"I thought he was pretty. Quentin committed suicide in Las. [18] Not long afterwards Hubbard bought Saint Hill Manor at Saint Hill Green, near East Grinstead, West Sussex. Northrup agreed but Hubbard reneged on the deal and flew to Chicago, where he found a psychologist who wrote a favorable report about his mental condition to refute Northrup's accusations. She was convicted in December 1979 and was sentenced to five years' imprisonment and the payment of a $10,000 fine. While previously published books have mentioned part of this . 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". [17] Although they got on well as fellow occultists, tensions between the two men were apparent in more domestic settings. 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. [citation needed], The Hubbards traveled to England in September 1952 when Mary Sue was eight months pregnant. An explorer, a mystic, a bestselling author, a nuclear physicist . 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. Fortunately for Northrup as it was the peak of the McCarthyite "Red Scare" Hubbard's allegations were apparently ignored by the FBI, which filed his letter but took no further action. Mary Sue was promoted to the position of Controller "for life" of the Guardian's Office in January 1969, with one of her subordinates, Jane Kember, being appointed to Mary Sue's old post of Guardian. Therefore, the worst possible penalty a Scientology child molester could receive in a Scientology religious arbitration would be a Suppressive Person declare. of age, 5'10", 140 lbs. [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. Scores of GO staff responded, locking the missionaires out of their premises and were intending to hire armed guards to bar access by me and the other Church officials who had ousted them. [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. She is heavily sexed. L. Ron Hubbard's drug use is a classic example of his hypocrisy. In his final moments, the man who created a religion with a massive following was . She had been part of Jack Parsons' group because "she had been sent in there by the Russians. 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. [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. [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. They married April 25, 1909, in Omaha, Nebraska. Hubbard took with him only two people, a married couple named Pat and Anne Broeker. After her resignation from the GO, Mary Sue Hubbard ceased to have any involvement in the management of the Church of Scientology. Scientology is a set of beliefs and practices invented by the American author L. Ron Hubbard, and an associated movement.Adherents are called Scientologists. She informed us that she did not appreciate our investigation of the GO and that if one were needed she would do it. 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. An attempt was made to have her sign an affidavit stating that she was in fact the daughter of L. Ron Hubbard's first son, her half-brother L. Ron Hubbard, Jr.[87], As the United Press International news agency noted, Church of Scientology biographies of Hubbard's life do not mention either of his first two wives. [54], Hubbard nonetheless remained active in the management of Scientology. [23] Hubbard's relationship with Northrup, while legal, had already caused alarm among those who knew him; Virginia Heinlein, the wife of the science fiction writer Robert Heinlein, regarded Hubbard as "a very sad case of post-war breakdown" and Northrup as his "latest Man-Eating Tigress".[24]. The Occult Rocket Scientist Who Conjured Spirits with L. Ron Hubbard Jack Parsons (right foreground) and colleagues prepare for their second-ever rocket engine test in Pasadena, November 1936.. 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. Hubbard spread allegations that she was a Communist secret agent and repeatedly denounced her to the FBI. Although he bluffed it out initially, a warrant was issued for his arrest in August. [32] They were reunited in September 1973, when the possibility of extradition had passed. The situation was potentially disastrous for the GO and caused panic among the leadership. Entitled "Marriage Hats". Following the birth, the Hubbards moved into a house in Silver Spring, Maryland. She played a major role in the creation of Dianetics, which evolved into the religious movement Scientology. Mary Sue Hubbard was removed from her post before she went to jail. [24] It was not until much later that Northrup discovered that Hubbard had never been divorced from his first wife, Margaret "Polly" Grubb; the marriage was bigamous. 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 . 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. [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. [42] Northrup recalled that "he used to Sara Elizabeth Bruce Northrup Hollister (April 8, 1924 - December 19, 1997) was an occultist and second wife of Scientologist founder L. Ron Hubbard. Alexis will get a fortune unless she goes to you as she would then get nothing. [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. This was the only time Hubbard allowed an outside crew to interview him. She told the court that she had not seen her husband since January 1980, "but I've written him personal letters but I don't believe he's getting them" as he had not replied to them. [It] was made clear that we had no choice but to overthrow the GO and dismiss everyone who had violated Church policy or the law. He issued an internal directive in 1979 asserting that major failures must result from the presence of multiple Suppressives, who would need to be rooted out along with their "connections". [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". "[20], By this time, Mary Sue was working as the chief course supervisor at Saint Hill Manor. I was under enormous stress and my advisers insisted it was necessary for me to carry through an action as I have done. It just never occurred to me he was a liar. On one occasion, while Northrup was pregnant, Hubbard kicked her several times in the stomach in an apparent though unsuccessful attempt to induce an abortion. Sorted by date as received from FBI archives. In 1952, Mary Sue and Ron were married. 