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Posted 6/29/12 at 1:30pm ET
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes Are
Divorcing
From PEOPLE: After five years of marriage, Tom Cruise and
Katie Holmes are getting a divorce, PEOPLE has
learned exclusively.
"This is a
personal and private matter for Katie and her family," says Holmes's attorney
Jonathan Wolfe. "Katie's primary concern remains, as it always has been, her
daughter's best interest."
Cruise's rep tells PEOPLE:
"Kate has filed for divorce and Tom is deeply saddened and is concentrating on
his three children. Please allow them their privacy."
The "Rock of Ages"' star, 49, wed
actress Holmes, 33, in an Italian castle in November 2006. They have daughter
Suri, 6.
This was Holmes's
first marriage and the third for Cruise, who previously was married to the
actresses Nicole Kidman, with whom he has two children, and Mimi Rogers.
For more
on the shocking split, follow PEOPLE.com and pick up the next issue of PEOPLE
magazine, on newsstands Monday
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Posted
6/29/12 at 1:30pm ET
Tom Cruise & Katie
Holmes Divorcing
From TMZ: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are getting DIVORCED
... after 5 years of marriage.
Katie's attorney, Jonathan Wolfe released a statement
saying, "This is a personal and private matter for Katie and her family."
Wolfe adds, "Katie's primary concern remains,
as it always has been, her daughter's best interest."
TMZ has learned Katie filed the
docs in NYC ... and wants SOLE custody of Suri.
We're told Tom and Katie have a prenup. The
net worth of both Tom and Katie is around $275 mil, but clearly Tom raked in
most of that.
For what it's
worth, Katie did not attend any of the "Rock of Ages" premieres.
Tom and Katie have one child
together, Suri, who is 6-years-old.
49-year-old Tom has 2 children from his previous marriage
to Nicole Kidman. He was also married to actress Mimi Rogers from 1987 to 1990.
Cruise and 33-year-old Holmes
were married in November 2006 in a lavish ceremony held at an Italian castle.
The split was first reported by People.com.
Tom has been spotted in Iceland this week where he's been
shooting a movie called "Oblivion."
Katie and Suri have been spotted in NYC all week. Katie was still wearing her wedding ring.
Update #1 -- Sources tell TMZ ... Scientology
was a major factor in Katie's decision to pull the plug on the marriage.
Update #2 -- Tom and Katie were HOLDING HANDS in Iceland just 2 weeks before Katie
filed for divorce ... more proof Tom was truly "blindsided" by Katie's decision
to end the marriage.
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Posted 6/29/12 at 2:00pm
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KATIE FILED - Wants SOLE Custody
From TMZ: Katie Holmes is the one who filed for divorce
and Tom Cruise was "blindsided" by Katie's
legal move ... TMZ has learned.
We know Katie filed the divorce docs in New York on June 28,
citing "irreconcilable differences." She is asking for sole legal custody and
"primary residential custody" of the couple's 6-year-old daughter, Suri.
We also know Katie is asking for a
"suitable amount" of child support .. this according to the divorce docs.
Katie also asks for a division of
property in her divorce docs, although we know there was a significant prenup
that is based on California law. Katie makes no mention of the prenup in her
filing.
We're told Tom is "very sad" and "did not see this coming." He was
spotted wearing his wedding ring just this week while filming in Iceland.
Interestingly, Katie also wore her ring this week.
We're also told there is some "nastiness"
here, evidenced by Katie's move to get sole legal custody.
Tom's rep has released a statement
saying, "Kate has filed for divorce and Tom is deeply saddened and is
concentrating on his three children. Please allow them their privacy to work
this out."
Katie's divorce
petition was filed anonymously, without names.
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Posted 6/29/12 at 4:45pm ET
SCIENTOLOGY Was Her Breaking Point
From TMZ: Katie Holmes filed for divorce primarily over Tom
Cruise's fierce ties to Scientology, fearing that Tom would drag Suri deep into
the church ... sources connected with the couple tell TMZ.
Our sources say ... Katie has
never been fully committed to Scientology, even though she has had ties with the
church. We're told the couple had been arguing over Suri -- that she's now of
the age where Scientology becomes a significant part of her life.
Sources familiar with the split
tell us Katie is filing for sole legal custody -- as we first reported --
specifically because she does not want Tom to control decisions relating to
religion.
Sources have told us
that the divorce is NOT about money -- we're told Katie doesn't need Tom's money
... because she has plenty of it ... and will be well taken care of under the
terms of the prenup.
To give
you an idea of how fierce Tom's ties to the Church are -- a video featuring the
actor discussing what Scientology means to him leaked onto YouTube in 2008. You
gotta watch the whole thing.
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Posted 6/29/12 at 6:00pm ET
Katie Holmes Has East Coast Advantage In Custody War with
Tom
From TMZ: Katie Holmes had a VERY good reason for
filing for divorce from Tom Cruise in New York ... because unlike California ...
NY is a state that doesn't like giving waring parents joint power to make
decisions for their kid.
As TMZ first reported, Katie filed
the papers in New York ... and we know she's gunning for sole legal custody of
6-year-old Suri primarily because she doesn't want Tom to drag their daughter
into the Church of Scientology.
Despite the fact Tom and Katie filed their marriage
certificate in California, Katie went all the way to the East Coast to file the
divorce docs because she knows she has a MUCH better chance of getting sole
legal custody there ... New York family law judges typically don't like giving
two parents who don't get along the power to make child-rearing decisions
because they believe the kids will suffer from endless conflicts.
But ... our sources say Tom may
mount a fight to bring the case to California ... which favors joint legal
custody.
Stay tuned.
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Posted 6/29/12 at 7:30pm ET
Katie Holmes finds Tom Cruise is "Mission:
Impossible"
From Reuters: LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Katie Holmes has filed for divorce from her superstar husband Tom Cruise, ending a six-year marriage that produced one daughter and captivated celebrity watchers worldwide.
Holmes filed papers in New York City on Thursday, citing irreconcilable differences and seeking sole custody of the couple's six-year-old daughter Suri in a move that came "out of the blue" for the "Mission: Impossible" actor, said one source with knowledge of the situation.
The source said Cruise is out of the country filming a movie in Iceland and the filing came as a surprise.
The actor's spokeswoman issued a brief statement, saying: "Kate has filed for divorce and Tom is deeply saddened and is concentrating on his three children. Please allow them their privacy to work this out." No further comment was made
Los Angeles-based attorney Bert Fields, who has represented Cruise in other matters but is not handling the divorce, confirmed the filing but declined to give further details.
"Tom wants to be very private," Fields said.
Earlier on Friday, People magazine quoted Holmes' attorney Jonathan Wolfe as calling it "a personal and private matter for Katie and her family ... Katie's primary concern remains, as it always has been, her daughter's best interest."
The couple's marriage, which began at an elaborate, Italian castle wedding in November 2006, has been closely followed by the celebrity press ever since the pair, dubbed TomKat, began dating in 2005.
At the time, Holmes, now 33, was a rising star and Hollywood ingénue who found fame on TV's "Dawson's Creek" and earned her acting chops in independent films such as "Pieces of April."
Cruise, 16 years her senior, was among Hollywood's highest paid stars who enjoyed a string of box office blockbusters in action flicks ranging from 1986's "Top Gun" to his "Mission: Impossible" movies that began in 1996 and continue today.
He proposed to Holmes atop the Eiffel Tower in Paris and famously went on Oprah Winfrey's talk show, jumped on her couch and shouted out his love for Holmes in front of a TV audience of millions.
Cruise, a practitioner of Scientology, was previously married to actress Mimi Rogers and actress Nicole Kidman, with whom he has two children.
Holmes' marriage to Cruise was her first.
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Posted 6/29/12 at 7:30pm ET
Tom Cruise: Did Katie Holmes Blindside Him with
Divorce?
From PEOPLE: What went so wrong so quickly?
Just days ago, Tom Cruise was as
exuberant as ever about his love for Katie Holmes, telling PEOPLE that his perfect day is "the time with
Kate."
Sadly, those days appear to be over.
On Thursday, five days before
Cruise's 50th birthday, Holmes, 33, filed divorce papers in New York, leaving
Cruise "deeply saddened" – and their fans searching for answers.
Although the couple have faced breakup rumors ever since their whirlwind romance led to an engagement, baby and then marriage, the timing and circumstances of the breakup still came as a shock – and raised the question of whether the actor was taken by surprise.
Cruise confirmed that it was Holmes who filed papers– not him – and the brief statement from his rep spoke of the star needing privacy to "work this out."
Abrupt Change in Tone
The tone of the terse statement is a long way
from his upbeat tone in interviews promoting "Rock of Ages," gushing about
Holmes, whom he married in November 2006 in a lavish ceremony in an Italian
castle.
"She is an
extraordinary person, and if you spent five minutes with her, you'd see it," he
told Playboy in last month's issue. "Everything
she does, she does with this beautiful creativity. She's funny and charming, and
when she walks into the room, I just feel better ... What we have is very
special."
But even as he
continued to sing her praises, several media outlets did take note that Holmes
did not join her husband at the June 8 Hollywood premiere of "Rock of Ages."
Cruise explained to PEOPLE that Holmes had another commitment in China
with a charity organization, leaving Cruise with their 6-year-old daughter
Suri.
Also, the couple were
spotted strolling together June 18 in Reykjavik, Iceland, to visit Cruise's film
location. Holmes then returned without him to their home in New York, where she
has been photographed on the street with Suri, the most recent sighting on
Thursday – the day of the divorce filing.
The only clue to Holmes's state of mind came from her lawyer's statement saying the actress's "primary concern" was Suri. To that end, perhaps, TMZ reports Holmes is seeking primary residential custody of their daughter.
If this is the first salvo in a divorce
battle it would be a powerful one against Cruise, who in his PEOPLE interview spoke at length about his love of
spending time with his daughter, whether at home playing games or during her
visits to his film sets.
"It's
so much fun. Suri is just so lovely and so much fun to be with," he said. "On
weekends we do arts and crafts. With Kate, there's always dancing and singing
and all that kind of stuff in the house. Now Suri has friends all over the
place, so wherever we go, they're also there."
His two older children with second wife Nicole Kidman,
Bella, 19, and Connor, 17, are also frequently with them, along with Cruise's
nieces, nephews, his sisters and their families.
"They all love Suri," he said, adding that he and Holmes
are constantly striving to be the best parents possible – staggering their work
schedules so somebody could always be with Suri and making a point to spend
quality family time together.
"Every day, Kate and I go: How did we do?" he said. "Kate
and I look at each other like: Well, we had a good day today. We all work at
it."
For more on the shocking split, follow PEOPLE.com and pick
up the next issue of PEOPLE magazine, on newsstands Monday
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Posted 6/29/12 at 9:00pm ET
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes divorcing
From Associated Press: LOS ANGELES (AP) -- It always seemed more than a little weird, didn't it? The whirlwind romance of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes with its very public, very emphatic proclamations of love. It all occurred too quickly and too loudly to seem real.
Now, after nearly six years of marriage, Holmes is divorcing Cruise. She filed the papers on Thursday, said Cruise's lawyer Bert Fields. The two share a daughter, 6-year-old Suri, who's been featured in celebrity media nearly as frequently as her parents.
But it's telling that even in addressing their split in the typically vague fashion of famous people, Cruise still refers to Holmes by the name he called her: Kate, as if to distance her from the adorable Katie audiences came to know and love from the teen soap "Dawson's Creek."
"Kate has filed for divorce and Tom is deeply saddened and is concentrating on his three children," Cruise's representative, Amanda Lundberg, told The Associated Press. "Please allow them their privacy to work this out."
Holmes' attorney, Jonathan Wolfe, made a similar plea Friday: "This is a personal and private matter for Katie and her family. Katie's primary concern remains, as it always has been, her daughter's best interest."
But we've never been able to leave them alone - and even if we tried, they probably wouldn't let us.
Theirs was a bond that never really made sense on paper, despite Cruise's famously euphoric couch-jumping on "The Oprah Winfrey" show and Holmes' starry-eyed confession that she'd had a crush on the "Top Gun" star when she was a girl. Cruise turns 50 on Tuesday, Holmes is 33.
They'd kiss passionately for the benefit of photographers on red carpets and were all-too happy to share the romantic details of their engagement: He popped the question at the Eiffel Tower in Paris early one morning in June 2005. The wedding itself in November 2006 was a fairy-tale, A-list extravaganza at a 15th century Italian castle before a Church of Scientology minister.
So why didn't we believe them? Maybe because it always felt like they were trying so hard to prove to the world they were in love.
"I can't be cool. I can't be laid-back," Cruise said during his notorious "Oprah" appearance. "Something happened and I want to celebrate it."
Cruise has two children with his previous wife, Nicole Kidman. The actor was also previously married to Mimi Rogers. This was Holmes' first marriage.
Cruise showed up alone at recent premieres of the musical film "Rock of Ages," in which he's earning strong reviews for his performance as an Axl Rose-style lead singer. Holmes also was absent earlier this month when Cruise received the fourth-ever Friars Club Entertainment Icon Award. He said at the time that Holmes was overseas and the family would reunite in Iceland for Father's Day.
Yet a year ago, in receiving an award from Women in Film, Holmes thanked Cruise in the audience, saying his "commitment to his work and family inspires me daily."
Before the relationship, Holmes had drawn acclaim for her work in films like "Wonder Boys" and "Pieces of April." And Cruise was ... well, he was Cruise, one of the biggest stars on the planet. But the marriage, and the general speculation about its legitimacy, seemed to hurt both their images.
It was around the time of the "Oprah" appearance that Sumner Redstone and Paramount broke ties with Cruise after their long relationship. Cruise's company, Cruise/Wagner Productions, then signed a deal with First & Goal LLC.
Redstone was recently quoted by The Hollywood Reporter as saying that he "actually fired Tom. His behavior was terrible ... He was jumping on the couch on the Oprah show. Women hated him. A lot of people said they would never come back and see Tom Cruise."
Kelly Lynch, editor of the pop-culture website Socialite Life, noted Friday the August 2005 W Magazine cover story on Holmes in which a woman described as Holmes' "Scientology chaperone" sat in on the interview and chimed in on her responses, even though Holmes herself was consistently ebullient about Cruise.
The chaperone also deflected particularly pointed or uncomfortable questions about rumors that this love might not be real.
"She wasn't Joey from `Dawson's Creek' anymore," Lynch said. "It was almost like the life had been sucked out of her when she started dating him."
Her first film back, the 2008 heist comedy "Mad Money," was a critical and commercial failure. That same year, Cruise came out as the eyepatch-wearing star of the Nazi thriller "Valkyrie," which drew mixed reviews but still made $200 million worldwide.
Holmes' recent films include Adam Sandler's "Jack and Jill" and the Emmy-winning mini-series "The Kennedys," in which she played Jackie Kennedy. Cruise, meanwhile, starred in the fourth film in the "Mission: Impossible" series, "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol," which has made more than $690 million worldwide.
Lynch said she was surprised by the demise of the duo dubbed "TomKat" because she figured that, no matter what, Cruise and Holmes would always try to maintain the meticulously crafted image that they were the perfect couple.
"Despite some of my reservations about the relationship, I thought they were happy to kind of swim along as man and wife, despite reports in every sort of magazine that they weren't getting along, that Katie is trapped in the marriage," Lynch said. "But I never truly believed that they were truly in love. It felt very arranged."
How the divorce impacts either of their images or careers remains to be seen, said veteran celebrity publicist Howard Bragman.
"They're both going to be defined by their choices. Tom was never really defined by the marriage. Tom was defined by Tom. He's such a force of nature," he said. "A single Tom Cruise is an interesting phenomenon. I think we'll be hearing about him dating.
"Katie will be fine. I think this raises her to a new level. I think she'll get more active in her career," Bragman added. "She's got talent, beauty, a good family, a good support system, good Midwestern values - these things are all going to serve her. I think mostly she's a good mother. That's what I respect her most for."
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Posted 6/29/12 at 9:00pm ET
Tom Cruise's divorce could get prickly as Katie Holmes
lawyers up
From Los Angeles Times: Tom Cruise is one of Hollywood’s richest movie stars. His wife, Katie Holmes, has assembled a team of high-profile lawyers to handle their divorce proceedings. Will the split be amicable, as Cruise’s attorney hopes, or will the breakup be a courtroom version of the actor’s “War of the Worlds”?
The announcement Friday that Cruise’s wife of more than five years was seeking to end their marriage appeared to catch the star of the “Mission: Impossible” films off guard. Representatives for Cruise, who was in Iceland filming the movie “Oblivion,” were informed “by mail and fax” of the initiation of divorce proceedings, Cruise’s lawyer, Bert Fields, said.
Holmes filed for divorce Thursday in Manhattan, Fields confirmed. She retained two firms that specialize in wealthy breakups. New York lawyer Allan E. Mayefsky has been involved in a number of acrimonious and headline-grabbing splits, including the divorces of model Christie Brinkley, TV host Joan Lunden and a Wall Street financier who was ordered to pay his wife $44 million.
In addition, Holmes hired a New Jersey divorce lawyer, Jonathan Wolfe, whose website boasts of his prowess in “complex matrimonial matters” involving leaders from business, entertainment and sports. He has written extensively about prenuptial agreements and ways to recover hidden assets in divorce proceedings.
In a statement, Wolfe called the divorce “a personal and private matter.”
“We’re thinking about who to use,” said Fields, Cruise’s longtime legal representative in litigation matters but not a divorce specialist. He added, “We have to discuss strategy.”
“Katie's primary concern remains, as it has always been, her daughter's best interest,” Wolfe said, referring to the couple’s daughter, Suri, 6.
Speculation about a prenuptial agreement began almost immediately after Cruise announced his engagement to Holmes at a Paris news conference. Cruise already had two Hollywood divorces under his belt, from actresses Nicole Kidman and Mimi Rogers, and earns a lot more money than Holmes, who is best known for television’s “Dawson’s Creek” and had a costarring role in Adam Sandler's "Jack and Jill" last year.
Forbes recently put Cruise’s annual earnings at $75 million. Like some of Hollywood’s richest performers, Cruise often earns a share of a film’s total revenue, rather than a base salary.
The couple have property in Los Angeles and New York and hundreds of acres in Telluride, Colo. Their first date was a ride (and sushi) in Cruise’s private jet. Cruise and Holmes married in a lavish ceremony in an Italian castle in 2006.
Asked whether there was a prenuptial agreement, Fields said: “I can’t comment on that. It will all come out.”
In spite of the legal forces being marshaled by Holmes, Fields said he wanted the matter to be resolved amicably. “I would hope that it’s not a contentious matter. I know Tom is not a particularly contentious person,” he added.
Bernard Clair, a Manhattan divorce lawyer with many wealthy clients, said judges generally order divorcing couples to abide by the terms of their prenuptial agreements when it comes to finances. But the court often modifies provisions governing child support and custody, potential issues in the Cruise-Holmes breakup.
“These provisions relating to custody are almost always viewed as statements of intent and aspiration as opposed to enforceable and binding provisions,” Clair said.
The decision to file in New York rather than California might have been one of convenience – Holmes and the couple’s daughter are currently living in New York – but it also might reflect a desire for privacy.
“My guess is that she brought it in New York because files are sealed,” said Manhattan attorney Raoul Felder, a veteran of high-profile divorce cases. “If it was in California, it’s all public and you can walk into the clerk’s office and get the papers.”
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6/30/12 at 11:00am ET
Katie Holmes to get $15M
in divorce | Said to be keeping the couple’s $35 million Beverly Hills mansion
From Hamilton Spectator: Katie Holmes will receive $3 million for every year she was married to Tom Cruise.
The 33-year-old actress has filed for divorce from the 49-year-old actor - who she wed in November 2006 - and as she had signed a pre-nuptial agreement before they tied the knot, she is unable to seek half his rumoured $275 million fortune.
Instead, she will reportedly be paid $15 million for the five-year union as well as being given their $35 million Beverly Hills mansion.
However, Katie - who has cited “irreconcilable differences” as the reason behind their split - is seeking sole custody of the couple’s six-year-old daughter, Suri, and experts believe she will get a huge amount of child support from Tom.
Top divorce attorney Vikki Ziegler told Hollywoodlife.com: “Most of the estate is Tom’s. She’ll have to go for a lot of child support. She’ll have to show that Suri has nannies, cars, activities, clothes, hair appointments. That a hefty amount each month is needed to maintain Suri’s lifestyle.”
Once the divorce is finalized both Katie and Tom will keep their respective earnings from the projects they’ve worked on since November 2006.
As well as the Beverly Hills mansion, the former couple also have homes in New York, Colorado, Italy and England.
Since they did not stay married for 11 years, the pre-nuptial agreement states California community property laws won’t apply to the divorce - which normally sees a couple’s assets split 50/50.
Following the news Katie was filing for divorce, Tom - who has two children, Isabella, 19, and 17-year-old Connor with ex-wife Nicole Kidman - said he was “deeply saddened” by it.
Sources claim Katie had given no indication to Tom - who was also married to actress Mimi Rogers - she was going to do it.
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6/30/12 at 11:00am ET
Custody of 6-year-old
Suri, superstar images at stake in Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes
divorce
From Associated Press: LOS ANGELES - When Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes first got together, he jumped on a couch, she gushed girlishly, and many of their fans said, "Huh?"
Their split could cause just as much drama.
Not only are the images of two Hollywood stars at stake, so is the future of 6-year-old Suri, with some speculating that Holmes' decision to file for divorce in New York might mean she's seeking sole custody of their daughter.
Ultimately, Cruise might have the most to lose.
