Shelly Miscavige
| Michele Miscavige | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Michele Diane Barnett January 18, 1961 Dallas, Texas, U.S. |
| Residence | Reported Missing/Unknown |
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Organization | Church of Scientology |
| Known for | Marriage to Scientology leader David Miscavige. |
| Spouse(s) | David Miscavige |
| Parent(s) | Maurice Elliott Barnett (d. 2007), Mary Florence "Flo" Fike Barnett (d. 1985) |
Michele Diane Miscavige (born January 18, 1961) is the wife of Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige. She has made no public appearances since August 2007, leading to much speculation about her fate or whereabouts. A missing persons report filed by actress Leah Remini was closed and classified as "unfounded" by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), according to anonymous sources from the LAPD who stated that she had been located and spoken with, but did not provide details about where Ms Miscavige was or when the LAPD had located her.
Miscavige 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 Apollo 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, in 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 most famous member, Tom Cruise. When Cruise started 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, which led to him marrying Katie Holmes. 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 in due course 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.
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