Re: Scientology - Mass Exodus of Senior Staff and 'A' Listers
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Date: July 06, 2012 09:30PM
06 July 2012
The Church of Scientology has launched a counter-attack against damaging publicity triggered by the breakdown of Tom Cruise’s marriage to Katie Holmes.
A senior Church official sent followers a panicked email giving advice on how to counter the negative press storm.
Tom Cruise is the focus of the world’s media amid claims that his six-year marriage collapsed after he insisted that six-year-old daughter Suri be sent to a Scientology “boot camp”.
Today, Daniel Lattanzi from the Church’s Office of Special Affairs emailed followers: “While this is a personal matter, when people start to bring our religion into the middle and a bunch of uninformed people start to spread false datum, rumours and defame our religion it became a matter that does affect my Dynamics and I believe that affects yours as well.”
[www.standard.co.uk]
He instructs followers to scan the internet for negative comments and then notify website monitors that they violate online codes of conduct.
The Church of Scientology has launched a counter-attack against damaging publicity triggered by the breakdown of Tom Cruise’s marriage to Katie Holmes.
A senior Church official sent followers a panicked email giving advice on how to counter the negative press storm.
Tom Cruise is the focus of the world’s media amid claims that his six-year marriage collapsed after he insisted that six-year-old daughter Suri be sent to a Scientology “boot camp”.
Today, Daniel Lattanzi from the Church’s Office of Special Affairs emailed followers: “While this is a personal matter, when people start to bring our religion into the middle and a bunch of uninformed people start to spread false datum, rumours and defame our religion it became a matter that does affect my Dynamics and I believe that affects yours as well.”
[www.standard.co.uk]
He instructs followers to scan the internet for negative comments and then notify website monitors that they violate online codes of conduct.
Re: Scientology - Mass Exodus of Senior Staff and 'A' Listers
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Date: July 06, 2012 10:02PM
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SeekingTruth
He instructs followers to scan the internet for negative comments and then notify website monitors that they violate online codes of conduct.
What code of conduct would that be?
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Re: Scientology - Mass Exodus of Senior Staff and 'A' Listers
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Date: July 07, 2012 02:23AM
"Scientology Crumbling: Entire Mission quits" from the Village Voice Blog:
[blogs.villagevoice.com]
It seems the rats are deserting a sinking Sea Org ship....
[blogs.villagevoice.com]
It seems the rats are deserting a sinking Sea Org ship....
Re: Scientology - Mass Exodus of Senior Staff and 'A' Listers
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Date: July 08, 2012 02:53PM
I still cant see how anyone can call Scientology a religion with a straight face and no paycheck.
Re: Scientology - Mass Exodus of Senior Staff and 'A' Listers
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Date: July 10, 2012 05:57AM
Surprising and excellent damage control from Cruise today in agreeing so quickly with everything Katie wanted.
This will stop the divorce from going to court and Scientology being dragged kicking and screaming into the light.
By keeping the secrets from spilling out they may be actively trying to stop more high ranking members and even the rank-and-file from defecting.
This seems to be the chief puppet master pulling Tom's strings and making him agree to Katie with her divorce demands to try and save Scientology from further (well deserved) embarrassment.
This will stop the divorce from going to court and Scientology being dragged kicking and screaming into the light.
By keeping the secrets from spilling out they may be actively trying to stop more high ranking members and even the rank-and-file from defecting.
This seems to be the chief puppet master pulling Tom's strings and making him agree to Katie with her divorce demands to try and save Scientology from further (well deserved) embarrassment.
Re: Scientology - Mass Exodus of Senior Staff and 'A' Listers
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Date: July 12, 2012 02:27AM
As Katie Holmes bars Suri from Sea Org... the Sussex school whose pupils vanish at 16 to join Scientology’s secret elite
[www.standard.co.uk]
Holmes may have spared Suri a Scientology education — but what of the British teens at a private school just an hour from London shipped off to Sea Org?
London Evening Standard's Joshi Herrmann reports from Greenfields
11 July 2012
Greenfields School is near the church’s UK HQ in East Grinstead
[www.greenfieldsschool.com]
Twenty minutes into my visit to Saint Hill Manor last week, a Georgian house on the edge of East Grinstead and about an hour on the train from Victoria, a uniformed man with a dog approached me, and he wanted to check a few things.
“You are a Scientologist?” he asked, with a Polish intonation.
“No, I’m just having a look around.”
