List of Celebrity Scientologists

[lovely bones]

A couple of GossipRocks! friends asked for this - here are some web sites - a couple of them are "critical" of the *church* - followed by a list of noted members. Some these names are surprising!!!

http://www.scientology-kills.org/cel...elebrities.htm
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/faq-you/celeb.txt
http://www.scientomogy.info/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Scientologists
http://www.whatisscientology.org/htm...19/pg0308.html

Famous Scientologists

• Kirstie Alley, actress
• Anne Archer, actress (her son, Tom Davis, runs the Los Angeles "Celebrity Centre")
• James Barbour, Broadway actor
• Lynsey Bartilson, actress
• Catherine Bell, actress
• Mary Bono, U.S. House member from California
• Sonny Bono, musician and member of U.S. House from California (claimed Catholicism on campaign biographies)
• Sami Boukai, singer
• David Campbell, musician
• Nancy Cartwright, voiceover artist, most famous as the voice of Bart Simpson
• Sharon Case, actress
• Kate Ceberano, actress and musician
• Erika Christensen, actress
• Chick Corea, musician
• Cathy Lee Crosby, actress, co-host of TV's That's Incredible!
• Tom Cruise, actor (raised Catholic, according to Parade; attended a Franciscan seminary in Cincinnati and aspired to become a Catholic priest)
• Sky Dayton, founder and Chairman of the Board of EarthLink
• Jason Dohring, actor
• Jenna Elfman, actress, raised Catholic, and her husband Bodhi, actor.
• David S. Freeman, writer, video game developer, and screenwriting teacher
• Brent Graber, voice of 'Otis' in movie 'Milo and Otis'
• Zachary Goertz, actor
• Paul Haggis, director
• Beck Hansen, musician
• Isaac Hayes, musician, actor, and formerly voiceover artist ("Chef (South Park character)")
• Katie Holmes, actress, introduced to Scientology by fiancé Tom Cruise
• Nicky Hopkins, musician
• Mark Isham, musician
• Terry Jastrow, TV producer and director (married to Anne Archer)
• Mike Joubert, Bronson Pinchot's voice coach
• Cyprien Katsaris, musician
• Chaka Khan, singer
• Jarod Knoten, director
• Jason Lee, actor and professional skateboarder
• Paul Leland, magician
• Geoffrey Lewis, actor
• Johnny Lewis, actor
• Juliette Lewis, actress
• Peggy Lipton, actress
• Christopher Masterson, actor
• Danny Masterson, actor
• Lisa McPherson, died at Fort Harrison Hotel
• Peter Medak, director
• Jim Meskimen, actor and improviser
• Sofia Milos, actress (CSI: Miami)
• Elisabeth Moss, actress
• Floyd Mutrux, writer, director and producer
• Haywood Nelson, actor
• Corin Nemec, actor
• Marisol Nichols, actress
• Judy Norton, actress and musician
• Brandy Norwood, actress and singer
• Eduardo Palomo, actor, and his wife Carina, actress and musician
• Don Pearson, 'Management by Statistics' consultant
• Michael Pena, actor
• Bernadette Peters, actress and singer (source: Bergen Record 3/10/1985, may be an ex-member)
• Jeff Pomerantz, actor and founder of Hollywood Says No to Drugs
• Lisa Marie Presley, singer and daughter of Elvis
• Priscilla Presley, actress and wife of Elvis
• Kelly Preston, actress and John Travolta's wife, raised Catholic.
• Leah Remini, actress
• Giovanni Ribisi, actor, raised Scientologist.
• Marissa Ribisi, actress, wife of Beck Hansen, sister of Giovanni Ribisi, raised Scientologist.
• Carina Ricco, singer, actress and composer
• Michael D. Roberts, actor
• Mimi Rogers, actress -- believed to not be active in the church anymore, but still holds the beliefs
• Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, U.S. House member from Florida
• Gloria Rusch-Novello, singer, writer and actress
• Pablo Santos, actor
• Meghan Schlinder, swimsuit model
• Kristin Schwing, actress
• Jeffrey Scott, writer for TV cartoons
• Billy Sheehan, rock bassist
• David Singer, chiropractor, 'Management by Statistics' consultant
• Reed Slatkin, criminal ponzi scheme perpetrator
• Michelle Stafford, actress
• Ethan Suplee, actor
• Patrick Swayze, actor
• Greta Van Susteren, host of On the Record with Greta Van Susteren on FNC
• John Travolta, actor, raised Catholic.
• Josh Wiener, actor
• Edgar Winter, musician
• Bryan Zwan, founder of Digital Lightwave, inventor of fiber-optic testing equipment