"There's no question this divorce is going to hurt his public image," said Dorie Clark, author of the forthcoming "Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future."
"His brand was already tarnished significantly when he first got together with Holmes five years ago and was infamously jumping up and down on Oprah's couch, and shortly afterward the videos of him praising Scientology were leaked," she continued. "This divorce is another opportunity for questions to be raised about his personal life, his religious beliefs — which many consider outside the mainstream — and that's not what a box-office star really wants."
California divorce attorney Michael Kelly, who is not involved with the Cruise-Holmes case, called Holmes' East Coast filing "a tactical move" that signifies "there will be an attempt to gain an advantage."
New York's comparative-fault divorce laws could be advantageous for Holmes, he said. The couple lived in Los Angeles.
Cruise and Holmes married in 2006 after a whirlwind love affair. He proposed at the Eiffel Tower. Their wedding was held at a 15th-century Italian castle.
She filed for divorce Thursday, ending her first marriage. This will be Cruise's third divorce. He was previously married to actresses Mimi Rogers and Nicole Kidman, with whom he has two children.
Cruise showed up alone at the recent Los Angeles and London premieres of his latest film, "Rock of Ages." Holmes also was absent earlier this month when Cruise received the Friars Club Entertainment Icon Award in New York. But he did bring Suri with him, allowing her to stay up late for the raunchy proceedings.
"Divorce will actually help Katie Holmes' brand," Clark said. "More people are going to be thinking about her and aware of her. This is generating a lot of sympathy and interest from people."
Holmes, 33, rose to fame on the teen soap "Dawson's Creek." She went on to appear in "Batman Begins," and earned raves for her roles in independent films such as 2003's "Pieces of April" and 2005's "Thank You for Smoking." She took a break after giving birth to Suri in April 2006 and marrying Cruise that November.
She did just a handful of roles until stepping things up in 2011. Holmes played Jackie Kennedy in the Emmy-winning miniseries "The Kennedys," appeared in Adam Sandler's "Jack and Jill" and just wrapped up a film with William Hurt. She said she's set to start another project in July.
Meanwhile, Cruise, who turns 50 on Tuesday, has remained a megastar. His latest role, as an Axl Rose-style rock star in "Rock of Ages," has won him strong reviews (though not corresponding box-office results), and his most recent "Mission Impossible" installment, "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol," has made more than $690 million worldwide.
"Tom Cruise's brand has always been the dynamic, likable hero — the `Mission Impossible' star that you're rooting for — and it becomes harder for the public to get behind someone as a hero and want to go to the box office and cheer them on when there are serious questions about what kind of husband and father he is," Clark said.
Holmes' attorney, Jonathan Wolfe, said Friday that "Katie's primary concern remains, as it always has been, her daughter's best interest."
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6/30/12 at 11:00am ET
Katie Holmes May Have
SCREWED Tom By Filing in NYC
From TMZ: Katie Holmes' master plan to file for divorce in
New York may have created HUGE tax problems for
Tom Cruise ... sources connected with the couple tell TMZ.
TMZ broke the story ... Katie
filed divorce docs in NYC, in large part because she wants sole legal custody of
Suri and New York courts are way more likely to grant Katie sole legal custody
and control over child-rearing decisions than California courts.
But here's the problem ... sources
connected with the couple tell us ... Tom has been trying to do everything
legally within his power to avoid strong ties to New York City because the tax
rates are ridiculously high ... and he does not want any appearance that he or
Katie have been living there.
But here's the thing ... TMZ has obtained documents which
show Tom deeded their NYC apartment to Katie last August and our sources say it
was done specifically for tax purposes. Point of fact ... the deed lists a
transfer to a trust, but TMZ has confirmed it's a trust established for the
benefit of Katie.
Sources say
Katie is using the apartment to establish residency in New York for the purpose
of the divorce -- something we're told can screw Tom tax-wise.
It's pretty clear .... Tom is not
gonna let Katie dictate New York as the venue for the divorce. He clearly thinks
Cal-i-for-ni-a's the place he outta be.
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6/30/12 at 11:00am ET
Holmes' Parents Sad
Marriage Ended, But Relieved To Have The 'Old Katie' Back
From RadarOnline: Katie Holmes' parents have mixed emotions about the end of their daughter's marriage to Tom Cruise, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting.
A source close to the Holmes' family says Martin and Kathleen Holmes are "sad" that their youngest child is having to go through a divorce, but that they are also relieved to have the "old Katie" back again.
"Obviously, Martin and Kathleen are sad that Katie is having to go through all this emotional turmoil and that she is going to be a single parent, but it's not like she is going to have to go it alone and she certainly won't have any financial hardship to worry about.
"Both Martin and Kathleen had very strong reservations about Katie marrying Tom, but she was an adult and they obviously couldn't stop her from following her heart. It's been tough for them over the past five years to watch Katie be controlled by Tom and they really felt that they had lost their daughter to some extent.
"So, that's the one bright side to the divorce — they feel like they're getting the old Katie back again, the strong, independent willful Katie that had all but disappeared since marrying Tom.
"Their real concern right now though is Suri. She is still trying to understand exactly what is going on and she is obviously picking up on her mom's emotions at this time and playing up to a degree.
"Katie's mom and dad are providing as much love and support as they can to their daughter and their granddaughter and are trying to make it as easy a transition as possible. And, one thing is for sure, Martin is going to do everything in his power to make sure his daughter gets everything she wants from the divorce. He is NOT going to allow her to be bamboozled and bullied anymore."
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Posted
6/30/12 at 6:00pm ET
Exclusive: Katie Holmes
Secretly Rented NYC Apartment Weeks Before Filing to Divorce Tom
Cruise
From Us Weekly: When Katie Holmes filed to divorce Tom Cruise Thursday after five years of marriage, she already had a contingency plan in place to ensure that she and the couple's 6-year-old daughter, Suri, would be taken care of.
Sources tell Us Weekly exclusively that the 33-year-old actress rented her own New York City property -- separate from the home the couple shares when they're in town together -- just prior to filing for divorce.
With Cruise, 49, away filming the sci-fi flick Oblivion in Iceland, Holmes quietly filed divorce papers with the aid of a New Jersey-based attorney, and requested sole custody of the couple's daughter.
"Katie's primary concern remains, as it always has been, her daughter's best interest. This is a personal and private matter for Katie and her family," Holmes' lawyer, Jonathan Wolfe, said in a statement to Us Friday.
In a statement released by his rep Friday, Cruise said he was "deeply saddened" by his wife's filing. "Kate has filed for divorce and Tom is deeply saddened and is concentrating on his three children. Please allow them their privacy," the statement said.
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Posted
6/30/12 at 6:00pm ET
Tom Cruise To File For
Divorce In California
From RadarOnline: Tom Cruise will file for divorce from Katie Holmes in California, and is gearing up for a bitter custody battle over their six year old daughter, Suri, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting.
As RadarOnline.com previously reported, Katie's lawyer announced she'd filed for divorce and that was quickly followed by a statement from Tom's rep, who said, “Kate has filed for divorce and Tom is deeply saddened and is concentrating on his three children. Please allow them their privacy."
Holmes filed for divorce in New York, and is seeking sole legal custody and primary physical custody of their daughter, Suri.
Cruise "will file a response in New York, asking that the divorce proceedings be halted in the Big Apple because California is the proper venue for the matter to proceed. Team Cruise is going to assert that Katie doesn't meet the residency requirements to file in New York, and that both live full time in California, specifically Los Angeles," a source close to the situation tells RadarOnline.com exclusively.
"At the same time, Tom will file for divorce in California, and will most request joint custody of Suri. There is absolutely no way that he is going let Katie have sole custody. The lines are being drawn, and this is going shape up to be a very contentious custody battle," a source says.
Team Cruise does appear to have the the law on his side about where the divorce proceedings will take place. Under New York law, the residency requirements for divorces to take place in that state, "The marriage ceremony was performed in New York and either spouse is a resident of the state at the time of the commencement of the action for divorce and resided in the state for a continuous period of one year immediately before the action began. The couple lived as husband and wife in New York and either spouse is a resident of the state at the time of the commencement of the action for divorce and resided in this state for a continuous period of one year immediately before the action began. The grounds for divorce occurred in New York and either spouse is a resident of the state at the time of the commencement of the action for divorce and resided in the state for a continuous period of one year immediately before the action began.
Cruise and Holmes were privately married in L.A. and then had a lavish civil ceremony in Italy.
Cruise's lawyers "will state in their response to Katie's divorce petition in New York that she didn't reside continuously in New York for a year, as the law states. Yes, they do have a home in New York, but Tom will argue that Los Angeles is where they live, period," the insider says.
Cruise and Holmes have homes in Los Angeles, New York City and Telluride.
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Posted 6/30/12
at 6:00pm ET
Katie Holmes Can’t Use
Scientology As Argument To Get Sole Custody Of Suri, Say
Attorneys
From RadarOnline: Katie Holmes can not play the Scientology card in her bid to win sole legal custody of daughter Suri, two top divorce lawyers have told RadarOnline.com exclusively.
As attorneys for the actress and Tom Cruise gear up for one of the biggest divorces in showbiz history, there's been much speculation in the media about how big a part Scientology played in their marriage and subsequent demise and how it will be used in proceedings.
Top Los Angeles divorce lawyer Grace Jamra tells RadarOnline.com that it would simply be “unconstitutional" for a judge to involve him or herself in issues pertaining to Suri's religious upbringing.
“If there are tenets in the religion that spell out certain ways to raise a child and Katie doesn’t feel that’s working for Suri, maybe because she’s acting out a lot, or not doing well in school, or has developmental issues, then that would be what she uses – the litmus test would be what is in the best interest of the child.
“Katie doesn’t really need to use Scientology as the basis or reasoning to get sole custody.”
New York-based family law attorney Bernard Clair concurred, telling us a judge would not consider Tom’s religion and its practices as reason enough to grant Katie full decision-making power over their daughter.
“I am hopeful that a judge would not give too much credence to the fact that someone is a member of a particular religion or particular thought-based organization,” Clair said. “It’s only relevant if it impacts the decision making of the parents.
“If any parent’s religion impacts on that parent’s ability to act in the child’s best interest, then that’s going to be a factor for consideration. But in and of itself, how someone practices religion, should not matter. It is only down to whether a parent interacts with the child positively or negatively. If the religion of the parents causes it to be negative then that needs to be looked at.
"Just the fact that Tom is a Scientologist should not matter," he adds.
“If I were Katie’s lawyer, I wouldn’t use religion as a factor but if she has particular examples of practices that she may believe to be detrimental to Suri’s wellbeing that Tom uses then I would highlight those before the judge rather than specifically using Scientology.
“The religion itself is of no importance until you can draw a nexus between a person’s conduct that they say derives from the religion and then the secondary nexus, the more important one that such practice is in some way detrimental to the child or not in her best interest.”
The Daily Beast reports that although Katie converted to Scientology in 2005 before she tied the knot with Tom, she hasn’t been seen inside a Scientology Church for quite a while and even enrolled Suri in a Catholic pre-school a few years ago.
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Posted
6/30/12 at 6:00pm ET
Tom Cruise Riding High
After Divorce News
From TMZ: Tom Cruise was spotted today for the first time since news of his divorce from Katie Holmes broke ... riding aboard a helicopter in Reykjavik, Iceland where he filming "Oblivion."
Katie shocked the world yesterday (ok, not really) when she filed for divorce after five years of marriage to the "Rock of Ages" star.
As TMZ first reported, Katie filed in New York City because she is seeking sole legal custody of Suri ... and Katie feels New York is much more likely to grant her that than California would be.
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Posted
6/30/12 at 11:00pm ET
Tom Cruise & Katie
Holmes: "The Fairy Tale Was Over," Says Close Source
From E! News: As much of a shock as Katie Holmes filing for divorce from Tom Cruise might have been to the rest of us, it actually had been a long time coming, according to a close source.
"The fairy tale was over," the source said. "They had become more like friends."
While another insider declared that Cruise's Scientology beliefs were a sore spot in the relationship, this source believes that Cruise's mega successful career also became an issue.
"It wasn't a surprise to Tom," the source said. "He knew it was coming. They have had problems for a while. His career came first, always, and Katie wasn't happy anymore."
"She wanted him home, and for them to be together. But Tom only knows how to be a movie star," according to the source. "He's a great dad and husband when he is there and present, but...work comes first."
As tough as that was on Holmes, the source says, it was just as hard on their daughter, Suri. "[Holmes] left him because she wanted a better life for her and her daughter," the source continued. "Suri has no friends. She does not have a normal life, and that was becoming more and more apparent as she was getting older.
"Katie wants to get a project that keeps her in one place so Suri can go to school, have friends, have play dates, all the things that she doesn't have at the moment," the source said. "Katie was willing to give up an unhappy marriage for a happier life for her daughter."
As to Holmes filing for sole custody of Suri, the source states: "She feels like she is bringing up Suri alone anyway. She doesn't want Suri having to fly all over the world to see Tom. She wants normality."
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Posted 7/1/12 at 1:00pm ET
Katie Holmes and Suri Move Out
From PEOPLE: On the morning that Katie Holmes filed for
divorce from Tom Cruise, the actress made another big decision.
Holmes, 33, and daughter Suri, 6,
were spotted on June 28 moving their bags from the New York City apartment they
shared with Cruise to a new apartment elsewhere in the city.
The new digs are close to some of
Katie and Suri's favorite places, including a gymnastics studio where Suri takes
classes.
The move is
going on while Cruise, who turns 50 on Tuesday, remains in Iceland, where he's
filming "Oblivion." The first picture taken of him
after the divorce filing shows the star riding in a helicopter.
For more on the
shocking split, follow PEOPLE.com and pick up the next issue of PEOPLE magazine,
on newsstands Monday
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Posted 7/1/12 at 1:00pm ET
Katie Holmes & Tom Cruise Sleeping Apart in Weeks Leading
Up to Divorce
From TMZ: Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise were both in New York
City in the weeks leading up to her filing for divorce, but they did NOT stay
under the same roof ... TMZ has learned.
According to our sources, Tom was in town for a few days
around June 10 to film a movie. We're told Tom did not stay in the apartment the
couple has in NYC ... but rather at The Greenwich Hotel ... and never once
stepped in or near the apartment.
Our sources say Katie, meanwhile, was going back and forth
between the apartment she and Tom shared, and a new apartment she recently got.
The two were both photographed during their time in NYC but never together.
We're told Katie did bring Suri to
visit Tom at the hotel on two occasions for a few hours and that the visits were
unplanned -- Tom's own security didn't even know they were coming.
According to the people we spoke to in
Tom and Katie's building ... they couldn't remember the last time they had seen
Tom. Our sources say that while they were clearly having problems, Tom had no
idea this was coming and his entire team was caught flat-footed by the
filing.
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Posted 7/1/12 at 1:00pm ET
Katie Holmes -
Scientology Is Watching Me
From TMZ: Katie Holmes believes Scientology now views her as
a threat to the organization and has put a team on her tail ... sources close to
the actress tell TMZ.
We're
told Katie believes in recent weeks -- as the discord between her and Tom Cruise
grew -- Scientology has been following her moves, especially in New York
City.
This does not appear to
be the mind of a paranoid person. People who have photographed Katie multiple
times tell TMZ there have been several "mysterious" men and vehicles around
Katie's apartment and following her when she's out.
Specifically ... a white Cadillac Escalade and black
Mercedes SUV (see above) have been seen near
Katie's NYC apartment for the past week.
FYI -- there is a publication that has put a tail on Katie,
but the people doing that are separate from the people Katie believes have been
dispatched from Scientology.
It
is unclear if the two vehicles that have been constantly spotted near Holmes'
pad are from Scientology or from the publication.
If Katie is able to keep the divorce in New York -- where
courts generally like to award sole legal custody to one parent or the other
when there is conflict -- proof that she's being tailed could help her case.
We put in a call to Scientology
... so far, no word back.
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Posted 7/1/12 at 10:00pm ET
Church of Scientology
We're NOT Tailing Katie
From TMZ: The Church of Scientology has responded to TMZ’s
story ... that Katie Holmes believes she is being followed by the Church -- they
say it ain't so.
Gary Soter, lawyer for the Church, tells TMZ ... the Church of Scientology is not following Katie or conducting surveillance on her in the wake of her divorce with Tom Cruise.
As we previously reported, several vehicles have been on Katie’s tail in recent weeks, but again the lawyer says the Church is not behind it.
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Posted 7/1/12 at 10:00pm ET
Creepy crew reportedly from Church of Scientology keeping
tabs on Katie Holmes, daughter Suri
From New York Daily News: Actress Katie Holmes and her
6-year-old daughter were lying low Sunday in their new Manhattan apartment as a
creepy crew reportedly from the Church of Scientology watched their every
move.
Holmes and her
child, Suri, have stayed out of sight since she blindsided hubby Tom Cruise by
filing for divorce in New York.
But five burly and menacing men parked outside of Holmes’
Seventh Ave. building in Chelsea made no attempts to hide Sunday.
The mystery men sat inside a white Cadillac Escalade bearing Tennessee license plates with the engine idling and the AC running. All casually dressed and 40 to 50 years old, they refused to identify themselves or even roll down their windows when a reporter from the Daily News knocked.
The men only got out of their SUV to photograph reporters
interviewing neighbors in front of the building between 24th and 25th Sts.
Citing unnamed sources,
TMZ.com reported Sunday that the men in the Escalade were sent by the Church of
Scientology to shadow Holmes and her daughter.
Scientology officials denied the TMZ report Sunday.
“There is no truth whatsoever to the TMZ.com report (or any other report) that the Church of Scientology has sent anyone to follow or surveil Katie Holmes,” Gary Soter, a lawyer for the Church of Scientology International, told The News in an email.
Holmes fears Scientologist big wigs now see her as a
threat to their organization because she is dumping their celebrity Top Gun.
The Daily News reported Sunday that Holmes had concocted an
elaborate escape-from-Cruise plan that included renting her Chelsea pad weeks
before filing for divorce on Thursday and asking for sole custody of Suri.
The papers were filed a week
before Cruise’s 50th birthday.
The split is reportedly rooted in Cruise’s fierce
loyalty to Scientology and the Catholic-raised Holmes’ fears over the wacky
religion’s potential future impact on Suri.
Holmes is Cruise’s third wife. The marriages melted down,
coincidentally, when all three wives — including Nicole Kidman and Mimi Rogers —
were, like Holmes, 33 years old.
Cruise — who is filming the sci-fi flick “Oblivion” in
Iceland — was said to be “deeply saddened” and taken by “complete surprise” by
Holmes’ divorce action, according to the actor’s flack.
The mega-millionaire actor countered over the weekend by hiring Los Angeles-based divorce lawyer Dennis Wasser to represent him.
Wasser, Cruise’s lawyer in his divorce from Kidman, is
expected to file for divorce on behalf of Cruise in Los Angeles, where Cruise
would have a better chance of getting joint custody of Suri, ABCNews.com
reported Sunday.
Cruise’s
lawyers are expected to argue that Holmes’ divorce petition in New York is
invalid because she didn’t continuously live here for a year. Cruise, who owns
an apartment in Manhattan, insists their true home is Los Angeles.
“I would hope that it’s not
a contentious matter. I know Tom is not a particularly contentious person,” Bert
Fields, Cruise’s longtime legal representative, told the Los Angeles Times.
Fields refused to comment on
whether the couple has a prenuptial agreement.
“I can’t comment on that,” Fields said. “It will all come
out.”
Holmes has hired
divorce lawyers Jonathan Wolfe and Allan Mayefsky, who represented Christie
Brinkley in her nasty divorce battle with Peter Cook.
Wolfe described the divorce
as “a personal and private matter.”
“Katie’s primary concern remains, as it has always been,
her daughter’s best interest,” Wolfe said in a statement.
Friends of Holmes said she
moved to the Chelsea building because she already has close friends living there
who can give her support during her rocky ordeal.
Holmes’ new neighbors said
she moved in about 10 days ago and has kept a low profile, going out only to buy
groceries at a nearby Whole Foods.
Workers at the Whole Foods told The News that Holmes has
been in to shop several times, but mostly has had her groceries delivered to her
door.
Neighbor
Christopher Hyland, 64, said he’s encountered Holmes in the hallways of their
building several times.
“It’s incredible to have her here,” said Hyland, editor of
an iPad lifestyle and design magazine.
“She’s attractive. She has poise and has presence,” said
Hyland, as he walked his Labradoodle “Hudson.”
As the men in the white Escalade silently snapped photos,
Hyland said Holmes has only showed grace in the face of her personal problems
with Cruise.
“I’ve seen
her here several times, always holding her daughter tightly,” Hyland said. “She
has deep class. She conducts herself like an American princess; there’s not an
ounce bit of arrogance.”
He said he
first noticed Holmes and her daughter 10 days ago walking down the street,
hounded by paparazzi.
“There was a barrage of photographers,” Hyland said. “Her
security was at a distance. She was holding her daughter close to her chest. She
was regal. She reminds me of Princess Diana.”
Close friends of Holmes say her demeanor has dramatically
changed since deciding to leave Cruise.
“She’s been miserable for a long time, but the last couple
of weeks, she’s been happy — like she’s been set free,” a source told Us Weekly.
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Posted 7/2/12 at 12:00pm ET
Katie Holmes
Afraid Tom Would Ship Suri
To Radical Scientology
Org
From TMZ: The final straw in Katie Holmes' decision to file for divorce was that she was convinced Tom Cruise was going to send 6-year-old Suri away to a hardcore Scientology organization known as Sea Organization ... sources connected with Katie tell TMZ.
