J.LO TARGETED BY SCIENTOLOGY

How beauty rejected recruitment and eluded church spies

JENNIFER LOPEZ has secret ties to the Church of Scientology and narrowly escaped being sucked into the controversial religion, sources told The National ENQUIRER.

Unsealed court documents reveal the sci-church used teams of private eyes and terror tactics to monitor the talented diva after insiders claimed she spurned its bizarre teachings!

Top Scientology honchos zeroed in on J.Lo when her career exploded in the late ’90s, sources said, and believed they had the perfect tool to recruit her — her father, David, who’d joined the church around 1987.

Thanks to his daughter’s stardom, David was welcomed into Scientology’s upper echelons, including its famed Celebrity Centre in Hollywood.

Independently obtained records show the church’s magazine, Celebrity, reported on David beginning in 2002 as he moved up through a number of Scientology courses — that he’s admitted J.Lo helped pay for!

Former Scientologist Skip Press, who worked at the Celebrity Centre for years, said: “The Celebrity Centre had separate course rooms for those associated with celebrities. That’s where David would have been. They would want him to get special treatment because of his daughter.”

David divorced Jennifer’s mom, Guadalupe, in 1999, but father and daughter have remained close.

Citing her father, Jennifer gushed over Scientology in 2007, saying: “My dad has been a Scientologist for 20 years. He’s the best man that I know in my life and so, it’s weird to me that people want to paint it in a negative way.