HOLLYWOOD,INTERRUPTED

05/12/11

It's like the opening of the Stasi files after the Berlin Wall fell: Yesterday, Scientology defector Marty Rathbun published the cult's surveillance file on Washington Post reporter Richard Leiby. Today, we're publishing a glimpse into its spying operation agai...

60 years ago, the late great craggy carny barker of character actors Lewis Arquette found himself in the Soho District of Manhattan sharing a syringe with jazz musicians. It was the first and last time Arquette shot up.

In the summer of 1994, some 50 films and 5 kids (a...

FRACKED UP!: Hollywood,Interrupted Visits America’s New Boomtown

by Mark Ebner

Three hundred miles due north of Deadwood, South Dakota and roughly half as many years past its 1870s heyday, a new gold rush is threatening to give that storied spectacle of exuberant capital...

He ran one of California’s biggest drug empires… …complete with all the trappings — Ferraris, strippers, tricked-out jacuzzis, and garish fake waterfalls – then, the Feds ran him. A star informant takes us through his personal hell…

The first sign that something was wro...

Pit Bullies, New Times,

Published Date: New Times Los Angeles, November 7, 1996
Author : Mark Ebner

A coin toss determines which dog gets which corner in the pit. The toss also decides which dog will be washed first to cleanse it of poisonous substances it may have been...

In 1999, Rolling Stone assigned Hollywood reporter Mark Ebner to the story of Philip Gale, an MIT prodigy born into Scientology who killed himself on the birthday of the cult's founder. The organization sent Rolling Stone a damning dossier on Ebner and the story was sp...

In 2007—seven years before she publicly came forward—I spoke with Joan Tarshis, a former Hollywood publicist who claimed that Bill Cosby raped her. After our talk—and, of course, much

more research—I filed a version of the following story on my website Hollywood, Inter...

Author's Note: Exposing the criminal mind-control cult of Scientology for Spy magazine in '96...

“If you really want to enslave people, tell them that you’re going to give them total freedom.”

- L. Ron Hubbard

I am an ex-drug addict who has solicited prostitutes in my day...

“Don’t ever sleep with your stalker,” was the sage advice tendered to me in 2000 by Hollywood P.I., Fred “Mad Dog” Valis. Too bad those wise words came too late. I’d already bedded a slightly manic

blond “fan” who found me via a newspaper I wrote for and whose idea of f...