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? Mary Sue Hubbard died on November 25, 2002, aged 71, at her home in Los Angeles. folders or files" to obtain information for purposes of intimidation and or harassment is repugnant. . The Hubbards moved back to London in February 1959, settling for a while in Golders Green. Mary Sue was given partial responsibility for running the new Dianetics establishment. Sometimes when the two of them were sitting at the table together, the hostility was almost tangible. Hubbard subsequently returned to the Foundation in Elizabeth, New Jersey. She subsequently married one of Hubbard's former employees, Miles Hollister, and moved to Hawaii and later Massachusetts, where she died in 1997. [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. "[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. She was born into a criminal atmosphere, her father having a criminal record. 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. [68] The original sentence of five years imprisonment was not carried out, and the court ordered a study of her claimed medical problems, before eventually replacing her sentence with a four-year term of imprisonment, with parole set at 40 months. 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. To that end he wrote Dianetics, proving to all the world just how mediocre a writer he was . [76], A Scientology spokesman informed the press that she had been left "a very generous provision" in her husband's will,[77] though the details were kept secret. After the British Sunday Times newspaper published an expos of Hubbard's membership of the O.T.O. "[46] In November 1950, Northrup attempted suicide by taking sleeping pills. . 6 Yet remarkably, despite the tantalizing scandal that surrounds it in popular culture, Scientology . She was Hubbard's personal auditor and along with Hubbard, one of the seven members of the Dianetics Foundation's Board of Directors. 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. I want her always. Northrup was one of five children born to Thomas Cowley, an Englishman working for the Standard Oil Company, and his wife, Olga Nelson, the daughter of a Swedish immigrant to the United States. Maybe he should be reincarnated as a rabbit. Mary Sue was appointed by her husband as Guardian (later Controller) of the Guardian's Office (GO) in March 1966. [38] Northrup became Hubbard's personal auditor (Dianetic counselor)[39] and was hailed by him as one of the first Dianetic "Clears". [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. Excerpts from the interview were published in Corydon's 1987 book, L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman?. [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. The other five defendants received lesser sentences and fines. He kept her sitting up in a chair, denying her sleep, trying to use Black Dianetic principles on her, repeating over and over again whatever he wanted her to do. "[3] Russell Miller gives a different explanation: "Hubbard wanted to go to London to establish his control over the small Dianetics group which had formed there spontaneously and Mary Sue insisted on accompanying him. "[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. [19], Germer informed Crowley, who wrote back to opine: "It seems to me on the information of our brethren in California that Parsons has got an illumination in which he has lost all his personal independence. 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 house was torn down. [3] She originally intended to work in petroleum research, but a friend persuaded her to travel with him to Wichita, Kansas, in mid-1951 to take a Dianetics course at the Hubbard Dianetic Foundation. That was one of the reasons L. Ron Hubbard never had a relationship with her. Evidently a prime mover but very young. He had been married in 1933, but his wife wouldn't bring the whole family down to California from Washington to live. Dissmissed [sic] in February when affiliations discovered. But anyone who underestimated Mary Sue made a big mistake. She had covered up for him so much, and there had been so many opportunities for her to betray him, that she couldn't believe he would think that. L. Ron Hubbard's daughter the one he wanted to disappear surfaces online By Tony Ortega, February 6, 2017 . [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. A Wikimdia Commons tartalmaz L. Ron Hubbard tmj mdiallomnyokat. The Hubbards had four children: Diana (born 1952), Quentin (1954-1976), Suzette (born 1955), and Arthur (born 1958). [37] She gave birth on March 8, 1950 to a daughter, Alexis Valerie. She intended to make use of this discovery by writing a book that would be "completely anti-Christ". [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. 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. [73] The controversy surrounding the divorce had severely dented his reputation. He succeeded in escaping in May and turned himself in to the FBI, making a full confession. They eventually married and got a house in Malibu and we became friends; I remember they introduced me to pot. Around the summer of 1951, he explained his flight to Cuba as being a bid to escape Northrup's depredations: "He talked a lot about Sara. 3839. There, creased between space adventures and tales of alien invasion, were the pages . She was a highly intelligent woman who helped her husband with his research and writing. L. Ron Hubbard, the science fiction writer who founded the Church of Scientology three decades ago, has died of a stroke, the church said tonight. [45] One evening he arranged a double-date with his wife and Klowden, who was accompanied by Hollister, an instructor in the Los Angeles Dianetic Foundation. Add a Comment. 