"[72], After divorcing Hubbard, Northrup married Miles Hollister and bought a house in Malibu, California. When she ran off with another man Ron followed them and they locked him in a hotel room and pushed drugs up his nose, but he managed to escape and went to Cuba. 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.] [25] He wrote: Sara, my sweetheart, is young, beautiful, desirable. 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. Currently intimate with them but evidently under coercion. Separation papers being filed and divorce applied for. 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. "[46] In November 1950, Northrup attempted suicide by taking sleeping pills. My first wife is dead. But the Church of Scientology denies the existence of this woman,. The case eventually came to trial in September 1979, following months of delay occasioned by a fierce rear-guard action by the Church of Scientology's lawyers. In 1923 the family moved to Pasadena, a destination said to have been chosen by Olga using a Ouija board. [54], She died of breast cancer in 1997 but in the last few months of her life she dictated a tape-recorded account of her relationship with Hubbard. Although Hubbard himself was much admired by Scientologists, his wife was said to be much less popular. I felt as though he had given so much to our country and I couldn't even bring him peace of mind. 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. Had been friendly with many Communists. His next project, Dianetics and Scientology, would secure him lifelong fame. I think I have made a great gain and as Betty and I are the best of friends, there is little loss. Mary Sue Hubbard died on November 25, 2002, aged 71, at her home in Los Angeles. carry huge amounts of cash around in his pocket. caused further tensions in the house, which Aleister Crowley heard about from communications from her housemates. . [37] She gave birth on March 8, 1950 to a daughter, Alexis Valerie. Mary Sue Hubbard was removed from her post before she went to jail. [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. ismertebb nevn L. Ron Hubbard amerikai sci-fi -r s a szcientolgia egyhz alaptja. 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). [55] He listed them as: SARA NORTHRUP (HUBBARD): formerly of 1003 S. Orange Grove Avenue, Pasadena, Calif. 25 yrs. L Ron Hubbard was an American author, philosopher, and the founder of the 'Church of Scientology.' He started as a writer of science fiction but later moved to self-help and psychology-related topics. 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. His first wife had not obtained divorce until '47 and he was married in '46. Eventually she did so. [53] Mary Sue, who had last met with her husband a few months before his disappearance, never saw or heard from him again. [29], The Hubbards moved ashore in March 1972 after three years traveling aboard their ship from port to port in the Mediterranean. "[15], Mary Sue became pregnant again four months after Quentin's birth and on February 13, 1955, in Washington, D.C., she gave birth to her second daughter, Mary Suzette Rochelle Hubbard. 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. 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. Commonly armed. [13], Similar concerns were expressed by other O.T.O. According to Northrup's later recollections she repeatedly refused him but relented after he threatened to kill himself. Northrup told Cooper that Hubbard was a dangerous lunatic, and that although her own life had been transformed when she left him, she was still afraid both of him and of his followers,[92] whom she later described as looking "like Mormons, but with bad complexions. The O.T.O. [71] In June 1984, Judge Paul G. Breckenridge ruled against the Church and Mary Sue Hubbard, criticizing her credibility as a witness: LRH's wife, Mary Sue Hubbard is also plaintiff herein. Center of most turbulence in our organization. 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. 3839. 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. [1] She soon rose to the rank of a second degree member, or "Magician", of the O.T.O. She soon became involved in a relationship with Hubbard and married him in March 1952. His search was unsuccessful and he released her at Yuma Airport across the state line in Arizona. Her half-sister was an inmate of an insane asylum. The primary exponent of Scientology is the Church of Scientology, a centralized and hierarchical organization based in Florida, although many practitioners . This body was responsible for overseeing each of the seven organizational subdivisions of the Church of Scientology. L. Ron Hubbard (1911 - 1986), often referred to by his initials, LRH, was an American author and the founder of the Church of Scientology. The late wife of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard left her home to her prized pooch, who survived its master by 11 years and lived it up in a multi-million-dollar Los Angeles pad. By this time, Mary Sue had become a key figure within the nascent Scientology movement. Granada's reporter commented: "What Hubbard said happens to be untrue. But he did save her life and pull her out of that whole black magic ring. He thought I had thrown in with the psychiatrists, with the devils. In 1984 she acted as an "intervenor" in the Church of Scientology of California's lawsuit against Gerry Armstrong. Check out this great listen on Audible.com. 