In August 1978, she was indicted by the United States government on charges of conspiracy relating to illegal covert operations mounted by the Guardian's Office against government agencies. Mary Sue Hubbard (ne Whipp; June 17, 1931 - November 25, 2002 [1]) was the third wife of L. Ron Hubbard, from 1952 until his death in 1986. . She soon began an affair with Hubbard, who had just been divorced from his second wife Sara, and moved in with him within only a few weeks of arriving in Wichita. [93] Rejecting any suggestion that she was some kind of "pathetic person who has suffered through the years because of my time with Ron", Northrup spoke of her relief that she had been able to put it behind her. Hubbard was an Eagle Scout. She is heavily sexed. She was a bitch. He succeeded in escaping in May and turned himself in to the FBI, making a full confession. members. Mary Sue and two others received the heaviest penalties, a five-year prison sentence and a $10,000 fine. 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. Ronald DeWolf, L. Ron Hubbard's son, told the News-Herald that his father took amphetamines, hallucinogens, and cocaine. I doubt that she would face what you have with me or support me as well. Hope to see you once more. [46], The marriage was in the process of breaking down rapidly. Currently intimate with them but evidently under coercion. His next project, Dianetics and Scientology, would secure him lifelong fame. [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. 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. . Add a Comment. She joined as a teenager along with her older sister Helen. The fact is that Hubbard had been married 3 times at the time of the interview. 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.] [54], Hubbard nonetheless remained active in the management of Scientology. Hubbard blamed Klowden for the suicide bid and told her to forget about him and the Foundation, but resumed the affair with her again within a month.[48]. [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. 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. 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. To Hubbard, her sadness was nothing more than an annoyance. 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 "[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. 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]. [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. He wasn't married to her. Mary Sue Hubbard signed a letter revoking her resignation and condemning the actions of the CMO. I think I have made a great gain and as Betty and I are the best of friends, there is little loss. ago. Hubbard was struggling with illness in 1980 and he was living in San Luis Obisbo . As Scientology's "first lady," Shelly Miscavige took on many duties. [43] She left Wichita as soon as Alexis was returned to her. About 22 yrs, 6', 180 lbs. 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. 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. Who Is L. Ron Hubbard's Wife? 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. She kept saying to me, 'What is he worried about?' In 1947, Polly filed for divorce and was granted the custody of her children . [32], The relationship was not an easy one. Mary Sue Hubbard (ne Whipp; June 17, 1931 November 25, 2002[1]) was the third wife of L. Ron Hubbard, from 1952 until his death in 1986. . He thought I had thrown in with the psychiatrists, with the devils. He accused Communists of destroying his business, ruining his health and withholding material of interest to the US Government. . It is, of course, rather ironic that the person who authorized G.O. 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 . 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. She had attached herself to a Jack Parsons, the rocket expert, during the war and when she left him he was a wreck. I remember he said to me I was the only person he knew who would set up a white silk tent for him. In reality, Hubbard had made an unsuccessful request for assistance from the US military attach to Havana. "[8] Despite the tensions between them, Hubbard, Northrup and Parsons agreed at the start of 1946 that they would go into business together, buying yachts on the East Coast and sailing them to California to sell at a profit. 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. He went to live at the house and investigated the black magic rites and the general situation and found them very bad. His first wife had not obtained divorce until '47 and he was married in '46. [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. "[70] She did not give evidence but was awarded custody of Alexis and $200 a month in child support. 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. [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. [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. Upon L. Ron Hubbard's death in 1986, David became Scientology's leader, with Shelly at his side. 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. "[77] He notes as an example of "this apparent erasure of Sarah Northrup from his mind"[77] a 1968 interview with the British broadcaster Granada Television, in which Hubbard denied that he had had a second wife in between his first, Polly, and the present one, Mary Sue:[77], HUBBARD: "How many times have I been married? I have no revenge motive nor am I trying to angle this broader than it is. This was the only time Hubbard allowed an outside crew to interview him. . "[43], By October, the Foundation's financial affairs had reached a crisis point. [citation needed], The Hubbards traveled to England in September 1952 when Mary Sue was eight months pregnant. Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard served in the US Navy in the 1940s. The Guardian Office was no respector of anyone's civil rights, particularly that of privacy. "[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. Excerpts from the interview were published in Corydon's 1987 book, L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman?. "[62] He later told Hubbard's unofficial biographer, Russell Miller: I liked Sara and Miles a lot. 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. At age 15, Northrup moved in with sister Helen and her husband Jack, while she finished high school. Quentin was Hubbard's fourth child - his second son - to his third wife, Mary Sue Hubbard. 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. Things like, "Be his wife, have a family that looks good, not have a divorce." The primary exponent of Scientology is the Church of Scientology, a centralized and hierarchical organization based in Florida, although many practitioners . 