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Diana Author Claims Tom Cruise #2 Scientologist

by mpress | January 6, 2008 at 10:43 am

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Andrew Morton had better watch his a**. Messing with the
Scientologists can be expensive and scary. And anyway who cares what
religion Tom Cruise is affiliated with. As far as we are concerned he
could worship pine nuts, as long as he makes a good movie, great. And
if he can convince other celebs to worship pine nuts then good for him.
Let’s hear it for pine nut worshipers.

Tom Cruise has become the de-facto second in command of the Church of Scientology, according to a new biography - which makes an extraordinary attack on the star by comparing his 20-month-old daughter Suri to the Devil’s child in the film Rosemary’s Baby.

Andrew Morton’s unauthorised biography claims Scientology has taken over the 45-year-old actor’s life, with its officials selecting many of the staff at his Hollywood mansion.

The biographer of Princess Diana alleges Cruise is consulted by Scientology leader David Miscavige on “every aspect of planning and policy” and is tailoring his career to fit the aims of Scientology.

Miscavige is said in the book to have gone to extraordinary lengths to charm Cruise, even ordering his staff to plant a field full of wild flowers at a Scientology base in California after Cruise had told him of his fantasy to run through a wildflower meadow with his then newlywed wife Nicole Kidman.

The relationship between the two men is so close that, according to Morton’s book, Miscavige even joined him on honeymoon in the Maldives after his wedding to Katie Holmes in 2006.

Cruise denies each of the claims vehemently, and Scientology lawyers are believed to be drawing up a lawsuit seeking £50million in compensation from Morton’s publishers, St Martin’s Press.

Cruise’s lawyer and close confidante Bert Fields gave a rare interview to The Mail on Sunday to pour scorn on Morton’s book, titled Tom Cruise: An Unauthorised Biography.

He criticised a passage in which Morton claims some “fanatical” Scientologists believed Suri Cruise was actually the result of a sperm donation by Scientology’s dead founder, L. Ron Hubbard.

Morton writes that Ms Holmes may feel she was in “the horror movie Rosemary’s Baby, in which an unsuspecting young woman is impregnated with the Devil’s child”.

Mr Fields said: “It’s not being published in England. The American publishers criticised the libel laws in Britain because they require an author to tell the truth. Well, thank God for the British libel laws.”

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Jordan Yerman

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at 12:49 on January 6th, 2008

If word gets out that Cruise is a Basilist, then Hollywood will be turned on its head... (reminds me, actually, of an episode of the short-lived-but-really-cool Milennium, in which Lance Henriksen and a pre-Lost Terry O'Quinn have to deal with a blatantly Scientology-like cult during one of their supernatural investigations.

Boston

at 20:26 on January 19th, 2008

"Well, thank God for the British libel laws.” I only believe that Suri is one very cute kid, and along with her brother and sister should be left alone by Morton and any of his troll buddies. I hope the Cruise's do take this guy to court so that others will think twice before spitting such venom.

Also remember Morton was not the biographer of Princess Diana but the Unauthorized biographer where he uncaringly and viciously made up stories about the mother of (at the time) teenage boys who had just lost their mother.