Ronald DeWolf

Ronald DeWolf
DeWolf during an interview in 1983
Born	Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, Jr. (1934-05-05)May 5, 1934 Encinitas, California, United States
Died	September 16, 1991(1991-09-16) (aged 57) Carson City, Nevada, United States
Other names	"Nibs" Hubbard
Citizenship	American
Notable work	L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman?, co-author
Parent(s)	L. Ron Hubbard and Margaret Grubb
Relatives	Quentin Hubbard (Half-Brother), Jamie DeWolf (Grandson)

External video

Ronald DeWolf testimony Day 1 and Day 2

Ronald DeWolf interview (1983)

Ronald DeWolf interviewed by Carol Randolph

Jamie DeWolf reads grandfather's memoir

Ronald Edward DeWolf (May 7, 1934 – September 16, 1991), born Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, Jr., also known as "Nibs" Hubbard, was the eldest child of Scientology's founder L. Ron Hubbard, by his first wife, Margaret Louise Grubb.

In his 1983 interview with Penthouse magazine, DeWolf said he was born prematurely; his father constructed a makeshift incubator with a shoe box, later a cupboard drawer, and used blankets and an electric light bulb to keep the baby warm.

Hubbard, Jr. claimed to have helped his father in the early days of Scientology but later rejected his father and Scientology, changing his name to Ronald DeWolf. On November 6, 1982, in a Riverside, California, court, DeWolf sued for control of his father's estate, saying that his father was either deceased or incompetent. His father was proven to still be alive.

In the mid-1980s, DeWolf gave a series of sworn statements and interviews detailing his father's history. DeWolf explained his father had been "deeply involved in the occult and black-magic." According to DeWolf, Aleister Crowley's death in 1947 was a pivotal event that led Hubbard to "take over the mantle of the Beast". DeWolf claimed that "Black magic is the inner core of Scientology", arguing that "my father did not worship Satan. He thought he was Satan."

DeWolf claimed that "99% of what my father ever wrote or said about himself is totally untrue." In a lengthy 1983 interview with Penthouse magazine, he alleged that his father had claimed to be Satan incarnate, was a KGB accomplice, and a drug addict. He also claimed that Errol Flynn was his father's best friend during the late 1950s, to the point of seeming an adoptive father to DeWolf, and the two friends engaged in various illegal activities together including drug smuggling and underage sex. Speaking on WDVM in Washington, DC, in 1983, on the Carol Randolph Morning Break show, he further described the Sea Org as being analogous to the Nazi SS, and described drug importation operations he alleged his father had been involved in, citing organised crime connections in Mexico and Colombia. In his opinion Scientology was little more than a cult that existed to make money.