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Vanity Fair Article on Tom Cruise's "Arranged Marriage....." Oscar winning director confirms VF story too!

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Vanity Fair Article on Tom Cruise's "Arranged Marriage....." Oscar winning director confirms VF story too!

I always believed this conspiracy theory!

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Just when we thought that all of the Tom Cruise Scientology craziness had died down with summer's end…

Vanity Fair goes and drops a whole new batch of Xenu-flavored INSANITY on the world!

And we say insanity, we mean NO exaggeration whatsoever!

Because according to the magazine's upcoming cover story, there was a WHOLE LOT more going on behind all those pesky rumors that the actor had multiple auditions for his post-Nicole Kidman bride through the church…and Katie Holmes was almost a woman named Nazanin Boniadi!

Apparently, Scientology head David Miscavige's now-missing wife Shelly Miscavige spear-headed the "Marry Tom Cruise" operation back in 2004, during which they brought women in under the guise of an audition for a training film…and then asked a series of questions regarding their feelings for the A-lister!

And when Boniadi was selected, she FIRST underwent a month-long training process that demanded she be audited by high-ranking officials, forced to dump her boyfriend , and told to get rid of her braces and highlights!

By this point, she began to suspect that she was being groomed as his bride, and in November went out on a series of elaborately supervised dates with Cruise…but their relationship bliss was short-lasting!

According to the report, Tommy would pass along anything Boniadi said or did that he found upsetting to Scientology staff members - which included her not being as fond as PDA and coming off as "above" him when congratulating his Scientology’s Freedom Medal of Valor with the compliment "Very well done." However, the straw that broke Xenu's back came when she had to ask David Miscavige to repeat himself after he spoke too quickly, and she was banished to the Scientology Celebrity Centre without a word from the man she had been dating for three months!

By that point, the poor woman was so distraught that she cracked and violated her numerous confidentiality agreements by confiding to a friend…who, of course, was a fellow Scientologist and immediately reported her. As punishment, she was sent to Florida, where she had to scrub toilets and clean bathroom tile with a toothbrush, dig ditches in the middle of the night, and sell Ron Hubbard's Dianetics on street corners!

Honestly, we wish we were surprised by all of this, but given everything that's come out about this establishment since the split, this seems pretty on-par with their practices and 'punishment' techniques!

Can't wait to hear what Tom and the church has to say in response to all of THIS - and everything else the full article details when it's published!

Seriously, how many more excuses and denials can they give about this stuff?

Ugh! We've got the shivers just thinking about it!

Which makes us all the more grateful that Katie and Suri are safe and separated from it all!



Pauls's Open Letter


EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winning “Crash” writer-director Paul Haggis has confirmed for me the story of Naz Boniadi, the beautiful Iranian born actress whom Scientology tried to groom as Tom Cruise’s girlfriend in 2004-2005. Vanity Fair has just released a teaser of their extraordinary story (kudos to Graydon Carter) about Cruise’s auditioning of women to be his wife in the months leading up to his choosing of Katie Holmes in April 2005. Haggis left Scientology two years ago, which I wrote about extensively. His exit was then chronicled in the New Yorker. Haggis confirms Boniadi’s saga, and tells me that she, too, has left the cult. Here’s his email to me from Rome, where he ‘s prepping a film. Haggis says he will have no other comment on this situation beyond this:

“I’ve known Nazanin for about three years. I met her through a mutual friend when I was doing my own personal research into the allegations against Scientology, before I wrote my letter of resignation. Naz was embarrassed by her unwitting involvement in this incident and never wanted it to come out, so I kept silent. However I was deeply disturbed by how the highest ranking members of a church could so easily justify using one of their members; how they so callously punished her and then so effectively silenced her when it was done. It wasn’t just the threats; they actually made her feel ashamed, when all she had been was human and trusting.

After I wrote my resignation letter, a dozen or more “friends” and officials of the church repeatedly descended on me to demand that I destroy the letter and resign quietly. I told them that wasn’t an option for me. I also told them that I had more sources of information about the troubling nature of the organization then I was at liberty to divulge. This was one.

I’ve met quite a number of people who have been treated shamefully but are afraid to speak out. This story will draw attention because of our fascination with celebrity. Most of the others are just ordinary people whose stories, if told, would not appear in a magazine. They live in fear of retribution, legal, financial or personal, even some famous ones. They fear an incredibly wealthy organization that boasts that it seeks truth, empowers people, brings families together, encourages independent thought and free speech, and champions human rights. I would like to say that i don’t know how its members, many of them good and intelligent people, can remain so purposely blind when they are faced with evidence like this every day, but then I am no one to talk. I was happily blind for many years, so I know the shame that Naz feels.

n Naz’s case, she has no right to feel ashamed. She is not only a terrific actress at the beginning of a very promising career, she is a dedicated human rights activist and a truly lovely and caring person. The last thing she wanted or needed is this kind of publicity, but here it is, and I am sure she will deal with it with the same grace and dignity she exudes in her daily life. I’m appalled that any church would treat its parishioners this way, but Naz has never cast herself as a victim. She is strong and resilient and I am very proud to call her a friend.”

