Blown for Good - Marc Morgan Headley [139]
“Wow.” I was speechless.
“COB’s Celebrity Pimp Service. How may I help you?” I could hear the receptionist now.
(At the time I did not know which women got picked and which ones were auditioned by Tom himself, but since then I have heard of at least one woman who spent time with Tom but did not end up staying with him. I omitted her name out of respect for her. If there were others or not, I guess only Greg, Dave and Tom, and any other women “test driven” will know for sure.)
Chapter Twenty-Nine – Personal Jesus
uditors Day’s 2004 had just been completed and the IAS event was next up to be produced at the Int Base. This IAS event was going to be huge. Dave Miscavige had finally decided that Tom Cruise would get a Freedom Medal at this event. This was a big deal as Tom Cruise had done more than any other celebrity Scientologist. Not only had he given more money, but he was just a bigger star than any other celebrities who were in Scientology.
Whenever someone was awarded an IAS Freedom Medal, they traditionally had a video produced that told their story and what they did to earn the medal. Every year, there were at least two or three winners and video teams would go out and shoot the videos and then these were edited, the music scored, recorded and mixed, etc.
Larry Jacobs, Video Team Director, was assigned to the Tom Cruise video. The idea was that we already knew the story of what Tom Cruise did and we were going to just video a bunch of people who knew Tom, interview them and cut those interviews together. Larry spent a few weeks doing interviews with every single celebrity Scientologist in LA.
The interviews were all cut together and it was a bunch of Scientologists talking about how much they loved Tom Cruise. It was a complete puff piece and when Dave Miscavige saw it, he hated it. We did not have a lot of time to make these videos and a few weeks had been wasted on this one so far. Back to the drawing board. Larry Jacobs was taken off the project and was surely going to get in big trouble for this.
The day after Larry was taken off the video, I was contacted by Security Gold. They brought me a laptop that they needed me to get working. I plugged the laptop in and turned it on. It worked fine. I told them that it was fine. They wanted me to get into it.
“It just needs to be logged into and you can get whatever you want,” I told them.
“We don’t know the password,” I was told.
“Well, whose is it? They will surely know the password.”
“It is Larry Jacob’s laptop and he is not available to ask,” the security guard answered.
“Well, I can’t help you then,” I said.
Larry had obviously blown and they were trying to get onto the laptop to find out any clues as to where he had gone.
With Larry Jacobs now blown and probably on his was to being declared or RPFed, anyone working on the video was on pins and needles.
The next batch of interviews done was of non-Scientologists who knew Tom. Everyone from Steven Spielberg to Will Smith was interviewed. Again the video was a complete wipe out. Now we had all of these people talking about how Tom Cruise was a really nice guy. Being a nice guy does not get you an IAS Freedom Medal award. Dave hated the new interviews and we were out of time. There were only a few weeks left until the event and a video had to be done.
No matter what anyone came up with, Dave hated it. In the end, Dave’s conclusion was that nobody at the Int Base really knew Tom Cruise or what he had done. None of us were hanging out with him in Telluride, Colorado. None of us were regularly going down to his house in Los Angeles. None of us were going to big time celebrity birthday parties with the likes of Oprah and Will Smith. None of us were going high-speed motorcycle riding or to the car races with Tom Cruise. None of us, except one David Miscavige. Dave and Tom were not only buddies, but they talked all the time. Dave would routinely name drop about who he had met with Tom the week before or about who he talked to at the