Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes Are Divorcing After Five Years
28th June 2012
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Looks like the fairy tale is over: People is reporting that ‘Rock of Ages‘ star Tom Cruise, 49, and his wife
of five years, actress Katie Holmes, 33, are calling it quits. Though Cruise stated recently in an
interview with Playboy magazine that he’s “so happy” with his three children and “extraordinary” wife,
it apparently wasn’t the case with Holmes as the decision behind the split is seemingly hers. TMZ
reports that she officially filed Thursday for divorce, citing “irreconcilable differences.” “This is a
personal and private matter for Katie and her family,” said her attorney. “Katie’s primary concern
remains, as it always has been, her daughter’s best interest.” Speaking of which, TMZ also states that
Holmes is asking for full custody of Suri, as well as a “suitable amount” of child support from Cruise
and a division of property. A representative of Cruise announced recently, “Kate has filed for divorce
and Tom is deeply saddened and is concentrating on his three children. Please allow them their
privacy.” The pair married in an Italian castle in November 2006 after a whirlwind courtship (that
included Cruise famously jumping on Oprah’s couch in glee). Suri was born five months prior. This was
Holmes’ first marriage and Cruise’s third — he was previously wed to actresses Mimi Rogers and Nicole
Kidman.
Katie Holmes files for divorce from Tom Cruise after five years of
marriage... and she's 'seeking sole custody of Suri'
Mission Impossible star 'deeply saddened' by wife's decision to end marriage
Actor had 'not seen' the divorce coming
Couple led separate lives in recent months, with Katie refusing to join him on Rock of Ages
promotional tour
Tom's lewd W magazine cover left her 'speechless' with disgust
Pair, who are worth around $275 million, are understood to have a pre-nup
29 June 2012
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Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have sensationally revealed they are divorcing after five years of
marriage. The Hollywood superstar, 49, said he was ‘deeply saddened’ that his younger wife, 33, had
filed for a separation. He revealed the former Dawson's Creek actress had initiated the split, bringing a
dramatic end to one of Hollywood's most high-profile romances. In a surprise move, Miss Holmes is
understood to have filed for sole custody of the couple's daughter Suri, six.
Split: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are divorcing after five years together
'This is a personal and private matter for Katie and her family,' Holmes's lawyer Jonathan Wolfe said in
a statement to People magazine. 'Katie's primary concern remains, as it always has been, her
daughter's best interest.' A spokesperson for Cruise, who is currently in Iceland filming his new sci-fi
movie Oblivion, said: 'Kate has filed for divorce and Tom is deeply saddened and is concentrating on
his three children.' The actress filed documents in New York this week citing 'irreconcilable differences'.
Separate lives: Katie and her daughter Suri were spotted in New York yesterday
She has asked for legal custody, primary residential custody and a 'suitable amount' of child support
from her husband, TMZ reports. Miss Holmes is also asking for a division of property in the divorce
documents, although there is a significant pre-nuptial agreement that is based on California law. The
couple are worth around $275 million - much of that owing to Tom's box office success. The terms of
the pre-nup are understood to be clear - for each year the couple stay married, the Dawson's Creek
actress collects $3million - to a maximum of $33 million after 11 years - as well as their palatial home
in California. If their marriage had lasted more than 11 years, Holmes would have received half of
Cruises’s reportedly $250 million fortune. After filing for divorce less than six years later, according to
the agreement, Katie should only be entitled to $15 million as well as the couple's $35 million Beverly
Hills Mansion. But with an estate worth upwards of $275 million, Katie is expected to seek much more
and there is already intense speculation as to how much she will collect when the papers are signed.
Cruise is believed to have 'not seen' the divorce coming. But sources insist that she did tell her
husband of five-and-a-half years that she was filing for divorce – but she didn’t give him a chance to
control the spread of the news, as he did with Nicole Kidman. The fact that she issued a solo statement
speaks of some heat around the final extinguishing of the marriage. The pair have not been seen
together in public for almost three months - they were last pictured on April 5 while in Baton Rouge,
Louisiana. Miss Holmes failed to turn up to at any of the worldwide premieres of her husband’s latest
film Rock of Ages, despite Cruise’s constant protestations of love for his wife. The final arguments
seem to have been over where Cruise was going to spend his 50th birthday on Tuesday. He told her
that he was planning to be on the set of his latest film Oblivion, in Iceland, and that seems to have
been the last straw. The statuesque brunette had frequently been pictured looking drawn and
exhausted during her marriage. One Hollywood source said she had been ‘utterly miserable with Tom
for months, if not years’.
