[61], Northrup filed for divorce on April 23, 1951, charging Hubbard with "extreme cruelty" causing her "great mental anguish and physical suffering". [78] In December 1995, Hubbard had a mastectomy of her left breast. [67] She met him in Wichita to resolve the situation. [51] She stated that she was "not interested in revenge; I'm interested in the truth. [47], Klowden recalled later that "he was very down in the dumps about his wife. He told me how he had met Northrup. 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. [19] His health and emotional difficulties were reflected in another, much more private, document which has been dubbed "The Affirmations". Her achievement was commemorated in a special tribute edition of the Scientology newspaper The Auditor, titled simply: "Mary Sue Hubbard Clear #208". A young girl is nearly dead because of this effort. [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. Playing along, she told Hubbard that he was right and that the only way she could break free of their power was by going through with the divorce. '"[50], Despite her conviction, Mary Sue remained in her post as Controller of the Guardian's Office (GO). Where Is Shelly Miscavige, The Missing Wife Of Scientology's Leader? "I thought he was pretty. The hugely popular recent HBO documentary (Going Clear, by Alex Gibney) has once again called into question the authenticity of L. Ron Hubbard and the Church of Scientology.As the debate rages over his life and work, we're taking a look at some of the . Hubbard subsequently returned to the Foundation in Elizabeth, New Jersey. [49] The situation soon became tense again; Richard de Mille, nephew of the famous director Cecil B. de Mille, recalled that "there was a lot of turmoil and dissension in the Foundation at the time; he kept accusing Communists of trying to take control and he was having difficulties with Northrup. "[83], Despite clearly being written by Hubbard, who spoke in the first person in the letter, it was signed "Your good friend, J. Edgar Hoover". L. Ron Hubbard kidnapped daughter, told his wife he had - Starcasm On the night of February 24, 1951, Alexis was being looked after by John Sanborne while Northrup had a night at the movies. 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. Mary Sue Hubbard died on November 25, 2002, aged 71, at her home in Los Angeles. He accused Communists of destroying his business, ruining his health and withholding material of interest to the US Government. In the future I wish to lead a quiet and orderly existence with my little girl far away from the enturbulating influences which have ruined my marriage. She was a leading figure in Scientology for much of her life. Northrup's daughter Alexis, who was by now twenty-one years old, attempted to contact her father but was rebuffed in a handwritten statement in which Hubbard denied that he was her father: "Your mother was with me as a secretary in Savannah in late 1948 . 28 Photos Of L. Ron Hubbard And The Birth Of Scientology - All That's A change in the visa regime in the UK enabled foreigners to remain indefinitely if they had sufficient means to support themselves. Mary Sue Hubbard - Wikipedia "[42] He began an affair with the twenty-year-old Klowden, much to the annoyance of Northrup, who was clearly aware of the liaison. He sold his first story in February 1934, an adventure tale called "The Green God" that featured a heroic American killing a bunch of Chinese bad guys. [18] Hubbard and Northrup left for Florida towards the end of April, Hubbard taking with him $10,000 drawn from the Allied Enterprises account to fund the purchase of the partnership's first yacht. [46] In March 1976, she approved an illegal plan to obtain "non-FOI data" from the government, meaning classified documents not available through the Freedom of Information Act. These activities ultimately led to a complete disband of the GO. We were talking about guns and she said to me that I was the type to use a Saturday night special" (a very cheap "junk gun"). Together, we planned a series of missions to take over the GO, investigate it and reform it thoroughly. [1] Parsons had subdivided the house, a rambling mansion next door to the estate of Adolphus Busch (which later became the first Busch Gardens), into 19 apartments which he populated with a mixture of artists, writers, scientists and occultists. 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. According to him, Sara had served a stretch at Tahatchapie [sic] (in a desert woman's prison) and was a dope addict. "[70] She did not give evidence but was awarded custody of Alexis and $200 a month in child support. 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. Mental disorders of L. Ron Hubbard - Why We Protest Hubbard would evolve into the leader of the Church of Scientology.