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 She gave Hubbard four more children - Diana, Quentin, Suzette and Arthur - over the next six years. [13], Similar concerns were expressed by other O.T.O. Currently missing somewhere in California. There was no shortage of work for her to do; further legal difficulties were anticipated, as there was a New York grand jury investigating Operation Freakout, the GO's campaign against New York author Paulette Cooper, and a Florida grand jury looking into Scientology's activities in Clearwater. Separation papers being filed and divorce applied for. Mary Sue was appointed by her husband as Guardian (later Controller) of the Guardian's Office (GO) in March 1966. Photo by the Miami Daily News. Speaking to Dianeticists following the divorce, Hubbard blamed shadowy outside forces for the bad publicity: "We have just been through the saw mill, through the public presses. Louis Culling, another O.T.O. of age, 5'10", 140 lbs. "[77] He notes as an example of "this apparent erasure of Sarah Northrup from his mind"[77] a 1968 interview with the British broadcaster Granada Television, in which Hubbard denied that he had had a second wife in between his first, Polly, and the present one, Mary Sue:[77], HUBBARD: "How many times have I been married? He accused Communists of destroying his business, ruining his health and withholding material of interest to the US Government. 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. She is all I have to live for. They spent most of their time working; there was very little socializing. She attempted to flee on a ferry but Hubbard caught up with her and convinced her to stay, saying that he was in the process of getting a divorce and that an attorney had told him that the marriage with Northrup was legal. [35] The presence of the Hubbards was meant to be a secret, but in January 1976 he was recognized by a science fiction fan while on a shopping trip. Instead, he said, if Northrup really loved him she should kill herself. Worried about the chances of his own prosecution or being served with lawsuits, Hubbard slipped away into hiding. "[3], During the late 1960s, Scientology was faced by an increasingly hostile media and intensifying government scrutiny in a number of countries, notably Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. This was done before his divorce from his first wife, Polly. [55], In 1981, the "All Clear Unit" was established within the CMO, tasked with the purpose of making it "All Clear" for Hubbard to come out of hiding. I didn't know why it was so important to him; I'd never met Sara and I couldn't have cared less, but he wanted to persuade me that the marriage had never taken place. [43] She left Wichita as soon as Alexis was returned to her. On the night of February 24, 1951, Alexis was being looked after by John Sanborne while Northrup had a night at the movies. . This was the only time Hubbard allowed an outside crew to interview him. Nothing of this known to me until a few weeks ago. The fact is that Hubbard had been married 3 times at the time of the interview. L. Ron Hubbard's daughter the one he wanted to disappear surfaces online By Tony Ortega, February 6, 2017 . Quentin committed suicide in Las. About Harry Ross Hubbard. I felt as though he had given so much to our country and I couldn't even bring him peace of mind. He became disillusioned with Scientology and left the Church, taking with him copies of biographical material, including Hubbard's letters to Mary Sue over the years. [citation needed], The Hubbards traveled to England in September 1952 when Mary Sue was eight months pregnant. "[63], The divorce writ prompted a deluge of bad publicity for Hubbard and elicited an unexpected letter to Northrup from his first wife, Polly, who wrote: "If I can help in any way I'd like toYou must get Alexis in your custodyRon is not normal. I went back several times later to make sure that she wasn't going to rat on him. For more than a decade, the whereabouts of Shelly Miscavige, the reportedly missing wife of Scientology leader David, has been hotly debated. Mary Sue then travelled with Ron to Phoenix, Arizona where they established the first organisation. Mary Sue attempted to contact her husband to rescind the CMO's takeover bid but failed, and admitted defeat when the Messengers produced an undated dispatch from Hubbard instructing the GO to be put under the CMO when its senior executives went to prison. whom I believed to be my wife, having married her and then, after some mix-up about a divorce, believed to be my wife in common law. [45] Mary Sue was closely involved in the strategy; a letter written by her, approving the thefts, was later used in evidence against her. In July 1949 I was in Elizabeth, New Jersey, writing a movie. Though I will be hospitalized probably a long time, Alexis is getting excellent care. ", HUBBARD: "I never had a second wife."