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Part Two: The Last Days of L. Ron Hubbard

Behind the Bastards

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I'll Leave It for Sophie. She Loves It

Elrond Hubbard was isolated from the rest of the world for six years. David Miscavige, his former messenger and also at one point a cameraman was often the only person in direct contact with Elrond Hubbard. On days when he went into town, Hubbard would wear a variety of absurd disguises,. A baseball cap with fake hair sewn onto it, stage makeup to alter the shape of his face, false eyebrows and sideburns. The internet did not exist and so no one in him it recognized him either.

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