More new Scientology harassment detail in the lawsuit from Danny Masterson’s victims

[During the trials]

Last week we described how Scientology is trying to strike portions of the lawsuit filed by Danny Masterson’s victims, and they are fighting back by posting more details of the harassment they’ve been going through since they came forward to the LAPD in 2016.

That day, we showed you the stunning allegations by Jane Doe 1, and today, we have the declaration of Jane Doe 2.

Again, we ask you to imagine if this information were to be presented to a jury.

DECLARATION OF JANE DOE #2

I, Jane Doe #2, declaring under a pseudonym, declare as follows:

1. I am over the age of eighteen (18). I have personal knowledge of the facts stated below and, if called upon to do so, could and would competently testify thereto.

2. I am a Plaintiff in the case of Bixler, et al. v. Church of Scientology International, Inc., et al. proceeding under a pseudonym.

3. I submit this Declaration in Support of Plaintiffs’ Opposition to Defendants’ Special Motion to Strike Certain Allegations and Corresponding Causes of Action from the First Amended Complaint of Plaintiff Jane Doe #2 (“Motion”).

4. I was a practicing Scientologist when I was a child and, through my affiliation with the church, became familiar with members of Scientology, and organizations affiliated with Scientology, including The Church of Scientology International, Religious Technology Center, and Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre International, David Miscavige and Daniel Masterson (“Defendants”).

5. Previously, I had reported a rape by a Scientologist to Scientology and was directed to not report the rape to governmental authorities. When I reported the rape, I was shown Scientology policies prohibiting me from contacting the authorities. I was also shown policies prohibiting me from accusing a fellow Scientologist of rape, even if the accusation was reported only to Scientology. I understood that if I did report the assault to Scientology, it would not result in any action being taken except to publicly shun, shame, and harass me.

6. In 2017, I disclosed Defendant Masterson’s assault to the LAPD. From the time I disclosed Defendant Masterson’s assault to the authorities through the present, I have been stalked, harassed, and intimidated by Defendants and their agents in retaliation for reporting my abuse and in an attempt to silence me.

7. In or around May 2023, Defendant Masterson was convicted of raping me, and on or around September 2023, Defendant Masterson was sentenced to imprisonment for a period of 30 years to life.

Instances of Physical Surveillance and Harassment

8. Shortly after reporting that Defendant Masterson raped and sexually assaulted me to the LAPD, I observed two people, one of whom I know to be a Scientologist, surveilling my home.

9. Within a week of reporting my rape and sexual assault to the LAPD, a Sea Org member came to my house seeking to speak with me. The Sea Org member initially refused to leave when I told him that I did not want to speak with him.

10. Shortly after contacting the LAPD, I was retrieving something from my vehicle parked in front of my home when an individual, who I know to be a Scientologist, slowly pulled into a nearby driveway and stared at me until I went back inside my home.

11. Starting shortly after I contacted the LAPD, my car started being vandalized. On multiple occasions, when my car was parked on the street near other cars, my car suffered damage (for example, the driver-side rear-view mirror was removed and my entire front windshield was broken and needed to be replaced) while the surrounding cars were untouched.

12. In one instance, in or around the end of 2017 or the beginning of 2018, I was in Echo Park in Los Angeles, California with a friend when we noticed that an unknown man was watching us from a bench and photographing us. When my friend and I walked away, the man followed us for approximately an hour and continued to photograph us.

13. In or around late 2017 or early 2018, I was followed around a grocery store by a Sea Org member known to me as Maverick.

14. In or around February 2018, I was at a grocery store when [Ilaria] Urbinati, who had since become a business partner of Defendant Masterson’s, approached me and told me that Leah Remini was putting me “up to this,” and asked why I and Plaintiff Bixler were “doing this to Danny?” Urbinati went on to interrogate me and to attempt to get me to admit I was lying about being raped and assaulted by Defendant Masterson. She also told me that Bixler was “insane” and that Masterson had not raped me. Urbinati persisted despite me repeatedly asking Urbinati to leave me alone.