Sea Org, as it is known, is where the highest levels of Scientology are taught and kids as young as five can be sent to live there ... without their parents -- and our sources say Tom is a big fan.
Our sources say Katie and Tom had been arguing over Suri's indoctrination into Scientology -- and we're told the Sea Org was the flashpoint.
The Sea Org has been often compared to a boot camp and several ex-Scientologists (including Oscar winner Paul Haggis) have been outspoken against its military-like conditions. The Freewinds, the massive Scientology boat that was the location of Cruise's infamous birthday party in 2004, is entirely staffed by Sea Org members.
According to the official Scientology website, members of Sea Org sign "a one-billion-year pledge to symbolize their eternal commitment to the religion and it is still signed by all members today."
Katie herself has first-hand knowledge of the Sea Org. When Holmes and Cruise first hooked up in 2005, Jessica Feshbach, a prominent Scientologist who had been with the Sea Org since 1994, was transferred and became Katie's assistant/Scientology chaperone. Feshbach, in one of Katie's first interviews after getting together with Cruise, was described by a writer for W magazine as "cold-eyed" and "a third-wheel."
In the end ... we're told Katie felt the only way to save Suri from being shipped off to Sea Org was to file for divorce and seek sole legal custody.
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Posted 7/2/12 at 12:00pm ET
Katie Holmes fires her publicist and hires her pre-Cruise
one…
From Mr. Paparazzi: Well, well, well how interesting - having announced her break-up from Tom Cruise over the weekend, Katie Holmes has gone and ditched her publicist and has re-appointed her old one.
After seven years (i.e. the exact length she’s been with Tom Cruise) she fired the highly respected Slate PR earlier today and signed with BWR again. In a statement they said:
"Actress Katie Holmes has left her publicist at Slate PR and has signed with BWR Public Relations.
"Following the announcement of her divorce from Tom Cruise, she is now represented by Leslie Sloane in the New York office and Nanci Ryder in Los Angeles. Katie is set to star alongside Chace Crawford in the upcoming film Responsible Adults which starts filming later this year."
Aside from wanting to get a plug in their statement there, what we can garner from this is that Katie is trying to make a fresh start entirely – if Tom Cruise will let her. He’s apparently hired the same divorce lawyer he used for his separation from Nicole Kidman and by all accounts the custody battle between them over Suri is shaping up to be a very nasty one. -------------------------------------------------- Posted 7/2/12 at 12:00pm ET--------------------------------------------------
Posted 7/2/12 at 12:00pm ET
Cover Story: Katie Holmes
"Felt Like She Was in Rosemary's Baby" With Tom Cruise
Marriage
From Us Weekly: Katie Holmes' Hollywood fairy tale with Tom Cruise definitely did not have a happy ending.
When the 33-year-old actress filed for divorce from Cruise, 49, last Thursday -- aggressively moving for sole legal custody of daughter Suri, 6 -- it was the culmination of a year-long attempt to break free of a confining, Scientology-influenced marriage to Cruise, sources tell the new Us Weekly, out now.
"Every move she made and everything she did was controlled . . . She felt like she was in Rosemary's Baby," says one insider, referring to the classic 1968 horror film, in which an aspiring young actress (Mia Farrow) unwittingly bears a child for her husband's Satanic cult.
Indeed, her shocking divorce filing, which has blindsided a "furious" Cruise, wasn't simply about the Kennedys star's own personal contentment, a Holmes source says.
"This is about protecting her daughter," the insider explains to Us. "She wants to be in charge of how Suri is being raised and didn't want her to have an exclusively Scientology education."
The first source puts it more bluntly: "She felt she had to get out to save her daughter."
For more on the biggest divorce shocker of the year -- inside their rigid marriage, their final blowout fight, how Cruise is "flipping out," how Holmes "got the strength to do it" -- pick up the new Us Weekly, on stands now.
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Posted 7/2/12 at 5:00pm ETFrom PEOPLE: Who are the mysterious men talking on headsets
and taking photos outside Katie Holmes and Suri Cruise's new apartment building
in New York City?
Their
presence has sparked reports that they are Scientology operatives, hired to
follow Holmes after her surprise divorce filing from Tom Cruise.
But sources close to the
situation say the men aren't related to Scientology at all – they're actually a
new security team hired by Holmes herself.
The Church of Scientology has also denied
having Holmes, 33, followed. "There is no truth whatsoever to the [report] that
the Church of Scientology has sent anyone to follow or surveil Katie Holmes,"
Gary S. Soter, an attorney from the church, said in a statement.
Holmes rented the
three-bedroom Manhattan apartment in the weeks leading up to her shocking move
to divorce Cruise, who is currently filming in Iceland and turns 50 on Tuesday.
The actor is a passionate advocate for Scientology, a religion that Holmes (who
was raised Catholic) embraced at the start of their relationship.
But Scientology may become a hot-button
issue in their split. Holmes reportedly filed for sole legal custody of their
daughter Suri, which would give the actress the power to make decisions on the
6-year-old's education and religion choices.
Holmes "has always been more of a Catholic than a
Scientologist," a source tells PEOPLE in the
magazine's new cover story about the split.
For much more about Holmes and Cruise's divorce, Suri's future and the role Scientology will play, pick up the new issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands now
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Posted 7/2/12 at 5:00pm ET
Katie Holmes’ Father In New York — Fires Staff, Takes
Control
From HollywoodLife: Katie Holmes’ lawyer father is taking precautions to protect his daughter from Tom Cruise and the Church of Scientology. He’s taken control — do you think Katie needs help escaping from Tom’s world?
On June 28, Kaatie Holmes' father, an Ohio-based attorney, Martin Holmes arrived to New York City to aid his daughter away from Tom Cruise by firing the people surrounding Katie. “He took control,” PEOPLE reports.
“He was worried about his daughter,” the source adds. The decision to divorce was Katie’s decision and left Tom, who is in Iceland filming "Oblivion," “totally devastated and heartbroken.”
Only three weeks ago, Tom told PEOPLE, “You’re blessed to be able to live your dream and have the family that I have, the wife and children that I have.”
But it’s not just Tom that Katie married. “When you’re married to Tom Cruise, he doesn’t come alone. He has people with him all the time. You marry the 10 people who always surround him.”
Sources also claim Tom is “hurt and confused. Ultimately, he knows they respect each other wand will work it out amicably.”
The Mirror is reporting that Katie has fired her publicist of the “Tom years” — Ina Trecoikas — and gone back to her pre-TomKat publicists Leslie Sloane and Nanci Ryder.
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Posted 7/2/12 at 5:00pm ET
Katie Holmes Keeps Her Date with "Project Runway: All
Stars"
Posted 7/2/12 at 5:00pm ET
The goons all gone, Katie Holmes slips past her very
civilized besiegers
From Capital New York: By midmorning today, the scene outside the Chelsea building where actor Katie Holmes is reportedly holed up after her bombshell divorce filing in Manhattan Supreme Court Thursday had grown pretty collegial.
A white Cadillac Escalade that had reportedly been filled with "Scientology goons" keeping an eye out for the would-be divorcée (whose husband, Tom Cruise, is a sort of Top Gun Scientologist) had, according to the gossip, last been seen by a Daily News reporter around 5 a.m. And Holmes herself had not been seen yet.
More than a dozen reporters and six television cameras were stationed near the front entrance of the 19-story luxury rental apartment complex on 7th Avenue near 25th Street, waiting for Holmes to walk out to a flash of cameras and shouted questions.
The New York Post was represented, as well as the News, The New York Times, DNAinfo, CBS, ABC, CNN, Reuters and "Inside Edition."
Four or five photographers were hanging out across the street in front of the Chelsea Gourmet Deli; a few reporters were taking turns on camp chairs that had been set up near the building entrance. Next to one was a stack of magazines (The New Yorker was on top) and in another, a reporter was thumbing through a paperback copy of White Noise by Don Delillo.
The steady stream of residents walking in and out of the building appeared largely nonplussed by the siege of photographers; maybe a few seemed to be quickening their steps just a little; but few stopped to talk.
Stopping to talk to the reporters and photographers was instead the province of passersby.
Around 11:15 a.m., a not-very-kempt man who appeared to be in his 50s or 60s shouted to the group, "Get a real job!" to almost no reaction. Stakeouts are long, boring, necessary affairs.
Other bystanders, strolling by the building, or to the Whole Foods, which occupies the building’s ground floor, seemed confused and asked the reporters to explain the scene. Most were straightforward, but some had fun telling a variation of Holmes being dead or that President Barack Obama was inside.
After being told of the actress and the white van, I.T. worker Debbie Spero on her cell phone looked at the area and said, “Why would she be living here? So weird.”
The closest thing to a break came around 12:30 p.m., when the dandily dressed Christopher Hyland emerged from the building, looking like a well preserved man who must be older than he looks in a straw boater, bow-tie, pinstriped jacket, and boyish backpack. He's already something of a microcelebrity of the TomKat split, though his connection to the couple doesn't extend farther back than the few days Holmes and her daughter, Siri, have lived in his building.
He has cited her regal bearing in the face of adversity, and sympathized with her for what he called the un-American behavior of the Church of Scientology, the purported sender of goon-filled Escalades.
Reporters and cameramen flocked to him.
“They were taking intimidating photographs of me, a textile merchant and magazine editor, a non-celebrity, as if I was threatening,” he told the reporters of the Escalade people. “I mean it was bizarre.”
“Are you talking about the paparazzi or the scientologists?” a reporter asked.
“No, the paparazzi I’m not talking about. I’m talking that there is some element here that has been very intimidating, even to me as a resident of the building. And it’s not the paparazzi.”
Hyland seemed to enjoy himself as he repeatedly complemented Holmes on her poise and dignity to the reporters, and fulminated on the deviousness of the "goons." To be fair, he provided one of the few joyful moments for the poor shlubs staking out the building, too.
His 30-pound labradoodle Hudson, was not with him this time, though he has made a few appearances himself, too.
“The subject of chatting about my little dog became this intimidating, heavy-duty scene, it’s un-American, she should be left alone by these goons,” Hyland told reporters this afternoon.
One newspaper photographer, who asked not to be identified, said he was about halfway through his shift, which began at 8 a.m. He was enjoying the interest, both positive and negative, coming from both the media and the passers-by.
“There was a guy who walked by, turns to the media and says, ‘you’re scum, you’re all scum.' So one of the TV cameramen goes, ‘So what do you do?’ He goes, ‘I’m a lawyer.’ And we all just burst out laughing,” he said, later referring to the critic as just as much of a "bottom-feeder".
“That was the high point of the day,” he said.
He said he didn’t really care much personally about the divorce or the story, but he said he’d been “in worse neighborhoods on stupider stories,” and besides, he said the weather was nice and there was plenty of company.
“Apparently there’s interest in it, everybody’s bosses believe there’s interest in it, so we’re interested in it.”
There had been speculation here and there that the building might have a back entrance that wasn't being staked out.
Under some scaffolding erected in front of a church across the street, Jo and another co-worker who wouldn't give their names because they didn't want to get in trouble from their bosses, stood "wasting time" watching the action instead of working. Jo said they'd been there for 30 minutes, and not really expecting to see much of anything.
"We're supposed to be at work. And the breeze is wonderful, that's why we stood here so long," she said.
She speculated Holmes wouldn't leave the building in front of all those cameras.
"I think she'd want to go out the back way," she said. "She may even be gone already while they're standing out here waiting for her."
She must have been right: A little after 12:30, PEOPLE posted a report that Holmes had gotten all the way up to 40th Street and 7th Avenue, where she taped a guest appearance on an episode of "Project Runway: All Stars" at the Parsons School of Design's fashion-district outpost.
"She did great," the designer Isaac Mizrahi, who is a judge in the fashion-industry reality-show competition and saw Holmes at the filming, told PEOPLE.
Here she is, leaving the taping earlier today (link above):
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Posted 7/2/12 at 5:00pm ET
Katie Holmes -
Here's What Freedom Looks
Like
From TMZ: Katie Holmes finally surfaced in New York City
today ... flanked by security ... and sporting the look of a woman who's
unencumbered by marriage or religion.
Katie is in NYC to tape an episode of "Project Runway: All
Stars." We're told Katie will be a guest judge.
It's the first time Katie
has been seen in public since she filed for divorce from Tom Cruise last week.
According to reports, Tom is
still in Iceland ... where he's been filming a movie.
TMZ broke the story, Katie is
bailing from the marriage because she believes Tom wants to put 6-year-old Suri
into a hardcore Scientology group known as Sea Org.
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Posted 7/2/12 at 5:00pm ET
Katie Holmes
Fires Security Team -
They're Too Close to Tom
From TMZ: Katie Holmes has fired her old security team
because they were way too close to Tom Cruise ... TMZ has learned.
The team -- made up of a bodyguard
and driver -- worked for Tom for years, before Tom even met Katie ... and when
he and Katie hooked up, Tom assigned the duo to Katie full-time.
The security team worked directly
for Katie for years -- but today, Katie appeared with a new security detail made
up of 5-6 bodyguards. Neither the old bodyguard nor the driver was anywhere in
sight.
Sources connected to the
actress tell us, Katie let the old team go after filing for divorce last week --
because of their allegiance to Tom. It's unclear if the duo were
Scientologists.
The last time
Katie was seen with her old security team was last Tuesday. Katie filed for
divorce on Thursday.
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Posted 7/2/12 at 5:00pm ET
Katie Holmes - My Marriage to Tom Was Kaput in
2011
From TMZ: TMZ has learned ... Katie Holmes says her marriage to Tom Cruise was "irretrievably" broken at least 6 months prior to her filing for divorce ... this according to divorce documents filed in New York.
Sources connected to Tom tell TMZ ... Katie's contention is baffling, because he had "no idea" she was about to file for divorce. As the sources told us last week, Tom was "blindsided" by the filing.
Indeed, take a look at the pic (link) of Tom and Katie strolling the streets of Iceland hand-in-hand a little more than 2 weeks ago.
But wait ... there's more.
We've also learned ... Katie claims in her divorce documents that both she and Tom have been residents of New York for "at least 2 years." Katie, who filed in NYC, must establish legal residency in NY in order for the court to have jurisdiction -- something she wants because New York courts are more likely to grant sole custody of Suri.
No doubt ... Tom -- who shared a home with Katie in Beverly Hills for years -- will fight the residency claim tooth and nail.
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Posted 7/2/12 at 5:00pm ET
Katie Holmes - The Wedding Ring Finally Comes
Off
From TMZ : It's gone -- Katie Holmes has finally removed her wedding ring.
Holmes was photographed moments ago in NYC, as she left a "Project Runway" taping ... sans finger jewelry.
Katie had worn the ring as recently as last week -- just days before she filed for divorce from Tom on Thursday.
TMZ broke the story ... Katie believes her marriage to Tom became "irretrievably broken" at least 6 months ago -- so the fact that she was still wearing her wedding ring last week is another sign she intentionally blindsided Tom with divorce papers.
Further proof -- Tom was wearing his ring last week too.
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Posted 7/2/12 at 7:00pm ET
Katie Holmes Removes Wedding Ring
From PEOPLE: Katie Holmes is making a public statement about
her split from Tom Cruise: She's no longer wearing her wedding ring.
The actress, 33, who filed for
divorce from the movie star, 49, on Friday, shot a "Project Runway: All Stars"
segment on Monday sans the ring that Cruise gave her more than five years ago.
Holmes – who was said to have
done "great" at the taping despite her personal drama – left Cruise "devastated
and heartbroken," a source told PEOPLE of the
breakup. "He had no idea this was coming."
The pair wed in an Italian castle in November 2006.
For much
more on the split, including Holmes's dramatic exit from the marriage and the
legal battle ahead, pick up this week's issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands now
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Posted 7/2/12 at 11:00pm ET
Katie Holmes' Net Worth of $25 Million May Grow After Tom
Cruise Split
From ABC News: In requesting full custody of her daughter and a "suitable amount" of child support, Katie Holmes's divorce from Tom Cruise is likely to bring in a nice chunk of change for the 33-year old actress who has already managed to have a number of non-acting, side projects.
For her level of personal stardom, Holmes, whose net worth is estimated at around $25 million, has never gotten close to her earning potential, according to Michelle Lee, Hollywood.com's senior vice president of content. That's not much compared with say, Cameron Diaz who earned $34 million last year alone.
"Don't get me wrong. A net worth of $25 million is not small potatoes," Lee said. "But when you compare to Tom's earnings, it's nowhere close."
Cruise, 49, brought in $75 million just last year, according to Forbes, with earnings from "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol" and as a producer and a studio executive.
"Other stars have been able to structure better deals for themselves, getting a share or profits, for example," Lee said. "She's an actress who had so much potential at first--fans were really hopeful that she would turn into a great actress. But I think her marriage really hurt her career. It seemed like directors and producers started to get a little scared of hiring her for projects because they didn't want their project being overshadowed by the spectacle."
In asking for a "suitable amount" from Cruise in her divorce filing, Holmes is likely hoping to maintain a celebrity lifestyle of shopping and travel, though she certainly has enough cash of her own to live very well even by Hollywood standards.
"I'm speculating that her spending habits probably changed when she married Tom," said Danielle Mayoras, co-author of the book "Trial and Heirs" about celebrity estates, "so she's obviously asking the court to maintain that suitable lifestyle."
The couple's properties include homes in Hollywood Hills, Beverly Hills, Montecito, Calif., New York, and Colorado, according to Zillow.
With Cruise's earnings, Mayoras said it is likely that he has been the "breadwinner" during their five-year marriage. They were last photographed together over Father's Day weekend in Iceland where he is shooting a film.
"I would hope that she's done smart financial planning," Mayoras said. "We know they travel a lot and we always see them on the red carpet. I would hope she was putting away her own money and not depending on Tom's money. It's hard to say."
After six successful years on television's "Dawson's Creek," which ended in 2003, Holmes focused on smaller films, like the critically acclaimed 2003's "Pieces of April," which brought in $2.4 million domestically and 2005's "Thank You For Smoking," which had $24.8 million according to Baseline, a movie research database. Those films "weren't huge box office blockbusters but really helped to build her acting credibility," Lee said.
"It was a smart move for her at the time," she said. "People in the industry can look down on actors who starred in so-called 'teen shows,' so she really needed to go that route."
Holmes reportedly made $175,000 per episode for Dawson's Creek, according to IMDB.com and Baseline. According to those sources, she reportedly made $200,000 for "The Gift" (2000), $1 million for "Abandon" (2002), $500,000 for "Phone Booth" (2002), and $1 million for "Batman Begins" (2005).
Holmes has starred in bigger movies, but none were considered to be "Katie Holmes vehicles," Lee said.
Her biggest movies at the box office have been "Batman Begins" with Christian Bale, which brought in $205.3 million domestically in 2005 and "Jack and Jill" with Adam Sandler, which grossed $74.2 million domestically, according to Baseline.
Mayoras said it's possible she is earning something from royalties from previous roles, but that is likely financially "insignificant."
Around the time of "Batman Begins," Holmes' celebrity persona started to overshadow her acting persona, Lee said.
"When you saw her on the big-screen, she wasn't Rachel Dawes," Lee said, referring to Holmes' character in the Batman film. "She was Katie Holmes, Tom Cruise's wife—and because of their personal beliefs, how they acted in public, etc., that turned some audiences off. And ultimately hurt her bottom line."
Unlike Cruise, Holmes didn't have the years of built-up film credibility.
"Even though Tom went through a rough patch when audiences were turned off from him, people still respect him as a movie star," Lee said. "The last 'Mission Impossible' proved that. The man is a total movie star. The camera loves him and there's really no one else like him in the world."
Among some of Holmes' box office disappointments were 2010's "The Romantics" alongside Anna Paquin and Josh Duhamel, which earned just $103,280 domestically, according to Baseline. The comedy, "Mad Money" with Queen Latifah and Diane Keaton, earned $20.7 million in 2008.
In addition to raising daughter Suri, 5, Holmes has modeled for retailer Ann Taylor, jeweler H. Stern and fashion house Miu Miu in the past three years, which Lee estimates would have netted Holmes a few million dollars.
Last year, Holmes launched a high-end fashion line, Holmes & Yang with celebrity stylist Jeanne Yang, which is "not a huge business yet." Right now, the line is sold in Barneys New York, Hirshleifer's, Harvey Nichols and Montaigne Market in Paris.
Barneys' website is selling nine items from the line, which range in price from a "Small Foliage Print Cami" top for $350 to a leather "Cropped Moto Jacket" for $3,095.
Many Hollywood watchers believe that Holmes' career may take off after the divorce in the same way Nicole Kidman's career sky-rocketed after that divorce in 2001, weeks before their 10-year anniversary.
But Lee said the situation is very different this time around.
"I think because Tom hadn't really shown the wilder side of himself publicly yet," Lee said.
In 2005, years after his divorce from Kidman, Cruise had his infamous "couch jumping" incident on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and criticized practices of psychiatry and actress Brooke Shield's drug treatment for postpartum depression. He later apologized to Shields.
Still, Lee said "the divorce is definitely sad on a personal level but it might actually help Katie's career in the long run," if she can get "meaty roles" in smaller films.
"She should follow the trajectory of someone like Joseph Gordon-Levitt who earned his stripes in indie movies and now makes huge films like Inception and Dark Knight Rises," she said.
"But it might take a little while. I think she really needs to build up her acting credibility again," according to Lee.
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Posted 7/3/12 at 1:00pm ET
Katie Holmes Getting PEANUTS From
Prenup
From TMZ: Katie Holmes will be getting virtually nothing
from Tom Cruise by way of $$$$ because
their prenup cuts her out of his fortune ... and sources connected with Katie
tell us it's just fine with her.
