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

FredricRice asked this question on 5/4/2000:

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

honorarykid gave this response on 5/4/2000:

Hubbard was married three times.

His first wife was Margaret Grubb, who he married in 1933. He had two children by this marriage, L. Ron Hubbard Jr. and Catherine.

Polly alleged beatings and psychological abuse by LRH during their marriage.

LRH Jr. (nicknamed "Nibs") was in Scientology from 1951 to 1959, but quit and took a new name, Ron DeWolfe, after he became disgusted by, and estranged from his father's growing megalomania and violent outbursts. None of DeWolfe's children ever grew up in Scientology. You can see a very interesting video of his testimony before the Clearwater City Counsel hearings on Scientology in 1982, at

http://www.xenutv.com/hearings/dewolf.htm

Also, an 1980s Penthouse interview of DeWolfe has recently been posted to a.r.s. Check Deja.com.

Hubbard's first marriage ended, not by divorce, but when Hubbard took a second wife, Sarah Northrup. Sarah was Jack Parson's girlfriend, the younger sister of Parson's ex-wife, when Hubbard met her. LRH and Sarah ran off with $10,000 of Parson's money, which Parson's had given Hubbard to use to buy a boat, which was to be a co-investment. This marriage was the final curtain on Hubbard's attempts with Parsons to incarnate the Whore of Babylon into the world via Satanic Black Magic Sex Rituals. The marriage to Sarah brought another child, Alexis. It was a short-lived marriage.

Sarah filed for divorce from Hubbard in 1951, and like Polly, alleged that Hubbard had physically beat her, and psychologically terrorized her. Hubbard, meanwhile, scurried around trying to avoid process servers. He still owed Polly alimony checks, and didn't want to have a second alimony payment.

Hubbard finally traded custody of their child Alexis to Sarah in exchange for her dropping her divorce filing, and letting him file for divorce against her. He also made her agree to not say anything bad about him. He would later deny that Alexis was his child.

Hubbard married Mary Sue Whipp in 1952. She was two months pregnant at the time. They ultimately had four children together, Diana, Quentin, Aurther and Suzette. They remained married until Hubbard died in 1986. Mary Sue rose in the CoS to the position of head of the Guardian's Office, arguably the most powerful official position within the CoS. But of course, Hubbard always was calling the shots, even though he carefully, and purposefully avoided having an official title.

Mary Sue went to prison and served (I think) two years of a four year sentence after being convicted of stealing documents from government offices for the Guardian's Office, in the early 80's. This prison hiatus removed her from the Scientology power structure long enough for David Miscavige to consolidate his newly foundpower within the CoS, and relegating Mary Sue permanently to the CoS sidelines.

Hubbard was in hiding, completely secluded from most other Scientologists from 1980 to 1986. Some think he wasn't in seclusion at all, but that he actually died in 1980. The matter was actually litigated, when Nibs brought suit to claim LRH's estate. The court in that case was satisfied the LRH was still alive, and R. Vaughn Young was a high level Dept. 20 staffer who also testified to the fact that Hubbard was alive until 1986.

As for children of this marriage, only two of the four are still alive and there whereabouts known. Arthur apparently vanished without a trace in the 1970s, and Quentin killed himself at age 22, in Las Vegas in 1976. Diana and Suzette are still in Scientology.

honorarykid gave this follow-up answer on 5/5/2000: Sorry, I reread my answer and noticed that I had neglected to mention that Margaret Grubb's nickname was Polly. Margaret and Polly are the same person.

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