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How Katie was cast to play Tom Cruise's wife
Lipstick on a Hillary:
http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/best_supporting_actress_REdKcnpi4xPjBFGO4Yjp4M/0
On Friday, TomKat jumped the couch. Katie Holmes filed for divorce from Tom Cruise after 5 1/2 years of marriage. Best-selling biographer Andrew Morton, author of "Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography" (St. Martins Press), explains why it was a true Hollywood romance -- because from the beginning, Holmes was playing a part.
When Tom Cruise turned 42, his best friend, controversial Scientology leader David Miscavige, threw a lavish birthday party, costing an estimated $300,000, on board the church’s cruise ship.
He flew in singers, dancers and even Tom’s favorite sushi chefs for the bash, where the actor was serenaded with the medley of songs from his box-office hits.
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Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes
“It’s the best birthday ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, and I mean ever,” he said, with typical understatement.
Tuesday, Tom’s 50th birthday, will lack some “evers.” He will be in his trailer in the wilds of Iceland, where he is filming the aptly named “Oblivion.” Instead of the expected cards and presents from Katie Holmes, she sent him a confetti of legal papers and correspondence marking the end of their five-year marriage.
PHOTOS: TOM CRUISE AND KATIE HOLMES
KATIE PLOTTED ESCAPE FOR WEEKS
At least one thing he knows he’ll get is a call from Miscavige, to congratulate and console. Wives may come and go. Scientology is forever.
Holmes’ bombshell, in the midst of his international publicity campaign for “Rock of Ages,” in which he stars as an aging singer, shows exquisite if cruel timing. Tom has admitted he was “blindsided” by her decision, just as Nicole Kidman, his second wife, was stunned when he abruptly decided to end their 10-year marriage even though she was pregnant.
As a leading member of a religion founded by science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, Cruise doesn’t believe in karma. But Katie’s carefully executed escape plan means that, deliberately or not, she is getting one back for the sisterhood.
When he and Kidman divorced, Cruise effectively gained custody of their adopted children, Connor and Isabella. This time, however, Cruise has no such guarantees.
Holmes, presumably with the advice of her lawyer father, Martin Holmes, is playing hardball. She has hired a legal pit bull, New York lawyer Allan E. Mayefsky, who has been involved in several vicious splits, including the divorce of model Christie Brinkley. She wants full custody of Suri, the 6-year-old daughter Cruise dotes on.
Suri’s future education — whether in the rituals of Scientology, like her step-brother and -sister, or a more conventional avenue — will be a critical concern...
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mountaineer:
Tommy and little David Miscavige should just tie the knot wherever it's legal, and get it over with.
mountaineer:
Katie's been plotting her escape from the clutches of the cult, it appears. Good for her.
--- Quote ---Don’t cry for Katie — this was all part of her plan.
Katie Holmes plotted divorcing Tom Cruise for weeks, even renting a secret Chelsea hideaway to escape with daughter Suri.
Two building sources and a resident told The Post they’ve spotted Holmes, 33, in a posh 19-story Seventh Avenue building, where rents range from $4,000 to $25,000 a month and celebs secure under-the-radar homes.
“I’ve seen her every day for three weeks. It’s been almost a month now,” said one building source.
Her new nest is just a few train stops from the couple’s West Village townhouse and East 13th Street apartment.
Holmes, 33, should feel at home here: The new apartment near West 25th Street is a refuge for other celebrity tenants, including Christina Ricci, who lived there many years. Lady Gaga recently tried to snag a pad there, sources said.
The “Dawson’s Creek” actress quietly filed divorce papers in New York on Thursday as Cruise, 49, was in Iceland filming the flick “Oblivion.” She’s requesting sole custody of the couple’s 6-year-old daughter.
Cruise, who was blind-sided by the split, is reportedly preparing for a bitter custody war and will try to move the proceedings to California, sources said.
Just two weeks earlier, the couple and Suri played the part of happy family, dining out in Reykjavik, Iceland and lavishing their daughter with attention.
But sources say that under the surface, the marriage was frosty. In fact, one Hollywood insider said the marriage and child was all part of a rumored $20 million contract.
“The deal was they’d have an ‘heir and a spare.’ But she’s walking away before they had a second child.”
The source said that Holmes was “smart enough” to receive a substantial amount of cash up front before marrying the “Mission: Impossible” star.
By marrying Cruise, the source added, “Katie thought that it would really help with her career. And that she’d be Nicole Kidman. But then she was locked down at home, just playing baby mama.”
Holmes certainly won’t be hurting for money: She’s reportedly set to gain $3 million for each year of their union.
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New York Post
mystery-ak:
WOW...I believe every word of it!!!...you can only look at Katie's appearance over the last several years, that tells the whole story imho
Lipstick on a Hillary:
--- Quote from: mountaineer on July 01, 2012, 05:09:47 pm ---Katie's been plotting her escape from the clutches of the cult, it appears. Good for her.
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Yup. The piece states she only had to give him 5 years, and she gave him 5 and a half.
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