Marlow Stern
Senior Entertainment Editor
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Where is Shelly Miscavige?
It’s the relevant question that’s haunted Leah Remini for more than a ten years. Plus in the latest episode of her A&E show Leah Remini: Scientology plus the Aftermath, the ex-Scientologist switched whistle-blower, a previous buddy and pen pal of Shelly’s, interviewed a number of her closest confidantes whom provided valuable context for why the wife of Scientology frontrunner David Miscavige hasn’t been seen publicly since August 2007, at her father’s funeral.
In accordance with author Lawrence Wright’s book Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, plus the Prison of Belief, Shelly both functioned as Miscavige’s right-hand girl in addition to a handler to Scientology’s biggest star, Tom Cruise. And, when you look at the second ability, Wright advertised that she supervised the auditing associated with Mission: Impossible actor’s then-girlfriend Penelope Cruz, plus the look for Cruise’s brand new partner after their split through the Spanish actress.
The difficulties for Remini began during the 2006 wedding of Cruise and also this brand new partner, Katie Holmes—a $3 million, star-studded event at a fifteenth century castle in Italy. One of the guests had been Brooke Shields, Giorgio Armani, Jim Carrey, Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, David and Victoria Beckham, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony, and other Scientologists John Travolta and Kelly Preston. The couple was serenaded by Andrea Bocelli, and participated in Scientology’s Double Ring ceremony, with Miscavige serving as Cruise’s most readily useful guy. Remini ended up being here too, as soon as she started asking guests and Scientology officials at the bash why Shelly ended up being nowhere can be found, states she ended up being later “punished for asking where the leader’s wife was.”
Within the period 3 premiere episode of Scientology and also the Aftermath, Remini interviewed Valerie Haney, whom served 22 years into the church’s fraternal order that is religious Sea Org, whoever people must signal billion-year agreements, and ended up being additionally the non-public associate to Shelly Miscavige. Haney claims she endure saw Shelly crying and entering a car outside “Gold Base,” the worldwide head office associated with Church of Scientology in Riverside County, Ca.
“What Miscavige is performing together with spouse, hiding her and devoid of her anywhere around, we don’t have it. This is certainly heartless for me,” claims Haney.
Tom DeVocht, an old Church of Scientology official whom knew Shelly, adds that she confided in him that her spouse ended up being “losing it” prior to her public disappearance.
Remini filed a missing-persons report on Shelly’s behalf in 2013, and after conducting a security check, Det. Gus Villanueva claimed, “The LAPD has categorized the report as unfounded, showing that Shelly just isn’t missing,” though they declined to give any details regarding the state they found her in, where she actually is, or if she was at the current presence of church officials.
“What matters if you ask me is the fact that i’ve perhaps not seen evidence that this woman is alive, or succeeding, therefore I will give a shit exactly what the LAPD said as their bullshit statement which they create, because we have actuallyn’t seen her face. I’m bullshit that is calling it,” Remini said.
Det. Kevin Becker associated with the LAPD’s Hollywood Division, friend of Remini’s who’s since resigned through the force, supplied a written declaration to your day-to-day Beast in regards to the Shelly Miscavige health check which read, in part: “I and several other detectives genuinely believe that the ‘investigation’ ended up being REALLY defectively managed and LAPD dropped means quick about this one.”
In a threatening letter into the regular Beast, Glassman Media Group, what the law states company representing the Church of Scientology, called Remini and Rinder’s claims “false,” said they will haven’t supplied any proof of Shelly’s whereabouts since they don’t wish to “dignify the preposterous allegations,” and alleged, “Mrs. Miscavige has not been lacking and it is residing her life to her selecting.” (They declined to deliver any information about her state that is current or whereabouts.)
“Mrs. Miscavige happens to be hitched to Mr. Miscavige for nearly 40 years. This woman is a life-long Scientologist and is a specialized person in the ocean Organization, the Scientology spiritual purchase. While her spouse lives a public life whilst the Church’s leader, Mrs. Miscavige lives a life that is private. My partner Rebecca Kaufman has individually met with Mrs. Miscavige,” wrote Anthony Michael Glassman of Glassman Media Group.
Remini and her Aftermath co-host Mike Rinder, a previous executive that is senior the Church of Scientology, think that Shelly will be held in the Church of religious Technology (CST), a heavily-fortified complex near Lake Arrowhead, California, made up of vaults housing Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s obtained works on gold music cds, and nuclear shelters. It is where Scientologists are get yourself ready for Armageddon.
“Mike and I also are pretty good that in 2005, as soon as Dave Miscavige had his blow-up along with her, he delivered her up here to become a non-person,” Tony Ortega, publisher associated with the Underground Bunker plus the leading journalist addressing Scientology, said many years straight back. “They allow her away for a few times on her behalf father’s funeral during summer of 2007, and no body has seen her since. I’m she’s that are positive here, and I also have actually my sources saying that she’s still there.”
Rinder further claims that they explored Shelly’s disappearance on Aftermath “because so many people reached out and demanded that individuals execute a show about any of it. he ended up being contacted by an individual at CST whoever task would be to monitor Shelly’s whereabouts, and maintains”
“They believe the entire world doesn’t have actually the ranking to inquire about about any of it; that no one has got the ranking to inquire of about that,” Rinder tells me personally. “It’s a look that is interesting the mind-set of Scientologists, and just how away from touch with truth they have been. If Shelly Miscavige is actually simply peachy-keen and fine, exactly how easy would it not be on her behalf to write a note that is handwritten the planet, or to Leah? How simple wouldn’t it be on her behalf to accomplish a movie Go Here? Scientology has tens and thousands of videos they released. why there clearly wasn’t one of Shelly, if she’s therefore fine?”
“The evidence there is something very wrong is perhaps not the statements made by me personally or anyone else, the evidence that there’s one thing fishy is within Scientology’s response,” he continues. “This is the simplest part of the entire world to cope with if there clearly wasn’t something strange taking place.”