BOOK: Scientology Leader Gossips About Secret Celebrity "Confessional Files"
May 1 2010, Published 1:27 p.m. ET
The controversial new book, Scientology: Abuse at the Top, is claiming that leader David Miscavige regularly gossips about his celebrity followers, sharing sensitive information from their supposedly confidential confessional files.
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Miscavige, Tom Cruise's best friend and best man at his wedding to Katie Holmes, is strongly denying the claims made by author Amy Scobee.
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But the author isn't backing down. She writes that she was personally in the office of another top church executive when he received a call from Miscavige.
The two men giggled "like little elementary school kids," she said, as they gossiped about a "female celebrity connected with Michael Jackson." That female would be Lisa Marie Presley, sources believe.
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Scientology is increasingly under attack by former members like author Scobee. There have been several high-profile defections of late, and CNN's Anderson Cooper recently aired a five-part investigation on the church.