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Subject: L. Ron Hubbard's married life
Answered by: Bunnyann
Asked By: FredricRice

FredricRice asked this question on 5/4/2000:

How many did was L. Ron Hubbard married? Do you know?

Bunnyann gave this response on 5/4/2000:

I have checked my information against Jon Atack's A Piece of Blue Sky. Atack notes that the cult usually does not cite Hubbard's first two marriages. The first was to Margaret Louise Grub, in Elkton, MD, on April 13, 1933. On August 10, 1946, Hubbard then married Sara Northrup, I believe in Chestertown, MD. Sara was the woman Hubbard had met in Parson's black magic group. There was one minor problem with this marriage. Hubbard was still married to his first wife. He was not a bigamist.

Sara's life with Hubbard was no happier than that of his first wife. Eventually, she too had had enough. Sara had been Hubbard's personal auditor, but she eventually was living apart from him and tring to obbtain psychiatric treatment for him.

Finally, in 1952, Hubbard married for the third and final time. He married Mary Sue Whipp. In later years she was to spend time in jail, while Hubbard disavowed any knowledge of her activities.

Elizabeth Ann Cox
aka, Bunnyann

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