Hubbard was an Eagle Scout. He accused Communists of destroying his business, ruining his health and withholding material of interest to the US Government. [42] Northrup recalled that "he used to Mary Sue Hubbard died on November 25, 2002, aged 71, at her home in Los Angeles. [54] She reacted angrily; in a 1992 trial in Canada, Miscavige told the court that she had called him "some pretty nasty names" and threatened him with a large ashtray held close to his face, but she had eventually agreed to step down. That's what he was really worried about, that she would reveal during the case that she was only relaying his orders. And I'm very happily married just now. She accompanied her husband to Phoenix, Arizona, where they established the Hubbard Association of Scientologists the forerunner of the Church of Scientology, which was itself founded in 1953. The O.T.O. [32] Northrup had no idea of Hubbard's first marriage or why people were treating her so strangely until his son L. Ron Hubbard Jr. told her that his parents were still married. She was convicted in December 1979 and was sentenced to five years' imprisonment and the payment of a $10,000 fine. When he talked about his first wife, the picture he put out of himself was of this poor wounded fellow coming home from the war and being abandoned by his wife and family because he would be a drain on them. [3] The couple had three daughters. However, their marriage was deeply troubled; Hubbard was responsible for a prolonged campaign of domestic violence against her and kidnapped both her and her infant daughter. The reactions of Parsons and Helen towards Northrup were markedly different. This body was responsible for overseeing each of the seven organizational subdivisions of the Church of Scientology. I was under enormous stress and my advisers insisted it was necessary for me to carry through an action as I have done. "[69], On June 12, Hubbard was awarded a divorce in the County Court of Sedgwick County, Kansas on the basis of Northrup's "gross neglect of duty and extreme cruelty", which had caused him "nervous breakdown and impairment to health. After breakfast he would go into his office and I would rarely see him again until six-thirty when I had to have the table laid for dinner. After six weeks of operation[5] it was replaced in April 1952 by the Hubbard Association of Scientologists, established in Phoenix, Arizona, to promote Hubbard's newly announced "science of certainty". The final experiment But the Church of Scientology denies the existence of this woman,. members. "[21], On January 26, 1967, Mary Sue was confirmed as a Scientology "Clear", a somewhat elite rank at that time. [11] Northrup also became pregnant but had an abortion on April 1, 1943, arranged by Parsons and carried out by Dr. Zachary Taylor Malaby, a prominent Pasadena doctor and Democratic politician. The Hubbards continued to carry out auditing of each other and in February 1960 Mary Sue wrote to a friend to inform her that her husband had discovered that she had been the writer D.H. Lawrence in a past life. He and Mary Sue moved initially to Daytona Beach, Florida in August 1975. For more than a decade, the whereabouts of Shelly Miscavige, the reportedly missing wife of Scientology leader David, has been hotly debated. She personally handled large quantities of cash on Hubbard's behalf. . "[34] One night while they were living beside a frozen lake in Stroudsburg, Hubbard hit her across the face with his .45 pistol. Commonly armed. Hubbard attempted to patch up the marriage in January 1951 by inviting Northrup and baby Alexis to Palm Springs, California where he had rented a house. Starcasm Staff March 30, 2015 L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology In the HBO documentary Going Clea r that aired Sunday night it was revealed that according to Scientology founder L. Ron. L. Ron Hubbard's daughter the one he wanted to disappear surfaces online By Tony Ortega, February 6, 2017 . With 19 New York Times bestsellers and more than 350 million copies of his works in circulation, L. Ron Hubbard is among the most enduring and widely read authors of our time. L. Ron Hubbard was previously married to Mary Sue Whipp (1952 - 1986), Sara Northrup (1946 - 1951), Margaret Louise Grubb (1933 - 1947) and Margaret Grubb.. L. Ron Hubbard was in relationships with Barbara Kaye (1950) and Mary Sue Hubbard.. About. [56] The Messengers, who were mostly in their teens and early twenties, became Hubbard's sole means of communication with the Church. You are a greater person. Miscavige provided a first-hand account of these events, in an affidavit submitted in a case heard in 1994 in California, Church of Scientology International vs. Steven Fishman and Uwe Geertz. This proved a puzzle since where there is no legal marriage, there can't be any divorce. Dissmissed [sic] in February when affiliations discovered. In