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Here are some of the incredibly bizarre experiences surrounding Tom Cruise's life in the organization known as Scientology. Oprah Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. She is best known.

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Born. Orpah Gail Winfrey[1](1. January 2. 9, 1. 95. Kosciusko, Mississippi, U.

S. Residence. Montecito, California. Lavallette, New Jersey. Telluride, Colorado. Maui, Hawaii. Chicago, Illinois. Fisher Island, Florida. Alma mater. Tennessee State University.

Occupation. Years active. Salary$7. 5 million(2. Net worth. US$ 3 billion (September 2.

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American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist.[1] She is best known for her talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was the highest- rated television program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1. Chicago, Illinois.[6] Dubbed the "Queen of All Media",[7] she has been ranked the richest African- American,[8] the greatest black philanthropist in American history,[9][1.

North America's first multi- billionaire black person.[1. Several assessments rank her as the most influential woman in the world.[1. In 2. 01. 3, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama[1. Duke and Harvard.[1. Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother and later raised in an inner- city Milwaukee neighborhood. She has stated that she was molested during her childhood and early teens and became pregnant at 1.

Sent to live with the man she calls her father, a barber in Tennessee, Winfrey landed a job in radio while still in high school and began co- anchoring the local evening news at the age of 1. Her emotional ad- lib delivery eventually got her transferred to the daytime talk show arena, and after boosting a third- rated local Chicago talk show to first place,[1. Credited with creating a more intimate confessional form of media communication,[1.

Phil Donahue,[1. 9] which a Yale study says broke 2. LGBT people to enter the mainstream.[2. By the mid- 1. 99. Though criticized for unleashing a confession culture, promoting controversial self- help ideas,[2. From 2. 00. 6 to 2.

Obama, by one estimate, delivered over a million votes in the close 2. Democratic primary race.[2. Early life. Winfrey was named "Orpah" on her birth certificate after the biblical figure in the Book of Ruth, but people mispronounced it regularly and "Oprah" stuck.[1]Winfrey was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, to an unmarried teenage mother. She later said that her conception was due to a single sexual encounter and the couple broke up not long after.[2. Her mother, Vernita Lee (born c. Winfrey's biological father is usually noted as Vernon Winfrey (born 1.

Armed Forces when she was born. However, Mississippi farmer and World War II veteran Noah Robinson, Sr.

A genetic test in 2. Kpelle ethnic group, in the area that today is Liberia. Her genetic makeup was determined to be 8. Sub- Saharan African, 8% Native American, and 3% East Asian. However, the East Asian may, given the imprecision of genetic testing, actually be Native American markers.[2. After Winfrey's birth, her mother traveled north and Winfrey spent her first six years living in rural poverty with her maternal grandmother, Hattie Mae (Presley) Lee (April 1.

February 2. 7, 1. Winfrey often wore dresses made of potato sacks, for which the local children made fun of her.[3. Her grandmother taught her to read before the age of three and took her to the local church, where she was nicknamed "The Preacher" for her ability to recite Bible verses.

When Winfrey was a child, her grandmother would hit her with a stick when she did not do chores or if she misbehaved in any way.[3. At age six, Winfrey moved to an inner- city neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with her mother Vernita Lee, who was less supportive and encouraging than her grandmother had been, largely as a result of the long hours she worked as a maid.[3. Around this time, Lee had given birth to another daughter, Winfrey's younger half- sister, Patricia[3. February 2. 00. 3, at age 4.

By 1. 96. 2, Lee was having difficulty raising both daughters so Winfrey was temporarily sent to live with Vernon in Nashville, Tennessee.[3. While Winfrey was in Nashville, Lee gave birth to a third daughter[3. Lee's being on welfare) and later also named Patricia.[3. Winfrey did not learn she had a second half- sister until 2. By the time Winfrey moved back in with Lee, Lee had also given birth to a boy named Jeffrey, Winfrey's half- brother, who died of AIDS- related causes in 1. Winfrey has stated she was molested by her cousin, uncle, and a family friend, starting when she was nine years old, something she first announced to her viewers on a 1. TV show regarding sexual abuse.[3.

When Winfrey discussed the alleged abuse with family members at age 2. Winfrey once commented that she had chosen not to be a mother because she had not been mothered well.[4.

At 1. 3, after suffering years of abuse, Winfrey ran away from home.[1] When she was 1. Winfrey later stated she felt betrayed by the family member who had sold the story of her son to the National Enquirer in 1.

