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      • Assange returned to Australia, where he grew up in the shadow of a secretive cult called The Family. Being raised in a highly controlled environment with little stability likely impacted Assange’s adult life.
  1. Jun 29, 2024 · Julian Assange and his family had a weird brush with the sinister Australian doomsday cult "The Family" in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The group's leader took members' children (above) as...

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  3. Aug 22, 2024 · The Family, an Australian cult founded by Anne Hamilton-Byrne in the 1960s, was known for its severe control over members and their children. Hamilton-Byrne, a charismatic and manipulative...

  4. Jun 26, 2024 · [The writer used “Claire” as a substitute for Julian Assange’s mother’s real name, which is Christine.] Rest of Raffi Khatchadourian’s 2010 New Yorker profile of Julian Assange, here. Documentary: “The Cult Of Family” Below:

  5. Jun 27, 2024 · There is no one version of Julian Assange. Depending on who you speak to, the 52-year-old Wikileaks founder ranges from anywhere between criminal, treasonist and lunatic, to a freedom...

  6. Aug 23, 2024 · The impact of the cult "The Family" on Assange's early years and actions. Updated August 23, 2024 | Reviewed by Abigail Fagan.

  7. Christine then became involved with Leif Meynell, also known as Leif Hamilton, whom Julian Assange later described as "a member of an Australian cult" called The Family. Meynell and Christine Assange separated in 1982.

  8. Apr 19, 2019 · Unfortunately, the man had another family — specifically The Family, a doomsday cult led by the "cruel and charismatic" Anne Hamilton-Byrne. Members of The Family gave Hamilton-Byrne their children — 28 in total — as gifts or through fraudulent adoptions.

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