He adds in a second email:

“And FYI, in case this wasn’t clear, Naz quietly and privately resigned from the church a couple of years ago after several years of trying to handle this injustice internally, to no avail.”

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Posted 9/4/12 8:19 PM
 
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WOW! Not shocking but damn! I can't wait to read this!Chat Icon

Posted 9/4/12 8:43 PM
 

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WOW! Not shocking but damn! I can't wait to read this!Chat Icon



I know! I told my mom I'm going to buy VF with cash, so Xenu can't find me! Chat Icon

Posted 9/4/12 8:44 PM
 

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WOW! Not shocking but damn! I can't wait to read this!Chat Icon



I know! I told my mom I'm going to buy VF with cash, so Xenu can't find me! Chat Icon



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Posted 9/4/12 9:07 PM
 

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Years ago they discussed this on Howard. I never fell for any "relationship" he's ever had. Weirdo!

Posted 9/4/12 9:14 PM
 

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Vanity Fair Article on Tom Cruise's

FINALLY! I am so glad that this is in a very reputable source like VF. It pisses me off how Tom Cruise is shielded from backlash, he is a liar and nuts I am glad he is being exposed.

Posted 9/4/12 9:25 PM
 

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FINALLY! I am so glad that this is in a very reputable source like VF. It pisses me off how Tom Cruise is shielded from backlash, he is a liar and nuts I am glad he is being exposed.



ITA! This is as good as if it ran in People Mag as far as I'm concerned!

I hope this is the beginning of the end of Scientology. I also think its so fishy David Miscavage's wife is suddenly missing. Wouldn't that be newsworthy?!?!?

Posted 9/4/12 9:33 PM
 

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FINALLY! I am so glad that this is in a very reputable source like VF. It pisses me off how Tom Cruise is shielded from backlash, he is a liar and nuts I am glad he is being exposed.



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Posted 9/4/12 9:42 PM
 

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Re: Vanity Fair Article on Tom Cruise's "Arranged Marriage....." Oscar winning director confirms VF story too!

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WOW! Not shocking but damn! I can't wait to read this!Chat Icon



I know! I told my mom I'm going to buy VF with cash, so Xenu can't find me! Chat Icon



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I love love LOVE that this is finally out. I can't stand Tom Cruise

Posted 9/5/12 8:23 AM
 

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Re: Vanity Fair Article on Tom Cruise's "Arranged Marriage....." Oscar winning director confirms VF story too!

Posted by Ayne11

Posted by DiamondGirl

FINALLY! I am so glad that this is in a very reputable source like VF. It pisses me off how Tom Cruise is shielded from backlash, he is a liar and nuts I am glad he is being exposed.



ITA! This is as good as if it ran in People Mag as far as I'm concerned!

I hope this is the beginning of the end of Scientology. I also think its so fishy David Miscavage's wife is suddenly missing. Wouldn't that be newsworthy?!?!?



Check out this article by the Village Voice about it. CRAZY!!!!!!

Where is Shelly Miscavige?

Posted 9/5/12 10:17 AM
 

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Posted by Ayne11

Posted by DiamondGirl

FINALLY! I am so glad that this is in a very reputable source like VF. It pisses me off how Tom Cruise is shielded from backlash, he is a liar and nuts I am glad he is being exposed.



ITA! This is as good as if it ran in People Mag as far as I'm concerned!

I hope this is the beginning of the end of Scientology. I also think its so fishy David Miscavage's wife is suddenly missing. Wouldn't that be newsworthy?!?!?



Check out this article by the Village Voice about it. CRAZY!!!!!!

Where is Shelly Miscavige?





Chat Icon Chat Icon Chat Icon this "religion" is very scary.

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Posted 9/5/12 10:22 AM
 

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She's gorgeous by the way, like, stunning. She was on General Hospital a few years ago and got to make out with Patrick. Chat Icon

Posted 9/5/12 10:39 AM
 

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I can not wait for all of the fall out from THIS !!!!

Although I will always love Mr Crazy (i mean Cruise)

Posted 9/5/12 10:44 AM
 

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She's gorgeous by the way, like, stunning. She was on General Hospital a few years ago and got to make out with Patrick. Chat Icon



Was she Laila on GH? She was a resident hooking up w/ Patrick, and then they killed her off - right?

She is stunning

Posted 9/5/12 10:46 AM
 

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Posted by ruby

She's gorgeous by the way, like, stunning. She was on General Hospital a few years ago and got to make out with Patrick. Chat Icon



Was she Laila on GH? She was a resident hooking up w/ Patrick, and then they killed her off - right?

She is stunning



Yes, that's her. She had just gotten over Patrick and was newly engaged and then bam, killed off.