We've learned the prenup Katie signed is long, tight and
stacked in Tom's favor. We're told reports that she'll walk away with $15-20
million are absurd. Our sources say Katie will walk away with what she brought
into the marriage ... and hardly anything else.
Our Katie sources tell us, "She's not about the money.
She's not that girl. She loves to work."
We're told there's one thing Katie is insistent on -- she
wants child support from Tom, and that could turn into a big ticket item.
As for whether Katie will
challenge the prenup ... it's pretty common when a divorcing couple is in
conflict, and our Katie sources are not ruling that out. But they insist, "Money
is not that important to her. She makes plenty on her own."
One final point ... a well-placed
source connected with the couple tells us, the prenup that basically gives Katie
bupkis is proof the marriage is not a sham -- she didn't tie the knot for the
loot.
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Posted 7/3/12 at 1:00pm ET
Suri’s ‘Education’ & ‘Upbringing’ Was Real Reason for
Split, Says Katie Holmes Insider
From GossipCop: Katie Holmes's decision to split with Tom Cruise ultimately came down to their daughter Suri’s “upbringing” and “education,” an insider confirms to Gossip Cop, which thoroughly investigated the recent breakup.
According to our impeccable source, Holmes’s “biggest concern is Suri,” who she “wants to have a normal education, to go to a normal school with other kids, make friends,” and not be home schooled by Scientologists.
Our insider notes that all other speculation about why Holmes left Cruise, such as long periods spent apart because of work, is wrong.
“Scientology was the reason” for the split, confirms Holmes’s confidante.
Eventually, her six-year-old’s education became a concern, and the actress decided she wanted to rear her daughter in a more similar way to her own Catholic “upbringing.”
While Holmes’s decision to split blindsided Cruise, who was “deeply saddened,” it was something she had been thinking about for some time.
Meanwhile, we’re told Holmes is “doing OK” following the divorce announcement.
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Posted 7/3/12 at 6:00pm ET
Katie Holmes's Toughest Defender: Her
Father
From PEOPLE: There is no shortage of lawyers involved in Katie Holmes's divorce from Tom Cruise. But the attorney who may have played the most important role is not even handling the case.
Martin Holmes, 67, helped orchestrate his daughter's sudden split from her husband of five years, as PEOPLE reports in this week's cover story, on newsstands now.
A University of Toledo law school grad and member of the
Ohio Bar since 1971, he practices in areas including personal personal injury,
business litigation, probate and matrimonial law.
"Marty is very rigid – it's his way or the highway," says a
Toledo attorney who has worked with both Martin Holmes and his son, attorney
Martin Jr., on cases. "Marty believes there are only two sets of rules: the
rules of the court and his rules, and he carries himself that
way."
Along with
his homemaker wife Kathy, 65, Martin raised five children: Tamera, 44, Holly,
43, Martin Jr., 42, Nancy, 38, and the baby of the family, 33-year-old Katie.
As parents, Martin and Kathy "laid
down the law but always with a lot of love," a relative told PEOPLE in 2006.
After their youngest daughter began dating Cruise, 50, in
2005, rumors quickly emerged that the actress's parents were wary of the
relationship. But publicly, Martin was always supportive of Cruise, calling him
a "humanitarian" in a statement to "Access Hollywood," and both Tom and Katie
denied any tensions with her family.
"Some of the crap that's out there – the stuff that's said
about my parents and my siblings [not hitting it off with Tom], it's really
frustrating," Holmes told Vanity Fair in 2006
after welcoming daughter Suri.
And indeed, at the rehearsal dinner for
the couple's wedding in November 2006, Martin offered an emotional and welcoming
toast to his famous new son-in-law.
"There is a line in the movie "Father of the Bride" where
Steve Martin talks about how a time comes when you have a daughter that you stop
worrying about her meeting the wrong guy ... and you worry about her meeting the
right guy," Martin said. "It didn't take much time before I realized this Tom
guy was a special guy – that he loved Katie, that he cared for her and supported
her. Tom expressed his love many different ways – I like that. I respect men who
are not afraid to show their feelings. I respect Tom for the commitment he has
made to provide happiness and love to Katie."
For much more on the split,
including Holmes's dramatic exit from the marriage and the legal battle ahead,
pick up this week's issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands now
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Posted 7/4/12 at 1:00pm ET
Katie Holmes: How
She Planned Her Split from Tom Cruise
From PEOPLE: Katie Holmes's decision to leave Tom Cruise may
have seemed suddne, but it involved meticulous planning.
And no one was more shocked than
Cruise himself.
"She was
talking to Tom on the phone up until last week saying, 'I love you,' " a source
tells PEOPLE of the actress.
"Her inner circle has been
planning this and switching out cell phones since she was in China [in
mid-June]," adds the source. "When new cell phones arrived, then nobody could
reach her. Her old best friends from last week don't have her new number, no
email. She's unreachable."
Holmes, 33, also rented her new apartment in New York City
in early June. "[Tom] knew that she moved there, but [he thought it was] for
different reasons," says the source.
"She said she moved there to drive into the underground
garage. There are fewer paparazzi and it's less intrusive for her," says the
source. "It was the first phase of getting everything out of the house, and
that's why she was able to say she's moving without giving an indication that
she was going to divorce him."
Then, last week, her father, Martin Holmes, arrived in New
York and helped his daughter clean house, firing many of the people around her
shortly before Holmes filed for divorce anonymously in New York City.
Cruise, then filming in Iceland,
"had no idea this was coming," a source tells PEOPLE in the magazine's new cover story, on
newsstands now.
For much more on the split, including Holmes's dramatic exit from the marriage and the legal battle ahead, pick up this week's issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands now
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Posted 7/4/12 at 4:00pm ET
Tom Cruise Spent Somber 50th Birthday in
L.A.
From PEOPLE: Tom Cruise quietly spent his 50th
birthday with his teenage kids, Connor and Bella, and members of his
extended family at his Beverly Hills, Calif., mansion, PEOPLE has learned.
Both absent on Tuesday: his estranged wife, Katie Holmes,
who filed for divorce last week, and his daughter Suri, 6, who has remained with
Mom in their new Manhattan apartment since last week's bombshell split
announcement.
"The plan was he
was going to spend his birthday with Katie and Suri [in New York City]," a
source tells PEOPLE. "Then they were going to fly
to California where he is going to finish [filming] "Oblivion" and spend time
there."
But after Holmes's
divorce filing, which the source says utterly blindsided Cruise, the superstar
actor had to abruptly change plans.
With Bella, 19, Connor, 17, and other family members in
tow, Cruise left Iceland, where he's been shooting "Oblivion," and landed in
Burbank early Tuesday.
"They
were all together, and one of the reasons he came back to California was that he
had to take his family back to LA.," says the source.
The Cruise insider adds that the
actor also bypassed New York to avoid the paparazzi frenzy. "It's an impossible
situation and he does not want to subject his daughter to any more trauma," the
source says.
For now, Cruise
must rely on regular phone calls with Suri, says the source, adding that the two
talk several times a day.
"Say
what you will about Tom, but there is no doubt he loves his daughter," says a
second source. "Not seeing her would be very hard on him."
As for the mood on the actor's
birthday, it was "somber," says the insider. "Just very very sad."
Meanwhile, a smiling Suri and
Holmes stepped out for ice cream on Tuesday in New York's East Village
neighborhood.
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Posted 7/4/12 at 4:00pm ET
Katie Holmes Files Emergency Motion For Public Tom Cruise
Divorce Trial
From HollywoodLife: On July 3, Katie filed an aggressive legal action — an ‘emergent application’ – in New York City court to determine immediate custody and child support issues over Suri Cruise. There is already a court date that Tom will have to attend! Only HollywoodLife.com has all of the EXCLUSIVE details!
Katie Holmes has just taken a very aggressive step in her divorce from Tom Cruise: she has requested an ‘emergent application’ to make the trial public in the New York City court system!
Katie, 33, has taken a huge step in batting Tom, 50, a source close to the situation tells HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY.
“Katie filed an ‘emergent application’ in New York City on July 3,” our source tells us. “It’s a motion seeking temporary emergency relief, which can include child support and custody. It also means that Tom is going to have to hire a New York lawyer — he can’t use his Calif. lawyer anymore. The motion also means that both Tom and Katie have to be present in court on July 17. A judge is now assigned to their case, which means it’s no longer going to be an out-of-court settlement. They are scheduled to appear before Judge Matthew Cooper on July 17 at 9:30 AM.”
Our source also said this filing sends a very clear message to Tom.
“Katie doesn’t anticipate Tom cooperating, and there have been rumors that he’s going to file in Calif. and argue that litigation should be there rather than New York. Bottom line: if you file an emergency motion, you don’t believe there’s going to be cooperation from the other party or you need an order that only the court can give. It might have something to do with trying to control the media.They filed under anonymous verses anonymous to avoid the media. Most celebs do that.
“It’s unlikely for a celebrity to file an emergency hearing, because most celebrities settle out of court because they don’t want the media involved in their case. Katie and Tom are now going to have an open court room, which means that anyone can walk in and see what’s happening. Plus, they are putting their case in the hands of a judge who is going to determine what happens next. Most public figures don’t want that — it’s a last resort. It’s super-aggressive for Katie to have taken these steps. It suggests that there’s going to be a contentious divorce battle to come.”
HollywoodLife.com also spoke EXCLUSIVELY with celebrity divorce attorney Vikki Ziegler, author of The Pre-Marital Planner, who told us what Katie is hoping to gain from this move.
“Tom is probably asking for parenting time,” she said. “She’s asking for it to be reviewed on an expedited basis to protect the child, Suri. She’s saying, “I want this case tried in New York, I want temporary full custody, I want child support and I may want my legal bills paid as well.”
HollywoodLife.com reached out to reps for both Tom and Katie, but we haven’t yet received a comment.
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Posted 7/4/12 at 7:00pm ET
Katie Holmes Not Seeking Emergency Hearing, Lawyer
Says
From PEOPLE: Katie Holmes's lawyer is denying reports
that the actress wants an emergency hearing on custody and child support in the
Tom Cruise divorce.
"Other than
her action for divorce, the only pending application filed by Ms. Holmes remains
her request for an anonymous caption," her lawyer Jonathan Wolfe says. An
anonymous caption means that the papers in the case are filed anonymously.
The statement is response in to
online reports that Holmes, 33, on Tuesday filed what is called an emergent
application that could have resulted in a public hearing in a New York court.
Since her
surprise filing last week – in which Holmes, 33, reportedly asked for sole legal
custody of their daughter Suri, 6 – Holmes has remained in New York with Suri.
Cruise, who hasn't filed any legal papers yet, flew from
Iceland to Los Angeles, where he spent his 50th birthday with his older
children, Isabella and Conner.
A source close to the case tells PEOPLE Cruise prefers to file in Los Angeles, which he
considers his home base. Also, despite having a New York apartment, the family
primarily spent time in the Big Apple for work or outings like Broadway plays,
says the source.
"They don't
live in New York City," says the source. "It's ridiculous."
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Posted 7/5/12 at 3:00pm ET
Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes's Legal Teams: Meet the Key
Players
From PEOPLE: As their divorce battle heats up, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have enlisted some serious legal fire power.
In Cruise's corner: Los Angeles divorce attorney Dennis
Wasser, who previously represented Cruise in his 2001 divorce from Nicole
Kidman, and veteran entertainment litigator Bert Fields, who has also
represented Cruise for years.
Wasser, whose daughter Laura is a top Hollywood divorce
attorney herself, has been involved in a number of high-profile showbiz
divorces, with Steven Spielberg, Clint Eastwood and Jane Fonda among his former
clients.
"Dennis is a
gentleman and exceptionally bright," says L.A. family law attorney Robert
Brandt. "His ultimate goal is to settle cases, but he won't do it out of
weakness. He's not intimated by anyone."
Fields, who has represented such
megastars as Madonna and the Beatles, "is considered the dean of entertainment
trial lawyers," says L.A. lawyer Larry Stein, who practices in the same field.
"He's not a brash person; he's quietly aggressive. He's a Harvard Law graduate
who uses his intellect and charm to win his cases."
Because Holmes filed for divorce in New York, Wasser told PEOPLE that he and Fields will be joined by a lawyer based in that state. They could attempt to move the proceedings to L.A., where judges are more likely to award joint custody – a decision that will likely be made in the coming days.
Holmes also has a strong legal team in place. New
Jersey-based attorney Jonathan Wolfe, 36, will be working with New York
attorneys Allan Mayefsky and his partner Michael Mosberg.
Less known in show business
circles, Wolfe has handled plenty of high-powered cases, including the divorces
of football star Braylon Edwards and NHL player Martin Brodeur, and has written
extensively about matrimonial law.
"He is the finest of the fine," says Randall M. Kessler,
Chairman of the American Bar Association's Family Law Section and one of Wolfe's
partners. "He comes from a family of successful lawyers, including his identical
twin brother."
Another source
who has worked with Wolfe calls him "cool as a cucumber" under pressure. "He's
aggressive, but he leans toward trying to keep cases, as much as possible, out
of the courts. Without any question, he knows how to maintain privacy and
discretion and knows how to negotiate deals. Whatever the outcome is, it'll be
fair for both sides," the source adds.
Meanwhile, Mayefsky, a partner at Aronson, Mayefsky &
Sloan, is a Harvard Law grad with more than 25 years of family law experience.
His firm represented Peter Cook in his bitter 2008 divorce from Christie
Brinkley. Mosberg, a partner in the firm, is a Brooklyn Law School grad who's
been practicing since 1998.
Mayefsky is "a low-key, excellent attorney," says New York
matrimonial attorney Nancy Chemtob. "He's mild-mannered. He's a nice, reasonable
man. He's definitely very bright."
For much more on the split,
including Holmes's dramatic exit from the marriage and the legal battle ahead,
pick up this week's issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands now
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Posted 7/5/12 at 3:00pm ET
Katie Holmes: No Emergency Hearing, but Date Set for Court
Showdown With Tom Cruise
From E! News: Katie Holmes told the New York Daily News Wednesday she's doing "all right, thank you," but that doesn't mean she doesn't have a long road ahead of her.
Despite initial reports to the contrary, there is no emergency hearing scheduled on custody and child support for Suri Cruise. Her lawyer told E! News in a statement that "other than her action for divorce, the only pending application filed by Ms. Holmes remains her request for an anonymous caption."
She will, however, face a family court judge July 17 in New York City at an order to show cause hearing. An order to show cause can be filed to request that the court issue a temporary order before the other side responds. It is often used when time is of the essence and when a decision is needed faster than a notice of motion.
Holmes is being represented by two attorneys, Jonathan Wolfe of New Jersey and Allan Mayefsky of New York.
Cruise, 50, has not actually filed for divorce in California, despite previous reports. And while the "Mission Impossible" star hasn't been seen with his 6-year-old daughter since he and Holmes announced their split, there are unconfirmed reports that he calls Suri "several times a day."
The actor also reportedly opted to fly from Iceland to L.A. instead of NYC on his birthday Tuesday. His reasoning? More unconfirmed sources claim Cruise wanted to avoid the media frenzy that would've undoubtedly ensued were he to attempt to see Suri in the city.
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Posted
7/5/12 at 3:00pm ET
Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes
Divorce Will Remain In New York, At Least For Now
From RadarOnline: Score one for Katie Holmes in her divorce and custody dispute from estranged husband Tom Cruise.
The proceedings will remain in New York where the actress filed because under the law, the "Mission Impossible" star can't file in California as he had planned because you can't file in separate states at the same time, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting.
Cruise "will have to adhere to the New York divorce petition that Katie filed. He won't be able to file in California until he presents evidence to the courts in New York that they weren't residents. The judge in New York will ultimately decide if the Big Apple is the proper venue for the divorce to proceed. So for the time Tom won't be able to file in California. This is an obvious setback, and Tom is livid that Katie is calling all the shots," a source close to the situation tells us.
Holmes "has gotten top notch legal advice because the case will remain in New York for the near future. Important issues coming up include temporary child support. Katie clearly has the upper hand in the proceedings at this point. It can't be emphasized enough that she took these extraordinary measures to protect her daughter, Suri," an insider close to the actress says.
Cruise will have to file a formal response to Katie's divorce petition in New York, and "he is going to submit a motion to have the case dismissed because NYC isn't the proper venue. Tom is hopeful that New York will do the right thing and allow him to file in California," the source said.
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Posted
7/5/12 at 10:00pm ET
Tom Cruise: Katie is Using Suri As a Weapon
From TMZ: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have cut off all
contact with each other, and her people are making it difficult for Tom to have
contact with his daughter ... sources very familiar with the situation tell
TMZ.
Although Tom now has
"absolutely no contact with Katie," his people are negotiating/bickering with
Katie's people over when and how Tom can talk to Suri. We're told Tom does speak
with his daughter by phone at least once a day, but sources connected with Tom
say it hasn't been easy.
We're
told when Tom's on the phone with Suri, there is one place he has not gone ...
he has NOT discussed the breakup of his marriage with his daughter.
As for when Tom will attempt to
see Suri ... sources say it's not going to happen for awhile. We're told Tom was
in L.A. for the 4th but he's leaving before the weekend to shoot his new movie
in the Rockies.
Our sources say
things are "really bitter now" between Tom and Katie. He feels betrayed by her
and thinks she is using Suri as a weapon.
And you don't need sources to know one thing -- if he's
blocked from seeing Suri, his lawyers will make a beeline for court.
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Posted
7/5/12 at 10:00pm ET
Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes Divorce NOT Over Scientology
From TMZ: Katie Holmes may say
her decision to divorce Tom Cruise is over Scientology, but it's NOT ... so say
sources directly connected to Tom.
Our sources tell us ... they believe Katie and her team are
leaking false stories to the media by maintaining she was trying to save Suri
from the grips of Scientology, and that's why she left Tom.
As one well-connected Tom source
put it, "She [Katie] was totally committed to Scientology. She had enthusiasm
for it and would voluntarily and gladly participate in it when Tom was off
shooting movies."
The source
adds, "This is not a fight over religion. It's being used as a way to hurt
Tom."
And on the subject of
hurting Tom, as we first reported, sources connected with the actor tell us
Katie's people have made it difficult for him to speak with Suri by phone, but
he's talked to her every day. He has no immediate plans to see his daughter
because he's leaving today or tomorrow to shoot his new movie in the Rockies.
Tom's lawyers have not filed any
docs in court -- yet -- to establish his custodial rights. If that happens,
we're told they will file in New York, although it's pretty clear they will ask
to have the case sent to California.
And, as for what Tom's people say the divorce is really
about ... they won't say yet, but tell us it's coming.
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Posted
7/6/12 at 10:00am ET
Katie Holmes - Tom Treated Me Like a Robot
From TMZ: Tom Cruise controlled Katie Holmes like a puppetmaster ... making every major and even minor decision in her personal and professional life ... and in the end, she felt like she couldn't breathe without his permission ... this according to sources close to the actress.
Movie studio-connected sources tell us Tom executed an "Art Kill" way back when Katie was doing "Thank You for Smoking" in 2005 ... when the 2 first started dating.
Sources tell us Tom instructed producers to "kill" any promotional photos which showed Katie and Aaron Eckhart engaged in kissing or "anything else compromising."
We're told Tom also imposed his will during "Batman Begins" ... prohibiting Katie from flying with the rest of the cast. Instead, Katie would only travel on Tom's private jet. One source tells us Morgan Freeman was "disgusted" by the situation. On the other side, however, one source scoffed and said, "Wow, Tom offered her his private jet. How terrible for Katie."
Ultimately, our Katie sources say she grew sick and tired of playing Pinocchio to Tom's Geppetto ... and decided it was time to cut the strings.
We reached out to Morgan Freeman for comment -- so far, no word back.
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Posted
7/6/12 at 7:00pm ET
From PEOPLE: Katie Holmes paid a visit Friday to the
high-powered New York law firm representing her in the divorce from Tom
Cruise.
Casually dressed in
white jeans and a yellow top, the actress, 33, arrived with four bodyguards in a
Mercedes with black-tinted windows about 11:30 a.m. at the midtown Manhattan
building housing the offices of Aronson, Mayefsky and Sloan.
Daughter Suri, 6, was not with
her, observers say.
The visit comes after Cruise attorney Bert Fields spoke out
to the BBC about the possible next steps for the 50-year-old superstar.
"Tactically we can't say where Tom
will file a divorce case and if he'll be seeking joint custody of Suri," said
Fields.
"We are letting 'the
other side' play the media until they wear everyone out and then we'll have
something to say," added Fields.
The divorce case involves legal heavyweights on both
coasts.
Holmes's attorneys
Allan Mayefsky and his partner Michael Mosberg work for the firm that
represented Peter Cook in his bitter 2008 divorce from Christie Brinkley. Their
co-counsel, Jonathan Wolfe of Skoloff & Wolfe in Livingston, N.J., has
handled the divorces of football star Braylon Edwards and NHL player Martin
Brodeur.
Fields is a longtime
Cruise business lawyer in Los Angeles with a host of celebrity clients. The
actor's lead divorce lawyer, Dennis Wasser, is another prominent Hollywood
attorney who represented Cruise in his divorce from Nicole Kidman.
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Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes Settlement Talks Underway
From TMZ: Tom Cruise and
Katie Holmes have called a temporary truce while their lawyers try to
negotiate a full divorce settlement ... TMZ has learned.
Sources very familiar with the
situation tell us ... there are NO immediate plans for either side to go to
court. There will be no court hearing Monday, Tuesday or in the foreseeable
future, unless the negotiations fall apart.