“So you are a guest,” he said. “We like to know who is here.”
The staff at Scientology’s UK headquarters are alert to the danger posed by outsiders, their movement the subject of criticism from former members (“defectors”), children’s campaigners and courts around the world since its birth in the 1950s. Scientology’s beliefs about a dictator alien called Xenu who blew up his people 75 million years ago by exploding volcanos with H-bombs have attracted ridicule since they were published against the church’s will, and advocates have long denied accusations that their movement is a cult or a front for a money-making operation.
The announcement this week that Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise had agreed divorce terms rounded off another period of intense scrutiny of the church. Speculation that Holmes was motivated by concerns about her daughter, Suri, being educated by Scientologists and initiated into a secretive group called Sea Org were given credence by the couple’s joint statement, in which they sought to “express our respect for each other’s commitment to each of our respective beliefs”. An insider told celebrity news site Radar: “Suri isn’t permitted to be exposed to anything Scientology-related and this includes going to any Scientology churches, parties, etc. Katie made sure this was ironclad.”
Since the divorce, journalists have been queuing up outside Saint Hill, where Scientology’s founder L Ron Hubbard lived between 1959 and 1966.
But the story of Scientology’s relationship with children is better told if you make a 10-minute car journey to Greenfields, a small independent school perched on the corner of the Ashdown Forest, where some of the future leaders of Scientology are being educated.
The sign outside describes it simply as an “Independent day and boarding school from 2 to 18 years old”, and the students mill about in ordinary green and brown school uniforms. But the locals in Forest Row have long known that Greenfields is the school of choice for the staff at Saint Hill. In a landmark High Court case in 1985, Justice Latey said that “the church exercises a strong influence [at Greenfields], if not indeed control.” Greenfields now describes itself as “completely non-denominational” welcoming “children of all faiths” although it is thought that many of the teachers are Scientologists.
Set back from the road along a private drive, the school is housed in a Victorian mansion. It uses the Study Technology learning method devised by Hubbard, which involves allowing students to learn at their own pace and using clay to work out how to visualise challenging questions, and is licensed to Applied Scholastics International, an organisation which promotes the use of Hubbard’s teaching methods all over the world. Hubbard is described as an “Educator and Humanitarian” in the school magazine. Justice Latey called him a “charlatan and worse”.
A report from the Independent Schools Inspectorate last year said the school achieved “good” academic and pastoral standards, but that just eight of its 101 students are in the sixth form. What it didn’t say is that, almost every year, a few students leave Greenfields and never come back to complete their studies.
The Standard has learned that the students who go are not transferring to local sixth form colleges but travelling to America to enrol at Sea Org — the secretive arm of Scientology which has been the subject of the most frightening allegations made about the church. Former students have told the Standard that Greenfields students sometimes leave the school before age 16. The children seem to vanish — cut off from their non-Scientologist friends when they are at Sea Org, where Facebook and all social networking are banned. Most shockingly of all, the Standard has been told that within two years of their teenage classmates going to Sea Org, news reaches Greenfields that some of their former peers have married fellow Scientologists.
Sea Org is described as “the church’s equivalent of a religious order” and has about 6,000 members, who maintain the naval-style customs, uniforms and discipline developed when the elite group was based on a fleet of yachts at sea. Nowadays just one boat — Freewinds — remains and Sea Org members operate mainly on land, at a complex in Clearwater, Florida and Scientology’s highly guarded Gold Base in the California.
A number of women over the years have alleged that they were put under pressure to abort their babies by officials at Sea Org as a result of the no-children policy — claims the church has always denied. Gary Morehead, a former head of security at the Gold Base, has said he developed a “blow drill” to track down Sea Org members who tried to escape, which sometimes involved using physical force. He says that in 13 years, his team caught upwards of a hundred members but the church says that blow drills do not exist.
It is well known that members of Sea Org are required to sign contracts for up to a billion years of service, and that those trying to leave can be presented with a “freeloader tab”, charging them retrospectively for thousands of pounds of counselling they have received as a member.
Fred, 20, who left Greenfields four years ago, told the Standard that about 10 pupils left for Sea Org in the two years he was there.
“Most of them left once they had done their GCSEs,” he says, although he remembers two or three who left before finishing their GCSE courses. “One of them left before she was 16 but apparently she kept up her education on the boat.
“When they get back to England [for holidays] they reconnect to Facebook and start updating their profiles but when they are over there at Sea Org they can’t update their profiles at all.”
