Editing Scientology controversies (section)

===Use of donations and preferential treatment of Scientologist celebrities===
[[Andre Tabayoyon]], a former Scientologist and [[Sea Org]] staffer, testified in a 1994 affidavit that money from not-for-profit Scientology organizations and labor from those organizations (including the [[Rehabilitation Project Force]]) had gone to provide special facilities for Scientology celebrities, which were not available to other Scientologists:<blockquote>A Sea Org staffer...was taken along to do personal cooking for [[Tom Cruise]] and [[David Miscavige|{{interpolation|David}} Miscavige]] at the expense of Scientology not for profit religious organizations. This left only 3 cooks at [[Gold Base|Gold {{interpolation|Base}}]] to cook for 800 people three times a day... apartment cottages were built for the use of [[John Travolta]], [[Kirstie Alley]], [[Edgar Winter]], [[Priscilla Presley]], and other Scientology celebrities who are carefully prevented from finding out the real truth about the Scientology organization ... Miscavige decided to redo the meadow in beautiful flowers; Tens of thousands of dollars were spent on the project so that {{interpolation|Tom}} Cruise and [[Nicole Kidman|{{interpolation|Nicole}} Kidman]] could romp there. However, Miscavige inspected the project and didn't like it. So the whole meadow was plowed up, destroyed, replowed and sown with plain grass.<ref>Tabayoyon, Andre. 1994. 'Declaration of Andre Tabayoyon.' In ''Church of Scientology International v. Steven Fishman and Uwe Geertz''. United States District Court, Central District of California. Case No. CV 91 6426 HLH (Tx), (4 April): 64 pp</ref></blockquote>Tabayoyon's account of the planting of the meadow was supported by another former Scientologist, Maureen Bolstad, who said that a couple of dozen Scientologists including herself were put to work on a rainy night through dawn on the project. "We were told that we needed to plant a field and that it was to help Tom impress Nicole... but for some mysterious reason it wasn't considered acceptable by Mr. Miscavige. So the project was rejected and they redid it".<ref>{{cite news |author = Hoffman, Claire |author2=Christensen, Kim |url = http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-scientology18dec18,0,7000009,full.story?coll=la-home-headlines |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060919162157/http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-scientology18dec18,0,7000009,full.story?coll=la-home-headlines |url-status = dead |archive-date = 2006-09-19 |title = Tom Cruise and Scientology |work = Los Angeles Times |date = 2005-12-18 |access-date = 2006-11-14}}</ref>