Former members

• J. J. Abrams, Writer
• Adi Da Samraj (a.k.a. Franklin Jones, Da Free John), religious guru (renounced Scientology after ca. one year)
• John Brodie, football player
• William S. Burroughs, author, Beat Generation icon (later denounced it)
• Leonard Cohen, singer, songwriter (at New York Org in late 60s)
• Werner Erhard, founder of EST
• Emilio Estevez, actor (renounced it and won't discuss it)
• Soleil Moon Frye, actress
• Philip Gale, MIT student and primary developer of EarthLink's innovative ISP software; committed suicide on Hubbard's birthday
• Gloria Gaynor, singer (later renounced)
• Charles Manson, serial killer (professed Scientology in 1961, but critics claim he only read books in prison in the early 1960s)
• Ricky Martin, singer (says he dabbled in it)
• Van Morrison, singer, songwriter (renounced Scientology in the 1980s)
• Jesse Prince, former church official
• Lou Rawls, singer (renounced Scientology)
• Melanie Safka, singer, songwriter (renounced Scientology)
• Barbara Schwarz, former Scientologist claiming Hubbard parentage
• Jerry Seinfeld, comedian
• Oliver Stone, director (said involvement was finished after 4 months)

• Sharon Stone, actress (reportedly now a convert to Buddhism)

[Wonderwoman]

Oliver Stone???????????

[Sojiita]

Werner Erhard also founded "The Forum"-cult. He is in league with the devil.

Est, The Forum, and Landmark Education are all the same group/cult.

[A*O]

Who knew there were so many rich idiots in Hollywood - sorry, that was a dumb statement in itself. Bart Simpson is a Scientologist?!?!?!?!

[ultrafabviolet]

Lest we forget to mention the anti-Tom:

Scientology's most (in)famous celebrity: Charles Manson

One famous celebrity involved with Scientology that Scientology does not boast about, talk about, or probably even wants you to know about is Charles Manson, the convicted murderer of Sharon Tate and her friends. Scientology made extensive efforts to hide or destroy Manson's Scientology records. They have continually denied that he was a member, but in the FBI raid on Scientology's headquarters the F.B.I. found abundant Scientology internal intelligence information regarding Manson's involvement with Scientology.
The New York Times stated that Manson first got interested in Scientology while he was incarcerated in the McNeil Is land Penitentiary in Washington (Scientology has recruiting programs for prisons). From another report, Manson received about 150 hours of Scientology counseling in prison and at one point went psychotic. "Charles was very preoccupied with this new thing called Scientology", one of his friends from prison has told. "He thought that it could do something for him."

Manson himself has told that he learned the methods very quickly, because he had not been programmed in advance. Manson had lessons in Scientology by three of his cell mates. One of them, Lanier Palmer, was "Doctor of Scientology."

After his release from prison, The New York Times reported, he went to Los Angeles where he was said to have met local Scientologists and attended several parties for movie stars, possibly the July 18 initial dedication of the first Celebrity Center.

Scientology literature was also said to be found at the ranch when Manson and his family were captured. There were hints that he later got involved with other OTO groups or may have joined the Process, the sex and Satan group which originally broke away from Scientology.

It is interesting to note that the OTO is commonly considered the mother cult of Satanism to western society. Scientology was derived in significant part from the OTO. The Process came in significant part from Scientology. Another escapee-group from the Process was the notorious Son of Sam cult.

The Son of Sam cult had cells that spread all over the USA. Since 1976 about 15-20 cult killings were committed by the sect in the New York-area, especially of young girls. The leaders in New York were among others, David Berkowitz and the brothers John and Michael Cam. They killed "to bring this era to an end." At David's home the police found the telephone number of the Fort Harrison Hotel in Clearwater, Florida, Scientology's main secret level training center.

David explained to the police, that the Son of Sam cult was an escapee from Scientology, though, there is no proof of David personally being close to Scientology.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~fishman/fable.htm

Just drink your freaking electric Kool-Aid, will you please? Thank you.

Vi

[Sojiita]

Originally Posted by A*O

Bart Simpson is a Scientologist?!?!?!?!

Oh shit! I missed that! You are right! LOL!

[ralphycnan]

Wow, so many of them. Some that I wouldn't even imagine that would be.

[ourmaninBusan]

• Sonny Bono, musician and member of U.S. House from California (claimed Catholicism on campaign biographies)

They must be so proud.

[A*O]

Yeah - well Sonny Bono (RIP) skied into a tree so he passed the Scientology smarts test.

[Barbara]

Catherine Bell?

[Voodoo Child]

Wow a lot of kooks!

[tulip]

JJ Abrams a former Scientologist? That's probably why he was hired to do MI:3 -- so Tom could recruit him back into the fold.

[darksithbunny]

wait a minute. Hold the horn. Chaka Khan? I thought she was muslim??? Isn't that why her name IS Chaka Khan? She changed it when she became one?

[darksithbunny]

Emilio Estevez, actor (renounced it and won't discuss it) Wonder what he knows???
Jerry Seinfield. Isn't he Jewish?

[miss_perfect]

So, both Jason Lee and Ethan Suplee are both Scientologists? Ewwww! Suddenly My Name is Earl has lost its appeal.