Scientology’s high roller: who funds the sect?
Daughter of Mr. Wheeler dealer Nabila Khashoggi and husband James Cox Chambers are listed alongside Hollywood star Tom Cruise as Scientologists.
Every influential family has a secret to hide: the Seagram dynasty’s perilous affectations with the cult called NXIVM, the Hearst’s saga with the terrorist group Symbionese Liberation Army, the Getty dynasty’s tragedy as a result of drugs and dangerous liaisons. Yet, another such dangerous liaison has been detected within another major American dynasty: the Cox Chambers family through Scientology.
The sect counts numerous Hollywood celebrities among its members, including Kirstie Alley, Tom Cruise, Elizabeth Moss, John Travolta and wife Kelly Preston, Beck and Anne Archer. While these stars may have pulling power to recruit new members, billionaire Jim Cox Chambers, who has been enlisted in the sect through his present wife, Nabila Khashoggi (daughter of the notorious Adnan Khashoggi), tops the list. Needless to say that Cox Chambers is a far bigger fish to the sect than the Hollywood A listers. Ironically according to a former employee, most of the Cox Chambers family is ignorant of the fact that it is hugely contributing to the nefarious Church.
Nabila was effectively raised as a rigid Scientologist along with Adnan Khashoggi’s second wife Lamia and brothers Ali Khashoggi and Khaled Khashoggi. The cult had also preyed on Khashoggi family. Although her status at the sect is that of a celebrity, she completed the new New Hubbard professional upper Indoc TR course in 2007.
Nabila Khashoggi formally joined Scientology around 1990 at Clearwater headquarter and completed Grade 1 in 1991. Her youngest son Leith is one of the Cox Chambers heirs or, potentially the only heir as a result of the sudden estrangement of Jim Cox Chambers eldest son (from his marriage to Lauren Hamilton) ever since Nabila entered the scene. As such, the Cox Chambers fortune could ultimately fill the coffers of David Miscavige.
Nabila Khashoggi is by no means an heiress in her own right. Her father, once considered as the richest man in the world , Mr. “Wheeler dealer” Adnan Khashoggi, died in very modest conditions in 2017.
Forbes pegs Jim Cox Chamber’s wealth at 6.1 billion dollars. He inherited a 17% stake in the media and automotive conglomerate Cox Enterprises from his mother Anne Cox Chambers. No doubt, this would make him the richest Scientologist and its largest donor. How soundly does Anne Cox Chambers sleep at night knowing that her entire legacy is dianetics?