the UK alone, it issued hundreds of writs against the media for publishing negative reports on Scientology. [76], The writer Christopher Evans has noted that "So painful do the memories of these incidents appear to be that L. Ron has more than once denied that he was ever married to Sarah [sic] Northrup at all. . "[62] He later told Hubbard's unofficial biographer, Russell Miller: I liked Sara and Miles a lot. . I loved to make plots. In a memo of December 2, 1969, he wrote that the operation had started with bad reviews of Dianetics, "pushed then by the Sara Komkovadamanov [sic] (alias Northrup) "divorce" actions At the back of it was Miles Hollister (psychology student) Sara Komkosadamanov [sic] (housekeeper at the place nuclear physicists stayed near Caltech) "[82], By 1970, Northrup and Hollister had moved to Maui, Hawaii. She is heavily sexed. '"[50], Despite her conviction, Mary Sue remained in her post as Controller of the Guardian's Office (GO). I cared for her rather deeply but I have no desire to control her emotions, and I can, I hope, control my own. Nothing of this known to me until a few weeks ago. Sorted by date as received from FBI archives. Currently intimate with them but evidently under coercion. Confessedly a member of the Young Communists. Meanwhile, Ron and Betty have bought a boat for themselves in Miami for about $10,000 and are living the life of Riley, while Brother John is living at Rock Bottom, and I mean Rock Bottom. [64], The convictions of Mary Sue Hubbard and the other GO staff executives were upheld by a federal appeals court in October 1981,[65] and in November seven of those convicted dropped their appeals but not Mary Sue, who continued to fight the charges. A curly haired, middle-aged woman - who US magazine National . When she first came to me with this wild story about how her husband had taken her baby I was determined to help her all I could. It was horrible. The Hubbards had four children: Diana (born 1952), Quentin (1954-1976), Suzette (born 1955), and Arthur (born 1958). The house was torn down. She persuaded him that the compulsion instilled by the communists would be dissipated by going ahead with the flight: "Well, I have to follow their dictates. [27] The Royal Scotman was later renamed the Apollo. Her husband's reaction was one of fury, blaming Quentin for in his eyes letting him down. In 1998 she was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in addition to her existing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). "[46] In November 1950, Northrup attempted suicide by taking sleeping pills. At the order of both of the Hubbards, the GO ran scores of operations against Scientology's enemies. "[11], Helen was far less sanguine, writing in her diary of "the sore spot I carried where my heart should be",[11] and had furious sometimes violent rows with both Parsons and Northrup. [47] The GO's agent in the IRS, Michael Meisner, was ordered to obtain all files concerning L. Ron and Mary Sue Hubbard from the IRS Office of International Operations, which he succeeded in infiltrating. I believe she is under duress, that they have something on her and I believe that under a grilling she would talk and turn state's evidence.[66]. Mary Sue Hubbar It is thought to have been written around 19467 as part of an attempted program of self-hypnotism. She gave Hubbard four more children - Diana, Quentin, Suzette and Arthur - over the next six years. members. Hubbard was struggling with illness in 1980 and he was living in San Luis Obisbo . I see her every day. Hubbard and Mary Sue each had their own state-rooms in addition to a suite on the promenade deck comprising an auditing-room, office, an elegant saloon and a wood-paneled dining-room, all off-limits to students and crew. She and Hubbard eloped, taking with them a substantial amount of Parsons' life savings and marrying bigamously a year later while Hubbard was still married to his first wife, Margaret Grubb. 121669 should complain about invasion of privacy. [32], The relationship was not an easy one. Lafayette Ronald Hubbard ( Tilden, Nebraska, 1911. mrcius 13. Hubbard subsequently returned to the Foundation in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Perhaps in your criminal files or on the police blotter of Pasadena you will find Sara Elizabeth Northrop, age about 26, born April 8, 1925, about 5'9", blond-brown hair, slender . "[50], Three weeks later, Hubbard abducted both Northrup and Alexis. 