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TONY ORTEGA
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[Ron and Sara’s 1951 court fight attracted attention from his first wife]
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 turned sour, and his personal escapades began to catch up with him.
Last time, we marked the occasion when Ron’s second wife, Sara Northrup, finally managed to sever her ties with Hubbard and regained custody of their infant daughter, Alexis Valorie, after Ron had literally kidnapped Alexis and had tried to kidnap Sara and have her institutionalized.
It’s also important to remember that their court fight over several months in 1951 had attracted the attention of Ron’s first wife, Margaret Louise “Polly” Grubb of Bremerton, Washington.
They had been married in 1933, and had two children: L. Ron Hubbard Jr. (called “Nibs”) born 1934 and Katherine May Hubbard (called “Kay” or “Katy”) born 1936. Hubbard had abandoned them in 1945, after the war, and when he married Sara in 1946, he didn’t tell Sara that he was still married to Polly. He was a bigamist.
When Polly received an inheritance from her relatives in early 1947, she did not want to share assets with her deadbeat husband, so she filed suit for divorce on April 14, 1947. In that filing on the grounds of “desertion” and “non support,” she described Hubbard as “not a fit and proper person.” She received custody of their children, and an award of $25 per month per child for future financial support. No child support was actually collected.
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[/td]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 turned sour, and his personal escapades began to catch up with him.
Last time, we marked the occasion when Ron’s second wife, Sara Northrup, finally managed to sever her ties with Hubbard and regained custody of their infant daughter, Alexis Valorie, after Ron had literally kidnapped Alexis and had tried to kidnap Sara and have her institutionalized.
It’s also important to remember that their court fight over several months in 1951 had attracted the attention of Ron’s first wife, Margaret Louise “Polly” Grubb of Bremerton, Washington.
They had been married in 1933, and had two children: L. Ron Hubbard Jr. (called “Nibs”) born 1934 and Katherine May Hubbard (called “Kay” or “Katy”) born 1936. Hubbard had abandoned them in 1945, after the war, and when he married Sara in 1946, he didn’t tell Sara that he was still married to Polly. He was a bigamist.
When Polly received an inheritance from her relatives in early 1947, she did not want to share assets with her deadbeat husband, so she filed suit for divorce on April 14, 1947. In that filing on the grounds of “desertion” and “non support,” she described Hubbard as “not a fit and proper person.” She received custody of their children, and an award of $25 per month per child for future financial support. No child support was actually collected.
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Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's year from hell: Ron's bigamy begins to catch up with him
We continue our dive into the early history of Scientology’s founder L.
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