[78]. "[71] She was so desperate to leave by the time she got to the airport that she left behind her daughter's clothes and her own suitcase and one of Alexis's shoes fell off as she dashed to the plane. was carrying out in California. After the vessel had been renovated by Scientologists, Mary Sue and the children moved into the upper-deck accommodation in November 1968. If she could not break it up by making social engagements with key personnel she, and her gang, would go out to a bar and keep calling in asking for certain people to come to the telephone. Mary Sue was grief-stricken, though she later attempted to persuade friends that Quentin had died from encephalitis. 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. In three years of marriage to Hubbard, she had set up home in seven different states and had never stayed in one place for more than a few months. They were formally found guilty on October 26, 1979. [8] In October 1953 they returned to the US where Hubbard gave a series of lectures in Camden, New Jersey and established the first Church of Scientology. Hubbard would evolve into the leader of the Church of Scientology. Weeks passed without word from Hubbard. I was rather surprised when we were driving back to LA on Sunday evening, he stopped at a florist to buy some flowers for his wife. In 1933, Northrup's 22-year-old sister Helen met the 18-year-old Jack Parsons, a chemist who went on to be a noted expert in rocket propulsion. Her half-sister was an inmate of an insane asylum. He told me how he had met Northrup. Had been friendly with many Communists. Upon L. Ron Hubbard's death in 1986, David became Scientology's leader, with Shelly at his side. Its founder, L. Ron Hubbard, has been described variously as the man who "solved the riddle of the human mind" (by the Church of Scientology), 4 as "a mental case" (by the FBI), 5 and as "hopelessly insane" (by his former wife). [59], In July 1981, all remaining GO staff were ordered to join the Sea Org, which would thus secure the CMO's control of the Guardian's Office, and the current Guardian, Jane Kember who was one of those convicted on conspiracy charges was to be removed. Margaret "Polly" Grubb (1933-1947) Sara Northrup Hollister (1946-1951) While previously published books have mentioned part of this . member living in the commune at 1003 South Orange Grove Avenue: "Betty went to almost fantastical lengths to disrupt the meetings [of the O.T.O.] Here I am in Miami pursuing the children of my folly; they cannot move without going to jail. [44] Klowden recalled that Northrup "was very hostile to me. [75] L. Ron Hubbard died on January 24, 1986, at his ranch near Creston, California. L. Ron Hubbard (1911 - 1986), often referred to by his initials, LRH, was an American author and the founder of the Church of Scientology. Check out this great listen on Audible.com. [1] David was an original deputy to the late founder L. Ron Hubbard and had been working in the upper hierarchy of the Church since he was a teenager. "[8] He was a striking figure who habitually wore dark glasses and carried a cane with a silver handle, the need for which he attributed to his wartime service: as Northrup later put it, "He was not only a writer but he was the captain of a ship that had been downed in the Pacific and he was weeks on a raft and had been blinded by the sun and his back had been broken. His first wife had not obtained divorce until '47 and he was married in '46. On the one hand she certainly appeared to be a pathetic individual. By this time, Mary Sue had become a key figure within the nascent Scientology movement. There he wrote a letter informing the FBI that Northrup and her lover Miles Hollister whom he had fired from the Foundation's staff and, according to Hollister, had also threatened to kill[54] were among fifteen "known or suspected Communists" in his organization. The mother had slept with all three men on the same night but as she did not know which had fathered the child, had "thereupon decided to call him Ali, son of ----, son of ----, and son of ---- which impressed the local inhabitants and created a stir throughout the country. [84] Even his own staff were shocked by the contents of Hubbard's letter; he ended his instructions to them with the statement, "Decency is not a subject well understood". Scientology is a set of beliefs and practices invented by the American author L. Ron Hubbard, and an associated movement.Adherents are called Scientologists. Hubbard became Parsons' "magical partner" for a sex magic ritual that was intended to summon an incarnation of a goddess. [76] Mary Sue Hubbard continued to be active in Scientology well into the 1990s; in a 1994 Scientology magazine, she was listed as a "Patron" of the International Association