95 quotes from L. Ron Hubbard: 'Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.', 'When reading a book, be very certain that you never go past a word you do not fully understand. [93] Rejecting any suggestion that she was some kind of "pathetic person who has suffered through the years because of my time with Ron", Northrup spoke of her relief that she had been able to put it behind her. "[47] He told her that he didn't want to be married "for I can buy my friends whenever I want them" but he could not divorce either, as the stigma would hurt his reputation. He had visited 1003 South Orange Grove Avenue at the behest of Lou Goldstone, a well-known science fiction illustrator, while on leave from his service in the US Navy. [20], Northrup later recalled that the boat had been caught in a hurricane in the Panama Canal, damaging it too badly to be able to continue the voyage to California. Why is he lying about this? [25] The difference in the quality of living conditions between the Hubbards and the crew was stark: Most of the crew lived in cramped, smelly, roach-infested dormitories fitted with bunks in three tiers that left little room for personal possessions. The Guardian Office was no respector of anyone's civil rights, particularly that of privacy. [41] Its eventual downfall was to result from the use of illegal methods, ordered and authorized by Mary Sue, to further its campaign. Northrup, who was beginning a pregnancy, was said to have been delighted with the location. View Gallery. [7], They went back to London in December on a fresh visa and stayed there until the end of May 1953, before departing for an extended holiday in Spain. [51] Around the end of February 1980, Ron Hubbard went into hiding[52] and remained in seclusion in the small town of Creston, California, for the remaining six years of his life. The raids of July 1977 were the result.[49]. My Will is all changed. My first wife is dead. He was severely depressed and repeatedly threatened suicide, and Northrup believed "he must be suffering or he wouldn't act that way".[33]. [81], Only a couple of months later, he highlighted Northrup to his staff as a participant in a "full complete covert operation" mounted against Dianetics and Scientology by a "Totalitarian Communistic" enemy. His family wasn't there. [27] The wedding attracted criticism from L. Sprague de Camp, another science fiction colleague of Hubbard's, who suggested to the Heinleins that he supposed "Polly was tiresome about not giving him his divorce so he could marry six other gals who were all hot & moist over him. I went back several times later to make sure that she wasn't going to rat on him. Please do believe I do so want to help you get Alexis."[64]. A thought nagged away at the young filmmaker as Hubbard expanded on the theme, "I could well understand hopping into bed at night with one's wife, rubbing one's hands together and saying 'we made $10,000 today dear'," says Nairn, "but I couldn't understand his own wife believing it all, believing in out-of body experiences and previous lives. About 22 yrs, 6', 180 lbs. In August 1978, she was indicted by the United States government on charges of conspiracy relating to illegal covert operations mounted by the Guardian's Office against government agencies. Her allegations produced more lurid headlines: not only was Hubbard accused of bigamy and kidnapping, but she had been subjected to "systematic torture, including loss of sleep, beatings, and strangulations and scientific experiments". [7] Her parents not only knew about her unconventional living arrangements but supported Parsons' group financially. A year later, on August 15, 1978, Mary Sue Hubbard was indicted by a grand jury, accused of masterminding a conspiracy against the government in her capacity as head of the Church's Guardian's Office.[39]. The Hubbards lived at a house on Tatum Boulevard (now 5501 North 44th Street)[10] on the slopes of Camelback Mountain in Phoenix for the remainder of 1954. They set up home in a villa on the outskirts of the Moroccan city of Tangier. As far as I know, all his policies and doctrines were race-neutral, which is a big deal for someone from the 1940s. [25][26], Around the same time, Hubbard proposed marriage to Northrup. Who Is L. Ron Hubbard's Wife? The only reason a person gives up a study or becomes confused or unable to learn is because he or she has gone past a word that was not understood.', and 'To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. In July 1949 I was in Elizabeth, New Jersey, writing a movie. Hubbard had a personal steward, as did Mary Sue and the Hubbard children, who all had their own cabins. L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers Of The Future; Tuesday Trash And Trouble ~ The Friday Night Mystery Club by Joanna Campbell Slan; The Adventures Of Winston The Pig: Meet Winston ~ Guest Post And Giveaway; No Small Murder ~ A Mini-Meadows Mystery by Lena Gregory; Invocation: Days Of Iron & Clay by Aileen Erin ~ Cover Reveal And Giveaway; categories "[43], By October, the Foundation's financial affairs had reached a crisis point. The Hubbards moved to a new house in Elizabeth to be near the Foundation. . This was the only time Hubbard allowed an outside crew to interview him. I doubt that she would face what you have with me or support me as