Apart: Katie, seen here with Suri on June 26, did not join Tom, pictured right on June 8, as he
promoted Rock of Ages
Indeed, the row over his birthday followed another bust-up over what Miss Holmes felt were
embarrassingly bad taste pictures of him on the cover of W magazine last month. He was dressed – or
rather undressed – as the rock star Stacee Jaxx, the character he plays in Rock of Ages. Two halfdressed blondes were wrapped around him, one licking his face. Miss Holmes, a nice girl from Ohio
who is nevertheless very aware of why Cruise feels the need to play the macho card in public, was
apparently ‘speechless’ with disgust and felt the pictures laid both of them open to ridicule.
Carrying the load: Katie has been left looking after Suri on her own this month - pictured here on June
14, June 19 and June 22
The marriage has been in such poor shape that for the past year they have led almost entirely separate
lives. Miss Holmes has chosen to stay with Suri in Cruise’s New York apartment while he has travelled
the world working. The little girl has been her constant and only companion. They are often out
together until late, and Miss Holmes – who gave up all the threads of her old life to become Mrs Tom
Cruise – seems to have no other friends at all. A shopping and sundries budget reputed to run at
$125,000-a- month (£80,000) could only keep her amused for so long. One Hollywood source said
today: ‘It was an open secret that she was utterly miserable with Tom, and had been for months if not
years. They really couldn’t drag out the pretence any longer.’ Another source added: ‘Katie spent her
time avoiding him, and they rowed terribly.’ When Cruise was filming Rock of Ages in Miami, Miss
Holmes came along with Suri and they made a family holiday of it. But since then they have spent no
more than a handful of nights under the same roof. Miss Holmes, who used to have a poster of Cruise
on her bedroom wall, found that being married to an intense, workaholic, and deeply religious
megastar was no picnic. In pictures of her going about her daily business she looked completely worn
out. Her brown hair was prematurely grey, she never wore make up. One shapeless cardigan was
succeeded by another baggy jumper.
No sign of trouble: The couple smiled and held hands in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in one of the last
pictures of them together
Cover boy: Tom's pose on W magazine is said to have infuriated Katie
Those close to her said that she felt he wasn’t putting any effort into her or the marriage. Her once
promising film career – she had been the love interest in Batman Begins – had been stifled. Roles
evaporated. She ended up trying to find work as a fashion designer, endorsing the line Holmes and
Yang. The bigger picture is that this is the end of the third of Cruise’s marriages and a spectacular
failure of his strategy to relaunch himself as a ‘regular guy’. And if the union was supposed to cease
gossip about Cruise and his personal life, in particular rumours of his homosexuality – always denied –
it failed utterly. The couple’s 2006 Italian wedding was choreographed like a massive movie premiere,
with more bodyguards than guests and the ultimate goal seemingly the fantastically romantic images
which were released to the media of the A list star and his pretty bride. This came in the wake of the
president of Paramount Sumner Redstone complaining that women found the actor ‘creepy.’
Dream wedding: The pair married in an Italian castle in 2006
When the romance began – Katie had met Tom to discuss the possibility of appearing in Mission
Impossible III – she was immediately sent on an intensive and lengthy study course about Scientology,
the religion founded by sci-fi author L Ron Hubbard in 1954, which holds that humans are descended
from an exiled race of aliens called Thetans. She was ‘audited’ by Scientology counsellors, and unlike
Penelope Cruz and Nicole Kidman before her, has totally embraced the movement. Cruise proposed on
June 17, 2005 on the top of the Eiffel Tower following a famously embarrassing declaration of his love
on Oprah Winfrey’s show, where he jumped up on the couch yelling ‘I’m in love, I’m in love, I can’t be
cool, I can’t be laid back.’ Despite earlier reports that there would be a Roman Catholic ceremony of
some sort – Katie was born a Catholic – it was a Scientology wedding. What’s more it was conducted
by David Miscavige, Tom Cruise’s best friend who is the head of the movement.
Crazy in love: Tom, giddy over his budding relationship with Katie, famously jumped on Oprah
Winfrey's couch in 2005
Suri's first shoot: The couple presented their daughter to the world on the cover of Vanity Fair in 2006,
five months after her birth