LRH family
From the left Suzette (4), his wife Mary Sue, Quentin (5), Arthur (1) and Diana (7). All were to suffer in various ways. (Photo Source Ltd)
| 1934 | Margaret "Polly" Grubb (died 1963 due to alcohol) | 1934 | L. Ron Hubbard Jr. (later changed to Ronald DeWolf after he turned against scientology and said "Scientology is a power- and money- and intelligence-gathering game" ) Died in 1991 |
| 1936 | Katherine May Hubbard (not in scientology) | ||
| 1946 | Sara Elizabeth Northrup (unknown if alive or dead, she turned against scientology) | 1950 | Alexis Valerie Hubbard (not in scientology) |
| 1952 | Mary Sue Whipp (still alive and living in Los Angelos California, guarded by scientology. The church is writing fake letters signed with her name, to try to convince people that the new Management is per LRH) | 1952 | Diana Meredith Hubbard (not able to find data on her. Some say she is still inside the church and others say she left. One thing is sure, someone wants to keep this quite) |
| 1954 | Geoffrey Quentin McCaully Hubbard (Misterious suicide in Las Vegas 1975. Some say he was murdered) | ||
| 1955 | Mary Suzette Rochelle Suzette Hubbard (Kicked out of scientology in the 80ies by Miscavige) | ||
| 1958 | Arthur Ronald Conway Hubbard (Kicked out of the church by Miscavige and lives a hidden life in New York as an artist) | ||
Hubbard, who lived from 1911 to 1986, had at least seven children by three different wives, including one bigamous marriage.
His first son, L. Ron Hubbard Jr., was born May 7, 1934, in Southern California to Hubbard's first wife, Margaret "Polly" Grubb. Their second child,
Katherine May Hubbard, was born Jan. 15, 1936.
Hubbard Jr., who later changed his name to Ronald DeWolf, helped build his father's Scientology empire in the 1950s but later denounced his dad as a "fraud."
"Scientology is a power- and money- and intelligence-gathering game," he said in a 1983 interview.
DeWolf died in 1991.
Hubbard's second wife, Sara Northrup Hubbard, gave birth to Hubbard's third child, Alexis Valerie Hubbard, on March 8, 1950.
Just three months later, Hubbard would unveil Dianetics, his "new science of the mind," in the May 1950 issue of the magazine "Astounding Science Fiction." His longer treatise, "Dianetics - The Modern Science of Mental Health," would be published later that year and become a national craze, laying the groundwork for the tax-exempt Church of Scientology.
In divorce papers filed in Los Angeles Superior Court in 1951, Sara Hubbard said the founder of Scientology did not mention that he was already married - and had two children - when they exchanged their vows on Aug. 10, 1946.
Hubbard did not secure a divorce from his first wife until Dec. 24, 1947.
In her divorce papers, Sara Hubbard accused the self-help guru of "systematic torture, beatings, strangulations and scientific torture experiments." She also accused Hubbard of kidnapping Alexis, a story that made headlines in Los Angeles in 1951.
Hubbard married his third wife, Mary Sue Whipp, in 1952.
She gave Hubbard four more children - Diana, Quentin, Suzette and Arthur - over the next six years.
Quentin committed suicide in Las Vegas in October 1975, when he was 18 years old.
QUOTE: Quentin had been found in Las Vegas at 0832 hours on 28 October, slumped over the steering-wheel of a white Pontiac parked off Sunset Road alongside the perimeter fence of McCarran Airport at the end of the north-south runway. All the car windows were rolled up and a white vacuum cleaner tube led from the passenger's vent window to the exhaust tail pipe. Tissue papers had been stuffed into the window opening around the tube and the car's engine was still running.
Officer Bruns of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police
Department was first on the scene. He wrenched open both the car doors and
ascertained that the young man inside was still alive, though unconscious,
probably because the tube had fallen off the tail pipe. He carried no
identification of any kind and there were no licence plates on the car.
There was nothing in the car but a Grundig portable radio, a black tote
bag containing miscellaneous clothing and an open, partly consumed, bottle
of tequila.