Sources tell us the lawyers are negotiating child custody,
visitation, child support and a property settlement.
We're also told the whole settlement could be ratified in
New York if all goes well. In other words, there may not be a move by Tom's camp
to transfer the case to California, where judges are more likely to award joint
custody.
One source described
the emotional state of the negotiations as "calm."
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Tom Cruise & Katie
Holmes Divorce: Inside Their Negotiations
From PEOPLE: For much of the past few days, lawyers for Tom
Cruise and Katie Holmes have been working behind closed doors to iron out an
agreement between the two stars that would avoid a long, public divorce
fight.
Cruise "doesn't
want his family dragged through the mud," says one source. "They both love their
daughter."
One crucial
issue: where Suri, 6, will live and who will raise her.
Holmes, 33, who filed for sole legal custody, would like to bring up her daughter in New York City. Cruise, 50, lives primarily in Los Angeles, although he owns properties in Manhattan.
Sources around Cruise and Holmes are optimistic that the
couple and their legal teams could reach a deal as discussions continue.
For the second day in a row,
Holmes was spotted at her lawyers Allan Mayefsky and Michael Mosberg's offices
on Saturday.
As for
Holmes's bid for custody, Cruise may be open to Suri living primarily with
Holmes, according to a source. But any agreement would have to include generous
visitation for Cruise: "There's no world where Tom won't be seeing Suri."
"I'm sure Tom Cruise's
attorneys are doing all they can behind the scenes to negotiate with Katie's
side to calm the situation," says L.A. family law attorney Steve Mindel, who's
not involved with the case. "Ultimately, neither side would want a messy public
case to avoid bringing emotional harm to their daughter. Don't be surprised if
Katie quietly retracts her divorce filing and they eventually agree to an
amicable divorce and settlement."
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Katie Holmes Has Marathon
Legal Session Saturday
From RadarOnline: Katie Holmes' negotiations with Tom Cruise over custody and support for their daughter Suri went into overdrive on Saturday.
Holmes spent six hours with her divorce attorney Allan Mayefsky in his Manhattan office today, emerging in the early evening.
Earlier in the day, members of her security team went to a nearby bakery and brought back two boxes of sugary treats for Katie and her legal team.
Katie filed for divorce on June 28, playing hardball by asking for sole legal custody and primary physical custody of six-year-old daughter.
As RadarOnline.com reported, this is the second consecutive day Katie spent hours with Mayesky.
He is reportedly attempting to iron out an agreement -- at least a temporary one -- with Tom's attorney Dennis Wasser that would negate the necessity of going to court.
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Tom Cruise Is in "Major
Crisis Mode" Amid Katie Holmes Split, Custody Fight
From Us Weekly: Cruise has lost control.
On Saturday, Katie Holmes spent her second consecutive marathon session at the midtown Manhattan offices of her attorney. And though estranged husband Tom Cruise has not been photographed in over a week, the superstar and his team "are in major crisis mode," a source close to the "Rock of Ages" actor, 50, tells Us Weekly.
"Tom's whole life . . . is being torn apart," the source says of Cruise, who was blindsided when Holmes filed for divorce and full legal custody of six-year-old daughter Suri on June 28.
"He is on the phone with his lawyers 24/7," the source explains, confirming that the Oscar nominee "is trying to hash this out" -- custody, child support and property division -- without going to court.
Cruise, whose loyalty to the Church of Scientology and its teachings became a sticking point in his nearly six year marriage to Holmes, "doesn't want his entire life laid out for everyone to dissect anymore."
"Every move she made and everything she did was controlled . . . [Katie] felt like she was in Rosemary's Baby," another source told Us Weekly of Holmes' bold move. "She felt she had to get out to save her daughter."
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Katie Holmes, Tom Cruise
Trying to Avoid Court, Settlement Talks 'Ongoing'
From ABC News: Private is the word repeatedly used to
describe the way Tom Cruise likes to handle personal matters and this weekend
the bombshell divorce between Cruise and Katie Holmes became very, very
quiet.
Sources close to
case tell ABC News that both Cruise and his soon to be ex-wife, Katie Holmes
"want to settle this matter privately and that talks are ongoing between the two
parties."
Katie Holmes
was snapped going to visit her attorney in New York on Saturday but didn't say a
word to photographers waiting for a nugget of news.
While the first hearing in
the case is set on the New York Civil Supreme Court calendar for July 17, that
is a full week away. Both parties have stated they want what's best for their
6-year-old daughter Suri and sources close to the case told ABC News "they have
never ruled out trying to reach an amicable settlement." They are now trying to
do just that.
Robert Stephan Cohen, who has represented celebrities Christie Brinkley, James Gandolfini and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in their divorce cases, told ABC News that if "this case goes through the court system in New York or California it would be very complicated."
Cohen, who also serves as an adjunct professor at the
University of Pennsylvania, said that what happens to the child going forward
would be the big issue in any kind of settlement talks.
"The parties can decide what
school she can go to and who her pediatrician is but what about Scientology?" he
said. "Is he willing to forgo having his daughter raised as a Scientologist? Is
she willing to allow the child to be one? If they can work those issues out they
may be able to work out a deal."
Holmes filed for divorce and sole custody of the couple's
daughter on June 28.
As pictures poured in of Holmes and her daughter out and
about in Manhattan enjoying ice-cream, the museum, popping into Whole Foods and
visiting her attorney this weekend, Cruise has yet to be seen. Sources close to
the actor admitted that Cruise was "stunned" by Holmes' action, which his
publicist said left him "deeply saddened."
He returned to Los Angeles from filming in Iceland last
Tuesday to celebrate what was described as a "somber" 50th birthday celebration
with his family.
Sources
close to the actor said they were fine with letting Holmes play the "media game"
last week because that is exactly what Cruise wanted. But make no mistake,
Cruise has not really been quiet. He has been strategizing with his team of
lawyers and calling the shots on what to do about what his associates say "came
out of nowhere."
Some
legal analysts have said that Holmes' decision to file for divorce in New York
might have given her an advantage in her effort to gain sole custody versus
joint custody and provide more privacy, since New York seals divorce filings
that are often available in California.
California divorce attorney Michael Kelly told The
Associated Press that Holmes' East Coast filing was "a tactical move" that
signifies "there will be an attempt to gain an advantage."
New York's comparative-fault
divorce laws could be advantageous for Holmes, he said. The couple spent most of
their marriage in Los Angeles but Holmes has been in New York for most of this
year.
Holmes dumped her
longtime security team because of their loyalty to Cruise, according to sources,
and there had been lots of talk about what is really no longer the elephant in
the room, Scientology.
The Church of Scientology issued a statement denouncing
reports that Holmes and Suri have been followed by members of the church --
reports that were debunked when it became clear that Holmes' own security people
were outside her building.
Nobody from the Cruise camp has uttered the word
Scientology publicly yet, and a source who reviewed the divorce complaint says
there is nothing about scientology in the document that Holmes filed on June
28.
But sources close to
the case did acknowledge that Scientology is an issue for Holmes and one person
close to actress said it has been for some time, despite appearances.
Cruise Has Gone Settlement Route Before
The previous times Cruise has gotten divorced, he was in control.
Curiously all of Cruise's marriages ended when his ex-wives were 33 years old.
Cruise filed for divorce from his second wife, Nicole
Kidman, in February 2001, sometime after she miscarried their baby, according to
Kidman (they had previously adopted two children).
He filed for divorce less
than two months after they renewed their vows on their 10-year anniversary,
Christmas Eve 2000.
Kidman broke down on Oprah Winfrey's talk show in May 2001,
calling the situation a "nightmare."
"I think that divorce is hard for anyone. It's a
nightmare, it just is, and you can pretend you're fine," she said. "And days
you're great [and] days you're not great."
In a written response to a divorce petition filed by Cruise
on the grounds of irreconcilable differences, Kidman said she was stunned when
he told her that he no longer wanted to be married, and allegedly begged him to
stay and seek marriage counseling. He refused and left for good, according to
her response.
When asked
by Winfrey whether she thought she would always be married, Kidman timidly
replied, "Yeah."
"I've
had a blessed life," she said. "I've always thought [if] something bad is going
to happen, something bad is going to happen.
But then something really bad happened. A number of really
bad things happened. You go, 'I'm dealing with it. I'm stronger than I
thought.'"
Kidman is now
happily married to country singer Keith Urban. They have two children together.
Connor and Isabella Cruise chose to live with their dad after the split, which
was settled out of court.
Given how adoringly Cruise has spoken about Katie Holmes
throughout their relationship -- he told the May issue of Playboy, "I'm just
happy, and I have been since the moment I met her" -- he may take a while to get
back to his eccentric, couch-jumping self. But his first ex-wife once voiced her
confidence in Mr. Mission Impossible's ability to rebound.
"Tom is very strong -- he
handles stress," Mimi Rogers told People magazine in 2001. "He's human. He has a
temper. He blows up sometimes, whatever, but it's not like he can't deal with
it."
He filed for divorce
from actress Mimi Rogers in January 1990 after three years of marriage.
She seemed to get over it
quickly. In October 1990, she told The Associated Press, "As far as I know,
we're divorced, but I've been so busy on this new film that I haven't had time
to check, so I'm not sure. I bet that sounds pretty silly, huh?"
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Katie Holmes Is "Dead
Set" on Keeping Full Custody of Suri
From Us Weekly: For the past few days, legal teams for Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise have been working steadily in an attempt to reach a settlement for the divorcing stars, but make no mistake: Holmes, 33, is not about to cave when it comes to their little girl.
"She is dead set on keeping custody of Suri," a Holmes source tell Us Weekly. The "Romantics" actress -- whose future projects include the new film Molly (which she wrote) and a Holmes and Yang runway debut at New York Fashion Week this fall -- filed for divorce from Cruise, 50, June 28, and asked for sole legal custody of daughter Suri, 6.
"Katie is not going to compromise on certain issues, all regarding Suri," the source says.
During their nearly six-year marriage, Holmes became increasingly uncomfortable with the bizarre rules and restrictions of Scientology -- particularly with respect with how to raise and educate her only child with Cruise.
"This is about protecting her daughter," another source explained to Us.
While Holmes has been highly visible since the news broke, stepping out with Suri near their new NYC apartment nearly every day, Cruise has been M.I.A., reportedly holed up at his L.A.-area home.
The "Rock of Ages" star and his team "are in major crisis mode," a Cruise source admits. "He is on the phone with his lawyers 24/7."
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Tom Cruise: There's NO Settlement Without Suri
From TMZ: Tom Cruise has made one thing VERY clear -- Suri is the deal-maker and the deal-breaker in his divorce with Katie Holmes ... this according to sources very familiar with the situation.
As we first reported, lawyers for both sides are trying to pound out a settlement. We're told Tom has insisted that the settlement provide "meaningful, significant contact with his daughter." As one source put it, "She is the primary concern in his life."
Sources connected with Katie tell us they have made it clear that Tom will be able to spend time with his daughter when he finishes his movie shoot in the Rockies.
Lawyers for both sides have been meeting for hours a day. Sources say they even met for a full business day on Saturday. And, we're told, they are not just trying to hash out a temporary truce -- these are settlement negotiations for the entire divorce.
Sources say both sides are negotiating custody, visitation, support and property settlement.
One caution -- we're told the negotiations are still "in flux" and it's possible things could fall apart. But for now, no one is rushing to court.
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Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes
Release Joint Statement on Divorce Negotiations
From PEOPLE: As they continue to hammer out a divorce settlement, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have released a joint statement asking for privacy as they work out a custody arrangement for their daughter, Suri.
"We are committed to working together as parents to accomplish what is in our daughter Suri's best interests. We want to keep matters affecting our family private and express our respect for each other's commitment to each of our respective beliefs and support each other's roles as parents," says the statement from Holmes and Cruise's reps, Nanci Ryder and Amanda Lundberg respectively.
No word on when the couple will reach an agreement, but sources close to both sides say that Cruise, 50, and Holmes, 33, will likely agree to an arrangement where Suri, 6, lives in New York with her mother and her father is given generous visitation rights.
Sources say Holmes's decision to file for divorce in June blindsided Cruise.
She and Suri recently moved into a new 3-bedroom apartment in New York City, where the pair have been spotted out while Cruise was at home in Los Angeles with his teenage kids, Connor,17, and Bella, 19.
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Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes
Reach Divorce Settlement
From PEOPLE: Less than two weeks after Katie Holmes filed for divorce, the actress and Tom Cruise have reached a settlement.
Holmes's attorney Jonathan Wolfe confirmed the deal in a statement to PEOPLE:
"The case has been settled and the agreement has been signed. We are thrilled for Katie and her family and are excited to watch as she embarks on the next chapter of her life.
"This result could not have been achieved without the hard work of my partner Gary Skoloff and our co-counsel Allan Mayefsky, Michael Mosberg and Larry Trachtenberg of Aronson Mayefsky and Sloan and Peter Walzer and Chris Melcher of Walzer & Melcher in California.
"We thank Tom's counsel for their professionalism and diligence that helped bring about this speedy resolution."
Cruise's attorney Dennis Wasser separately told PEOPLE, "All the lawyers and the parties are happy that it's done, the deal was closed and we wish everyone well."
There was no immediate word on the details, but Holmes and Cruise said in a separate statement they focused on protecting daughter Suri, 6.
"We are committed to working together as parents to accomplish what is in our daughter Suri's best interests. We want to keep matters affecting our family private and express our respect for each other's commitment to each of our respective beliefs and support each other's roles as parents," says the statement from Holmes and Cruise's reps, Nanci Ryder and Amanda Lundberg respectively.
Sources close to both sides say that Cruise, 50, and Holmes, 33, were working on an arrangement in which Suri lives in New York with her mother and her father is given generous visitation rights.
Sources say Holmes's decision to file for divorce in June blindsided Cruise.
She and Suri recently moved into a new 3-bedroom apartment in New York City, where the pair have been spotted out while Cruise was at home in Los Angeles with his teenage kids, Connor, 17, and Bella, 19.
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Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes DIVORCE SETTLED!
From TMZ: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have SETTLED their divorce ... this according to Katie's lawyer.
Jonathan Wolfe tells TMZ, "This case has been settled and the agreement has been signed. We are thrilled for Katie and her family and are excited to watch as she embarks on the next chapter of her life."
TMZ reported in the last few days lawyers for both sides were in a marathon negotiation -- trying to end what began as a divorce war.
Wolfe added, "We thank Tom's counsel for their professionalism and diligence that helped bring about this speedy resolution."
Tom's longtime lawyer, Bert Fields, just told TMZ, "The Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes case has been settled with a signed agreement. Tom is really pleased we got there, and so am I."
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Tom Cruise & Katie
Holmes Settle Split
From Entertainment Tonight: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have settled their split, explaining the news in a just-released statement to ET.
"The case has been settled and the agreement has been signed," says a statement from Katie's lawyer, Jonathan Wolfe. "We are thrilled for Katie and her family and are excited to watch as she embarks on the next chapter of her life. This result could not have been achieved without the hard work of my partner Gary Skoloff and our co-counsel Allan Mayefsky, Michael Mosberg and Larry Trachtenberg of Aronson Mayefsky and Sloan and Peter Walzer and Chris Melcher of Walzer & Melcher in California. We thank Tom's counsel for their professionalism and diligence that helped bring about this speedy resolution."
Tom's lawyer, Dennis Wasser, tells ET, "The case is settled. It is done!
Earlier today, the couple released a joint statement regarding their daughter Suri: "We are committed to working together as parents to accomplish what is in our daughter Suri's best interests. We want to keep matters affecting our family private and express our respect for each other's commitment to each of our respective beliefs and support each other's roles as parents."
Sources tell ET that Tom is only days from a reunion with Suri, 6. Sources also tell us that Suri will most likely remain with her mother in New York for the near future while Tom continues to work on back-to-back movies around the world, from the currently filming "Oblivion" to "Jack Reacher," which hits theaters December 21, and the upcoming "All You Need Is Kill."
ET has also learned that Tom had planned to spend the Fourth of July holiday in New York with his family at their new apartment.
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Cruise, Holmes reach settlement in divorce
case
From Associated Press: NEW YORK (AP) -- Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes reached a settlement on Monday, legally sorting out their divorce with the same speed that kicked off their much-scrutinized romance seven years ago.
Just as Hollywood was settling in for what was expected to be a long and nasty separation, lawyers for the couple said the pair settled less than two weeks after Holmes unexpectedly filed for divorce.
"The case has been settled and the agreement has been signed," Holmes attorney Jonathan Wolfe said in a statement. Cruise's attorney, Bert Fields, also confirmed the settlement in a statement: "Tom is really pleased we got there and so am I."
Representatives for Holmes and Cruise declined to elaborate on the agreement.
"We are thrilled for Katie and her family and are excited to watch as she embarks on the next chapter of her life," the statement from Holmes' attorney said. "We thank Tom's counsel for their professionalism and diligence that helped bring about this speedy resolution."
In a joint statement, Cruise, 50, and Holmes, 33, asked for privacy for their family with 6-year-old daughter Suri.
"We are committed to working together as parents to accomplish what is in our daughter Suri's best interests. We want to keep matters affecting our family private and express our respect for each other's commitment to each of our respective beliefs and support each other's roles as parents," read the statement from Cruise's publicist Amanda Lundberg and Holmes representative Nanci Ryder.
The resolution was notably quick, particularly in Hollywood terms. By way of comparison, Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries are still negotiating a divorce for an August 2011 marriage that lasted less than three months.
"A quick settlement indicates that they were able to agree that they'll both do some co-parenting," said Steve Mindel, a managing partner in the Los Angeles firm Feinberg, Mindel, Brandt and Klein who has handled bi-coastal divorce cases.
Mindel said the next step would be for Holmes or Cruise to file to have their status changed to divorced, but that the actual financial and child custody details won't get filed in court unless there's some later dispute.
The rapid settlement saves the couple from a public battle that was sure to be covered vigorously by the celebrity news media, which had already shifted into hyper-drive.
In the already voluminous tabloid reporting, Holmes had been portrayed with overwhelmingly more sympathy. The emerging narrative, whether true or not, was of a locked-away Holmes breaking free from the servitude of a strange, corrupting marriage.
Us Weekly reported that the couple "fought viciously" over Scientology parenting. The Daily News trumpeted Holmes entering "a new phase." A TMZ headline blared "Tom treated me like a robot."
That may also be the most convenient view of a relationship that even at its start spawned "Free Katie!" T-shirts. In 2005, the couple publically announced their relationship in Rome, famously celebrated it on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and got engaged on the Eiffel Tower in Paris. They were wed in Nov. 2006 at a castle in Bracciano, Italy.
Fields has said they were letting "the other side play the media until they wear everyone out." The Church of Scientology, too, didn't want to be portrayed as the schism between the couple.
The quick settlement and joint statement may put out some of that fire.
"I don't think either of these high-profile celebrities want their dirty laundry aired in technically a public forum," said Russell I. Marnell, an East Meadow, N.Y.-based divorce lawyer who's also licensed in California. "Those kind of factors certainly would lend themselves to try to encourage a resolution."
Cruise has two children with his previous wife, Nicole Kidman. The actor was also previously married to Mimi Rogers. This was Holmes' first marriage.
Their divorce case lasted less than two weeks, but Mindel said that's not uncommon for high-profile breakups: "There's too many incentives on both sides of the equation for settlement."
When actress-singer LeAnn Rimes' husband filed for divorce in December 2009, it only took a day before the couple filed a judgment. Actor-comedian Russell Brand's divorce from singer Katy Perry took a little over a month to resolve, while director Cameron Crowe and singer-guitarist Nancy Wilson resolved their 2010 divorce in less than three months.
Cruise and Holmes may have saved more than just their dignity by not fighting out their divorce in court. A drawn-out custody battle would have likely cost more than a million dollars in legal fees.
"What jumps out at me is how quickly they were able to resolve a multi-million dollar (financial case) and custody issues," likely to be particularly complicated for a couple whose work can take them all over the world, said Paul Talbert, a partner in a New York City matrimonial-law firm that isn't involved in the case.
Said Mindel: "The question's going to be did they have enough time to flesh out how they're going to resolve future disputes."
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Tom and Katie Divorce - The Suri Clause
From TMZ: TMZ has learned, the divorce settlement between
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes is extremely complicated, outlining things both Tom
and Katie can and cannot do with Suri.
Here's what we know.
-- Katie will have what amounts to primary physical
custody, but Tom has significant custodial time with his daughter.
-- A report claiming that Suri
must be in the presence of Katie's bodyguard and nanny when she is around Tom is
"absolutely, 100% false."
--
The custodial provisions of the agreement are extremely detailed, and religion
is one of the topics. We're told there are restrictions on what Tom and Katie
can discuss with Suri on the subject of religion, including Scientology,
however, those restrictions are eased the older Suri gets.
In short, we're told the agreement
is extremely detailed and outlines a course of conduct for years to come.
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Tom Cruise Divorce: Suri
to Live Primarily with Katie Holmes
From PEOPLE: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes agreed that
daughter Suri should live primarily with her mother in New York with generous
visitation by her father, PEOPLE has learned.
The terms of physical
custody of the 6-year-old was a key element of the settlement announced Monday
just days after Holmes filed for divorce, according to sources.
"They both love their
daughter," says one source, "and Tom thinks she should be with her mother."
The superstar also "didn't
want his family dragged through the mud," says the source. "Neither one of them
wanted this to be hashed out in public."
Holmes has long loved New York and will enroll her
daughter, who had been home-schooled by tutors, into a private school in
Manhattan in the fall, according to sources.
