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KamaAina

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Wed Jul 1, 2015, 04:18 PM Jul 2015

$cientology Leader David Miscavige's Father to Pen Tell-All Book

https://celebrity.yahoo.com/news/scientology-leader-david-miscavige-s-father-to-pen-tell-all-book-171431712.html

Ronald Miscavige Sr., the father of Scientology leader David Miscavige, has signed to a deal for his memoir, If He Dies, He Dies, with St. Martin’s Press, the publisher confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.

The title refers to a story in an April 8 Los Angeles Times article that revealed that David Miscavige had put his father under surveillance because he had grown estranged from the church and his son. When one investigator saw Ron grab his chest in an apparent heart attack, he called his Scientology employers to see if he should intervene. David personally called him back and said, “if he dies, he dies.”

Longtime Scientology observer Tony Ortega reported the news of the book on his blog about the Church, The Underground Bunker. Publisher's Marketplace, a site followed by publishing insiders, also reported news of the book....

David Miscavige has been known for his extravagant lifestyle and effort to cultivate Hollywood stars as Church members. A true insider account of life in the Church and a full portrait of its leader by his father would be a blockbuster book. David’s niece, Jenna Miscavige, wrote an unflattering account of her uncle in 2013’s Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape.
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$cientology Leader David Miscavige's Father to Pen Tell-All Book (Original Post) KamaAina Jul 2015 OP
Yippee!1 If only ex-Mrs. Bill O'Reilly and a few others would follow suit with tell-alls. n/t UTUSN Jul 2015 #1
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