Today at Daily Beast: Joe Reaiche threatens to sue Danny Masterson’s sibs over court letters

[Former rugby player Joe Reaiche has a scrum on his hands with his kids Jordan and Alanna Masterson]

Hey, gang, we’re back at The Daily Beast this morning, and how sweet it is.

The publication reached out to us during this week’s chaos following Danny Masterson’s sentencing to 30 years to life in prison and our subsequent leak of the letters that had been sent on his behalf by such figures as Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis.

Those letters really blew up, and Friday turned out to be the biggest single day of readership here in the history of our humble Substack.

The reaction on social media was so fierce, meanwhile, Kutcher and Kunis felt obliged to put out a POW-style video yesterday apologizing for writing the letters that had gushed about Danny Masterson’s character.

We couldn’t help noticing the way Kutcher pointed out that the letters had been written for Judge Charlaine Olmedo: Were they actually under the impression that the letters wouldn’t eventually be made public?

Anyway, while the reaction to Kutcher and Kunis was the big story of the day, we didn’t want something else to get lost: What Jordan and Alanna Masterson had said about their father Joe Reaiche in their letters to Judge Olmedo.

We pointed out a few times during the two trials that for us nothing symbolized Scientology’s wretched totalitarian control of its members and the way it splits apart families than seeing Jordan and Alanna in the courtroom, day after day. We, of course, knew the backstory, that they had “disconnected” from their father when he was “declared” a “suppressive person” by the church in 2005, some ten years after he and Carol Masterson had divorced.

During those ten years, Joe had remained a constant presence in the lives of his own children and in the lives of his former stepchildren, Danny and Christopher Masterson, until Scientology excommunicated him and the kids all turned their backs on him.

Now, in letters to the court, Jordan and Alanna were making it sound like they had been abandoned by their father as very young children.

We figured that Joe would have something to say about that. And boy, did he.

Please check out our story at The Daily Beast. And also, we spent a few minutes on CNN yesterday with Fredricka Whitfield, and we thought you might also want to see that.

What a few days it’s been.

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