Holmes, 33, and Suri recently moved into a three-bedroom
apartment in New York City, where the pair have been spotted out. Cruise, 50,
has been at home in Los Angeles with his teenage kids, Connor, 17, and Bella,
19, before returning to work Monday on his sci-fi thriller "Oblivion."
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Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes
Keeping Divorce Deal Strictly Confidential
From PEOPLE: With reports swirling about everything from
restrictions on Suri Cruise's nannies to her exposure to Scientology, Katie
Holmes's lawyer warns the public to be wary of stories about the settlement with
Tom Cruise.
"There are
numerous inaccuracies in the reports regarding the purported contents of the
agreement reached between the parties," says attorney Jonathan Wolfe. "The
agreement is confidential and its terms will not be disclosed."
Holmes, 33, and Cruise, 50,
announced on Monday morning that both sides had settled the divorce action just
days after the actress filed papers.
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Katie Holmes' next move:
Fashion, films or both?
From USA Today: TomKat didn't have nine lives.
Tom Cruise, 50, and Katie Holmes, 33, settled their divorce Monday, less than two weeks after Holmes stunned Hollywood with the news that she planned to divorce one of the most famous men in the business.
The speedy settlement was preceded by a statement from the soon-to-be-exes: "We are committed to working together as parents to accomplish what is in our daughter Suri's best interests. We want to keep matters affecting our family private and express our respect for each other's commitment to each of our respective beliefs and support each other's roles as parents.
By settling so quickly, Holmes and Cruise avoided a potentially nasty legal battle that could have cast even more scrutiny on their already highly watched seven-year relationship.
Howard Bragman, vice chairman of Reputation.com and a longtime Hollywood publicist, says there are several factors that make the lightning-fast settlement a little less shocking. "Number one: There was a prenup. Number two: Her father is an attorney. Number three: It was in both their interests to resolve quickly. Number four: They both want to move on. And, Number five: There were not that many issues left to resolve, especially if you have a prenup in place."
Now that Holmes is one step closer to being officially single, she is starting over with a fresh slate in both her personal and professional life, all of which should be a positive for her, adds Bragman.
"She's going to be interesting now, she's going to get a boost from this because she looks independent, normal. She fought for her child, and people can relate to her. There is no better launching pad."
And in her second act, Holmes will most likely blend acting with fashion, says Janice Min, editorial director of the Hollywood Reporter and former editor of Us Weekly.
"My sense is, her passion is fashion. It's going to take her a while to get her legs back in terms of being considered as just Katie Holmes," says Min. "I could see her doing some interesting cameos on good shows. I could see her doing another hour-long drama. She's not quite as established enough as a major film star to carry a movie, but one day she could be."
Beyond a love of fashion, what else could be in the pipeline for Holmes? Experts weigh in on three aspects of her life — professional, personal and romantic.
PROFESSIONAL: An assessment is in order
Holmes' career hasn't exactly gone gangbusters since hooking up with Cruise in 2005.
The former "Dawson's Creek" star's most recent movie was last year's universally panned Adam Sandler comedy "Jack and Jill," and her last hit was 2005's "Batman Begins."
"When analyzing a career, there are many, many contributory factors, not just one. Usually at the core of great success is great drive - relentless, maniacal drive combined with great talent. She may not have been that driven, we don't know," says veteran Hollywood publicist Michael Levine.
Shortly after filing for divorce, Holmes filmed a guest spot on the Lifetime reality show "Project Runway." But Levine says Holmes is capable of landing a bigger role.
"First, she has to figure out what all actors should do, which is assess where they are and where they want to be in five years and take steps based on reverse engineering to help them be where they want to be," Levine says. "If they want to be movie stars, choose parts, small or large, that get them there. If they want to be movie stars, don't choose reality TV shows. … Any fool with a plan beats a wandering genius. I would encourage her to get a plan based on where she wants to be."
Holmes did find some laughs opposite Josh Radnor during a guest appearance last fall on CBS' "How I Met Your Mother." But can she carve a career out of humor?
"We have yet to see her really expand. I don't know whether or not Katie is funny," says casting director Doron Ofir, who's responsible for casting "Jersey Shore." To be a dramatic actress is a relatively easy thing to do, because drama is inherently part of the human nature. To be funny is another one. We don't know her."
Building heat on television could buoy her in the pop culture landscape, and fans are already calling for Holmes to spark a mini-reunion on ABC's "Don't Trust the B—in Apt. 23," which stars her "Dawson's Creek" pal James Van Der Beek (he plays himself). The network was unavailable for comment.
Mini-arcs are trending in Hollywood, says Deadline's Pete Hammond. "I think (Holmes) can do what Gwyneth Paltrow did on "Glee" if there's a good role out there."
Whichever path Holmes chooses with acting, there's no need to rush into anything advises Bragman.
"First thing she has to do is get beyond this. She shouldn't feel in a rush to get a project," he says. "She's done film, TV, live theater. She should do something that really moves (her) soul, either the medium or the part. There's going to be intense scrutiny no matter what she does, so the only right answer is what's right for her."
After Nicole Kidman's 2001 divorce from Cruise, the statuesque Aussie went on to win an Oscar the next year for her work in "The Hours".
Not bad - and not too far off the mark for Holmes, Ofir believes.
"I think that we are about to see what we saw with Nicole Kidman. The second that she was free, she exploded. It was literally one after the other after the other. It was "Moulin Rouge," then "The Others," then "The Hours." She was sought after, and, now she is one of our golden actresses of the time. If Katie can realize that this is the beginning of her life as a legitimate actress and she chooses her roles incredibly carefully, she will become in that same vein."
And fashion is always an option, too. Women's Wear Daily reports that Holmes and her stylist Jeanne Yang will show their Holmes & Yang line at New York Fashion Week in September.
PERSONAL: Don't hide, get outside
No need to uncover any rocks to find Holmes during this celeb split. She's avoided the whole hiding-in-my-apartment-to-dull-the-pain approach and instead has been out and about in New York, taking her daughter Suri, 6, for very public and very photographed trips to the grocery store, for ice cream and to a children's museum.
Bragman says the anti-bunker approach is the way to go in this situation. "When you hide, it looks as if you have something to hide from. It sends the wrong message that says, 'I'm hiding,'" he says. "All these everyday things (she's been doing) endear her in the hearts of people, make her look normal, and that's what you want right now."
And, in an era of back doors and private elevators for Hollywood's biggest names, it's clear that Holmes could stay out of the public eye - if she wanted to.
"That only creates demand, and what you don't want to do is create too much demand," adds Bragman. "If there are a lot of pictures, they're worth less (to paparazzi). If she never goes out and there's just one picture of her out, it's worth hundreds of thousands (of dollars). If any tourist with a phone can snap you walking down Fifth Avenue, it's worth a nickle."
Min agrees.
"She is making an aggressive attempt to appear normal," Min says. "She seems confident and unrattled, living her life day-to-day as a normal mother. It conveys to Tom Cruise's side that she's not in hiding and not afraid."
But outings and interviews are not the same thing. Min predicts that anyone waiting for Holmes' tell-all chat about her five-year marriage will be holding their breath for quite some time.
"Very likely she'll keep (interviews) in the realm of fashion. She'll do the cover of a fashion magazine. Anyone expecting the big tell-all, I don't see a universe where that happens," says Min. "It doesn't benefit her to make it seem like she's telling tales out of school. For better or worse, she was part of Scientology during this marriage. She didn't get much of a career bounce out of being married to Tom Cruise. She doesn't gain by being too brutally honest about the marriage or Scientology."
ROMANCE: Love should wait
Like all celebrity divorces, after the legal dust has cleared, fans are eager to see newly single stars coupled up once again. And perhaps no future relationships will be more closely watched than those of Holmes and Cruise.
"She's in the image business. People will talk and talk about her, no matter what she does. If she has coffee with a guy, people will have them involved in an affair," says relationship expert Gilda Carle. "She's going to have to be strong enough to laugh all this off. … I think it's a good idea for her to wait six months (to start dating), until she's actively certain that she has her footing and she can balance her life on her own."
Plus, after the enthusiastically public nature of her romance with Cruise, Holmes may consider going in the opposite direction by keeping her private life a little more private and engaging in some self-reflection.
"She needs to figure out how she ended up in the boat she ended up in, and what she's going to do to change her taste in men," adds Carle. "She's coming into her own. She seemed robotic with (Cruise). She has just started realizing that she has power. She can go and do as she pleases. This is a huge, rude awakening for her. She has to be comfortable with her empowerment and be comfortable as a single mom and as a woman who can earn a living."
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Suri Cruise Triggered Divorce Settlement
From TMZ: Katie Holmes and
Tom Cruise went from zero to nuclear war in an instant when she filed
divorce papers, but it was little Suri who
became the peacemaker ... sources familiar with the situation tell TMZ.
Our sources say ... a week ago
Thursday, after Katie filed, the hostility between the two was palpable and Suri
became a weapon. Katie wanted to strip Tom of all decision-making power in
Suri's life, and Tom responded by unleashing the biggest legal guns around to
fight her.
We're told what
turned everything around was a series of conversations that Suri would be
irreparably damaged by parental warfare. It registered big time with both Tom
and Katie, and it allowed their lawyers to strike a deal in what could be record
time for this type of divorce.
Fact is ... it generally takes celebs in these high-profile
divorces a lot longer to realize how bitterness affects small kids, so credit to
both.
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Katie Holmes Is "Very
Happy" With Tom Cruise Divorce Settlement
From Us Weekly: Katie Holmes got exactly what she wanted from Tom Cruise.
The exes have not publicly revealed the details of their July 9 divorce settlement, though multiple sources confirmed to Us Weekly. Monday that Holmes -- who initially filed for sole custody -- will receive primary legal custody of their daughter, Suri, 6.
"She won and is happy. Very happy," a source close to Holmes, 33, tells Us. "She can move on and finally live her life."
The decision to leave Cruise after nearly six years of marriage wasn't easy, but Holmes "did this only for her daughter," the source explains. "That was all she cared about."
The "Romantics" actress -- who secretly began renting her own New York City apartment two weeks before filing for divorce -- "pulled it off brilliantly," according to the source. "She has her career back and her daughter. She will be a huge star now. . . This was all played so well. Katie is very happy with how it all came out."
Indeed, Holmes recently wrapped a modern version of Chekhov's "The Seagull" and is at work on "Molly," which she cowrote and produced.
According to another insider, "Rock of Ages" star Cruise, 50, "will be allowed to see Suri, but there are guidelines for the visits." Details of their arrangement have not yet been revealed.
Lessened quality time with Suri won't be easy for Cruise, who has primary custody of his children Connor, 17, and Isabella, 19, from his previous marriage to Nicole Kidman, 45. "Tom is really sad at the thought of not being able to see Suri," the insider revealed Monday. "You can tell he really loves his kids."
Shortly before announcing they had reached a settlement, reps for Holmes and Cruise released a joint statement reaffirming their commitment to resolving the matter amicably and privately.
"We are committed to working together as parents to accomplishing what is in our daughter Suri's best interests. We want to keep matters affecting our family private and express our respect for each other's commitment to each of our respective beliefs and support each other's roles as parents."
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Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes:
Disposable phone used to start divorce
From Los Angeles Times: Katie Holmes set the wheels in motion for her divorce from Tom Cruise using a throwaway cellphone provided by a friend to initially talk to her lawyers and avoid her husband knowing about the conversations, according to a source familiar with the divorce.
The move allowed her to prepare her legal case without Cruise and his staff knowing she was about to exit the marriage and left him shocked at the sudden divorce. By the time a deal was struck last weekend to end the marriage, she hired three law firms in three states.
Holmes will now have primary custody of her 6-year-old daughter, Suri, with Cruise in a quick, behind-closed-doors divorce settlement. But the "Mission: Impossible" star will still have a "meaningful relationship" with his child.
The agreement provides Cruise with visitation rights but gives Holmes the lead role in choosing how Suri will be educated, a source said Monday.
With a prenuptial agreement governing the distribution of assets, talks between lawyers for Cruise, a prominent member of the Church of Scientology, and Holmes, who was raised Roman Catholic, centered on the role of Scientology in the upbringing of Suri, according to a source familiar with the negotiations but not authorized to discuss them publicly.
Holmes wanted guarantees in the settlement to ensure nothing is done while their daughter is with Cruise that would "alienate" Suri from her, the sources said.
Cruise and Holmes appeared to refer to the religious component of their split in a joint statement: "We want to keep matters affecting our family private and express our respect for each other's commitment to each of our respective beliefs and support each other's roles as parents," they said.
But experts in so-called spiritual custody disputes said although family law judges try to ensure the interests of children are protected in matters, such as medical care and housing, they give both parents broad leeway in choosing a religious upbringing.
"The general rule is the courts will defer unless the consequences are really detrimental to the health of the child — a threat of immediate and substantial harm," said Jeffrey Shulman, a professor of law Georgetown University who has written extensively about the issue and believes the standard doesn't protect children sufficiently.
In the case of Cruise and Scientology, a judge could intervene if the religion was used to turn Suri away from Holmes because she was not an adherent, Shulman said.
"The courts could say to Cruise, 'You cannot conduct
yourself in a way that alienates the child from Katie Holmes,' " he said. "But
mere doctrine may not be enough for the court to do that."
Courts won't rule on the merits of
a particular religion, New York lawyer Malcolm Taub said.
"They would not say that Scientology is not a valid religion, so we're going to award [sole spiritual custody] to Katie Holmes," Taub said.
The confidential deal was hammered out over the weekend in New York and announced Monday, 11 days after Holmes took the entertainment industry and reportedly her husband by surprise with the filing of divorce papers in Manhattan.
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Did Nicole Coach Katie
Through Divorce?
From Entertainment Tonight: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes reached a divorce settlement quicker and more amicably than anyone expected earlier this week. Could Cruise's ex Nicole Kidman be responsible for the speedy agreement?
Bradley Jacobs of Us Weekly tells ET that Nicole spoke to Katie prior to her surprise divorce filing.
"[Nicole] was very supportive to Katie over the last few weeks," says Jacobs. "They've spoken on the phone. She told her, 'I've been there, too. Hang in there. You'll get through it.'"
The two women have plenty in common. They're both younger than Cruise, they were both 33 at the time of their respective breakups and they each had children with the Golden Globe winner.
While the details of TomKat's custody arrangement have not been confirmed, Matt Donnelly of the LA Times tells us that the estranged couple's daughter, Suri, will reportedly soon be enrolling at all-girl prep school, the Convent of the Sacred Heart. This will reportedly be the 6-year-old's first exposure to a regular classroom setting, as she has previously gone through private tutoring.
Although Suri will always tie the two together, it appears as if Katie wants to get rid of all other connections to Cruise in her life. According to Youyoung Lee of The Huffington Post, the actress has fired part of her staff including her PR reps, which she shared with her former spouse.
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Tom Cruise's Lawyer: The Church of Scientology Played NO
ROLE In Katie Holmes Divorce Settlement
From RadarOnline: Tom Cruise's long-time attorney, Bert Fields, tells RadarOnline.com exclusively that the Church of Scientology played no role in the "Mission Impossible" star's divorce settlement with Katie Holmes.
As we previously reported, Holmes and Cruise signed a divorce agreement, just eleven days after the "Dawson's Creek" star filed, which gives her sole legal custody of Suri.
There had been rumblings that the Church had advised Cruise to settle the divorce quickly to avoid further negative publicity. However, the famed legal ace vehemently denied that the Church played any role in the divorce settlement.
"Let me be very clear about this. The Church of Scientology played absolutely NO ROLE in the divorce settlement talks at all. Period. The mere suggestion that the Church was involved in any element of the talks and ultimate settlement is categorically false. Anyone suggesting otherwise is just wrong," Fields told RadarOnline.com exclusively.
Meanwhile, as previously reported, the Los Angeles Times claimed that a close friend gave a disposable cell phone to Katie so she could keep her divorce plans hidden from Cruise until she was ready to file for divorce. The L.A. Times reported that Katie didn't want Tom or his staff to know the divorce was coming, and by the time she filed, she had already hired three law firms in three different states.
Holmes will maintain sole custody of their 6-year-old daughter with Cruise having liberal visitation of the little girl. For the time being, Katie plans to live in New York City with Suri. Cruise maintains a primary residence in Beverly Hills and has an apartment in the Big Apple, not far from Katie's new digs.
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Cover Story: How Katie Holmes
Took Control
From PEOPLE: Katie Holmes knew she had to make a drastic change.
The actress, 33, was increasingly unhappy in her five-year marriage to Tom Cruise as she realized "she no longer had the life she wanted, in terms of her career, her way of life, everything," a source tells PEOPLE in this week's cover story.
So she took action – quickly.
"Once she decided to go, she was done," says the source.
With help from her unflinching attorney father Martin, she orchestrated a secretive exit strategy that included moving into a new downtown Manhattan apartment, switching cell phones and keeping her megastar husband in the dark – until a bombshell phone call in which she broke the news to him.
"She knew she had to have everything locked down before she pulled the trigger," says the source, "because there could be no wiggle room if she didn't want this to turn into a long, drawn-out battle."
The strategy worked, and on July 9 – just 11 days after Holmes revealed her divorce filing – lawyers on both sides announced they had reached a lightning-fast settlement that sources say gives Holmes what she wanted most: primary custody of their 6-year-old daughter Suri.
Cruise, 50, will have generous visitation rights.
The still-stunned actor "was a happy man and thought he had a happy life," says another source. "He keeps asking, 'What's happening?' "
For much more on why the marriage crumbled, the phone call that ended it all and what role Scientology will play in Suri’s life, pick up this week's issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands everywhere Friday
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Cover Story: How Nicole
Kidman Helped Katie Holmes With Tom Cruise Split
From Us Weekly: Katie Holmes has friends in high places -- and that includes Nicole Kidman.
As Holmes, 33, struggled and secretly plotted to end her marriage to Tom Cruise, she found a pillar of support in her husband's second ex-wife, who divorced the actor in 2001.
"They've spoken over the last few weeks," a confidante
tells the new Us Weekly of Holmes and Kidman, 45.
"Nicole has been supportive, saying she's been through it too and to hang in
there." (One way Holmes may have made those secret calls to Kidman? The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday that the
"Romantics" actress used a disposable cell phone provided by a pal to plot her
divorce without the detection of Cruise and his team.)
It's not a brand-new friendship either, the confidante says, telling Us that the women have been speaking since Holmes' 2006 marriage to Cruise, 50. Kidman shares kids Isabella, 19, and Connor, 17, with Cruise, although much has been made of her estrangement from their kids.
"She has been a private friend not many people know about," the source continues.
As Holmes reached the breaking point in her marriage to Cruise -- and with mounting fears about daughter Suri -- she reached out again to Kidman for advice. "Nicole offered her support and help," the insider adds.
Find out much more about Holmes and Kidman's secret friendship and all the details on the biggest divorce of the year in the new issue of Us Weekly, on stands Friday!
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Tom Cruise Lawyer Threatens National Enquirer Over 'House
of Horrors' Cover (Exclusive)
From The Hollywood Reporter: Tom Cruise's lawyer is
threatening to sue the National Enquirer over a
cover story that claims the actor is a "monster" who "abused" wife Katie Holmes
and subjected daughter Suri to a five-month stay in a "tiny, windowless room.
In a blistering letter sent
July 11 by longtime Cruise attorney Bert Fields to Enquirer publisher American Media, a copy of which was
obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, Fields claims the tabloid's most recent
cover story is "disgraceful and lurid" and will cause the actor "hundreds of
millions of dollars of professional and personal damages, for which we intend to
hold American Media, and everyone who participated in the perpetuation of this
scurrilous attack, jointly and severally liable."
Read the full letter here.
Fields writes: "Your cover announces, as a fact, that 'THE
REAL TOM CRUISE IS A MONSTER.' Mr. Cruise is certainly not a 'monster.' He is a
caring father, a hardworking actor and, above all, an honest, decent man." The
cover also includes the headline "Inside Tom's House of Horrors" alongside a
picture of Cruise's Beverly Hills residence as well as allegations that Holmes
led a "tortured life" with the actor before filing for divorce on June 28.
THR reached out to American
Media for comment on the letter and will update with a response.
Cruise and his Scientology
religion have been the subject of intense media coverage in the wake of the
Holmes divorce, which has been settled. Fields and his law firm, L.A.'s
Greenberg Glusker, first threatened American Media on July 10 when an image of
the forthcoming Enquirer cover story leaked. "This
is the most defamatory cover the Enquirer has ever done," wrote Greenberg
Glusker attorney Aaron Moss to American Media senior media counsel Cameron
Stracher in an e-mail obtained by THR. "You need to stop this from coming out
tomorrow."
Lawyers for
Hollywood stars often send warning letters to media outlets before negative
articles are published because the letters help strengthen a potential
defamation case, where a court would evaluate whether the outlet knew the story
was false and published it with "actual malice." When the full Enquirer story
hit newsstands July 11 -- claiming, among other things, that the Cruise-Holmes
marriage was "a living nightmare" and Suri was forced to stay for five months in
a tiny, windowless room -- Fields followed up with the formal cease-and-desist
letter.
"Mr.
Cruise's home in Telluride, like his home in Beverly Hills, is a pleasant and
loving home," the letter reads. "Suri was not forced to stay for five months in
a tiny windowless room. She spent most of her time with Tom and Katie. She slept
in a nursery adjoining their bedroom. It has a window."
The letter ends with a
threat of litigation if the Enquirer does not
"retract each and every one of your false allegations about Mr. Cruise with the
same prominence and emphasis as you gave your original false and defamatory
assertions." Fields also threatens to "call the Court's attention to your long
record of printing and publishing malicious lies about celebrities in order to
enrich yourselves at their expense."