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. In May 1951, Northrup filed a further complaint against Hubbard, accusing him of having fled to Cuba to evade the divorce papers that she was seeking to serve. Sara Northrup Hubbard, 2nd wife of L. Ron Hubbard Hubbard's strange writings did seem to imbue him with a special kind of confidence and belief in his own abilities, which for many seemed like supernatural powers. His misfortunes had been caused by "a woman known as Sara Elizabeth Northrup . 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. 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. But Dianetics will last 10,000 years for the Army and Navy have it now. He became disillusioned with Scientology and left the Church, taking with him copies of biographical material, including Hubbard's letters to Mary Sue over the years. She began an affair with Wilfred Smith, Parsons' mentor in the O.T.O. On "Scientology and the Aftermath," Leah Remini discussed the family members of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard and the abuse they suffered. Her body was cremated two days later and her ashes were scattered at sea off the California coast,[2] where L. Ron Hubbard's ashes had similarly been scattered in January 1986. [8], Northrup joined the O.T.O. They eventually married and got a house in Malibu and we became friends; I remember they introduced me to pot. "[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. 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. By this time the Foundation had filed for bankruptcy, and Hubbard's erstwhile backer, Don Purcell, was left to deal with its substantial debts. Her real motive in filing for divorce, he said, was to seize control of Dianetics. Together, we planned a series of missions to take over the GO, investigate it and reform it thoroughly. I am better suited to her temperamentally we get on well. . 's US head, Karl Germer, labeled her "an ordeal sent by the gods". The wife of the founder of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, has filed a $5 million suit against Mr. Hubbard's son, charging "massive fraud" in his 1982 effort to have his father declared legally dead or mentally incompetent. "[12] Joan Vidal, a friend of the sculptor Edward Harris, who was commissioned by Hubbard to create a bust of him, described Mary Sue as "a rather drab, mousy, nothing sort of person, quite a bit younger than him. They married April 25, 1909, in Omaha, Nebraska. She gave Hubbard four more children - Diana, Quentin, Suzette and Arthur - over the next six years. "[13] Concluding that she was a vampire, which he defined as "an elemental or demon in the form of a woman" who sought to "lure the Candidate to his destruction," he warned that Northrup was a grave danger to Parsons and to the "Great Work" which the O.T.O. [9], In June 1941, at the age of seventeen, she began a passionate affair with Parsons while her sister Helen was away on vacation. [11], A family friend, Ray Kemp, later recalled: "their relationship seemed OK, but there never seemed to be a lot of love between them. However I am afraid that most of the money has already been dissipated. "[63], The divorce writ prompted a deluge of bad publicity for Hubbard and elicited an unexpected letter to Northrup from his first wife, Polly, who wrote: "If I can help in any way I'd like toYou must get Alexis in your custodyRon is not normal. [4] She was sexually active from an unusually young age and often said she lost her virginity at the age of ten.[5]. She became involved in Hubbard's Dianetics in 1951, while still a student at the University of Texas at Austin, becoming a Dianetics auditor. "[91], Although Northrup did not speak out publicly against her ex-husband following their divorce, she broke her silence in 1972. "[50], Three weeks later, Hubbard abducted both Northrup and Alexis. He and Mary Sue moved initially to Daytona Beach, Florida in August 1975. [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. Since. I had hoped that you could straighten him out. Her disruptive behavior appalled Fred Gwynn, a new O.T.O. 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. She was Hubbard's personal auditor and along with Hubbard, one of the seven members of the Dianetics Foundation's Board of Directors. ", "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. But anyone who underestimated Mary Sue made a big mistake. At the order of both of the Hubbards, the GO ran scores of operations against Scientology's enemies. 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. [10], Although both were committed O.T.O. But I am 13 years older than she. or so the stories go. Northrup, who was beginning a pregnancy, was said to have been delighted with the location. 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. Entitled "Marriage Hats". 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.. Or whatever. "[76] As Downsborough put it, he portrayed himself as "a constant victim of women". 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. "[83], He said that Northrup had been a Nazi spy during the war and accused her and Hollister of using the divorce case to seize control of Dianetics: "They obtained considerable newspaper publicity, none of it true, and employed the highest priced divorce attorney in the US to sue me for divorce and get the foundation in Los Angeles in settlement. 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". "[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. [37] She gave birth on March 8, 1950 to a daughter, Alexis Valerie. [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. [79], The establishment and expansion of Scientology. 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". They were formally found guilty on October 26, 1979. 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. I have many experiments in mind.[16]. "[45] A few days later while still married to Northrup he proposed marriage to Klowden. [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. Alternative_Effort 7 mo. MILES HOLLISTER: Somewhere in the vicinity of Los Angeles. He walked right in there and bought it for me, cash! [1] 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. 