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. 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. 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]. "[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. . Hubbard was an Eagle Scout. 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. Sharp chin, broad forehead, rather Slavic. By this time, Mary Sue was well advanced with her second pregnancy and remained largely confined to a rented house at Medford Lakes, New Jersey. In the pulp-printed pages of a May 1950 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, L. Ron Hubbard published, for the first time, a work that would one day grow into an entire religion: Dianetics. [62] She had consulted doctors who "concluded that said Hubbard was hopelessly insane, and, crazy, and that there was no hope for said Hubbard, or any reason for her to endure further; that competent medical advisers recommended that said Hubbard be committed to a private sanatorium for psychiatric observation and treatment of a mental ailment known as paranoid schizophrenia."[62]. She kept saying to me, 'What is he worried about?' Because of his "crazy misconduct" she was in "hourly fear of both the life of herself and of her infant daughter, who she has not seen for two months". 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. [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. Interviews with Barbara Klowden, "Scientology Photoshopping: Erasing L. Ron Hubbard's second wife from 'The RON Series', "Interviews with "Barbara Kaye", Los Angeles, July 28 & August 21, 1986", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sara_Northrup_Hollister&oldid=1133607437, This page was last edited on 14 January 2023, at 17:19. The Ole Doc Methuselah series was done that way. He was a cruel man who designed the Church of Scientology for his personal enrichment and glorification at the expense of his loyal . [67] She met him in Wichita to resolve the situation. She became involved in Hubbard's Dianetics in 1951, while still a student at the University of Texas at Austin, becoming a Dianetics auditor. I telephoned Hubbard's lawyer in Elizabeth and warned him: "Listen, asshole, if you don't get that baby back I'm going to burn you. Within a day of Mary Sue Hubbard's resignation, senior GO officials secretly met with Mary Sue Hubbard and conspired to regain control of the GO. Despite this, she still "felt so guilty about the fact that he was so psychologically damaged. She intended to make use of this discovery by writing a book that would be "completely anti-Christ". 6.3K Together, we planned a series of missions to take over the GO, investigate it and reform it thoroughly. Wife was Ledora May Waterbury (1885 - 1959). I just wanted to be free of him! They spent most of their time working; there was very little socializing. "[94], Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, "Scientology and the Occult: Hugh Urban's new exploration of L. Ron Hubbard and Aleister Crowley", Miller, Russell. "[53] She was bundled into the back of a car and driven to San Bernardino, California, where Hubbard attempted to find a doctor to examine his wife and declare her insane. [47], The espionage continued for another three months before Meisner's luck ran out and he was caught in June 1976. On the night of February 24, 1951, Alexis was being looked after by John Sanborne while Northrup had a night at the movies. [32] They were reunited in September 1973, when the possibility of extradition had passed. The marriage ended in 1951 and prompted lurid headlines in the Los Angeles newspapers. 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 . Dissmissed [sic] in February when affiliations discovered. . Under his doctrine he believed that "mistakes do not just happen, somebody causes them, always". ), a secret society led by the English occultist Aleister Crowley, where she was known as "Soror [Sister] Cassap". According to the Church of Scientology, Hubbard himself did not find out about Mary Sue's resignation until five months later. [16] They remained there until 1957, when Hubbard returned to lecture at the Academy of Scientology in Washington, D.C., with Mary Sue and the children following later. [44] Klowden recalled that Northrup "was very hostile to me. [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. 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. 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. She made a striking impression on the other lodgers; George Pendle describes her as "feisty and untamed, proud and self-willed, she stood five foot nine, had a lithe body and blond hair, and was extremely candid. [57] In May 1981, he met with Mary Sue to tell her that her position as Controller of the Guardian's Office was untenable. Born as Henry August Wilson, adopted by James W. Hubbard and Philena Jane Potter Hubbard, who changed his name to Harry Ross Hubbard. [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. 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. [85], Neither Northrup nor Alexis made any further attempt to contact Hubbard, who disinherited Alexis in his will, written in January 1986 on the day before he died. In reality, Hubbard had made an unsuccessful request for assistance from the US military attach to Havana. [58] She subsequently changed her mind, believing that she had been tricked, and wrote to her husband to complain but received no response. . Please do believe I do so want to help you get Alexis."