On returning to the school for a play, a year after going to Florida, Fred says a few of the Sea Org students were “very different”.
“A few of them visited for a few days, and as they were my friends I hung out with them quite a lot, and they were really different, unpleasantly so. They were much quieter, they talked in a different way, in a slightly unpleasant way. They were less ‘there’. It was a very unpleasant experience meeting them again.”
How had they changed? “They were more like their parents. They were less open with me and less willing to discuss things with me, and this is what I heard from a lot of people.”
Alarmingly, many of the teenagers returning from Sea Org come back with husbands and wives.
“Almost all of those who came back from Sea Org had got married there or in the intervening period,” says Fred. “Some of them updated their Facebook with photos of their weddings. One of their mothers told me about how their daughter had been married.” Fred was “very surprised” to see his teenage friends getting married so young.
James, 17, a current student at the school whose parents are Scientologists but who calls himself an agnostic, says that on average three students leave for Sea Org each year. “A couple of my friends got married out of the blue. But you know, once they left school I didn’t really stay in contact.” He says both weddings happened within a year of their departure. One friend married a girl he was already in a relationship with at Greenfields. He didn’t recognise the other friend’s bride when he saw the photos.
“I’ve heard,” says James “and these are just rumours, that having relationships [at Sea Org] was strictly forbidden unless it was serious. I think that might have led some of the couples to getting married, so they can continue their serious relationship. I’ve heard it from a few people”.
When fellow pupils find out which of their peers has been chosen to go to Sea Org, it affects how they are treated in the classroom, according to another ex-pupil, Zach: “They are excited before they go, they are completely thrilled. And they get treated differently at school.”
They are “very tight-lipped about it”, he recalls, and “even quieter” around non-Scientologists. “If you asked, they would just walk away,” he said, “Even the regular Scientologists are kept in the dark about it.”
All of the ex-students who spoke to the Standard said that Greenfields is welcoming to non-Scientologists. The Standard asked the school for a response, but it did not provide one.
Katie Holmes may have shepherded her six-year-old away from a future with Scientology’s elite but a clutch of British families in the Sussex countryside seem less concerned about Sea Org, and the young marriage, behavioural change and alleged abuses that it apparently visits upon its teenage initiates.
*Some names and details have been changed.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/12/2012 02:30AM by SeekingTruth.
[www.standard.co.uk]
Holmes may have spared Suri a Scientology education — but what of the British teens at a private school just an hour from London shipped off to Sea Org?
London Evening Standard's Joshi Herrmann reports from Greenfields
11 July 2012
Greenfields School is near the church’s UK HQ in East Grinstead
[www.greenfieldsschool.com]
Twenty minutes into my visit to Saint Hill Manor last week, a Georgian house on the edge of East Grinstead and about an hour on the train from Victoria, a uniformed man with a dog approached me, and he wanted to check a few things.
“You are a Scientologist?” he asked, with a Polish intonation.
“No, I’m just having a look around.”
“So you are a guest,” he said. “We like to know who is here.”
The staff at Scientology’s UK headquarters are alert to the danger posed by outsiders, their movement the subject of criticism from former members (“defectors”), children’s campaigners and courts around the world since its birth in the 1950s. Scientology’s beliefs about a dictator alien called Xenu who blew up his people 75 million years ago by exploding volcanos with H-bombs have attracted ridicule since they were published against the church’s will, and advocates have long denied accusations that their movement is a cult or a front for a money-making operation.
The announcement this week that Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise had agreed divorce terms rounded off another period of intense scrutiny of the church. Speculation that Holmes was motivated by concerns about her daughter, Suri, being educated by Scientologists and initiated into a secretive group called Sea Org were given credence by the couple’s joint statement, in which they sought to “express our respect for each other’s commitment to each of our respective beliefs”. An insider told celebrity news site Radar: “Suri isn’t permitted to be exposed to anything Scientology-related and this includes going to any Scientology churches, parties, etc. Katie made sure this was ironclad.”
Since the divorce, journalists have been queuing up outside Saint Hill, where Scientology’s founder L Ron Hubbard lived between 1959 and 1966.
But the story of Scientology’s relationship with children is better told if you make a 10-minute car journey to Greenfields, a small independent school perched on the corner of the Ashdown Forest, where some of the future leaders of Scientology are being educated.
