a very gracious, kind and gentle presence, a special being, yet easy to be around; come to think of, much like when I met the late iconic folk singer Pete Seeger in the early 1970's. The polar opposite of the psychotic driven dumpster fire that is David Miscavige, who maintains a perpetual state of threat and desperation- which reminds me of an observation I've made of a small handful of people I've come across: There is nothing more punishing that could be done to him than to allow him to be what he's being and as he's being. Whereas a soul like Phil Spickler can simply, comfortably and peaceably be.

 

[Isaac]

TONY ORTEGA
Excerpt:

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[Mimi Rogers and Tom Cruise at the Academy Awards red carpet on March 29, 1989. Credit: Alan Light]


This story was originally published on April 12, 2015 at our dot org legacy site. With Tom Cruise relationship news back on the menu, we decided to find room for it here at our Substack so it will have an ad-free archival home. — T.O.

When Alex Gibney’s film Going Clear premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, much of the subsequent news coverage focused on revelations by former Church of Scientology executive Mark “Marty” Rathbun that the church actively “drove a wedge” between Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, helping to end their relationship. Rathbun said that Scientology leader David Miscavige had even helped propel that breakup by ordering Kidman’s phone to be tapped, and the organization also worked to have Tom and Nicole’s adopted children, Isabella and Connor, turn away from their mother.

If the Church of Scientology was so active helping to break up Tom Cruise’s second marriage, how involved were they in ending his first, to actress Mimi Rogers?

In 2012, Rathbun told Vanity Fair writer Maureen Orth that Scientology had a hand in ending both relationships: “I participated in the Mimi divorce and in the Nic divorce. Both women got cold on Miscavige. He was integral to the breakup of the marriages,” Rathbun said. But Orth offered no more details on what had happened with Rogers. In Lawrence Wright’s 2013 book, Going Clear, which Gibney’s film is based on, there are a few more details about the split, including a quote from Rathbun about how he took divorce papers to Mimi and told her it was the best thing for Scientology.

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How Scientology broke up Tom Cruise and Mimi Rogers: The story you haven’t heard

This story was originally published on April 12, 2015 at our dot org legacy site.

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It's interesting - Mimi Rogers, Nicole Kidman and Katie Holmes are all muzzled.
I wonder if Tom Cruise's latest victim will speak out?

I wonder if these women are obsessed with Scientology and read everything they can (like we do) the side effect of Complex Post Traumatic Disorder - a Scientological side effect of being in an evil cult that bankrupts and finically ruins members, destroys lives and shatters families.
They all were harmed and adversely affected by Scientology.

 

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I never met Mimi, but her dad Phil Spickler was a much treasured friend. We corresponded by email between visits when I was living in Davis and he had his home on the Stanford U campus as a professor emeritus, an engaging guy with a warm sense of humor who played tennis into his 90's, he addressed me as "the handsome young Jewish prince", LOL! We really didn't discuss Mimi or Tom Cruise, other than to mention that his daughter was happy in her life; we did touch on the subject of Hubbard a few times, but generally not in any great depth. He had a very gracious, kind and gentle presence, a special being, yet easy to be around; come to think of, much like when I met the late iconic folk singer Pete Seeger in the early 1970's. The polar opposite of the psychotic driven dumpster fire that is David Miscavige, who maintains a perpetual state of threat and desperation- which reminds me of an observation I've made of a small handful of people I've come across: There is nothing more punishing that could be done to him than to allow him to be what he's being and as he's being. Whereas a soul like Phil Spickler can simply, comfortably and peaceably be.

I liked Phil a lot. We had some amusing back and forths back when IVy still existed.