15. In or around 2020, a man claiming to be from the U.S. Census Bureau knocked insistently on my door. When I told him to leave, he refused and instead began peering through my window and took notes for ten minutes. This man did not go to any of my neighbors’ homes, and when I called the Census Bureau, they were unable to confirm the man was associated with the Census Bureau.

16. After a 2020 meeting with Plaintiff Bixler and an attorney, Plaintiff Bixler and I were in Bixler’s parked car when a vehicle began to circle us. The occupants were waving and smiling in a disconcerting manner and mimicking the taking of pictures.

17. On two separate occasions in or around 2021, I noticed unknown men parked outside of my home for long periods of time. On the first occasion, the vehicle’s occupant appeared to be observing me and taking notes. On the second occasion, I saw what appeared to be electronic equipment in the passenger seat and center console. When I confronted the occupant, the man told me to fellate him. A neighbor of mine has also reported seeing individuals sitting in their vehicles outside of my home on several occasions.

18. On another occasion in or around 2021, I was walking to my vehicle parked on the street outside of my house when I noticed a man parked in a car near my vehicle. As I approached my vehicle, the man drove his car directly behind my vehicle and stayed there, blocking a driveway. Once there, he stared at me and took notes until I drove away.

19. In or around 2022, my mailbox was broken into and my mail was stolen.

20. In or around 2022, one of my grocery deliveries was tampered with and unsealed jars containing strange liquid were delivered to me.

21. In or around 2022, a man contacted me and told me that he was going through the same sort of harassment that I was experiencing and told me that he could help me. He pressured me to call him where he lived in New York (a one-party consent state for recording calls). I later determined that the man is connected to friends of Defendant Masterson.

22. During Defendant Masterson’s criminal trials, on several occasions I noticed that unidentified men were following me while I was in downtown Los Angeles. For example, during the first trial while awaiting the jury verdict, unidentified men followed me on-foot inside and around the hotel.

23. In or around early 2023, shortly before I was scheduled to testify in Masterson’s retrial, new tenants moved into the property whose backyard is a few feet from my entire apartment, including my bedroom and living room. Now, whenever I go to sit outside, those tenants also go into their backyard and begin making a racket. For example, during one six-day period, the tenants mowed their lawn every day, despite it being a very small lawn, would use power tools for hours often and for days on end, and would peer into my windows. The tenants also engage in behavior that appears to target me, including, the night before Defendant Masterson’s criminal trial was set to begin, loudly playing an obscure song that I had posted on Twitter the prior day.

24. In or around early 2023, a car with tinted windows parked directly next to me as I parked in a grocery store parking lot. Despite the tinted windows, I could see a man sitting in the car working on a laptop. I stared at the car as I entered the grocery store and the car drove away. After returning from the grocery store, I saw the same car had reparked next to my car and when I started to confront the man, he began to leave again. I confronted the man and asked him if he was Scientology, he made a joke and drove away.

Instances of Electronic and Online Harassment

25. Shortly after reporting that Defendant Masterson raped and sexually assaulted me to the LAPD, I also began to receive copious amounts of mail, phone calls, and text messages from numbers associated with the Sea Org. I frequently received voicemails from Defendants and/or their agents urging me to call them to return to Scientology to help me cope with the death of my father by suicide (despite my father not being a Scientologist and having died 12 years prior).

26. I have received numerous phone calls from individuals who either do not speak or make sexual noises.

27. Defendants and their agents have created numerous fake social media accounts purporting to be created by me, which they have used to try to discredit me.

28. I have been consistently harassed via social media by Defendants and their agents, including being accused of serious criminal offenses, being accused of being a Satanist, and being accused of being a part of “Pizzagate” and being a pedophile.

29. In or around September and October 2018, Defendants’ agent Kathy Gold started publicly threatening me and the other Plaintiffs, and their relatives. Gold accused me and the other Plaintiffs of being religious bigots and liars and threatened to commit serious and violent crimes against us, including murder. A true and correct copy of one of Gold’s threats against me and the other Plaintiffs is attached hereto as Exhibit A.