The sign outside describes it simply as an “Independent day and boarding school from 2 to 18 years old”, and the students mill about in ordinary green and brown school uniforms. But the locals in Forest Row have long known that Greenfields is the school of choice for the staff at Saint Hill. In a landmark High Court case in 1985, Justice Latey said that “the church exercises a strong influence [at Greenfields], if not indeed control.” Greenfields now describes itself as “completely non-denominational” welcoming “children of all faiths” although it is thought that many of the teachers are Scientologists.
Set back from the road along a private drive, the school is housed in a Victorian mansion. It uses the Study Technology learning method devised by Hubbard, which involves allowing students to learn at their own pace and using clay to work out how to visualise challenging questions, and is licensed to Applied Scholastics International, an organisation which promotes the use of Hubbard’s teaching methods all over the world. Hubbard is described as an “Educator and Humanitarian” in the school magazine. Justice Latey called him a “charlatan and worse”.
A report from the Independent Schools Inspectorate last year said the school achieved “good” academic and pastoral standards, but that just eight of its 101 students are in the sixth form. What it didn’t say is that, almost every year, a few students leave Greenfields and never come back to complete their studies.
The Standard has learned that the students who go are not transferring to local sixth form colleges but travelling to America to enrol at Sea Org — the secretive arm of Scientology which has been the subject of the most frightening allegations made about the church. Former students have told the Standard that Greenfields students sometimes leave the school before age 16. The children seem to vanish — cut off from their non-Scientologist friends when they are at Sea Org, where Facebook and all social networking are banned. Most shockingly of all, the Standard has been told that within two years of their teenage classmates going to Sea Org, news reaches Greenfields that some of their former peers have married fellow Scientologists.
Sea Org is described as “the church’s equivalent of a religious order” and has about 6,000 members, who maintain the naval-style customs, uniforms and discipline developed when the elite group was based on a fleet of yachts at sea. Nowadays just one boat — Freewinds — remains and Sea Org members operate mainly on land, at a complex in Clearwater, Florida and Scientology’s highly guarded Gold Base in the California.
A number of women over the years have alleged that they were put under pressure to abort their babies by officials at Sea Org as a result of the no-children policy — claims the church has always denied. Gary Morehead, a former head of security at the Gold Base, has said he developed a “blow drill” to track down Sea Org members who tried to escape, which sometimes involved using physical force. He says that in 13 years, his team caught upwards of a hundred members but the church says that blow drills do not exist.
It is well known that members of Sea Org are required to sign contracts for up to a billion years of service, and that those trying to leave can be presented with a “freeloader tab”, charging them retrospectively for thousands of pounds of counselling they have received as a member.
Fred, 20, who left Greenfields four years ago, told the Standard that about 10 pupils left for Sea Org in the two years he was there.
“Most of them left once they had done their GCSEs,” he says, although he remembers two or three who left before finishing their GCSE courses. “One of them left before she was 16 but apparently she kept up her education on the boat.
“When they get back to England [for holidays] they reconnect to Facebook and start updating their profiles but when they are over there at Sea Org they can’t update their profiles at all.”
On returning to the school for a play, a year after going to Florida, Fred says a few of the Sea Org students were “very different”.
“A few of them visited for a few days, and as they were my friends I hung out with them quite a lot, and they were really different, unpleasantly so. They were much quieter, they talked in a different way, in a slightly unpleasant way. They were less ‘there’. It was a very unpleasant experience meeting them again.”
How had they changed? “They were more like their parents. They were less open with me and less willing to discuss things with me, and this is what I heard from a lot of people.”
Alarmingly, many of the teenagers returning from Sea Org come back with husbands and wives.
“Almost all of those who came back from Sea Org had got married there or in the intervening period,” says Fred. “Some of them updated their Facebook with photos of their weddings. One of their mothers told me about how their daughter had been married.” Fred was “very surprised” to see his teenage friends getting married so young.
James, 17, a current student at the school whose parents are Scientologists but who calls himself an agnostic, says that on average three students leave for Sea Org each year. “A couple of my friends got married out of the blue. But you know, once they left school I didn’t really stay in contact.” He says both weddings happened within a year of their departure. One friend married a girl he was already in a relationship with at Greenfields. He didn’t recognise the other friend’s bride when he saw the photos.
“I’ve heard,” says James “and these are just rumours, that having relationships [at Sea Org] was strictly forbidden unless it was serious. I think that might have led some of the couples to getting married, so they can continue their serious relationship. I’ve heard it from a few people”.