[64]. 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. Northrup played a significant role in the development of Dianetics, Hubbard's "modern science of mental health", between 1948 and 1951. Confessedly a member of the Young Communists. This proved a puzzle since where there is no legal marriage, there can't be any divorce. "[52] She left Palm Springs on February 3, leaving Hubbard to complain that Northrup "had hypnotized him in his sleep and commanded him not to write. "[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. [66] She lost her final appeal in April 1982[67] and was ordered to begin a prison term in January 1983. en.wikipedia.org 48K 1.5K 1.5K comments Best Add a Comment SoylentPersons 4 yr. ago Did she then get disappeared like David Miscavige's wife? 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. The criminal conviction of the GO's top executives triggered a lengthy power struggle at the top of the Church of Scientology, which would lead eventually to Mary Sue being forced into retirement. 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. The Guardian Office was no respector of anyone's civil rights, particularly that of privacy. The veins in his forehead would engorge" and he would hit her "out of the blue", breaking her eardrum in one attack. I may live a long time and again I may not. The situation was potentially disastrous for the GO and caused panic among the leadership. By this time Mary Sue was pregnant for a fourth time and gave birth to her final child, Arthur Ronald Conway Hubbard, on June 6, 1958.[17]. [27] The Royal Scotman was later renamed the Apollo. [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. [41] The Dianetics Foundation was making a huge amount of money, but problems were already evident: money was pouring out as fast as it was coming in, due to lax financial management and Hubbard's own free spending. Sometimes when the two of them were sitting at the table together, the hostility was almost tangible. The suit was filed by Mr. Hubbard's third wife, Mary Sue Hubbard, the stepmother of Mr. Hubbard's oldest son, Ronald DeWolf. By this time the Foundation had filed for bankruptcy, and Hubbard's erstwhile backer, Don Purcell, was left to deal with its substantial debts. 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. [32], The relationship was not an easy one. "[43], By October, the Foundation's financial affairs had reached a crisis point. L. Ron Hubbard's daughter the one he wanted to disappear surfaces online By Tony Ortega, February 6, 2017 . And I'm very happily married just now. [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. Fearing arrest, he fled to Washington, D.C. with a handful of aides while Mary Sue was left behind in Florida continuing her day-to-day management activities. For more than a decade, the whereabouts of Shelly Miscavige, the reportedly missing wife of Scientology leader David, has been hotly debated. "[14] Cyril Vosper, one of the Saint Hill staff at the time, noted the differing impressions left by the Hubbards: "I always had great warmth and admiration for Ron he was a remarkable individual, a constant source of new information and ideas but I thought Mary Sue was an exceedingly nasty person. [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]. She worked with her husband, completing tasks for him and helping to dull his temper when he raged at other members. The arrival of Hubbard and Northrup three weeks after the divorce was filed scandalized Hubbard's family, who deeply disapproved of his treatment of Polly. However I am afraid that most of the money has already been dissipated. On October 8, a deal was struck between the government and the Church that the nine defendants including Mary Sue would each plead guilty to one charge of conspiracy if they agreed to sign a written stipulation by the government (essentially a public confession) of what they had done, thus avoiding a lengthy trial. [15] Hubbard soon began an affair with Northrup after beginning "affairs with one girl after another in the house. 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. Apparently it is the ordinary confidence trick."[19]. On the one hand she certainly appeared to be a pathetic individual. The final experiment Please report problems, errors or suggestions to heldal@online.no Download all files as ZIP archive(745Kb) Back to introduction DATE TO FROM DESCRIPTION 16 May 1940 FBI L Ron Hubbard Reporting on a possible Nazi. But anyone who underestimated Mary Sue made a big mistake. He and Mary Sue moved initially to Daytona Beach, Florida in August 1975. Her actual true name is a Russian name. On the other hand her credibility leaves much to be desired. Mary Sue was appointed by her husband as Guardian (later Controller) of the Guardian's Office (GO) in March 1966. 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 "[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". Despite her shock and humiliation, she felt compelled to return to Hubbard. ", "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. 