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Michele Shelly ( Born: Diane Miscavige née Barnett) is the wife of the Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige. She was last seen in public in August 2007.
Actress Leah Remini, a former Scientologist and vocal critic of the organization, filed a missing person report regarding Miscavige with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) in 2013. According to a story in the Los Angeles Times based on information from an anonymous LAPD source, the LAPD contacted Miscavige and subsequently closed the case.
She is a member of the Sea Org, the organization responsible for the international management of the Church of Scientology and its affiliated entities. From the age of 12, she was a member of the Commodore’s Messenger Organization (CMO), the internal Sea Org group responsible for personally servicing Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard aboard his flagship MVApollo in the 1970s.
She was described as “quiet, petite and younger than most of the other Messengers at the time … and a bit overshadowed by the older girls.”Jim Dincalci, one of her shipmates, says that she was “a sweet, innocent thing thrown into chaos.” At the age of 21, on December 1982, she married a fellow CMO member, 22-year-old David Miscavige.
She subsequently joined her husband’s group as “COB Assistant”, the official assistant to her husband, the Chairman of the Board (COB) of Scientology’s Religious Technology Center. According to author Lawrence Wright, she was closely involved in the Church’s liaison with its highest-profile member, Tom Cruise. When Cruise began a three-year relationship with Penélope Cruz, Miscavige supervised Cruz’s auditing and helped her through the Church’s Purification Rundown program.
After the end of the Cruise-Cruz relationship, Miscavige was reported to have led a Church program to find a new girlfriend for Tom Cruise. Around a hundred young Scientologist actresses were interviewed, though they were not told why. An actress named Nazanin Boniadi was introduced to Cruise and dated him for a few months before he broke off the relationship in January 2005.
The search resumed, with more actresses invited to audition for what they thought was a role in a forthcoming Mission: Impossible film, and eventually concluded with Katie Holmes meeting and marrying Cruise. His attorney denies that any Scientology executive set him up with girlfriends. Miscavige subsequently oversaw a project to use Scientology members and contractors to renovate Cruise’s nine-bedroom mansion in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles.
Shelly Miscavige Age
Michele “Shelly” Diane Miscavige is the wife of the Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige. She was born on January 18. 1961 in Dallas, Texas, United States. Michele is 58 years old as of 2019.
Shelly Miscavige Parents | Shelly Miscavige Family
Michele Diane Barnett was born in Dallas, Texas, U.S. Her’s mother, Mary Florence “Flo” Fike Barnett, was a long-time Scientologist. On September 8. 1985, 52-year-old Flo Barnett was found dead from three “somewhat superficial” rifle shots to the chest and a fatal shot to the head. The autopsy also reported that there were slash marks on her wrists that may have been a few days old. The death was ruled a suicide. Miscavige’s father, Maurice Elliott Barnett, died in 2007.
Shelly Miscavige Husband
Shelly is married to David Miscavige. David is the leader of the Church of Scientology. His official title is Chairman of the Board of the Religious Technology Center, a corporation that controls the trademarks and copyrights of Dianetics and Scientology. Miscavige was a deputy to church founder L. Ron Hubbard while he was a teenager.
‘Distraught’ Shelly Miscavige was ‘dragged’ off by ‘unidentified men’ after her ‘abusive’ husband ‘removed her from his office’ claims her assistant as she sues Church of Scientology for kidnapping
a lifelong member of Scientology who spent three years serving as the personal aide to Shelly Miscavige has filed a lawsuit against the controversial religious organization.
The woman, who is identified in the lawsuit as Jane Doe, filed a complaint about damages in Los Angeles Superior Court this week that lists 14 causes of action, including false imprisonment, kidnapping, libel, slander, human trafficking, and negligence.
Doe also details her close relationship with the wife of Scientology leader David Miscavige and details what had been happening in the days and months leading up to her alleged disappearance.
The court filing alleges that Miscavige ‘became increasingly hostile and verbally abusive towards his wife’ around 2005, and soon after Shelley was removed as her husband’s assistant and Doe were forced to perform manual labor.
Then, in 2006, Doe ‘witnessed a dark-colored tinted vehicle pull up to the main building’ at Scientology’s Gold Base, at which point ‘unidentified men dragged Shelly, who was crying and visibly distraught, out of the building and put her in the car,’ according to the lawsuit.
Shelly has not been seen in public since then and Doe never saw her in the 10 years she remained with the organization, but Scientology spokespersons have always denied reports that she is missing.
Doe spoke about meeting Shelly in an episode of the Leah Remini series Scientology and the Aftermath.
She was also given a job by Remini after the actress learned about Doe’s daring escape from Gold Base in the trunk of a car. ‘One of my first jobs was I was a waitress for the top executives at the Clearwater Flag Land Base,’ said Doe.’ Dave and Shelly came to the opening and I served them, and Shelly was like, ‘oh my gosh I love this girl and I want her to work with me.”
Doe says that she was soon making the move from Clearwater to Gold Base, the home base for the group’s top executives.
‘Shelley was lovely’ said Doe, but everyone else she encountered seemed ‘not happy and frightened’.
Things began to change however in 2005 according to the complaint, which alleges that Miscavige ‘became increasingly hostile and verbally abusive’ towards his wife.
‘In about the third year I was working with Shelly and David, Shelly was just getting more and more in disagreement with David about how he was running the organization, how he was treating the staff,’ said Doe when she appeared on Aftermath.
Soon after, both women reportedly found themselves out of the organization.
‘David Miscavige had Shelly removed from the main office as his secretary/assistant in the Gold Base. Jane Doe, because of her connection to Shelly Miscavige, at the age of 26, was punished by being removed from her position as steward and forced into the ‘Hole,” Doe alleges in her complaint.
‘The Hole is a set of double-wide trailers on Gold Base where senior executives accused of ‘ethics violations’ were held under strict surveillance. Doe ‘spent three months in the ‘Hole” and ‘was forbidden from having any communication whatsoever with Shelly.’
After those three months, she was ‘forced to do physical and manual labor’ Doe claims in the court filing.
When she finished her manual labor work, Doe began working on promotional videos for the Church, but by 2016 was ready to break free from Scientology according to the lawsuit.
‘Doe submitted written requests to leave to her superiors seven times. All requests were denied,’ reads the complaint.
‘Jane Doe was told by her superiors that if she left she would get cancer and die. On one occasion, Jane Doe was physically restrained and prevented from leaving. As a result of this, Jane Doe suffered mentally and contemplated suicide.’
She eventually got out by hiding in the trunk of a car belonging to an actor she had hired who was not a Scientologist, but says she was persuaded to return.
‘At the age of 37, Jane Doe returned to the CSI (Church of Scientology) to ‘route out,’ in an effort to not lose all connection with her family. Instead of doing what was agreed upon, CSI proceeded to treat Jane Doe like a prisoner,’ states the complaint.
‘Jane Doe was forced to do everything with the accompaniment of a ‘handler,’ including using the bathroom, showering and sleeping. She was made to do videotaped interrogations in which she was forced to make false confessions and provide false positive testimonials about her experiences with CSI.
‘Jane Doe was held for three months, not three weeks as she was told. Jane Doe was rarely permitted to leave. During this time, Jane Doe’s grandmother died, and she was not even allowed to leave for the funeral.’
Doe’s attorney Brian Kent said that this is just the first of many lawsuits his firm plans to file against the Church of Scientology.
‘Scientology for decades has sought to quash dissention, cover up its long history of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse of its members, including its most vulnerable members, its children, and weaponize its doctrine against those who escape and find the courage to speak up,’ said Kent.