[1]. 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. It began when Sara's father died. In July 1949 I was in Elizabeth, New Jersey, writing a movie. Goodbye I love you. [28] The "liability cruise" ended in June 1969. 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". [11] and had a son in 1943 who bore Parsons' surname but who was almost certainly fathered by Smith. Her father had just died and her grief appeared to aggravate Hubbard, who was attempting to restart his pre-war career of writing pulp fiction. I remember he said to me I was the only person he knew who would set up a white silk tent for him. 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. Northrup, who was beginning a pregnancy, was said to have been delighted with the location. Here I am in Miami pursuing the children of my folly; they cannot move without going to jail. They were married in Maryland in 1946. I thought she was going to blow my head off. The marriage ended in 1951 and prompted lurid headlines in the Los Angeles newspapers. Black hair. This proved a puzzle since where there is no legal marriage, there can't be any divorce. 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]. 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. 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. She was forced from her post as controller, convicted and imprisoned as a felon, and deserted by her husband. She worked with her husband, completing tasks for him and helping to dull his temper when he raged at other members. . The final version of Dianetics was written at Bay Head, New Jersey in a cottage which the science fiction editor John W. Campbell had found for the Hubbards. On July 13, 1981, a matter of weeks after we had uncovered what was going on, and with no advance warning to the GO, a coordinated series of CMO missions were sent out concurrently to take over the GO. "[45] A few days later while still married to Northrup he proposed marriage to Klowden. She was a bitch. [2] She was the granddaughter of Russian emigrant Malacon Kosadamanov (later Nelson) who emigrated to Sweden. "[90], After the documentary-maker Alex Gibney directed the film Going Clear, based on Wright's book of the same name and citing Northrup's words about Hubbard, the Church published a video calling Northrup a "failed gold digger" and "self admitted perjurer" who was responsible for "a get-rich-quick scheme [concocted] by the woman and her publicity starved lawyer to try to shake down Mr. Hubbard for money and take over the Hubbard Dianetics Foundation after Dianetics soared to the top of national bestseller lists. Mary Sue was given partial responsibility for running the new Dianetics establishment. 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. But anyone who underestimated Mary Sue made a big mistake. About Harry Ross Hubbard. Although Hubbard himself was much admired by Scientologists, his wife was said to be much less popular. However I am afraid that most of the money has already been dissipated. She switched the envelopes and sent them. The Hubbards had four children: Diana (born 1952), Quentin (19541976), Suzette (born 1955), and Arthur (born 1958). Who Is L. Ron Hubbard's Wife? A curly haired, middle-aged woman - who US magazine National . Her husband's reaction was one of fury, blaming Quentin for in his eyes letting him down. [30] Their sojourn in Morocco ended abruptly in December 1972 when it became clear that the Church of Scientology was about to be indicted in France for fraud, and that Hubbard himself was potentially at risk of being extradited to appear in court if the case went to trial. I please her physically until she weeps about any separation. My Will is all changed. Granada's reporter commented: "What Hubbard said happens to be untrue. The case was settled out of court eleven days later, with Hubbard and Northrup agreeing to refund some of Parsons' money while keeping a yacht, the Harpoon, for themselves. . My wits never gave way under all you did and let them do but my body didn't stand up. Check out this great listen on Audible.com. The news story which the photograph accompanied has been republished by the Church with all mention of Northrup edited out from the text. [45] Mary Sue was closely involved in the strategy; a letter written by her, approving the thefts, was later used in evidence against her. L. Ron Hubbard - Wikipdia 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. Further, through Parsons, she was strangely intimate with many scientists of Los Alamo Gordos [Alamogordo in New Mexico was where the first atomic bomb was tested]. [37], On July 8, 1977, 134 agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation simultaneously stormed the Church of Scientology's offices in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, seizing nearly 50,000 