Scientology

Bijou Phillips, the estranged wife of convicted rapist Danny Masterson, has reportedly made the monumental decision to leave the Church of Scientology because she believes it’s important to help their 9-year-old daughter maintain a relationship with her father while he is in prison. According to a report by the Daily Mail, Phillips “quietly” left Scientology because the church would have expected her and her daughter to cut ties with the disgraced TV star after the church expelled him and declared him a “suppressive…

“His smile is the best,” gushes a caption on a Dec. 26 video of a young man with the physique of a lightweight boxer, a square jaw, and close-cropped dark hair. As he stands on Hollywood Boulevard, the man looks like virtually any other aspiring model or actor trying to eke out a living in Los Angeles; the only distinction is his crisply starched white shirt, tie, and vest, which makes him look like a cast member from the Book of Mormon. The man in the video, identified only as Sebastian, is a member of the Church…

"Those rifles are enough to take out a school. Those are serious assault rifles,” one of Masterson's Jane Doe victims said after a court hearing Thursday Convicted rapist Danny Masterson finally relinquished his personal stockpile of automatic weapons last week, three years after he was ordered to do so following his 2020 arrest for three counts of forcible rape, his lawyer told a Los Angeles judge Thursday. The disgraced That ‘70s Show actor has been locked up in Los Angeles County jail since…

Convicted rapist Danny Masterson failed to turn over nine of 23 guns after his felony arrest three years ago – and two of the Jane Does whose allegations led to his criminal charges tell Rolling Stone they’re “scared” and want answers. The Jane Does attended a court hearing in Los Angeles on Monday, where Judge Charlaine Olmedo gave Masterson’s camp until December 7 to provide proof the weapons have been found and secured. If Masterson’s lawyers fail, Judge Olmedo said she’ll order a search and seizure. One of…

There are movie stars and then there is Tom Cruise. Forty years a star, enough classics to make listing even a few here pointless, and, now, someone who can stake a legitimate claim to saving Hollywood (or at least jolting some life into that lazy, bloated monstrosity). Last year’s Top Gun: Maverick, with its millions at the box office, helped rescue the movies and movie theaters from the brink of Covid-19 and streaming. This year’s Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, the seventh and ostensibly penultimate…

Tom Mesereau and Sharon Appelbaum, Danny Masterson’s previous lawyers before they were ousted from the actor’s defense team, have been sanctioned for leaking confidential discovery material to the Church of Scientology. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Charlaine Olmedo on Wednesday found that Meseareau and Applebaum shared criminal discovery related to claims from Masterson’s accusers that they are being stalked and harassed. That discovery was shared with Vicki Podberesky, an attorney defending the…

Photo by Han Myung-Gu/Getty Images for Paramount Pictures Tom Cruise is 60-years-old. Let that sink in for a second. At 60, Cruise continues to break the mold. He’s doing things that younger actors can’t even wrap their heads around — heck, he’s doing things that actors his own age can’t even conceptualize. Now, as the first part of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning gets ready to release in theaters this July, a new trailer for the film has kickstarted the internet’s long-standing desire to watch Tom Cruise…

Each of the women who have accused Danny Masterson of raping them in the early 2000s said they feared two things: the once-beloved sitcom actor’s violent outbursts and the life-altering consequences they might face for opposing the powerful Church of Scientology.The controversial faith is not a defendant in Masterson’s second trial on rape charges. But its doctrines, the behavior of its members and even a church attorney have loomed over two weeks of testimony.“Like all predators, the defendant carefully sought out his…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeSimon Pegg has opened up about his longtime friendship with Tom Cruise.The British actor, 53, joined the Mission Impossible franchise in its third instalment released in 2006.He’s since starred in three more Mission Impossible movies opposite Cruise, 60, with the next – Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One – out 12 July.In the latest edition of BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island…

Tom Cruise might be setting himself up for a real-life impossible mission: Pursuing Latin music queen Shakira. After the “Top Gun” star and the “Hips Don’t Lie” singer were photographed hanging out together at the Formula 1 Grand Prix in Miami over the weekend, people began whispering about a possible romance in the works. A source told Page Six that the two have “chemistry” and he sent her flowers. “He is extremely interested in pursuing her,” the source said. That may be true but Cruise, 60, could face some serious…