Posted 9/5/12 10:57 AM
 

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This is her, right?
She reminds me of Kim K in this picture..

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Posted 9/5/12 11:01 AM
 

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Posted by ruby

She's gorgeous by the way, like, stunning. She was on General Hospital a few years ago and got to make out with Patrick. Chat Icon



Was she Laila on GH? She was a resident hooking up w/ Patrick, and then they killed her off - right?

She is stunning



Yes, that's her. She had just gotten over Patrick and was newly engaged and then bam, killed off.



Killed off as in, her role o the show didn't fit Scientology's plan for her future?

Posted 9/5/12 11:03 AM
 

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Posted by Ayne11

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Posted by Ayne11

Posted by DiamondGirl

FINALLY! I am so glad that this is in a very reputable source like VF. It pisses me off how Tom Cruise is shielded from backlash, he is a liar and nuts I am glad he is being exposed.



ITA! This is as good as if it ran in People Mag as far as I'm concerned!

I hope this is the beginning of the end of Scientology. I also think its so fishy David Miscavage's wife is suddenly missing. Wouldn't that be newsworthy?!?!?



Check out this article by the Village Voice about it. CRAZY!!!!!!

Where is Shelly Miscavige?





Chat Icon Chat Icon Chat Icon this "religion" is very scary.



Seriously. This feels like a a TV show. Chat Icon

Posted 9/5/12 11:47 AM
 

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Posted by Ayne11

Posted by ruby

Posted by MarisaK

Posted by ruby

She's gorgeous by the way, like, stunning. She was on General Hospital a few years ago and got to make out with Patrick. Chat Icon



Was she Laila on GH? She was a resident hooking up w/ Patrick, and then they killed her off - right?

She is stunning



Yes, that's her. She had just gotten over Patrick and was newly engaged and then bam, killed off.



Killed off as in, her role o the show didn't fit Scientology's plan for her future?



She was also Barney's girlfriend on How I Met Your Mother!

This story is just so bizarreChat Icon

Posted 9/5/12 11:50 AM
 

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Posted by Ayne11

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WOW! Not shocking but damn! I can't wait to read this!Chat Icon



I know! I told my mom I'm going to buy VF with cash, so Xenu can't find me! Chat Icon



Chat Icon Chat Icon Chat Icon Chat Icon Chat Icon Chat Icon



OMG! I almost just spit water all over my computerChat Icon Chat Icon

Posted 9/5/12 12:11 PM
 

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Posted by Ayne11

Posted by DiamondGirl

FINALLY! I am so glad that this is in a very reputable source like VF. It pisses me off how Tom Cruise is shielded from backlash, he is a liar and nuts I am glad he is being exposed.



ITA! This is as good as if it ran in People Mag as far as I'm concerned!

I hope this is the beginning of the end of Scientology. I also think its so fishy David Miscavage's wife is suddenly missing. Wouldn't that be newsworthy?!?!?



Check out this article by the Village Voice about it. CRAZY!!!!!!

Where is Shelly Miscavige?




I find it odd that when you google her, and look under Images... she doesn't really come up. Just a lot of Tom Cruise.....

Posted 9/5/12 12:28 PM
 

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Posted by Ayne11

Posted by MrsPJB2007

Posted by Ayne11

Posted by DiamondGirl

FINALLY! I am so glad that this is in a very reputable source like VF. It pisses me off how Tom Cruise is shielded from backlash, he is a liar and nuts I am glad he is being exposed.



ITA! This is as good as if it ran in People Mag as far as I'm concerned!

I hope this is the beginning of the end of Scientology. I also think its so fishy David Miscavage's wife is suddenly missing. Wouldn't that be newsworthy?!?!?



Check out this article by the Village Voice about it. CRAZY!!!!!!

Where is Shelly Miscavige?




I find it odd that when you google her, and look under Images... she doesn't really come up. Just a lot of Tom Cruise.....



Weird. Really weird.

In other bizarreness, if you google Boniadi the first suggestion is "nazanin boniadi feet".

Posted 9/5/12 1:40 PM
 

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Posted by Ayne11

Posted by ruby

Posted by MarisaK

Posted by ruby

She's gorgeous by the way, like, stunning. She was on General Hospital a few years ago and got to make out with Patrick. Chat Icon



Was she Laila on GH? She was a resident hooking up w/ Patrick, and then they killed her off - right?

She is stunning



Yes, that's her. She had just gotten over Patrick and was newly engaged and then bam, killed off.



Killed off as in, her role o the show didn't fit Scientology's plan for her future?



She was also Barney's girlfriend on How I Met Your Mother!

This story is just so bizarreChat Icon



HOLY CRAP!! NORA! Wow...just wow

Posted 9/5/12 4:08 PM
 

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Re: Vanity Fair Article on Tom Cruise's "Arranged Marriage....." Oscar winning director confirms VF story too!

i wonder how long before Cruise's attorneys are suing Vanity Fair.

Posted 9/5/12 7:20 PM
 
 

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