of Scientologists, indicating a donation of $40,000. They used to have fierce husband and wife domestic arguments. That title that states that L. Ron Hubbard built the Georgia Guidestones is absurd. There, creased between space adventures and tales of alien invasion, were the pages . Everyone was very calm, gunners joking about who would get in the first shot," Hubbard wrote. "[13] Concluding that she was a vampire, which he defined as "an elemental or demon in the form of a woman" who sought to "lure the Candidate to his destruction," he warned that Northrup was a grave danger to Parsons and to the "Great Work" which the O.T.O. Interviewed more than 35 years later, Northrup stated that she had signed the statement because "I thought by doing so he would leave me and Alexis alone. It has been variously defined as a cult, a business, or a new religious movement. [56] The Messengers, who were mostly in their teens and early twenties, became Hubbard's sole means of communication with the Church. During his interview with him, he got Lafayette to refer to Hubbard's wife Mary Sue Hubbard as Mary, before informing him that Hubbard used to call her Suzy. Hubbard married his third wife, Mary Sue Whipp, in 1952. She recalled that "with or without an argument, there'd be an upsurge of violence. Sometimes when the two of them were sitting at the table together, the hostility was almost tangible. She was born into a criminal atmosphere, her father having a criminal record. Dissmissed [sic] in February when affiliations discovered. It just never occurred to me he was a liar. 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. It's an unimportant detail but he's had three wives What is important is that his followers were there as he lied, but no matter what the evidence they don't believe it. The grand jury named Hubbard as an unindicted co-conspirator; the seized Guardian Office. Add a Comment. 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. In 1952, Mary Sue and Ron were married. 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. Now a new report claims the 58-year-old is alive and, in mid-December, was spotted leaving a Scientology cruise ship in the Caribbean. Hubbard spread allegations that she was a Communist secret agent and repeatedly denounced her to the FBI. [72] When the case came to trial in May 1984, she told the Superior Court of Los Angeles County that she had been "mentally raped" and "emotionally distressed" knowing that others had seen the documents. MILES HOLLISTER: Somewhere in the vicinity of Los Angeles. I thought she was going to blow my head off. L. Ron Hubbard, in full Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, (born March 13, 1911, Tilden, Nebraska, U.S.died January 24, 1986, San Luis Obispo, California), American novelist and founder of the Church of Scientology. TIL L Ron Hubbard's first wife once discovered two love letters the Scientology founder had written, to two different women, in the couple's outgoing mail. "[45] A few days later while still married to Northrup he proposed marriage to Klowden. His lawsuit accused Hubbard and Northrup of breaking the terms of their partnership, dissipating the assets and attempting to abscond. She joined as a teenager along with her older sister Helen. Although she was not yet twenty-four years old, she exercised considerable power within the Scientology movement and people around Hubbard quickly learned to be wary of her. She played a central role in the financial management of the Church of Scientology's two principal corporations, the Church of Scientology of California and the United Kingdom Church of Scientology. Hubbard took with him only two people, a married couple named Pat and Anne Broeker. That's it. By that time, Hubbard had separated from his first wife, Margaret "Polly" Grubb, but he was still legally married to her when he proposed to Northrup. [37] She gave birth on March 8, 1950 to a daughter, Alexis Valerie. I doubt that she would face what you have with me or support me as well. The flagship of the Scientology fleet was the 3,280-ton vessel HMSRoyal Scotsman accidentally renamed the Royal Scotman due to a clerical error,[23] a former cattle ferry on the Irish Sea run.[24]. As far as I know, all his policies and doctrines were race-neutral, which is a big deal for someone from the 1940s. The Hubbards moved to a new house in Elizabeth to be near the Foundation. members, Northrup's usurpation of Helen's role led to conflict between the two sisters. [42] Northrup recalled that "he used to He had Dick de Mille reciting this sort of thing day and night to her. I hope my heart lasts. [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. Goodbye I love you. She was part of a free love colony in Pasadena. [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. She turned up destitute and pregnant.