documents and other evidence. [37] She gave birth on March 8, 1950 to a daughter, Alexis Valerie. [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. His lawsuit accused Hubbard and Northrup of breaking the terms of their partnership, dissipating the assets and attempting to abscond. He and Mary Sue moved initially to Daytona Beach, Florida in August 1975. [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. That is the amazing part about it. Why is he lying about this? Hubbard decided to take to the high seas in a bid to liberate Scientology from the attentions of hostile governments. I think I have made a great gain and as Betty and I are the best of friends, there is little loss. In June 1951, she finally secured the return of Alexis by agreeing to cancel her receivership action and divorce suit in California in return for a divorce "guaranteed by L. Ron Hubbard". The Guardian Office was no respector of anyone's civil rights, particularly that of privacy. [31] Hubbard returned to the United States, living under a false name in New York City while Mary Sue and the children remained aboard the Apollo. "[50], Three weeks later, Hubbard abducted both Northrup and Alexis. Hubbard grew up in Helena, Montana, and studied at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. After the vessel had been renovated by Scientologists, Mary Sue and the children moved into the upper-deck accommodation in November 1968. In 1960, Leni Riefenstahl and L. Ron Hubbard briefly collaborated on a screenplay that was to be a remake of her popular 1932 film directing debut, Das blaue Licht ('The Blue Light'). Hubbard rescued a girl they were using. How many girls is a man entitled to in one lifetime, anyway? She is heavily sexed. According to Mayo: She was really offended and very upset. L. Ron Hubbard started beating his wife during summer 1946. I can never pronounce her name. [39] Rather than telling Northrup where Alexis was, he called her and said that "he had cut [Alexis] into little pieces and dropped the pieces in a river and that he had seen little arms and legs floating down the river and it was my fault, I'd done it because I'd left him."[53]. Recently released Federal Bureau of Investigation files show that just over a year after L. Ron Hubbard created the the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, a precursor to the Church of Scientology, he offered to become an informant for the Bureau, and provide the FBI with a list of its members and copies of their fingerprints.. or so the stories go. The divorce of Sara Hubbard, April 1951 - Spaink 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. She had been part of Jack Parsons' group because "she had been sent in there by the Russians. He moved in with me about two months ago, and although Betty and I are still friendly, she has transferred her sexual affection to Ron. [19] The manor, a country house formerly owned by Sawai Man Singh II, the Maharajah of Jaipur, became both the new home of the Hubbards and the world headquarters of Scientology. He had been married in 1933, but his wife wouldn't bring the whole family down to California from Washington to live. [9], In June 1941, at the age of seventeen, she began a passionate affair with Parsons while her sister Helen was away on vacation. That's what he was really worried about, that she would reveal during the case that she was only relaying his orders. She had attached herself to a Jack Parsons, the rocket expert, during the war and when she left him he was a wreck. "[20], By this time, Mary Sue was working as the chief course supervisor at Saint Hill Manor. L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 39 The targets were not just external enemies but dissident Scientologists; in 1969, Mary Sue wrote an order directing the GO to cull information from the confessional folders of Scientologists, breaking a rule of confidence that was supposedly sacrosanct. But he did save her life and pull her out of that whole black magic ring. 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. She subsequently married one of Hubbard's former employees, Miles Hollister, and moved to Hawaii and later Massachusetts, where she died in 1997. [deleted] 6 yr. ago. ", "Court upholds convictions of 9 Scientologists", "Church of Scientology of California, Plaintiff, Mary Sue Hubbard, Intervenor, vs. Gerald Armstrong, Defendant Memorandum of Intended Decision", "Son of Church Founder Is Sued by Stepmother", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mary_Sue_Hubbard&oldid=1139846347, This page was last edited on 17 February 2023, at 05:30. [36] This eventually became the first draft of Hubbard's book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, which marked the foundation of Dianetics and ultimately of Scientology. His sexual difficulties with Northrup, for which he was taking testosterone supplements, are a significant feature of the document. 