well. Despite her complicated feelings toward the man, Sara was overwhelmed with grief and sadness. According to the Church of Scientology, Hubbard himself did not find out about Mary Sue's resignation until five months later. It appears that originally they never secretly intended to bring this boat around to the California coast to sell at a profit, as they told Jack, but rather to have a good time on it on the east coast. After the vessel had been renovated by Scientologists, Mary Sue and the children moved into the upper-deck accommodation in November 1968. "All guns were now manned with great attention as it was supposed that the sub was trying to surface. Without him, none of this would have been possible; and so to Ron goes my everlasting gratitude for having provided for all of us the road to Clear. Not only was the GO not handling these suits, the GO, and particularly Mary Sue Hubbard, even refused to answer our questions about the suits because they viewed themselves answerable only to persons within the GO Our attempts to get information were thwarted by Mary Sue Hubbard. [4] She was sexually active from an unusually young age and often said she lost her virginity at the age of ten.[5]. But Dianetics will last 10,000 years for the Army and Navy have it now. [73] The controversy surrounding the divorce had severely dented his reputation. On the night of February 24, 1951, Alexis was being looked after by John Sanborne while Northrup had a night at the movies. Her actual true name is a Russian name. Entitled "Marriage Hats". She wrote privately to Paulette Cooper, the author of the book The Scandal of Scientology who was subsequently targeted by the Church's Operation Freakout. From 1941 to 1945 she had a turbulent relationship with her sister's husband John Whiteside Parsons, a pioneer in liquid-fueled rocketry and head of the Pasadena O.T.O. Every effort was made to butcher my personal reputation. "[8] Despite the tensions between them, Hubbard, Northrup and Parsons agreed at the start of 1946 that they would go into business together, buying yachts on the East Coast and sailing them to California to sell at a profit. By that time, however, he had moved to Wichita, Kansas. "[72], After divorcing Hubbard, Northrup married Miles Hollister and bought a house in Malibu, California. [73], A month later, in the English High Court of Justice, Mr Justice Latey declared in a case in which Scientology was a prominent issue that "Mr Hubbard is a charlatan and worse, as are his wife, Mary Sue Hubbard, and the clique at the top privy to the cult's activities. Margaret "Polly" Grubb (1933-1947) Sara Northrup Hollister (1946-1951) [66] She lost her final appeal in April 1982[67] and was ordered to begin a prison term in January 1983. "[68] She agreed to sign a statement, written by Hubbard himself, that retracted the allegations that she had made against him: I, Sara Northrup Hubbard, do hereby state that the things I have said about L. Ron Hubbard in courts and the public prints have been grossly exaggerated or entirely false. She played a major role in the creation of Dianetics, which evolved into the religious movement Scientology. She was a bitch. On the one hand she certainly appeared to be a pathetic individual. His wife was in prison and his estranged son believed he was either dead or insane. Parsons was deeply dismayed but tried to put a brave face on the situation, informing Aleister Crowley: About three months ago I met Captain [sic] L. Ron Hubbard, a writer and explorer of whom I had known for some time He is a gentleman; he has red hair, green eyes, is honest and intelligent, and we have become great friends. Her lawyer, Caryl Warner, also worked the media on her behalf so that Northrup's story received maximum publicity. [22] Northrup was able to dissuade Parsons from pressing his case by threatening to expose their past relationship, which had begun when she was under the legal age of consent. He promised that he would tell her where Alexis was if she signed a piece of paper saying that she had gone with him voluntarily. Black hair. [18] Not long afterwards Hubbard bought Saint Hill Manor at Saint Hill Green, near East Grinstead, West Sussex. Father of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. In 1947, Polly filed for divorce and was granted the custody of her children . He urged the FBI to start a "round-up" of "vermin Communists or ex-Communists", starting with Northrup, and declared: I believe this woman to be under heavy duress. [15] Hubbard soon began an affair with Northrup after beginning "affairs with one girl after another in the house. As a leading light of American Pulp Fiction through the 1930s and '40s, he is further among the most influential authors of the modern age, including perennial and New York Times bestsellers such as Battlefield Earth .
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