When fellow pupils find out which of their peers has been chosen to go to Sea Org, it affects how they are treated in the classroom, according to another ex-pupil, Zach: “They are excited before they go, they are completely thrilled. And they get treated differently at school.”
They are “very tight-lipped about it”, he recalls, and “even quieter” around non-Scientologists. “If you asked, they would just walk away,” he said, “Even the regular Scientologists are kept in the dark about it.”
All of the ex-students who spoke to the Standard said that Greenfields is welcoming to non-Scientologists. The Standard asked the school for a response, but it did not provide one.
Katie Holmes may have shepherded her six-year-old away from a future with Scientology’s elite but a clutch of British families in the Sussex countryside seem less concerned about Sea Org, and the young marriage, behavioural change and alleged abuses that it apparently visits upon its teenage initiates.
*Some names and details have been changed.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/12/2012 02:30AM by SeekingTruth.
Re: Scientology - Mass Exodus of Senior Staff and 'A' Listers
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Date: July 30, 2012 02:45AM
Could Tom Cruise be next??!!!
Anguished Tom Cruise refuses to leave his Hertfordshire bolt-hole hotel
By KATIE NICHOLL
PUBLISHED: 22:00, 28 July 2012 | UPDATED: 12:47, 29 July 2012
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2180383/Tom-Cruise-Katie-Holmes-divorce-Anguished-Tom-refuses-leave-UK-bolt-hole.html
Tom Cruise refused to leave his hotel in the English countryside to return to New York last week as he continued to struggle with the aftermath of his marriage break-up.
The Hollywood star, 50, extended his stay at five-star The Grove Hotel in Hertfordshire, telling aides he couldn’t face going back to the States after Katie Holmes filed for divorce.
‘Everything was packed and ready to go,’ said a source close to the actor.
‘The jet had been refuelled and the flight scheduled but a call came in from his assistant saying he was refusing to leave.
'He was talking about not being ready to go back to America.’
Hotel sources say Cruise, who had been meeting executives at Pinewood Studios, eventually left early on Thursday.
‘He spent all his time in his room,’ added the source.
‘It was the first time he had off work to just clear his head.’
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Freedom agrees with her! Katie Holmes is radiant as she enjoys an impromptu dinner date in NYC
By HOLLY THOMAS
PUBLISHED: 12:05, 28 July 2012 | UPDATED: 04:54, 29 July 2012
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2180198/Katie-Holmes-radiant-NYC.html
She's been a different woman this last month, enjoying her new lease of freedom having announced her split from Tom Cruise.
And Katie Holmes showed off her radiant new look as she enjoyed an impromptu dinner in New York last night.
Katie was accompanied by her lawyer, who she kissed goodbye on the cheek as she left.
Katie and her lawyer Jonathan Wolfe were reportedly also joined by his wife Renee for the meal.
The actress, 33, looked relaxed but cool in a dark green maxi dress and black leather jacket.
She completed her look with matching green shoes, and wore her hair in a low ponytail, with minimal make-up.
Katie sported a healthy-looking caramel tan, and appeared in good spirits as she left the eatery.
Jonathan was beaming and looked smart but casual in jeans, a pale blue shirt, and a dark navy jacket.
It would appear that Katie has decided to lie (relatively) low for the moment.
She has cancelled what would have been her first official public appearance since her split, at this Saturday's Dizzy Feet Foundation gala.
Her spokesman told E! that Holmes has decided to pull out of the event, being held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion at the Los Angeles Music Center.
Since she 'blindsided' Tom Cruise by filing for divorce last month Katie has left the Church of Scientology in a public relations nightmare.
And now the church is seeking to 'discredit' Katie Holmes, according to a former member, who claims to have 'seen internal memos' on the subject.
'Katie would have been excommunicated normally, and behind the scenes she probably already is,' Scientology defector Samantha Domingo told The Hollywood Reporter.
'Internally, the wheels are in motion to discredit Katie. We have moles that are pretending to be good Scientologists who report back to us on the outside. I’ve seen internal memos about Katie.'
Samantha, former daughter-in-law of opera singer Placido Domingo and ex wife of his son Placido Jr, told the publication that 'disconnection is the main weapon of Scientology.'
Former Scientology spokesman Mike Rinder agreed with Samantha, saying: 'Katie Holmes is probably the biggest suppressive person out there right now.
Holmes, 33, is said to have recently returned to the Catholic Church, registering as a parishioner at the Church of St. Francis Xavier in New York City and signing Suri up to a private Catholic school in Manhattan.