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 . Alexis will get a fortune unless she goes to you as she would then get nothing. The FBI declined to take any action, characterizing Hubbard as a "mental case". Hubbard's financial troubles were reflected in his attempts to persuade the Veterans Administration to increase his pension award on the grounds of a variety of ailments which he said were preventing him finding a job. L Ron Hubbard Books - Biography and List of Works - Author of 'Dianetics' A disaster on the scale of the GO criminal case was clearly the result of the activities of someone hostile to Scientology a Suppressive Person operating within the GO. "[43], By October, the Foundation's financial affairs had reached a crisis point. L. Ron Hubbard's wife, Mary Sue Hubbard, was an important part of the Church of Scientology. As part of a wider strategy codenamed Operation Snow White, the GO succeeded in infiltrating a Scientologist into the IRS to steal files about the government's litigation strategy against Scientology. L. Ron Hubbard dating history Relationships. She soon became involved in a relationship with Hubbard and married him in March 1952. I just wanted to be free of him! . They set up a business partnership on January 15, 1946 under the name of "Allied Enterprises", with Parsons putting up $20,000 of capital, Hubbard adding $1,200 and Northrup contributing nothing. 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 "[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. He was a cruel man who designed the Church of Scientology for his personal enrichment and glorification at the expense of his loyal . 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. I need a magical partner. 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. She was Hubbard's personal auditor and along with Hubbard, one of the seven members of the Dianetics Foundation's Board of Directors. Quentin was Hubbard's fourth child - his second son - to his third wife, Mary Sue Hubbard. It must be noted that Mary Sue Hubbard believed her position as Controller and as the "Founder's wife" to be unassailable and beyond reproach by anyone but Mr. Hubbard who was not around at the time, a fact that she was well aware of. [1], Mary Sue Whipp was born in Rockdale, Texas, to Harry Hughes Whipp (Sept 2, 1893 Oct 30 1942) and Mary Catherine (ne Hill) Whipp. "[59] On April 19, as Barbara Klowden recorded in her journal, Hubbard telephoned her from Wichita and told her "he was not legally married. [75] L. Ron Hubbard died on January 24, 1986, at his ranch near Creston, California. Several ships were purchased to serve as the quarters of the newly created "Sea Org". Heber Jentzsch, president of . Mary Sue Hubbard was still asserting her authority over the GO from her position as Controller. Sex, rocket science, and Satanism: meet Nasa's real hidden figures "[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. [2] She grew up in Houston, where she attended Rice University for a year before moving on to the University of Texas at Austin, from which she graduated as a Bachelor of Arts. L. Ron Hubbard was born in 1911 in Tilden, Nebraska, to Harry Ross Hubbard (1886-1975) and Ledora May Waterbury, whom Harry had married in 1909. 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. I gathered a couple of dozen of the most proven Church executives from around the world and briefed them on the criminal and other unethical conduct of the GO. Mary Sue Hubbard was removed from her post before she went to jail. Recommended Suspected only. Outspokenly disloyal to the U.S.[56], In another letter sent in March, Hubbard told the FBI that Northrup was a Communist and a drug addict, and offered a $10,000 reward to anyone who could resolve Northrup's problems through the application of Dianetics techniques.[57]. [66] She lost her final appeal in April 1982[67] and was ordered to begin a prison term in January 1983. Mary Sue was grief-stricken, though she later attempted to persuade friends that Quentin had died from encephalitis. Only two months later, over 55,000 copies had been sold and 500 Dianetics groups had been set up across the United States. The dinner party backfired drastically; Northrup began an affair with Hollister, a handsome 22-year-old who was college-educated and a noted sportsman. Harry Ross Hubbard (1886 - 1975) - Genealogy - geni family tree 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. Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (1911-1986), commonly shortened to L. Ron Hubbard, was a science-fiction writer and drug fiend[1] who engaged in the ultimate experiment: to create a religion founded on utter bullshit, yet endowed with the sociological and psychological components that "make religions work". Pat Broeker, Hubbard's personal messenger at the time, had gone into hiding with him once before and knew how. [65] Hubbard wrote to the FBI to further denounce Northrup as a Communist secret agent. In reality, Hubbard had made an unsuccessful request for assistance from the US military attach to Havana. [12], Northrup's hostility towards other members of the O.T.O. "[73] He publicly portrayed his marital problems as being entirely the fault of Northrup and her lover Hollister: The money and glory inherent in Dianetics was entirely too much for those with whom I had the bad misfortune to associate myself including a woman who had represented herself as my wife and who had been cured of severe psychosis by Dianetics, but who, because of structural brain damage would evidently never be entirely sane. He told her that she was "in a state of complete madness" due to being dictated to and hypnotized by Hollister and his "communist cell". . He was severely depressed and repeatedly threatened suicide, and Northrup believed "he must be suffering or he wouldn't act that way".[33]. Hubbard face was washed to polish the skin, put the hair and dressed his body in expensive suit, tucked under the collar silk scarf and to heighten the effect, put a stack of neatly arranged entourage books.Hubbard lit around the floodlights, and four-point system of Hollywood lighting, already guaranteed a quality image. On the one hand she certainly appeared to be a pathetic individual. Hubbard turned up and took the child. Fiercely loyal to her husband, brusque and autocratic, she could be a dangerous enemy. Things like, "Be his wife, have a family that looks good, not have a divorce." Someone erroneously tipped Hubbard off that the FBI was going to raid again and a massive shredding frenzy took place in Palm Springs, CA as he left on 2/14/1980, again going into hiding, never to return. Share it! 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. You are a greater person. "[21], On January 26, 1967, Mary Sue was confirmed as a Scientology "Clear", a somewhat elite rank at that time. [38] The raids were in response to the federal government's discovery that the Church of Scientology had been carrying out a secret and highly illegal "dirty tricks" campaign against government agencies, individuals, and institutions deemed to be enemies of Scientology. [59] Hubbard fled to Havana, Cuba, where he wrote a letter to Northrup: I have been in the Cuban military hospital and I am being transferred to the United States next week as a classified scientist immune from interference of all kinds. She played a leading role in the management of the Church of Scientology, rising to become the head of the Church's Guardian's Office (GO). By this time, Mary Sue had become a key figure within the nascent Scientology movement. While previously published books have mentioned part of this . Northrup's attorney filed another petition asking for Hubbard's assets to be frozen as he had been found "hiding" in Wichita "but that he would probably leave town upon being detected". When L. Ron Hubbard briefly let down his guard and admitted Scientology "[74], In October 1984, Mary Sue filed a $5 million lawsuit against her husband's first son, Ronald DeWolf, accusing him of "massive fraud" for attempting to have his father declared legally dead or mentally incompetent. Sara Northrup Hollister - Wikipedia [46], The marriage was in the process of breaking down rapidly. Mr. Ronald Reagan President . [1] She soon rose to the rank of a second degree member, or "Magician", of the O.T.O. By this time the Foundation had filed for bankruptcy, and Hubbard's erstwhile backer, Don Purcell, was left to deal with its substantial debts. Hubbard married his third wife, Mary Sue Whipp, in 1952. He was struggling with constant writer's block and leaned heavily on Northrup to provide plot ideas and even to help write some of his stories. Sharp chin, broad forehead, rather Slavic. [2], Although she later remembered her childhood with warmth, Northrup's upbringing was marred by her sexually abusive father, who was imprisoned in 1928 for financial fraud. Harry was born "Henry August Wilson" in Fayette, Iowa but was orphaned as an infant and adopted by the Hubbards, a farming family of Fredericksburg, Iowa. [17] Although they got on well as fellow occultists, tensions between the two men were apparent in more domestic settings. in October 1969, the newspaper printed a statement attributed to the Church of Scientology (but written by Hubbard himself[80]) that asserted: Hubbard broke up black magic in America L. Ron Hubbard was still an officer of the US Navy because he was well known as a writer and a philosopher and had friends amongst the physicists, he was sent in to handle the situation.