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TONY ORTEGA
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[Steve ‘Sarge’ Pfauth, 1945-2016]
Forty years ago today, Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard left this planet.
He was 74 years old, in poor health, and his cause of death was listed as a stroke. Four years earlier, in February 1980, he had gone into a final period of seclusion with only a few of his most trusted aides. For the last couple of years, he had been living in a Bluebird motorhome on the grounds of the Whispering Winds Ranch near Creston, California in San Luis Obispo County.
During those final days, he was most closely attended by Annie Broeker. Her husband Pat was often away on various adventures. Besides Annie, another close attendant was Steve “Sarge” Pfauth (pronounced “fowt”), a Vietnam veteran who had been a close helper to Hubbard for several years.
Annie Broeker died in seclusion in 2011. Pat Broeker has never spoken out since he left Scientology after Hubbard’s death. Only Pfauth ever gave an interview about what it was like on the ranch in those weeks and months before Hubbard perished.
He gave that interview to Pulitzer Prize winner Lawrence Wright, who was gathering information for his 2013 book
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood & the Prison of Belief.
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Forty years ago today, Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard left this planet.
He was 74 years old, in poor health, and his cause of death was listed as a stroke. Four years earlier, in February 1980, he had gone into a final period of seclusion with only a few of his most trusted aides. For the last couple of years, he had been living in a Bluebird motorhome on the grounds of the Whispering Winds Ranch near Creston, California in San Luis Obispo County.
During those final days, he was most closely attended by Annie Broeker. Her husband Pat was often away on various adventures. Besides Annie, another close attendant was Steve “Sarge” Pfauth (pronounced “fowt”), a Vietnam veteran who had been a close helper to Hubbard for several years.
Annie Broeker died in seclusion in 2011. Pat Broeker has never spoken out since he left Scientology after Hubbard’s death. Only Pfauth ever gave an interview about what it was like on the ranch in those weeks and months before Hubbard perished.
He gave that interview to Pulitzer Prize winner Lawrence Wright, who was gathering information for his 2013 book
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood & the Prison of Belief.
READ MORE
PREMIERE: Lawrence Wright interview of L. Ron Hubbard's final caretaker Steve 'Sarge' Pfauth
Forty years ago today, Scientology founder L.
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