Holmes and Cruise came to a swift divorce settlement, with Holmes said to have received 'primary legal custody' of their six-year-old daughter Suri.
Cruise, 50, was spotted taking Suri to the Hamptons for a mini vacation a few weeks back and is said to have 'generous visitation rights' with Suri as part of the settlement.
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Anguished Tom Cruise refuses to leave his Hertfordshire bolt-hole hotel
By KATIE NICHOLL
PUBLISHED: 22:00, 28 July 2012 | UPDATED: 12:47, 29 July 2012
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2180383/Tom-Cruise-Katie-Holmes-divorce-Anguished-Tom-refuses-leave-UK-bolt-hole.html
Tom Cruise refused to leave his hotel in the English countryside to return to New York last week as he continued to struggle with the aftermath of his marriage break-up.
The Hollywood star, 50, extended his stay at five-star The Grove Hotel in Hertfordshire, telling aides he couldn’t face going back to the States after Katie Holmes filed for divorce.
‘Everything was packed and ready to go,’ said a source close to the actor.
‘The jet had been refuelled and the flight scheduled but a call came in from his assistant saying he was refusing to leave.
'He was talking about not being ready to go back to America.’
Hotel sources say Cruise, who had been meeting executives at Pinewood Studios, eventually left early on Thursday.
‘He spent all his time in his room,’ added the source.
‘It was the first time he had off work to just clear his head.’
====
Freedom agrees with her! Katie Holmes is radiant as she enjoys an impromptu dinner date in NYC
By HOLLY THOMAS
PUBLISHED: 12:05, 28 July 2012 | UPDATED: 04:54, 29 July 2012
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2180198/Katie-Holmes-radiant-NYC.html
She's been a different woman this last month, enjoying her new lease of freedom having announced her split from Tom Cruise.
And Katie Holmes showed off her radiant new look as she enjoyed an impromptu dinner in New York last night.
Katie was accompanied by her lawyer, who she kissed goodbye on the cheek as she left.
Katie and her lawyer Jonathan Wolfe were reportedly also joined by his wife Renee for the meal.
The actress, 33, looked relaxed but cool in a dark green maxi dress and black leather jacket.
She completed her look with matching green shoes, and wore her hair in a low ponytail, with minimal make-up.
Katie sported a healthy-looking caramel tan, and appeared in good spirits as she left the eatery.
Jonathan was beaming and looked smart but casual in jeans, a pale blue shirt, and a dark navy jacket.
It would appear that Katie has decided to lie (relatively) low for the moment.
She has cancelled what would have been her first official public appearance since her split, at this Saturday's Dizzy Feet Foundation gala.
Her spokesman told E! that Holmes has decided to pull out of the event, being held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion at the Los Angeles Music Center.
Since she 'blindsided' Tom Cruise by filing for divorce last month Katie has left the Church of Scientology in a public relations nightmare.
And now the church is seeking to 'discredit' Katie Holmes, according to a former member, who claims to have 'seen internal memos' on the subject.
'Katie would have been excommunicated normally, and behind the scenes she probably already is,' Scientology defector Samantha Domingo told The Hollywood Reporter.
'Internally, the wheels are in motion to discredit Katie. We have moles that are pretending to be good Scientologists who report back to us on the outside. I’ve seen internal memos about Katie.'
Samantha, former daughter-in-law of opera singer Placido Domingo and ex wife of his son Placido Jr, told the publication that 'disconnection is the main weapon of Scientology.'
Former Scientology spokesman Mike Rinder agreed with Samantha, saying: 'Katie Holmes is probably the biggest suppressive person out there right now.
Holmes, 33, is said to have recently returned to the Catholic Church, registering as a parishioner at the Church of St. Francis Xavier in New York City and signing Suri up to a private Catholic school in Manhattan.
Holmes and Cruise came to a swift divorce settlement, with Holmes said to have received 'primary legal custody' of their six-year-old daughter Suri.
Cruise, 50, was spotted taking Suri to the Hamptons for a mini vacation a few weeks back and is said to have 'generous visitation rights' with Suri as part of the settlement.
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Re: Scientology - Mass Exodus of Senior Staff and 'A' Listers
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Date: July 16, 2015 10:45PM
Leah Remini reveals the 'hard repercussions' of leaving Scientology in new season of her TLC reality series
By SHYAM DODGE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 21:54 GMT, 15 July 2015 | UPDATED: 08:38 GMT, 16 July 2015
Leah Remini left the Church Of Scientology two years ago.