'The vehicle appeared as though the subject might have
been sleeping in it,' the police report noted. 'The subject himself was
very unkempt, his clothing was dirty, and would be possibly described as a
vagrant type subject. A white male, appeared in his mid to late 20s. The
subject was transported to Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital via Mercy
Ambulance . . .' (Officer's Report, D.R. No 76-57596, Las Vegas
Metropolitan Police Department)
As no one knew who he was, Quentin was admitted to hospital as 'John Doe'. The only identifying marks that the hospital could record were his red hair and red moustache. He never regained consciousness and died at 2115 on 12 November. The police records listed him as a 'possible suicide'.
On Monday, 15 November, the Las Vegas coroner's office began making attempts to establish 'John Doe's' identity. His car, which had been impounded, was re-checked and a Florida Highway Patrol smog sticker was found, along with a vehicle identification number. A telex to the Florida department of motor vehicles came up with the information that the vehicle was registered to a Quentin Hubbard of 210 South Fort Harrison Avenue, Clearwater. Descriptions of the car and the dead man were telexed to Clearwater police department with a request that the information be checked.
At 8.40 pm that same day, a man called Dick Weigand
telephoned the deputy coroner from Los Angeles airport, said he was
leaving for Las Vegas in five minutes and hoped to be able to identify
John Doe. They agreed to meet at ten o'clock that night at the Medical
Examiner Facility on Pinto Lane. Weigand was a senior Guardian's Office
agent. He arrived at Pinto Lane five minutes late and explained that he
had been contacted by a Kathy O'Gorman, who lived at the same address in
Clearwater as Quentin Hubbard. However, he said he had only seen Quentin a
couple of times and could not be sure of making a positive
identification. Weigand viewed the body twice, stared into Quentin's
white face, with his unmistakable red hair and moustache, then shook his
head and said he was not sure. He could give no more help and he did not
even know the telephone number of Kathy O'Gorman in Clearwater. Weigand
disappeared into the garish Las Vegas night and immediately put a call
through to the Guardian's Office to give them the bad news: it was
Quentin, all right.
Mary Sue screamed for ten minutes when she heard
the news. 'It was horrendous,' said Kima Douglas. 'It kept on going. I
couldn't believe she could get that much air in her lungs. The only time I
had ever really seen her cry before was when Mixie, her Corgi, died and I
had to give it mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to try and revive it. The old
man didn't cry or get emotional. He was furious - really angry that
Quentin had done it.' END QUOTE from page 344-345 of "Bare-Faced Messiah"
by Russell Miller
Three years later, Mary Sue Hubbard was among nine of Scientology insiders indicted for infiltrating the Internal Revenue Service and stealing more than 30,000 pages of government documents on the Hubbards and the Church of Scientology.
Mary Sue Hubbard was convicted and served one year of a four-year federal prison term.
According to biographer Russell Miller, the author of "Bare-Faced Messiah - The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard," Mary Sue took the fall for her husband, then lost out in a power struggle with David Miscavige, a second-generation Scientologist who assumed control of the movement after Hubbard's death in January 1986.
Miscavige, who started in the organization as one of Hubbard's teenage couriers in the elite "Commodore's Messengers Organization," declined to be interviewed for this story.
As for Ron and Mary Sue's three surviving children, Scientology spokesman Aron Mason said they are all still members of the church - either as parishioners or members of the staff. None of them, he said, will talk to the press.
Other sources, however, said Arthur, 42 and the youngest child, has left the church and is an artist living in New York City. His older sister, Diana, retains a leadership role in the Scientology.
"They do their best," Mason said, "to lead normal, undistracted lives."
One Hubbard ancestor who could be tracked down was Jamie Kennedy, the grandson of Ronald DeWolf, making Kennedy Hubbard's great-grandson.
Kennedy, 23, lives in Vallejo and is a nationally recognized slam poet. He said his mother and ex-girlfriend have been visited by Scientology agents asking about his references to Scientology in his poems and his decision to appear at an anti-Scientology benefit last November.
"They can't shut me up," Kennedy said. "I've made a career out of not giving a f-."
Billed as the "Hellspawn Leprechaun," Kennedy
shares his great- grandfather's red hair and in-your-face attitude.