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Sara Elizabeth Bruce Northrup Hollister (April 8, 1924 – December 19, 1997) was an American occultist and second wife of Scientologist founder L. Ron Hubbard. She played a major role in the creation of Dianetics , which evolved into the religious movement Scientology .
- 10 She Met L. Ron Hubbard in A Sex Magick Cult
- 9 She and Hubbard Stole Jack Parsons’s Life Savings
- 8 Hubbard Was Still Married to His First Wife When They Got Married
- Ron Hubbard Brutally Abused Her
- 6 Hubbard Tried to Beat Her Into A Miscarriage
- 5 He Reported Her to The FBI as A Communist
- 4 Scientologists Tried to Brainwash Her Into Staying with Hubbard
- 3 Hubbard Kidnapped Her Baby
- 2 Polly Hubbard Had Gone Through All The Same Things
- 1 Sara Had to Absolve Hubbard of All Guilt to Get Her Baby Back
Sara Northrup’s life was difficult from the start. When she met Hubbard, she was living at the home of physicist and occultist Jack Parsons. Both she and Hubbard were members of Aleister Crowley’s sex magick cult. Northrup’s life was already filled with sexual abuse. She’d been molested by her father from a young age, a traumathat likely explains w...
Jack Parsons believed in free love. Bound by his own principles, he couldn’t do a thing but watch as his new friend, L. Ron Hubbard, started sleeping with his girlfriend, Sara Northrup. Parsons had to pretend to be okay with every bit of it. Other lodgers at his house, though, could tell just how angry it made him. “There [Hubbard] was, living off ...
Sara Northrup married L. Ron Hubbard because he threatened to kill himself. He’d asked her multiple times already, but she had refused every time until he made it clear: If she said no, his death would be on her conscienceforever. What Hubbard hadn’t told her, though, was that he was already married. Thirteen years earlier in 1933, he’d married Pol...
L. Ron Hubbard started beating his wife during summer 1946. It began when Sara’s father died. Despite her complicated feelings toward the man, Sara was overwhelmed with grief and sadness. To Hubbard, her sadness was nothing more than an annoyance. When she cried, he would beat and strangle her into silence, complaining that she’d distracted him fro...
None of those beatings, though, could compare to what he tried to do to her when she got pregnant. One night, after Hubbard had gone into one his mad rages, he threw his pregnant wife onto the ground. They would not bring a child into this world, he had decided, and he would make sure of it. L. Ron Hubbard tried to make his wife miscarry by repeate...
As Dianetics started to take off and Hubbard became worth a small fortune, his eye started to wander. As he’d done with his first wife, Hubbard started to cheat on Sara with a young woman: Barbara Klowden, his 20-year-old PR assistant. Sara didn’t take it lying down. After Hubbard forced her to go on a double date with Klowden, Sara started a reven...
In their own ways, Hubbard and Northrup tried to make the marriage work. Northrup went to a psychiatrist and tried to convince Hubbard to get treatment for the paranoid schizophreniathat was destroying his life. But he wouldn’t listen. Hubbard told her that she was in league with devils. Then he put two of his men, Richard de Mille and Dave William...
It was 1:00 AM on February 24, 1951, when L. Ron Hubbard and two of his friends dragged Sara Northrup out of her bed, still dressed in her nightgown. Hubbard had taken her baby. “We have Alexis,” Hubbard told her, “and you’ll never see her alive unless you come with us.” They threw Sara into the back of a car and drove her to Yuma, Arizona. Not lon...
Sara publicized everything on the advice of a lawyer, who told her that she couldn’t keep all of this a secretany longer. “Tell the truth,” he told her, “for the truth will bring back [your] baby, if alive.” She filed for divorce, and the papers became filled with horror storiesabout the man who had tortured her and taken her baby. Yes, she’d put i...
In June 1951, Sara Northrup got to see her baby again. For months, Hubbard had been hiding their child in Cuba, but now they were back in Wichita. Ron was willing to talk. He’d completely given into his paranoiddelusions. There was no sense of reality for him. Sara had no choice but to play along. In her words: “He told me that I was under the infl...
Sara Northrup. "Going Clear" director Alex Gibney obtained Northrup's recollections of her time with Hubbard. Northrup wrote that Hubbard wooed her by saying he "was a war hero" and that he was ...
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Oct 11, 2017 · Sara Northrup Hubbard, 2nd wife of L. Ron Hubbard Hubbard told a lot of compelling tales about the war, science, magic, and life in general, for he was also taken by the strange and the unknown, and Parsons soon befriended him, offering him an indefinite stay in his home.
Sara Northrup was a major figure in the Pasadena branch of the Ordo Templi Orientis, a society founded by the English occultist Aleister Crowley. From 1941 to 1945 she had a turbulent relationship with John Whiteside Parsons, the head of the Pasadena OTO, who was married to her sister Helen.
Mar 13, 2024 · Sara Elizabeth Bruce Northrup Hollister (April 8, 1924 – December 19, 1997) was the second wife of L. Ron Hubbard, from 1946 to 1951, and wife of Miles Hollister from 1951 to her death in 1997. She had one daughter, Alexis Valerie, fathered by Hubbard in 1948. Sara Northrup was a major figure in the Pasadena branch of the Ordo Templi Orientis ...
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May 18, 2022 · Sara Elizabeth Bruce Northrup Hollister (April 8, 1924 – December 19, 1997) was the second wife of L. Ron Hubbard, from 1946 to 1951, and wife of Miles Hollister from 1951 to her death in 1997. She had one daughter, Alexis Valerie, fathered by Hubbard in 1948. Sara Northrup was a major figure in the Pasadena branch of the Ordo Templi Orientis ...