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. I make this statement of my own free will for I have begun to realize that what I have done may have injured the science of Dianetics, which in my studied opinion may be the only hope of sanity in future generations. "I thought he was pretty. January 8, 1983 Mary Sue Hubbard, wife of the founder of the Church of Scientology, was sentenced in federal court here yesterday to four years in prison for her role in a conspiracy to plant. [15] Hubbard soon began an affair with Northrup after beginning "affairs with one girl after another in the house. Mary Sue Hubbard, third wife of L. Ron, was sentenced to four years and given a fine of $10,000. He persuaded Northrup to pose as an old friend writing in support of his appeals; in one letter, she claimed untruthfully to have "known Lafayette Ronald Hubbard for many years" and described his supposed pre-war state of health. Various Scientology experts are now comparing David's disappearance to that of founder L. Ron Hubbard, who died in 1986 after spending years dealing with lawsuits and legal battles until he became . The O.T.O. He told me how he had met Northrup. I believed Sara absolutely; there was no question about the truth in my opinion. [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. [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]. Hubbard subsequently returned to the Foundation in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Although he bluffed it out initially, a warrant was issued for his arrest in August. "[21], On January 26, 1967, Mary Sue was confirmed as a Scientology "Clear", a somewhat elite rank at that time. His wife was in prison and his estranged son believed he was either dead or insane. [38] Northrup became Hubbard's personal auditor (Dianetic counselor)[39] and was hailed by him as one of the first Dianetic "Clears". [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. There, creased between space adventures and tales of alien invasion, were the pages . [2] Parsons' interest in the occult led in 1939 to him and Helen joining the Pasadena branch of the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.). 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. [57] In May 1981, he met with Mary Sue to tell her that her position as Controller of the Guardian's Office was untenable. L. Ron Hubbard was previously married to Mary Sue Whipp (1952 - 1986), Sara Northrup (1946 - 1951), Margaret Louise Grubb (1933 - 1947) and Margaret Grubb.. L. Ron Hubbard was in relationships with Barbara Kaye (1950) and Mary Sue Hubbard.. About. Hubbard turned up and took the child. I'm actually gonna disagree with most people here. [51], Northrup went to a psychiatrist to obtain advice about Hubbard's increasingly violent and irrational behaviour, and was told that he probably needed to be institutionalized and that she was in serious danger. His search was unsuccessful and he released her at Yuma Airport across the state line in Arizona. After the British Sunday Times newspaper published an expos of Hubbard's membership of the O.T.O. Helen and Jack were engaged in July 1934[6] and married in April 1935. According to Russell Miller, "The crew worked to the point of exhaustion, the food was meager and no one was allowed to wash or change their clothes. Her achievement was commemorated in a special tribute edition of the Scientology newspaper The Auditor, titled simply: "Mary Sue Hubbard Clear #208". [56] The Messengers, who were mostly in their teens and early twenties, became Hubbard's sole means of communication with the Church. David went ballistic at his wife while she . Numerous other Guardian's Office personnel were purged as well. I want her always. "[8] She believed all of it, though none of his claims of wartime action or injuries was true.[8]. She was born into a criminal atmosphere, her father having a criminal record. 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? He replied, "You know, I'm a public figure and you're nobody, so if you have to go through the divorce, I'll accuse you of desertion so it won't look so bad on my public record. I just wanted to be free of him! [67] She met him in Wichita to resolve the situation. L. Ron Hubbard's daughter the one he wanted to disappear surfaces online By Tony Ortega, February 6, 2017 . "[72], After divorcing Hubbard, Northrup married Miles Hollister and bought a house in Malibu, California. Mary Sue Hubbard and the GO, however, did not simply capitulate. She is all I have to live for. [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. She played a major role in the creation of Dianetics, which evolved into the religious movement Scientology. The Church sued in 1982 and Mary Sue joined the suit, charging that Armstrong had committed an "invasion of privacy". By this time, Mary Sue had become a key figure within the nascent Scientology movement. The Hubbards moved to a new house in Elizabeth to be near the Foundation. "[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. It has been variously defined as a cult, a business, or a new religious movement. Therefore, the worst possible penalty a Scientology child molester could receive in a Scientology religious arbitration would be a Suppressive Person declare. He was having a lot of problems with her. Everyone was very calm, gunners joking about who would get in the first shot," Hubbard wrote. 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. That investigation was prompted by the existence of a number of civil law suits which had been filed at that time against Church of Scientology of California and Mr. Hubbard, and which the GO was supposed to be responsible for handling. But the Church of Scientology denies the existence of this woman,. [28] The "liability cruise" ended in June 1969. Ron Hubbard's first wife was Jack Parsons' second wife, who he stole away from Jack, along with a lot of his life savings. One of his aides, David Mayo, was dispatched by Hubbard to suggest that Mary Sue might consider a divorce. [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. by nevalalee February 1, 2017. I need a magical partner. 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]. [44], One of their primary targets was the IRS, with which Scientology was engaged in a bitter battle over tax exemptions. [88] In one publication the Church has airbrushed Northrup out of a photograph of the couple that appeared in the Miami Daily News issue of June 30, 1946. A "Founding Church of Scientology" was established in Washington, D.C. and Mary Sue became its first Academy Supervisor. . [7] Her parents not only knew about her unconventional living arrangements but supported Parsons' group financially. She worked with her husband, completing tasks for him and helping to dull his temper when he raged at other members. To that end he wrote Dianetics, proving to all the world just how mediocre a writer he was . 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. Her allegations produced more lurid headlines: not only was Hubbard accused of bigamy and kidnapping, but she had been subjected to "systematic torture, including loss of sleep, beatings, and strangulations and scientific experiments".
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