TORMENTED Lisa Marie Presley brutalized the Church of Scientology as a money-grubbing, mind-control cult that destroyed her marriage to Michael Jackson, according to one of her closest confidants who claims she died bitter and burdened by her years in the controversial faith.
Now, just weeks after Lisa Marie’s shocking death at age 54, Tony Ortega is revealing the tragic beauty’s own chilling story of her escape from Scientology after claiming she was manipulated, bullied and treated as a cash cow!
One of Scientology’s harshest critics, Ortega says Lisa Marie was nine years old when she and her mom, Priscilla, joined the church after Elvis Presley’s death in 1977. They remained faithful members of the flock until a massive 2014 meltdown.
According to Ortega’s blog The Underground Bunker, Priscilla got sucked into Scientology after chatting with high-ranking church member John Travolta — despite baby daddy Elvis resisting recruitment for years because he believed leaders only wanted to get their mitts on his money!
Ortega says the Naked Gun beauty, now 77, was considered a “major celebrity,” but her daughter was “treated shabbily, like an afterthought” — until she turned 25 and got access to Elvis’ $100 million estate!
He recalls Lisa Marie saying, “After I got the inheritance, they started grooming me to be this person who would go out and get everyone else in.”
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