Fields writes that "these disgusting lies about Mr. Cruise
will be there for all time, to be read by his children and, someday, his
grandchildren."
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Tom Cruise's Lawyer: 'Sad And Shocked' Actor Will See
Daughter Suri 'Very Soon'
From RadarOnline: Tom Cruise's lawyer, Bert Fields, tells RadarOnline.com exclusively that the "Mission Impossible" star will see the couple's 6-year-old daughter, Suri, "very soon," and is "still tremendously saddened and shocked about the divorce."
Katie Holmes will have sole custody of Suri, with Cruise having substantial visitation time with the adorable little girl. Cruise hasn't seen Suri since Katie filed for divorce, but the actor's long-time famed attorney tells us, "Tom will be seeing Suri very soon, I don't know exactly when that will be, and I couldn't tell you, but I do know it will be very soon. Tom loves his Suri very, very much, as he does his other two children. Tom is a family man, and dedicated to his children. They are the center of his world."
Even though the divorce settlement is finalized, Cruise is "still tremendously saddened and shocked about the divorce. Tom is obviously relieved that the settlement was reached, but is still sad, obviously," Fields told us.
As we previously reported, Cruise was snapped at June Lakes in California's Sierra Nevada mountains Wednesday shooting his upcoming film, "Oblivion." The actor, who recently turned 50, wore a plaid shirt and grey pants, maintaining his professional focus less than two weeks after estranged wife Holmes blindsided him by filing papers to end their five-year marriage on June 28. At the time, Cruise was in Iceland working on "Oblivion;" he reportedly received a phone call from Holmes -- informing him of her intent to divorce him -- while he was shooting a stunt scene.
Tom and Katie said in a joint statement Monday that they're "committed to working together as parents to accomplishing what is in our daughter Suri's best interests.
"We want to keep matters affecting our family private and express our respect for each other's commitment to each of our respective beliefs and support each other's roles as parents," they said.
Tom has a history of quick and efficient splits, finalizing things in his divorce with Mimi Rogers in less than 45 days, while his divorce from Nicole Kidman was done in less than six months.
All three of his wives were 33-years-old when their marriages ended with Cruise.
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Katie Holmes-Tom Cruise divorce says who picks Suri's
nannies
From Los Angeles Times: One element of the Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes divorce settlement centered on how the parents would choose nannies for their daughter, a person with knowledge of the talks said.
Cruise and Holmes reached a private divorce settlement over the weekend. The person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk publicly about the case, said Holmes will have some voice in selecting the nannies who will accompany Suri when she spends time with Cruise.
The person said the deal gave Holmes some level of control without appearing to monitor Suri's visits with Cruise.
Holmes will have primary custody of her 6-year-old daughter, Suri, with Cruise under the terms of the settlement. But the "Mission: Impossible" star still will have a "meaningful relationship" with his child.
The agreement provides Cruise with visitation rights but gives Holmes the lead role in choosing how Suri will be educated, the source said Monday.
In an interview with CNN, Holmes' attorney Jonathan Wolfe even praised Cruise's attorneys "for their professionalism and diligence that helped bring about this speedy resolution.... We are thrilled for Katie and her family and are excited to watch as she embarks on the next chapter of her life," Wolfe said.
With a prenuptial agreement governing the distribution of assets, talks between lawyers for Cruise, a prominent member of the Church of Scientology, and Holmes, who was raised Roman Catholic, centered on the role of Scientology in the upbringing of Suri, according to a person who was familiar with the negotiations but not authorized to discuss them publicly.
Holmes wanted guarantees in the settlement to ensure nothing is done while their daughter is with Cruise that would "alienate" Suri from her, the sources said.
Cruise and Holmes appeared to refer to the religious component of their split in a joint statement: "We want to keep matters affecting our family private and express our respect for each other's commitment to each of our respective beliefs and support each other's roles as parents," they said.
But experts in so-called spiritual custody disputes said that although family law judges try to ensure the interests of children are protected in matters, such as medical care and housing, they give both parents broad leeway in choosing a religious upbringing.
"The general rule is the courts will defer unless the consequences are really detrimental to the health of the child — a threat of immediate and substantial harm," said Jeffrey Shulman, a professor of law at Georgetown University who has written extensively about the issue and believes the standard doesn't protect children sufficiently.
In the case of Cruise and Scientology, a judge could intervene if the religion was used to turn Suri away from Holmes because she was not an adherent, Shulman said.
"The courts could say to Cruise, 'You cannot conduct yourself in a way that alienates the child from Katie Holmes,' " he said. "But mere doctrine may not be enough for the court to do that."
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J. Lo: 'I'm Sad' for Tom and Katie
From Entertainment Tonight: Jennifer Lopez is opening up for the first time in a new interview with ET's Mark Steines about her friends Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' recent split.
Lopez, who split last summer from Marc Anthony, tells ET, "I'm sad for them. They're both really lovely people, and just like Marc and I, it's not what you want to happen. You fight and you try until you realize you can't anymore."
She says that she hasn't spoken to Tom or Katie, but she's "thought about it a lot."
"I heard about it when I was in South America and I was stunned," she shares.
She says she's concerned about how the split will affect Tom and Katie's daughter Suri, as well as Tom's two children with ex-wife Nicole Kidman, Connor and Isabella: "You know I just wish them, you know, peace in their decision. And really for Suri and their other children as well, because you become such a family, it's not just Suri, it's Connor and Isabella and everybody, you know, you all become a family. And when that breaks apart, nobody wins, everybody's heartbroken in some way. And I just wish them peace."
Speaking of headline-making news, Jennifer also expanded on her "'Today" show revelation this morning regarding her shaky future as an "American Idol" judge. While panel mate Steven Tyler just made it definitively known he would not return, Lopez tells ET that, despite appearances, she has yet to make up her mind either way on the matter.
"The decision is like, this close to being made," she explains, illustrating with a pointed hand gesture to indicate she's on the very precipice of deciding. Although all signs seem to point at Lopez bowing out, she tells fans they need not lose hope just yet.
"All hope is never gone," she teases. "It pulls at me, I love it. But I also know that there's a lot of things that I put aside for it and I just don't know how much longer I can do that."
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With pact, NY court date off in Cruise-Holmes
case
From Associated Press: NEW YORK - (AP) -- Anyone who was hoping to catch a glimpse of the Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes divorce case in a New York City court next week should make other plans: A court date has been canceled after a settlement was announced Monday.
The case had been on a court calendar for this coming Tuesday. But court system spokesman David Bookstaver says there now are no plans for the stars or their lawyers to be in court next week, and no court dates are currently scheduled.
Less than two weeks into a headline-dominating divorce case, Holmes and Cruise said Monday they had reached an agreement. Their lawyers and representatives wouldn't disclose details.
The two married in Italy in 2006. They have a 6-year-old daughter, Suri.
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Tom Cruise
Didn't Pay Katie Lump Sum in
Divorce
From TMZ: Tom Cruise did not pay Katie Holmes a lump sum in
his divorce settlement, but he will pay handsomely in the child support
department ... sources familiar with the situation tell TMZ.
Our well-connected sources tell us
... reports that Katie scored $50 million are "ridiculous." We're told she did
not get a lump sum of money at all. As we previously reported, Katie signed a
prenup which gave her goose eggs by ending the marriage. And, sources connected
with Katie have been telling us from day 1 that she was not after his money. As
one source put it, "She has her own money."
We do know, however, that Tom is paying "a lot of money" in
the form of child support. Tom will be making regular payments for 12 years. Our
sources say all tolled, Tom will be paying "more than $10 million" in child
support, though no one would be more specific.
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Tom Cruise's Lawyer: Suri Was Main Concern of Divorce
Settlement
From PEOPLE: From buzz that Katie Holmes was being followed
by the Church to speculation over the influence Tom Cruise's controversial
religion had during the settlement negotiations, the role of Scientology in the
couple's split has been followed just as closely as the beginnings of their
separate new lives.
But
according to Cruise lawyer Bert Fields, who flew to New York to negotiate their
divorce settlement (which granted Holmes, 33, primary custody and Cruise, 50,
generous visitation rights), the main concern was 6-year-old daughter Suri.
"Tom was always most
interested in his child," Fields tells PEOPLE.
"His concern was for Suri."
Adds the high-powered attorney: "He will have a meaningful
relationship with Suri."
As for when Cruise will see his daughter, who has been
clocking in time with her mom in New York – from trips to the zoo to the art
museum – Fields could not reveal a specific time or date. (Cruise is currently
filming Oblivion.)
"I
don't know the details of his schedule, so I can't comment," he says. "My guess
is he'll be seeing Suri very soon."
Regarding the role the actor's religion played in the
settlement, Fields tells PEOPLE, "Somebody said
the Scientologists were directing the negotiations, and that is absolute
hogwash. There was no Scientologist present, I wasn't on the phone with
Scientologists. Scientologists played no part of role in the negotiations
between the lawyers."
Instead, he says, both teams "dealt rationally with the
issues, hashed them all out and over a few days worked something out that was to
the satisfaction of both sides."
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Tom Cruise Video Chatting With Daughter
Suri
From RadarOnline: Oh, the wonders of technology!
Tom Cruise has been video chatting with daughter Suri ever since Katie Holmes filed for divorce last month, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting.
As we previously reported, Cruise's famed attorney, Bert Fields, told Radar that the actor would be seeing Suri soon.
"Tom will be seeing Suri very soon. I don't know exactly when that will be, and I couldn't tell you, but I do know it will be very soon. Tom loves his Suri very, very much, as he does his other two children. Tom is a family man and dedicated to his children. They are the center of his world," Fields said last week.
Until then, Cruise has been using technology to his advantage and has been video chatting with Suri.
"It's all part of the divorce settlement that Tom be allowed to video chat with Suri. Likewise, when Suri is with Tom, Katie can video chat with her," a source close to the situation tells Radar.
"Tom and Katie were advised that this could be a very useful tool to help Suri with the adjustment of her parents getting divorced. Tom and Suri have been video chatting and Tom just lights up when her face appears on the computer screen. Tom and Suri also communicate on the telephone and there is no limit on the contact for either parent. If Suri wants to talk to Tom she will call him, with help of course," the says.
"The bulk of their divorce settlement deals with the custody agreement which is extremely detail oriented. Over 75% of the settlement documents deal with Suri and the custody agreement.
"There are provisions and clauses about which parent Suri will spend Thanksgiving, Christmas and her birthdays with. One of the most important clauses of the settlement is that NEITHER parent can talk negatively about the other in front of Suri and this includes anything about each parent's respective religion.
"This was a crucial part of the custody agreement and something that both Tom and Katie wanted included. The custody settlement essentially puts both parents on notice that their personal feelings about each other can't influence or harm Suri in any way and puts her needs first."
Cruise could see Suri as early as this week, the source says.
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Posted 7/16/12 at 2:00pm ET
Nicole Kidman Told Katie Holmes She "Has No
Regrets"
From Us Weekly: There was definitely a light at the end of the tunnel for Nicole Kidman -- and now for Katie Holmes, too.
As reported exclusively in the new Us Weekly, out now, Holmes leaned on Tom Cruise's second ex-wife for advice and support in the final days of her marriage, as she plotted and built up the courage to divorce Cruise, 50, after nearly six years together.
After divorcing Cruise in 2001, Kidman, 45, found a new happy ending with Keith Urban -- wedding the country singer in 2006 and welcoming daughters Sunday, 4, and Faith Margaret, 17 months.
During one of their recent chats, the "Paperboy" actress "told Katie her life is great now and she has no regrets," a source explained to Us of the pair.
Although Holmes, 33, and Kidman spoke "over the last few weeks" leading up to Holmes' June 28 divorce filing (she and Cruise announced they'd settled the dispute last Monday), their secret friendship began soon after Holmes wed Cruise in 2006. "They spoke when Nicole called the kids [Isabella, 19, and Connor, 17]," the source says. "She knows what it's like in that . . . house."
Kidman recently admitted to Marie Claire that divorcing Cruise after 11 years together was definitely traumatic.
"I was really damaged and not sure whether [love and marriage] was ever going to happen again to me," she said.
She added to British GQ: "I want to honor that marriage for what it was, and there is nothing I would go into about that."
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Posted 7/17/12 at 12:00pm ET
Katie Holmes' Movie Career: Divorce From Tom Cruise May
Mean More Roles
From Associated Press: NEW YORK -- If you want to get a good idea of Katie Holmes, actress – as opposed to tabloid star – you can't do any better than "Pieces of April," a gem from 2003 in which she plays a ponytailed and tattooed New Yorker desperately trying to prove herself to her visiting suburban family with an improvised, downtown Thanksgiving dinner.
This was back when Holmes was transitioning out of "Dawson's Creek," that teenage soap of a fictional New England coastal town childhood. But Holmes had already amassed an early filmography that any young actress would envy, including "The Ice Storm," "Go" and "Wonder Boys."
The budget for "Pieces of April" started at $6 million, but dwindled to $300,000 and was shot over just 16 days. Writer-director Peter Hedges recalls shooting in "condemnable" buildings with paint dropping off the walls of Holmes' makeshift dressing room.
"You learn a lot about a person's character when you work in those conditions," says Hedges. "What I always say about Katie is she's a good girl, she was raised right and she knows what it's like to have flown coach."
But for whatever reason, Holmes' promising start was detoured. She met Tom Cruise, gave birth to a daughter, married and, at one time, spent three years off-screen. After starring in "Batman Begins" in 2005, she pulled out of "The Dark Knight," leaving Maggie Gyllenhaal to take her place in what became one of the biggest movies of the decade. Her work since has been sporadic and not always substantial.
Now that she's divorcing Cruise, and their 6-year-old daughter, Suri, is school age, there are mounting expectations that Holmes could again be the actress some thought she could become. At just 33, she's emerging from the public hysteria of her relationship with Cruise with open roads ahead and, possibly, renewed ambition.
"I'm excited to see what she does now," says Hedges. "She'll surprise a lot of people, because she's really very gifted. ... What I'd love to see is people really be open to giving her the chance to surprise us."
After Holmes began dating Cruise, she took a three-year break from acting that concluded with the poorly received heist film, "Mad Money." She followed that up with the wedding drama "The Romantics" and small roles in the comedies "The Extra Man" and Adam Sandler's "Jack and Jill," and the thrillers "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" and "The Son of No One."
Instead, she's tested herself more on the stage.
Holmes co-starred in a 2008 Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's "All My Sons," earning mainly good reviews for a straightforward part that nevertheless utilized her Toledo, Ohio, folksiness. Though that brought its own sideshow – there were Scientology protests outside the theater – it was precisely the kind of classy production that earns actors respect. And onstage, Holmes' 5-foot-9 height only furthers her presence.
"You can see for yourself that she more than holds her own," "All My Sons" director Simon McBurney said at the time. "She is fantastic. Ann is her role. It combines this extraordinary fresh beauty with another, much darker quality that I always felt was there, and which comes out by the end of the play, where she looks like a kind of avenging angel."
Holmes has also increasingly turned back to the medium that brought her fame: television. Along with guest appearances on the sitcom "How I Met Your Mother" and the legal drama "Eli Stone," she played Jackie Kennedy in "The Kennedys," the controversial miniseries that ended up at ReelzChannel after the History Channel opted not to broadcast it.
The actress also recently taped a guest appearance as a judge on "Project Runaway," presumably with an aim toward promoting her developing fashion line, Holmes & Yang (with stylist Jeanne Yang).
What Holmes has on the horizon, though, appears more promising. She recently shot a modern adaptation of Chekhov's "The Seagull," and will soon begin shooting "Molly," which she co-wrote and produces.
The film is about a single mother and daughter, so it will surely be picked apart for signs of her personal life. But her larger involvement in the project suggests she's taking more creative control. Holmes is also attached to later make a romantic comedy "Responsible Adults."
"It could be a brand-new beginning for Katie Holmes," says Hollywood.com analyst Paul Dergarabedian. "Holmes was definitely on the rise and obviously took a left turn and got into a relationship with Tom Cruise, which kind of overshadowed her career and slowed her momentum."
But, added Dergarabedian, "Actors often make a choice to pursue family rather than career. All she needs to do is put herself in the right projects. Whatever her next project is, there will obviously be a curiosity factor. But at the end of the day, she's got to do good work."
Much of Holmes' appeal has always been her naturalism. Since her "Dawson's Creek" days, she's been most successful as a plucky, intelligent girl-next-door. Though she's struggled to transition to more adult roles, it's also clear that, at the same time, her life became quite tumultuous.
"For actresses, this can be a really great period of time, where more life has happened and they've got more to draw from," says Hedges. "I love her performance in `Pieces of April' and as great as that performance is – and I think it's a great performance, nuanced with a lot of substance and surprise and humor and heartbreak – I felt when that was happening: `This is just the tip of the iceberg.'"
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Posted 7/17/12 at 2:00pm ET
Tom Cruise Visits Suri in New York City
From PEOPLE: Tom Cruise is finally getting quality time with his daughter Suri.
Two weeks after Katie Holmes filed for divorce, the
50-year-old star arrived in New York City on Tuesday and was photographed
carrying his daughter into a hotel. It is his first visit since he and Holmes,
33, reached a divorce settlement on July 7.
"Tom looked really happy," an observer in New York tells
PEOPLE.
"He's been dying to see her," says a source of Cruise, who finished shooting his latest movie, "Oblivion," on Sunday in California. He flew overnight to New York City to reunite with his 6-year-old daughter. Cruise learned of Holmes's divorce filing while shooting the same film on location in Iceland. And although he and Suri have spoken frequently since the split, he has not seen her in person since mid-June.
Holmes and Cruise have agreed that Suri will live in New York with her mother, but the actor will see her often. "He'll be with her whenever he can," says a source.
Currently, the pair plan to spend several days together
in the city, where Suri is expected to attend a local private school this
fall.
Sources close to
Cruise and Holmes say the former couple will work together to make sure that
hand-offs are as pleasant as possible. "They both know they are going to have to
make decisions together regarding Suri for many, many years," says the source.
"And they know she loves both her parents."
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Posted 7/17/12 at 2:00pm ET
Tom Cruise
Reunites with
Suri
From TMZ: Tom Cruise has reunited with his daughter for the first time since Katie Holmes filed for divorce last month.
Tom wrapped his latest movie shoot and flew to New York City, where we're told he'll be spending several days with his 6-year-old daughter. This pic (link) shows Tom carrying Suri into The Greenwich Hotel.
Sources tell TMZ ... Tom will have no contact with Katie. Suri will be picked up and taken back with the help of intermediaries.
The picture (link) shows Tom's sister, Cass, bearing gifts as she enters the hotel.
We're told Tom is "sad but not bitter" about the way things have gone down. Nevertheless, it looks like there is radio silence between Tom and Katie.
Update: We're told Tom is taking Suri to Chelsea Piers later today for her gymnastics lesson. As for how Tom picked Suri up ... we're told he went to Katie's apartment, but he never saw his soon-to-be ex-wife. He was inside the apartment for less than 5 minutes.
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Posted 7/18/12 at 10:00am ET
Inside Tom Cruise's Private Pain
From PEOPLE: This was not how Tom Cruise expected his life to be.
The 50-year-old megastar, who was blindsided when his wife of five years, Katie Holmes, filed for divorce on June 28, "was thinking, 'What did I not see?' " a source who knows the former couple tells PEOPLE in this week's cover story.
Especially tough: His month-long separation from 6-year-old daughter Suri, which finally ended when the pair reunited on July 17 in New York City.
What took so long?
"He's wanted to see her as fast as possible since this started," a source, who cites Cruise's obligation to his sci-fi thriller "Oblivion" as the main obstacle. "He couldn't shut down production, cost people their jobs. People count on him."
In agreeing to a divorce settlement in a mere 11 days, "Tom tried his best to do what's right for Suri," according to his longtime friend and lawyer Bert Fields, who says the star is "sad" but not "bitter" about the situation.
Cruise has been leaning on his older children, Connor, 17, and Isabella, 19, his three sisters and his mother – all of whom share his Scientology religion. Several members of his family joined him for support as he filmed his final scenes for "Oblivion."
"Tom is not ashamed of his beliefs," says the source, who knows the former couple, "and won’t hide them from his daughter."
For much more on this story, including details on Tom's trusted inner circle, how he’s coping and Holmes's new life, pick up the new issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday
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Posted 7/18/12 at 2:30pm ET
Tom Cruise & Suri:
Sleepover at Daddy's
Place
From TMZ: Tom Cruise capped off his first day back with Suri
with a fancy sleepover at his swanky Manhattan hotel ... and now the
father-daughter duo is all set for another day of fun, excitement and
helicopters.
Tom just left The
Greenwich Hotel ... with Suri wrapped up in his arms. Seems Cruise is doing
everything in his power to make sure Suri feels comfortable:
Security blanket? Check.
Dolly? Check.
Stuffed animal?
Check.
We're told Tom rented
out 3 suites for himself and staff ... so they had all sorts of room to play and
hang out.
As for today ... Tom
and Suri just boarded a chopper ... and we're told the two have an action-packed
day ahead of them.
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Posted 7/18/12 at 2:30pm ET
Tom Cruise & Suri Take a Helicopter
Ride
From PEOPLE: Tom Cruise and Suri had some father-daughter bonding time for the second day in a row.
Following Tuesday's New York City outing, the newly single dad, 50, and his little one, 6, took a trip above the Big Apple on a Liberty helicopter.
Cruise carried his precious cargo during a sweltering hot day in N.Y.C. "They didn't look stressed," a source tells PEOPLE.