30. In or around June 2023, shortly after Defendant Masterson was convicted, a known agent of Scientology tweeted about me and the other Plaintiffs:

Because those 3 women implied drug use by Masterson, every Scientologist in LA now knows they were lying. Scientologists just don’t use drugs. Every Scientologist who recognizes these women will spit on them, for the rest of their lives. I sure wouldn’t want to be them.

A true and correct copy of this tweet is attached hereto as Exhibit B.

31. Later that day, the same known agent of Scientology tweeted:

Since these women live in LA and there are thousands of Scientologists in every walk of life in LA, the three women who lied in the Danny Masterson case will get spit on a lot. I don’t think they will take it out on the jury or judge since these were just fooled and manipulated by a false “expert witness”. But the 4 women will live in hell, now and for the rest of their lives.

A true and correct copy of this tweet is attached hereto as Exhibit C.

Invasion of Personal Devices and Accounts

32. An investigator with the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office confirmed in late August 2021 that my phone and computer had been compromised.

33. I have experienced substantial issues with my cell phone and computer that suggest my phone and computer have been hacked or otherwise compromised. During my phone calls, I have heard an irregular clicking noise, interference, and my calls sometimes abruptly drop. Frequently, my calls connect to the other party, but neither party can hear each other talk. There were also occasions that I heard voices during telephone conversations other than the person to whom I was speaking. My phones and computers sometimes scroll or take screenshots by themselves, the settings on my phones have changed without my changing them, and my phones have frequently indicated that they are located in cities they are not in. Text messages on my phone between myself and other Plaintiffs have also disappeared, despite my not deleting the messages. And numerous other files on my phone have been deleted, despite me not deleting them.

34. I have experienced continual interference with my internet and WiFi and my service provider has determined the interference is not due to any faulty equipment.

35. On multiple occasions, with both doctors and attorneys, I called the number associated with the service provider and provided personal confidential information. I would later make a follow up call and be told that the service provider had no record of my initial call.

36. Many of my social media accounts have been hacked, including my Twitter and Instagram accounts. Shortly after publishing a post on Instagram indicating that I was not afraid of Scientology, my Instagram account was deleted without my knowledge or approval. Defendants and their agents have caused my business social media accounts to be deindexed by Google or to appear unnaturally far down in Google search results.

37. My accounts with several service and utility providers have been hacked and I have had my passwords changed on those accounts without my authorization.

38. In or around late 2017 or early 2018, Defendants and their agents uploaded unflattering pictures of me to IMDB and associated those pictures with my entry in that database.

39. In or around March 2019, I made a post to social media in which I called on the FBI to investigate Scientology. In the days immediately following, Defendants and their agents, without my authorization, charged approximately $4,000.00 of merchandise from Victoria Secret and vitamin suppliers to my bank account, and had those items delivered to my house.

40. In or around late 2020 or early 2021, I searched myself on Google Images. The results returned several images of women that bore a resemblance to a younger version of me, with my name appearing under the pictures. The pictures directed the user to pornographic web sites. Within minutes of reporting this to the authorities, the pictures were removed.

41. Despite not having shared my Pandora account information with any third parties, my Pandora account sometimes notifies me that “Someone else is listening to your Pandora right now. You are sharing this with another listener.”

Emotional Distress Resulting from Defendants’ Conduct

42. As a result of the harassment I have suffered, I have rarely left my home in the years since reporting Defendant Masterson’s sexual assault to the authorities. I have struggled with Fibromyalgia, insomnia, migraines, nausea and vertigo, extreme fatigue, sciatica, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder, complex post-traumatic stress disorder, agoraphobia, and depression.

43. As a result of the foregoing, I continue to live in fear for my life and the safety of my family.

44. On multiple occasions, I told the individuals that were harassing me to cease their actions and have gone to law enforcement about the harassment. I also believe my responses, reactions, and actions, including the filing of this Complaint in or around August 2019, made it clear to the Defendants that I wanted them to stop harassing me. In any event, I believe that my safety and the safety of my family would be in jeopardy if I made additional attempts to directly confront Defendants’ agents regarding their harassing conduct.

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing is true and correct.

Executed on this 8th day of January, 2024, at Los Angeles, California.

JANE DOE #2

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