She began going to Lincoln High School; but after early success in the Upward Bound program, was transferred to the affluent suburban Nicolet High School, where she says her poverty was constantly rubbed in her face as she rode the bus to school with fellow African- Americans, some of whom were servants of her classmates' families. She began to steal money from her mother in an effort to keep up with her free- spending peers, to lie to and argue with her mother, and to go out with older boys.[4. Her frustrated mother once again sent her to live with Vernon in Nashville, Tennessee, though this time she did not take her back. Vernon was strict, but encouraging, and made her education a priority. Winfrey became an honors student, was voted Most Popular Girl, and joined her high school speech team at East Nashville High School, placing second in the nation in dramatic interpretation.[4.

She won an oratory contest, which secured her a full scholarship to Tennessee State University, a historically black institution, where she studied communication. Her first job as a teenager was working at a local grocery store.[4. At the age of 1. 7, Winfrey won the Miss Black Tennessee beauty pageant.[4.

She also attracted the attention of the local black radio station, WVOL, which hired her to do the news part- time.[3. She worked there during her senior year of high school, and again while in her first two years of college.

Winfrey's career choice in media would not have surprised her grandmother, who once said that ever since Winfrey could talk, she was on stage. As a child, she played games interviewing her corncob doll and the crows on the fence of her family's property. Winfrey later acknowledged her grandmother's influence, saying it was Hattie Mae who had encouraged her to speak in public and "gave me a positive sense of myself".[4. Television. Working in local media, she was both the youngest news anchor and the first black female news anchor at Nashville's WLAC- TV.

She moved to Baltimore's WJZ- TV in 1. In 1. 97. 7, she was removed as co- anchor and worked lower profile positions at the station. She was then recruited to join Richard Sher as co- host of WJZ's local talk show People Are Talking, which premiered on August 1. She also hosted the local version of Dialing for Dollars there.[5. In 1. 98. 3, Winfrey relocated to Chicago to host WLS- TV's low- rated half- hour morning talk show, AM Chicago.

The first episode aired on January 2, 1. Within months after Winfrey took over, the show went from last place in the ratings to overtaking Donahue as the highest- rated talk show in Chicago.

The movie critic Roger Ebert persuaded her to sign a syndication deal with King World. Watch The Mind`S Eye Online Free 2016. Ebert predicted that she would generate 4. At the Movies.[5.

Strange Facts About Tom Cruise's Life In Scientology. Shares. Share. On Facebook. Share. Email. Scientology – it’s the modern poster child for crazy pseudo- religious cults. It’s rich, it’s powerful, it has straight- up real life space aliens hiding inside human bodies as a central aspect of its doctrine. As if that wasn’t enough to pull in the mindless hordes, they have the ultimate status symbol for any burgeoning cult: Hollywood followers. Scientology gathers its celebrities like it’s harvesting season in LA, and they’re all doing very strange things: John Travolta’s releasing church- sponsored albums, Nancy Cartwright is phoning people as Bart Simpson to collect donations, Juliette Lewis is slamming pharmaceutical companies. But there’s one celebrity who practically screams “I’m a Scientologist” wherever he goes.

He is the living, breathing, rabidly- ranting advertisement for everything Scientology purports to offer. Give them a percentage of your income, and he’ll help you get powers you never dreamed of…and if you ever try to leave, he’ll probably hunt you down personally. Tom Cruise. Yes, Tom Cruise is Scientology’s most visible and most vocal supporter.

Since being introduced to the cult in the late 1. Mimi Rogers, he has risen through the ranks to reach Operating Thetan Level VIII (the highest operating level) – which, if it sounds like something that’d be made up by a science fiction novelist, that’s because it is. Here are some of the incredibly bizarre experiences surrounding Tom Cruise’s life in the organization. Though both Cruise and the Church itself fiercely deny any of them occurred, or simply won’t acknowledge their existence. Tom Cruise is Scientology. Via The Daily Beast. The Church of Scientology has clearly spent a lot of time, effort, and money (that, one assumes, they garnished from unsuspecting members) over the last three decades in sculpting Tom Cruise into the disquietingly child- sized face of their cult.

Not the founder, L. Ron Hubbard, not its current leader David Miscavige​, but some guy who once played homoerotic volleyball with Val Kilmer. Leah Remini – who somehow managed to escape Scientology, but not Kevin James – stated that, “To be critical of Tom Cruise is to be critical of Scientology itself”. Not even the Pope can say that he is Catholicism. And what Remini says is true: through relentless, concerted publicity that in any other situation would be tantamount to propaganda, the church has ensured that when we think of Tom Cruise we think of Scientology. Surely it’s got to be weird from Cruise’s perspective too. It’s the equivalent of rocking up to Sunday school and finding yourself recruited to be Jesus.