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. She filed for divorce in an effort to try and create a false record that she had been married to him." On the night of February 24, 1951, Alexis was being looked after by John Sanborne while Northrup had a night at the movies. A curly haired, middle-aged woman - who US magazine National . 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. She gave Hubbard four more children - Diana, Quentin, Suzette and Arthur - over the next six years. 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". 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. 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. Though I will be hospitalized probably a long time, Alexis is getting excellent care. I doubt that she would face what you have with me or support me as well. Later, Hubbard said his wife left him because he was a cripple: And since then, the Church of Scientology has maintained in biographical . Or whatever. [15] Hubbard soon began an affair with Northrup after beginning "affairs with one girl after another in the house. Mary Sue and two others received the heaviest penalties, a five-year prison sentence and a $10,000 fine. Her actual true name is a Russian name. [25] He wrote: Sara, my sweetheart, is young, beautiful, desirable. L. Ron Hubbard started beating his wife during summer 1946. Together, we planned a series of missions to take over the GO, investigate it and reform it thoroughly. Sara Elizabeth Bruce Northrup Hollister (April 8, 1924 December 19, 1997) was an occultist and second wife of Scientologist founder L. Ron Hubbard. [78] In December 1995, Hubbard had a mastectomy of her left breast. He sought to explain it to his followers as being the result of his victimization by his ex-wife. They set up home in a villa on the outskirts of the Moroccan city of Tangier. The practice of culling supposedly confidential "P.C. I thought she was going to blow my head off. Lafayette Ronald Hubbard ( Tilden, Nebraska, 1911. mrcius 13. She was a leading figure in Scientology for much of her life. Alternative_Effort 7 mo. Mary Sue Hubbard signed a letter revoking her resignation and condemning the actions of the CMO. I may live a long time and again I may not. [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. Your character is superior. [48] Meisner became increasingly reluctant to cooperate with his GO handlers and in April 1977 he was forcibly taken by GO staff to a new hiding place. caused further tensions in the house, which Aleister Crowley heard about from communications from her housemates. Mary Sue Hubbar [28] The "liability cruise" ended in June 1969. [47], The espionage continued for another three months before Meisner's luck ran out and he was caught in June 1976. 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. [55] He listed them as: SARA NORTHRUP (HUBBARD): formerly of 1003 S. Orange Grove Avenue, Pasadena, Calif. 25 yrs. They lived there incognito for a few months before moving into an apartment in Dunedin on the west coast of Florida, a few miles north of the town of Clearwater where a Scientology front company had bought the old Fort Harrison Hotel to serve as Scientology's new headquarters. [3], The Hubbards returned again to London at the end of September 1955, where they took over the day-to-day management of the Hubbard Association of Scientologists International. She was forced from her post as controller, convicted and imprisoned as a felon, and deserted by her husband. "I just ran across the airfield, across the runways, to the airport and got on the plane. [40] Established in response to the battering that Scientology was receiving at the time from governments and the media, the GO was tasked with tackling any "threat of great importance" to Scientology. "[59] On April 19, as Barbara Klowden recorded in her journal, Hubbard telephoned her from Wichita and told her "he was not legally married. "[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. This proved a puzzle since where there is no legal marriage, there can't be any divorce. L. Ron Hubbard PO Box 24152 Tampa, FL 33623 28 November 1980. Russell Miller notes: They were indeed an unlikely couple a flamboyant, fast-talking extrovert entrepreneur in his forties and a quiet, intense young woman twenty years his junior from a small town in Texas. 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. Check out this great listen on Audible.com. She soon became involved in a relationship with Hubbard and married him in March 1952. I have a lovely wife, and I have four children. Apparently it is the ordinary confidence trick."[19]. 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. Currently missing somewhere in California. "[14], In August 1945, Northrup met L. Ron Hubbard for the first time. [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. Despite this, she still "felt so guilty about the fact that he was so psychologically damaged. 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. ago. Hubbards mission was successful far beyond anyones expectations. 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. Hubbard turned up and took the child. 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. View Gallery. The news story which the photograph accompanied has been republished by the Church with all mention of Northrup edited out from the text. It's notable for a number of reasons. She obtained a Hubbard Dianetic Auditor's Certificate and joined the Foundation's staff. 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". carry huge amounts of cash around in his pocket.