Even though Katie Holmes, 33, will have primary custody of the couple's daughter, Cruise "will have a meaningful relationship with Suri," says his lawyer, Bert Fields.
Cruise and Suri's destination was unknown, but the tot was seen peering through the helicopter's window.
"They seemed happy to me," says an observer.
For much more on this story, including details on Cruise's trusted inner circle, how he’s coping and Holmes's new life, pick up the new issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday
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Posted 7/18/12 at 8:00pm ET
Tom Cruise’s Kids, Connor & Isabella, Have Not Talked
To Katie Holmes Since Divorce — New Report
From HollywoodLife: It’s been less than three weeks since Katie filed for divorce, and in that time, there’s been no contact between Katie and the kids. Are you surprised?
Katie Holmes may have only had one child’s custody to worry about during her divorce from Tom Cruise, their six-year-old daughter Suri, but she was also a major presence in the lives of Tom’s other two children for the duration of their seven-year marriage. Now, a shocking new report indicates that Connor and Isabella Cruise have not spoken with Katie since the divorce.
According to a new story in Us Weekly, a source who knows the former couple says that Tom is concerned about the effect the divorce will have on Connor, 17, and Isabella, 19. “He thought of them all as a unit,” says the friend, who also noted that the kids hadn’t spoke to Katie during this time.
But the article counters with another source who says Katie should be focusing on Suri during this time. The source, who is said to be close to the situation, says that, though Katie bonded with her stepchildren, “during her entire time with Tom, it was never lost on anyone that [Connor and Isabella] do have a mother and her name is Nicole.”
While that may be true, this still must be incredibly tough on the two. Katie had been in their lives for seven years, during their formative teenage years. Regardless of who their mother is, they must be missing Katie terribly.
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Posted 7/18/12 at 8:00pm ET
Tom Cruise
Lashes Out at 'Abandoning Suri' Story
From CNN: Tom Cruise struck back at tabloid reports about his relationship with his 6-year-old daughter, Suri in the wake of his divorce from Katie Holmes.
"The tabloids are at it again, trying to make a buck by publishing more grotesquely false claims about Tom Cruise," the actor's attorney Bert Fields said Wednesday.
Fields singled out Life & Style Weekly, which he called "a sleazy magazine" for "a bogus cover headline that Suri has been 'ABANDONED BY HER DAD.'"
"That, as anyone knows who saw their photos together yesterday and today, is a disgusting, vicious lie," Fields said.
Cruise and Holmes announced a week ago that they "amicably settled" their divorce, just two weeks after Holmes filed for it.
"Until this week, Tom was shooting a film on location, but he spoke to Suri every day," Field said. "He's with Suri right now; and he was with her the day before Life & Style trumpeted their cruelly false accusation. Tom dearly loves Suri and the last thing he would ever do is abandon her."
Representatives of Life & Style did not immediately respond to a CNN request for comment.
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Posted 7/20/12 at 3:00pm ET
Tom Cruise Wants Suri's Life to Be 'As Normal As Possible,'
Says Source
From PEOPLE: Since Katie Holmes filed for divorce from Tom Cruise, their daughter Suri's world has changed.
But her father, who will get generous visitation with Suri who will live primarily with Holmes, is determined to minimize the disruption to the 6-year-old's life.
"He's going to try, despite all the attention, to have things be as normal as possible," a source tells PEOPLE.
Cruise, who had been filming the movie "Oblivion" in California, arrived in New York City on Tuesday. He was photographed carrying Suri into a Manhattan hotel and later taking her to a gymnastics lesson. The father-daughter pair were then seen taking off in a helicopter together on Wednesday.
Says the source: "It's going to be challenging" for Cruise who is suddenly a single dad.
"But he's going to have a meaningful relationship with her, as he always has," the source continues. "[Suri will] visit him on movie sets when she's not in school. He'll call her all the time."
For much more on this story, including details on Tom's trusted inner circle, how he’s coping and Holmes's new life, pick up the new issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands now
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Posted 7/20/12 at 3:00pm ET
Tom Cruise Takes Suri on Mini Beach
Vacation
From Us Weekly: Tom Cruise is making the most of his time
with Suri, his 6-year-old daughter with ex Katie Holmes.
On July 19, the 50-year-old
actor took his daughter to East Hampton, New York, for a "beach vacation," a
source tells Us Weekly. Cruise was first spotted
with Suri in New York City July 17, less than a week after he and Holmes, 33,
reached a divorce settlement.
The actor's father-daughter day in East Hampton didn't last long, however; they chartered a helicopter back to New York City mid-afternoon. Later that night, Holmes escorted Suri to her gymnastics class at Chelsea Piers.
A source recently confirmed to Us that Holmes, who is renting an apartment in New York City's Chelsea neighborhood, will retain primary custody of Suri. The reason Cruise hadn't seen his daughter until this week, according to his attorney, Bert Fields, is purely logistical.
"Tom was shooting a film on location, but he spoke to Suri every day," Fields told Page Six July 19. (Cruise's "Oblivion" was shot in Iceland and June Lake, Calif.) "Tom dearly loves Suri, and the last thing he would ever do is abandon her."
Indeed, a source tells Us the newly single star is doing everything possible to be involved in his daughter's life. "He adores Suri, but now he's afraid he won't be able to have a close relationship with her," the source said of his new post-divorce role.
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Posted 7/20/12 at 8:00pm ET
Tom Cruise Spends $6,200 on Round-Trip Helicopter Ride With
Suri
From Us Weekly: Money is no object!
Tom Cruise spared no expense in making the most of his precious time with daughter Suri, 6. Before returning her to his ex-wife Katie Holmes Thursday evening, Cruise took Suri on a mini father-daughter "beach vacation," a source tells Us Weekly.
The 50-year-old actor traveled to East Hampton, New York, from the Pier 6 Heliport in a chartered helicopter out of NYC. The trip costs $3,100 each way and can fit up to six people. The helicopter ride saved the star dad some travel time to maximize his short vacation with Suri.
Just in time for Holmes, 33, to take Suri to her gymnastics class at Chelsea Piers, Cruise flew back into NYC midafternoon. Sources recently confirmed to Us that Holmes will retain primary custody of Suri.
The "Mission: Impossible" actor reunited with Suri on July 17 in NYC after being away filming "Oblivion" in June Lake, Calif. "Tom was shooting a film on location, but he spoke to Suri every day," his attorney, Bert Fields, told Page Six. "Tom dearly loves Suri, and the last thing he would ever do is abandon her."
Holmes, who is renting an apartment in New York City's Chelsea neighborhood, kept herself busy in the Big Apple while Cruise spent time with Suri. On Thursday, the actress was announced as a new star of Theresa Rebeck's upcoming Broadway play, "Dead Accounts," opening at the Music Box Theatre this fall.
This will be Holmes' first project since finalizing her divorce and custody agreement with Cruise on July 9.
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Posted 7/22/12 at 1:00am ET
Tom Cruise looking for New York house to be close to
Suri
From New York Post: Tom Cruise may have been absent when Katie Holmes first dropped her divorce bombshell, as he was filming in Iceland — but now sources say the “Mission: Impossible” star intends to be spending a lot more time in New York to be near daughter Suri, and he’s shopping for a bachelor pad for himself.
“Tom’s looking for a new home here,” says a source. “He wants a fresh start. He doesn’t want to go back to the East Village apartment where he was living with Katie.”
But while Holmes has settled into a new pad in Chelsea, Cruise is eyeing houses outside the city, as well as high-end residences in town.
“He’s looking for something that’s very private,” a
source told us. “Where he won’t have to deal with going through a lobby, and
people outside all the time.”
“He also wants to have a nice amount of space for Suri,
with outdoor space. That could mean high-end luxury apartments, but he’s also
looking at houses outside of the city or in gated communities.”
Area brokers are buzzing with word that Cruise could be looking for a new mega-home. Holmes reportedly has primary custody of Suri, but the terms of the settlement are confidential.
Meanwhile, Cruise, who also has a sprawling Beverly Hills estate, is wary of going back to the space he and Holmes shared at the American Felt Building on East 13th Street.
A source pointed out that Cruise chose to stay in a hotel this week on his latest New York trip to see Suri. “Tom wasn’t staying in their old apartment, because that would have been strange,” says the source.
The source adds that Cruise wants to “be an active parent,” adding, “So, New York, get ready for a lot more of Tom.”
Besides enrolling Suri in school here, Holmes is becoming a further Big Apple fixture after her split from Cruise, signing on to star in the upcoming Broadway show “Dead Accounts” and showing in New York Fashion Week for the first time in September with the Holmes & Yang line.
Reps for Cruise declined to comment.
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Posted 7/31/12 at 10:00am ET
Tom Cruise continues search for new New York
home
From New York Post: Tom Cruise continues his stealth mission to find a mansion outside the city. After his dramatic split from Katie Holmes, the “Mission Impossible” star is seeking new digs that will be far from prying eyes, but close enough to daughter Suri’s Chelsea home with her mom. Cruise is eyeing an 11-acre estate in posh, under-the-radar Snedens Landing in Rockland County, the Post’s Jennifer Gould Keil reports. Spies say the staff at the home where Cruise recently looked was told to “vacate the premises quickly,” without prior notice, when the star dropped by to tour the property with Suri, 6, in tow. The waterfront estate, which boasts a 13,500-square-foot mansion, is not listed for sale. But it is estimated to be worth $13.5 million. Cruise would have his share of Hollywood neighbors in the exclusive enclave that plays home to Al Pacino, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Harvey Keitel and Aidan Quinn. Page Six exclusively reported earlier this month that Cruise had begun “looking at houses outside of the city or in gated communities.”
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Posted 7/31/12 at 5:00pm ET
Tom Cruise Takes Suri to Disney World
From PEOPLE: Mickey Mouse wasn't the biggest star at Walt Disney World.
Fresh off Tom Cruise's split from Katie Holmes, the actor took daughter, Suri, 6, to the Magic Kingdom on Monday.
Dressed in an Ariel costume, Suri held hands with Cruise, 50, as they strolled through park alongside his sister, Cass Mapother.
"Suri looked like she was in heaven," Marianne Cohen of Tampa, who was at the park with her grandkids, tells PEOPLE. "It was really cute. She was walking around like she owned the place, having the time of her life, and Tom, who looked really handsome was talking to her, was really engaging with her."
While the Cruise family enjoyed their day in Orlando, Fla., excited fans took to Twitter to share their star sightings.
"Perks of working at Disney….. I just said hello to Tom Cruise!" Allison Beckley shared.
Another Twitter user, @looker_a wrote, "Tom Cruise literally just walked by us at Disney world!"
"Tom Cruise at Walt Disney World at [the] same time I'm here... too bad I'm #TeamKatieHolmes," @jaybaybay1318 wrote.
The father-daughter duo stepped out just days after Holmes was spotted dining with her lawyer, Jonathan Wolfe, and his wife in New York.
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Posted 8/1/12 at 8:00pm ET
Tom Cruise & Suri Make a Splash at Disney Water
Park
From PEOPLE: Guess who lost his shirt at Disney World?
A very cool-looking Tom Cruise did at Disney's Blizzard Beach water park, during his visit to the Orlando kingdom this week with his 6-year-old Suri.
While Cruise's ex, Katie Holmes, was in New York after handing off their daughter to him, the actor, 50, frolicked around the theme park – with its high slide and lazy river – like a little kid, an observer tells PEOPLE. He was wearing flip-flops, a swimsuit and a T-shirt and cap that he eventually shed.
And while the park's staff was warned about taking photos of the superstar, the guests adhered to no such restrictions, as the Twitpics here happily document.
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Posted 8/7/12 at 5:00pm ET
Mimi Rogers on Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' Divorce: "I
Wish Them the Best"
From Us Weekly: Katie Holmes wasn't the first actress to be called Mrs. Tom Cruise.
From 1987-1990, Mimi Rogers was married to the "Risky Business" actor, 50; it was the actress' second marriage and Cruise's first.
At the premiere of "Hope Springs" in New York City August 6, Rogers opened up to Us Weekly about Cruise's recent split with his third wife, Katie Holmes, 33. "I wish them both the best. There's not much else to say. I really do, though," Rogers, 56, said. She then reiterated, "I wish them the best."
Rogers has been married to producer Chris Ciaffa since 2003; they are parents to Lucy (born in 1994) and Charles (born in 2001). "I think marriage is hard work no matter what," she said, referencing the central theme in "Hope Springs" (starring Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones). "I think it's about first and foremost being great friends."
Though Rogers isn't taking sides in her ex's latest divorce drama, a source recently told Us that Holmes consulted Cruise's second wife, Nicole Kidman, in the final days of her marriage.
Kidman, 45, "offered her support and help since she's been there," the source explained. "She has been a private friend not many people know about. She told Katie her life is great now and she has no regrets."
After filing for divorce from Cruise, Holmes was awarded primary physical custody of their daughter, Suri, 6. The mother-daughter duo currently resides in a $12,500-a-month apartment in New York City.
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Posted 8/8/12 at 11:00am ET
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes Still Talking for Suri's Sake:
Source
From PEOPLE: The end of their marriage came quickly but, so far, not bitterly for Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes.
As their daughter Suri, 6, spends time with each of them separately, the exes have worked out a "civilized routine," a source tells PEOPLE in the magazine's new issue, on newsstands Friday.
Cruise, 50, and Holmes, 33, "are talking," the source says. "They are both going to do what's best for Suri."
So far, that has included working out a smooth way to manage transitions for their little girl, who has spent her summer exploring New York City with her mom, who has primary custody, and taking trips to the Hamptons and Disney World with her dad.
But the vacation treats will soon be over: In September, Suri will start private school near her home in Manhattan.
Cruise and Holmes had previously opted to home-school their daughter because of the family's constant travel, but Holmes wanted Suri to enroll in school "to have that sort of stability and consistency in her life,” says another source – and Cruise is fine with her decision.
For much more on Cruise and Holmes's lives now – including whether the exes have seen each other, Holmes's outlook on dating again and how Suri is doing – pick up the new issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday
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Posted 8/10/12 at 12:30pm ET
Suri ‘Adjusting Well’ To Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes
Divorce
From RadarOnline: Suri Cruise has been spending time separately with her mother Katie Holmes and her father Tom Cruise, and RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned that despite being shuttled between both parents she is happy and well adjusted since their shocking split.
“Both Katie and Tom have really gone out of their way to make sure the transition between both households is as easy and normal as possible for Suri,” a source close to family told RadarOnline.com.
Katie has full primary custody of 6-year-old Suri, and the two have been living in New York City spending their days visiting museums and the zoo enjoying the summer before Suri starts school.
The youngest Cruise is also seeing her superstar dad frequently, hanging with him in New York, the Hamptons and on a luxurious vacation to Disney World.
“Tom and Katie aren’t fighting with each other because they haven’t seen each other and so Suri has been protected from any uncomfortable situations,” the source said. "And both have agreed to not say anything derogatory about the other."
Maybe one of the reasons the little girl is adjusting so well is that jetting off with her dad and spending time hanging out with her mom isn’t that different from Suri’s life before the divorce.
“Suri is used to her dad being away filming and not spending every single day with him,” the source said. “She loves the daddy daughter time they get together and loves the trips so this isn’t a new thing for her. She always spent time with him either on set or at home and even on vacation so she’s really adjusted well.”
And, while Katie has started giving Suri more rules and responsibilities, the source said she’s actually embracing the changes.
“Suri likes doing the little things that Katie asks her to do, she has fun and Katie isn’t making her feel like she’s being punished at all.”
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Posted 8/21/12 at 3:30pm ET
Court documents show Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes divorce case
is closed
From Associated Press: NEW YORK — The Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes divorce case is closed.
Court records filed in a New York City court indicate the case was closed Monday.
Holmes and Cruise said in July they had reached an agreement less than two weeks into their headline-dominating divorce case. Their lawyers and representatives wouldn’t disclose details.
The couple were married in Italy in 2006. They have a 6-year-old daughter, Suri.
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Posted 8/21/12 at 5:30pm ET
TomKat's divorce finalized
From New York Post: TomKat is now Tom and Katie once more.
A Manhattan judge has officially signed off on the Tom Cruise and Katie Homes divorce settlement, meaning both are officially single.
Holmes filed for divorce from her hubby of six years in June, catching the "Mission: Impossible" star by surprise. After two weeks of media reports about Holmes' issues with Cruise's Scientology fixation, they announced they'd settled their differences in early July.
The details apparently took a while to hammer out. The agreement - which includes provisions for raising their daughter Suri - was presented to Justice Matthew Cooper on Monday, and he signed off on the deal.
Neither Homes nor Cruise were present for the signing.
The terms of the agreement are confidential, and they'll stay that away - the judge ordered the already-sealed file impounded, meaning it'll be locked in a safe in the basement of 60 Centre Street.
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Posted 8/24/12 at 10:30am ET
TomKat Divorce Settlement Details
From TMZ: Katie Holmes walked away with nothing other than rather modest child support in her divorce from Tom Cruise ... and we at TMZ have the breakdown.
Sources familiar with documents filed with the court tell TMZ ... Katie got no lump sum payout, which is consistent with the prenup which essentially shuts her out of Tom's $250 million fortune.
As for spousal support .... Katie got zip.
Katie will get money for child support, but it's way less than a judge could have ordered. According to the settlement, Tom must pay Katie $400,000 a year in child support. That comes to $33,333.33 a month. The money will be paid by electronic transfer.
Tom must pay Suri's support for the next 12 years -- until she turns 18. All tolled, that comes to $4.8 million.
Tom must also pay Suri's expenses, including medical, dental, insurance, education, college and extracurricular costs.
And ... both Tom and Katie agree that Suri will NOT attend a "residential school" from now through her high school years. Translation -- she can't be shipped off to boarding school -- Scientology or otherwise.
Katie could have gotten more child support under New York law if the case went to trial, but both she and Tom decided to settle quickly.
We reported early on ... Katie said she wanted nothing from Tom other than a divorce -- well that's exactly what she got.
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Posted 8/27/12 at 11:00am ET
Katie Holmes Keeps 'Millions of Dollars Of Jewelry &
Accessories' Given To Her By Tom Cruise
From RadarOnline: Katie Holmes didn't get a huge payout from ex-husband Tom Cruise because of an ironclad prenup, but the Dawson's Creek star will be keeping "millions of dollars in jewelry, designer handbags and other gifts" given to her by the Mission Impossible star during the course of their marriage, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting.
"Tom was extremely generous to Katie with lavish gifts during their marriage and she will be keeping millions of dollars of jewelry, Hermes handbags and other luxurious items," a source tells Radar.
"Tom gave Katie diamond earrings as a birthday gift one year that easily cost over $500k and he had custom design pieces made for her. Under terms of the divorce, Katie is keeping all of the jewelry, handbags, accessories, and designer clothing. What she does with it is up to her. For the time being, the jewels are being kept in a very safe place and knowing Katie, it's likely she will one day give them to Suri once she is old enough.
"Katie was never with Tom for the money. When it came time for the divorce, she just wanted it to be done quickly and with as little disruption to Suri's life as possible. Suri has always been Katie's number one priority and concern. During the divorce settlement talks Katie just wanted to make sure that she and her daughter would be taken care of from a financial standpoint," the source added.
As we previously reported, Holmes will have primary custody of Suri, with Cruise having liberal visitation. The former couple married in 2006, with Holmes deciding to pull the plug on the marriage earlier this summer.
'Katie's handbag collection includes custom made Hermes Birkins that would make any fashionista swoon," the source reveals. "Katie has an oversize Birkin in a gorgeous shade of red. She also has several iconic Hermes Kelly handbags. Katie probably got at least ten Hermes handbags as gifts from Tom during the course of the marriage, ranging in price from 10k-50k, each! If Katie were ever to decide to auction the handbags off she would get top dollar because she was married to Tom Cruise when she got them. Katie's Hermes handbag collection definitely rivals her pal Victoria Beckham's."
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Posted 8/27/12 at 12:00pm ET
Katie Holmes Divorce Settlement From Tom Cruise: Suri Gets
'Sizable Trust Fund'
From RadarOnline: One of the main factors during divorce talks between Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise was the "Dawson Creek" actress' insistence on a sizable trust fund being set up for their daughter, Suri, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting.
"Katie wanted the trust fund put in place for Suri so that their daughter will be able to tap into after she turns eighteen years old," a source close to the situation tells RadarOnline.com exclusively. "Katie has absolutely no access to the money and didn't want to. She just wanted to ensure that Suri would have financial security as she becomes an adult. It's a sizable trust fund, but Suri won't be able to fully legally claim it until she is in her 30s. Tom had no problem with the request and planned on doing it for Suri anyway."
As we previously reported, Katie didn't get a huge payout from Tom because of an ironclad prenup, but the star will be keeping "millions of dollars in jewelry, designer handbags and other gifts" given to her by the "Mission: Impossible" star during the course of their marriage.
"Katie's handbag collection includes custom made Hermes Birkins that would make any fashionista swoon," the source previously told Radar. "Katie has an oversize Birkin in a gorgeous shade of red. She also has several iconic Hermes Kelly handbags. Katie probably got at least ten Hermes handbags as gifts from Tom during the course of the marriage, ranging in price from 10k-50k, each! If Katie were ever to decide to auction the handbags off she would get top dollar because she was married to Tom Cruise when she got them. Katie's Hermes handbag collection definitely rivals her pal Victoria Beckham's."
Holmes will have primary custody of Suri, with Cruise having liberal visitation. The former couple married in 2006, with Holmes deciding to pull the plug on the marriage earlier this summer.