Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's year from hell: Finally, his second wife gets away

[Karen#1]

TONY ORTEGA
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[L. Ron Hubbard and Sara Northrup in 1951]
Sara Elizabeth Northrup may have been the most interesting person L. Ron Hubbard ever met. And 75 years ago today, she gratefully got rid of him forever.
It was on June 12, 1951 that their bigamous marriage was finally severed, Sara retained custody of their infant girl Alexis Valorie, and she went out of Hubbard’s life after a tumultuous few years.
They had met at Jack Parsons’ outré Pasadena flophouse for intellectual oddballs after Hubbard was demobbed from the war in 1946. Hubbard took her away from Parsons, and then the two of them decamped to Florida with a sizable amount of Jack’s money.
They ended up in Savannah, and then Elizabeth, New Jersey, as they got married, Sara gave birth to Alexis, and Hubbard hatched Dianetics in 1950. What Sara didn’t realize, however, was that Ron hadn’t divorced his first wife Polly yet.
Then came 1951, Ron’s year from hell. His Dianetic Research Foundations sank as the public interest in his ideas receded as quickly as it had appeared, the early glowing press about his book turned against him, and he lost Sara to a younger, better looking man in Miles Hollister.
Ron tried to kidnap her and have her committed, and he absconded with Alexis, hiding out in Cuba while a frantic Sara filed court documents and went public with her allegations that Ron had been violent with her and had made off with their daughter.
Hubbard ended up in Wichita thanks to a wealthy admirer, and then the endgame came quickly.
In Bare-Faced Messiah, Russell Miller explains that by June 9, Sara was willing to work out a settlement with Hubbard to end all of the negative publicity.
Two days later, on June 11, she signed this statement, supposedly written by her…
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Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's year from hell: Finally, his second wife gets away

Sara Elizabeth Northrup may have been the most interesting person L.

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At least Sara knew the inside tactics of the milieu Hubbard had been courting. It might have kept her from breaking completely. She'd already tolerated Ron's/ Jack Parson's craziness in Pasadena during in her young teenage years. This probably gave her some reality of what NOT to trigger in her spouse. She may have thought him capable of murder or of engaging someone. She saved her daughter from being utilized in a revenge strategy. If drugged out.....Ron might have claimed somebody else kidnapped Alexis again, after he had.

I had just read a story about student age acolytes recruited from Oxford during their 1930s-40s sci fi writer and mysticism craze. Enclaves of Rosy Cross spiritualism were chic in Europe then. One female participant in occult/ sex ritual recounted her complete nervous breakdown after being used by a group leader in an intimate fashion. Time after time, vulnerable ones were discovered suicided shortly after arriving in psychiatric facilities. Mysterious nervous breakdowns, every one.