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. It is, of course, rather ironic that the person who authorized G.O. Alexis will get a fortune unless she goes to you as she would then get nothing. I know, because I personally met with her and obtained her resignation At first, Mary Sue Hubbard was not willing to resign. A change in the visa regime in the UK enabled foreigners to remain indefinitely if they had sufficient means to support themselves. Alec Nevala-Lee, author of Astounding, a forthcoming book on the history of science fiction, digs into the writing career of L. Ron Hubbard, gaining new insights into the life of the controversial founder of dianetics and the origins and nature of Scientology itself. Mary Sue and two others received the heaviest penalties, a five-year prison sentence and a $10,000 fine. The dinner party backfired drastically; Northrup began an affair with Hollister, a handsome 22-year-old who was college-educated and a noted sportsman. One of his aides, David Mayo, was dispatched by Hubbard to suggest that Mary Sue might consider a divorce. According to Mayo: She was really offended and very upset. 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. 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. 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. The fact is that Hubbard had been married 3 times at the time of the interview. 28 Photos Of L. Ron Hubbard And The Birth Of Scientology. She filed for divorce in an effort to try and create a false record that she had been married to him." [4], She became pregnant in February 1952 and married Hubbard the next month. I have a lovely wife, and I have four children. The. After Hubbard was convicted of petty theft in San Luis Obispo in August 1948,[32] the couple moved again to Savannah, Georgia. Mary Sue enforced the rules rigidly but shared the privations, and was scrupulously fair and popular. [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. A chance meeting with a man named Jack Parsons led to Hubbard and his new friend performing a bizarre ritual. Who Is L. Ron Hubbard's Wife? . Numerous other Guardian's Office personnel were purged as well. members. In the end, Hubbard's wife and the others were found guilty of charges of conspiracy and burglary. At the time, Hubbard's wife Mary Sue was appealing her conviction in the Snow White prosecution along with ten other Scientologists. "[27] The entire crew was forced to wear gray rags to symbolize their demotion; it was said that even Mary Sue's corgi dog, Vixie, had a gray rag tied around her neck. Northrup was a major figure in the Pasadena branch of the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O. [43] L. Ron Hubbard was said to have been fully aware of the GO's actions; the US government would later declare him to be an "unindicted co-conspirator" in the GO's illegal activities. The FBI declined to take any action, characterizing Hubbard as a "mental case". [33] When it became known in October 1974 that the FBI wished to interview Hubbard, Mary Sue persuaded her husband to avoid going ashore in the United States and the Apollo spent the next year sailing from port to port in the Caribbean. [50] Her husband avoided being indicted but was extremely concerned that Mary Sue would betray him. She began an affair with Wilfred Smith, Parsons' mentor in the O.T.O. She is heavily sexed. Such conduct was expressly permitted by the O.T.O., which followed Crowley's disdain of marriage as a "detestable institution" and accepted as commonplace the swapping of wives and partners between O.T.O. A "Founding Church of Scientology" was established in Washington, D.C. and Mary Sue became its first Academy Supervisor. "[42] He began an affair with the twenty-year-old Klowden, much to the annoyance of Northrup, who was clearly aware of the liaison. The dispute immediately became front-page news: the newspapers ran headlines such as "Cult Founder Accused of Tot Kidnap", "'Dianetic' Hubbard Accused of Plot to Kidnap Wife", and "Hiding of Baby Charged to Dianetics Author". She played a major role in the creation of Dianetics, which evolved into the religious movement Scientology. It consists of 'marriage guidance' for Scientologists from the then 'first lady' of the organisation. On its most basic level, "The Master" is a primordial myth about a man seeking his lost father (Freddie's dad, we learn, died long ago) and a father seeking his lost son (Dodd's own son . The writer Lawrence Wright was told in September 2010 by Tommy Davis, the then spokesman for the Church of Scientology, that Hubbard "was never married to Sara Northrup. Goodbye I love you. In 1998 she was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in addition to her existing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). [47], Klowden recalled later that "he was very down in the dumps about his wife. A month later Northrup was made a director of the newly established Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation in Elizabeth, New Jersey, an organization founded to disseminate knowledge of Dianetics. MILES HOLLISTER: Somewhere in the vicinity of Los Angeles. [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. 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. It has been variously defined as a cult, a business, or a new religious movement. She was a leading figure in Scientology for much of her life. 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. [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.
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