While one of the most vocal and high profile apostates to renounce the organization, Leah, 45, claims she is still feeling the 'hard repercussions' of leaving the religion she was raised in.
In a preview clip for the season premiere of her TLC show Leah Remini: It's All Relative, the actress opens up about her experience of leaving the church.
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Recalling the past: In a preview clip for the season premiere of her TLC show Leah Remini: It's All Relative, the actress opens up about her experience of leaving the church
'When you leave, you can leave quietly,' Leah said in the teaser. 'But If you make a stink in the public world, they call you a Suppressive Person, which means the church has put a stamp on you that says you are bad.
'They then go to all your family and friends and say you have to disconnect from this Suppressive Person.'
Leah went on to describe why she felt the need to leave the religion her own mother had raised her in.
'I decided I didn't want to raise my daughter in the church because from what I've experienced and what I saw, the church becomes your everything. It becomes your mother, your father, your everything. You are dependent on the church.'
Leah Remini details nanny Trish's battle with breast cancer
'Hard repercussions': 'When you leave, you can leave quietly,' Leah said in the teaser. 'But If you make a stink in the public world, they call you a Suppressive Person'
Leah also claims in the short video that those raised in the church don't 'have loyalty' to their own family members as the church itself 'comes first.'
The Church Of Scientology gave the following statement to DailyMail.com: 'It comes as no surprise that someone as self-absorbed as Leah Remini with an insatiable craving for attention would exploit her former religion as a publicity stunt in a pathetic attempt to get ratings for her cable show and seem relevant again.'
'She is rewriting history and omits that she was participating in a program to remain a Scientologist by her own choice, as she was on the verge of being expelled for her and her husband’s ethical lapses.'
Tough decisions: Leah also claims in the short video that those raised in the church don't 'have loyalty' to their own family members as the church itself 'comes first'
United front: In the series Leah and her family unite to help nanny Trish in her battle with breast cancer
The TLC show premieres on Wednesday night at 9 p.m. ET. Over 14 episodes it chronicles Leah and her famly, husband Angelo, their 10 year-old daughter Sofia, mother Vicki and stepfather George, and sister Shannon as they adjust to a new life.
In addition, the family unites to help nanny Trish in her battle with breast cancer.
As DailyMail.com previously reported the actress talked about life after the church in a new interview on Oprah Winfrey's Where Are They Now.
'My mother was in Scientology my whole life. Most people don't know that we were raised in it,' The King Of Queens actress explained. 'I didn't decide to get into it - I was brought into it by my mom.'
'I don't think people know the amount of dedication it takes to be in this organization,' she added. 'I mean it was every day, three-and-a-half hours minimum, seven days a week usually.
Coming soon: The TLC show premieres on Wednesday night at 9 p.m. ET
'You know, I'm working most of my time, and then the other time was spent at the church, so minimal time is really spent with your family.'
But the former Dancing With The Stars contestant admits the church was instrumental in forming her as a person: 'Our decision to leave the organization - it's not just something you get over.
'It's people and a lifestyle you've known all your life. It formed who I am, good and bad. It formed the way I think, good and bad. And so there's a lot of pain connected to it, there's a lot of healing.'
In the same interview with Oprah she recalled the moment she decided to leave Scientology, while reading a text venerated by the church.
'I was at one of these hotels in Florida, and I saw my daughter swimming for the first time while I'm reading this thing,' Leah said. 'And a tear came down my face. And I was like, "What am I doing?"'
The television star said she realized she was teaching her daughter what her mother had taught her - that Scientology was 'more important' than family.
'It was a culmination of things but that was a big one in my mind,' she added.
'When you are raised in something, and you are taught to think a certain way, a lot of times you grow up thinking, "That's the way I think,"' Leah continued.
'I'm learning there's a new world out here, and there shouldn't be any kind of judgment toward somebody who has a belief system that is not yours.'
A spokesperson for the Church Of Scientology gave DailyMail.com the following statement regarding Leah's appearance on Where Are They Now in May: 'Given Leah Remini's insatiable desire for attention, it comes as no surprise that for two years she has been incapable of moving on with her life and remains obsessed with shamelessly exploiting her former religion in a pathetic attempt to get publicity.'