The Church Auditioned Potential Wives. Via bio. com. That’s right, the Church of Scientology has essentially treated Tom Cruise’s life as though it were the world’s most disturbing version of The Bachelor. Which could have been way more awesome – with Tim Curry hosting it in full Legend makeup. But no, they decided to go down the path of creepy. In 2. 00. 4 Cruise split with Penelope Cruz because she was unwilling to fully embrace Scientology. He then allowed the organization to audition actresses to be his future spouse, all under the guise of “casting” for a Mission: Impossible movie.

Which, let’s face it, is the plot of an adult entertainment flick. According to Pulitzer winner Lawrence Wright, the auditionees included Scarlett Johansen, Lindsay Lohan, and Jessica Alba. Apparently, one of the forerunners, British- Iranian actress Nazanin Boniadi (who was ostensibly interviewed as part of a 2. FBI investigation into Scientology and human trafficking) was gifted a non- disclosure agreement. An act which is Cruise- speak for, “let’s take it to the next level, baby”.

Full frontal legal. Cruise Wanted His Daughter To Join Sea Org. Via The Daily Beast Following all these auditions, and romantic nights of signing contracts, Cruise eventually settled on Katie Holmes and became tragically afflicted with an inability to cease jumping on sofas.

Their marriage lasted six years, with part of the impetus for the split apparently being Tom Cruise’s desire to sign their daughter Suri up to Sea Org. Oh, you don’t know about Sea Org? The branch of Scientology where initiates as young as 1.

A lot of parents have odd aspirations for their children – amazingly some parents even want their kids to be lawyers – but Cruise was privy to the poor conditions of those in Sea Org and still looked at his then 6- year- old daughter and apparently thought, “Yep, you look like you’d do well in the gulag!”1. It’s Difficult To Escape From Tom Cruise. Via boomsbeat. com. It’s no secret that once people are inside the organization, the Church of Scientology makes it very difficult for people to leave. Katie Holmes, noticing how her life had become something of an Orwellian nightmare, decided the time had come to escape. Escape – not leave. Watch Sniper Online Full Movie more.

People who break away from Scientology never describe it as leaving, it’s always an escape. Katie Holmes had to go to some extreme measures to ensure her own liberation. Tom Cruise had church “handlers” accompanying Holmes everywhere, reporting back to Cruise and the church. Her every move was being watched, even interview questions in the Dark Knight press junket were answered for her. As a result, she had to hatch a covert scheme, having friends orchestrate multiple untraceable phone switches, renting a New York apartment under the guise of avoiding the paparazzi, having her lawyer father fire all the Scientology staff around her before she was finally able to file for divorce. His Bromance With Miscavige Is A Little Creepy. Via Popdust. com David Miscavige is a name that should probably send a little shiver down your soul, like when you step on dog poop in your bare feet.

Self- proclaimed head of the Church of Scientology since 1. He also appears to have misplaced his wife down the back of the sofa, or something. While Tom Cruise seems to regard his relationship with Miscavige as a genuine friendship, Miscavige appears to have taken the same approach as an online groomer might. According to the organization’s former head of security, Gary Moorhead, Cruise and Miscavige would communicate in their own special Scientology language. They would also take soujourns to Vegas to gamble and smoke cigars. All fine and dandy, you might think, until you find out that Miscavige told Moorhead he hated cigars and just smoked them for Tom.

Miscavige also engaged Cruise in contests where they would attempt to out- macho one another, even down to their accents. Add to this the fact that Miscavige secretly recorded Cruise’s audit sessions “for his own entertainment”, and things start to get a bit dark. He Takes Recruiting Friends Very Seriously. Via sheknows. com While the Church of Scientology benefits from huge numbers of ordinary people kicking in a significant portion of their earnings, they seem to covet celebrities in particular. So when Tom Cruise wants to recruit some fellow stars, he’s basically given carte blanche to lure them in like a hooker lighting a landing strip on her nether regions.

For example, Tom Cruise had developed a friendship with British soccer star David Beckham and his family. Now, any normal person would just talk about the virtues of their way of life, but not Tom. He had Sea Org lackeys laser- level a field at Gold Base (Scientology’s LA headquarters) to create the perfect soccer pitch, and even learn to put patterns in the grass to give the appearance that it had been well- groomed. It’s unclear whether he showed up at the Beckham’s house displaying other foliage he’d had groomed for them, but needless to say the family declined his advances. Tom Is Psychiatry’s Mortal Enemy. Via etonline. com Now then, it’s all very well and charming to make jokes about disappearing wives and billion year slave labor contracts, but psychiatry is serious business.