[www.dailymail.co.uk]
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By SHYAM DODGE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 21:54 GMT, 15 July 2015 | UPDATED: 08:38 GMT, 16 July 2015
Leah Remini left the Church Of Scientology two years ago.
While one of the most vocal and high profile apostates to renounce the organization, Leah, 45, claims she is still feeling the 'hard repercussions' of leaving the religion she was raised in.
In a preview clip for the season premiere of her TLC show Leah Remini: It's All Relative, the actress opens up about her experience of leaving the church.
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Recalling the past: In a preview clip for the season premiere of her TLC show Leah Remini: It's All Relative, the actress opens up about her experience of leaving the church
'When you leave, you can leave quietly,' Leah said in the teaser. 'But If you make a stink in the public world, they call you a Suppressive Person, which means the church has put a stamp on you that says you are bad.
'They then go to all your family and friends and say you have to disconnect from this Suppressive Person.'
Leah went on to describe why she felt the need to leave the religion her own mother had raised her in.
'I decided I didn't want to raise my daughter in the church because from what I've experienced and what I saw, the church becomes your everything. It becomes your mother, your father, your everything. You are dependent on the church.'
Leah Remini details nanny Trish's battle with breast cancer
'Hard repercussions': 'When you leave, you can leave quietly,' Leah said in the teaser. 'But If you make a stink in the public world, they call you a Suppressive Person'
Leah also claims in the short video that those raised in the church don't 'have loyalty' to their own family members as the church itself 'comes first.'
The Church Of Scientology gave the following statement to DailyMail.com: 'It comes as no surprise that someone as self-absorbed as Leah Remini with an insatiable craving for attention would exploit her former religion as a publicity stunt in a pathetic attempt to get ratings for her cable show and seem relevant again.'
'She is rewriting history and omits that she was participating in a program to remain a Scientologist by her own choice, as she was on the verge of being expelled for her and her husband’s ethical lapses.'
Tough decisions: Leah also claims in the short video that those raised in the church don't 'have loyalty' to their own family members as the church itself 'comes first'
United front: In the series Leah and her family unite to help nanny Trish in her battle with breast cancer
The TLC show premieres on Wednesday night at 9 p.m. ET. Over 14 episodes it chronicles Leah and her famly, husband Angelo, their 10 year-old daughter Sofia, mother Vicki and stepfather George, and sister Shannon as they adjust to a new life.
In addition, the family unites to help nanny Trish in her battle with breast cancer.
As DailyMail.com previously reported the actress talked about life after the church in a new interview on Oprah Winfrey's Where Are They Now.
'My mother was in Scientology my whole life. Most people don't know that we were raised in it,' The King Of Queens actress explained. 'I didn't decide to get into it - I was brought into it by my mom.'
'I don't think people know the amount of dedication it takes to be in this organization,' she added. 'I mean it was every day, three-and-a-half hours minimum, seven days a week usually.
Coming soon: The TLC show premieres on Wednesday night at 9 p.m. ET
'You know, I'm working most of my time, and then the other time was spent at the church, so minimal time is really spent with your family.'
But the former Dancing With The Stars contestant admits the church was instrumental in forming her as a person: 'Our decision to leave the organization - it's not just something you get over.
'It's people and a lifestyle you've known all your life. It formed who I am, good and bad. It formed the way I think, good and bad. And so there's a lot of pain connected to it, there's a lot of healing.'
In the same interview with Oprah she recalled the moment she decided to leave Scientology, while reading a text venerated by the church.
'I was at one of these hotels in Florida, and I saw my daughter swimming for the first time while I'm reading this thing,' Leah said. 'And a tear came down my face. And I was like, "What am I doing?"'
The television star said she realized she was teaching her daughter what her mother had taught her - that Scientology was 'more important' than family.
'It was a culmination of things but that was a big one in my mind,' she added.
'When you are raised in something, and you are taught to think a certain way, a lot of times you grow up thinking, "That's the way I think,"' Leah continued.
'I'm learning there's a new world out here, and there shouldn't be any kind of judgment toward somebody who has a belief system that is not yours.'
A spokesperson for the Church Of Scientology gave DailyMail.com the following statement regarding Leah's appearance on Where Are They Now in May: 'Given Leah Remini's insatiable desire for attention, it comes as no surprise that for two years she has been incapable of moving on with her life and remains obsessed with shamelessly exploiting her former religion in a pathetic attempt to get publicity.'
[www.dailymail.co.uk]
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/16/2015 10:55PM by openmindedsceptic.
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