6:13 pm - 02/15/2013
Tom Cruise’s $50 million lawsuit against Bauer Media Group, the publisher of Life & Style is set to become really ugly — with the report that his daughter Suri is being dragged into the mess.
The Mission Impossible action star slapped a lawsuit on the tabloid in October after the magazine ran a story suggesting he had “abandoned” his daughter after his split from her mother Katie Holmes.
Now, as both sides gear up to go to battle they are demanding an ever-growing list of information from each other as part of the discovery process.
And the demands – if granted – could prove embarrassing for both the Hollywood star and the publisher.
In court papers filed on Thursday both parties outlined what each is seeking in discovery.
According to The Hollywood Reporter the attorney representing Bauer Media wants to know “the extent to which Cruise was in contact with Suri following his separation and divorce.”
The publisher also demands to know the role the actor’s membership in the Church of Scientology played in his decisions regarding visiting and communicating with the six-year-old.
Bauer’s attorney Alonzo Wickers also demands to know what Suri’s mental and emotional state was following her parents’ separation and divorce.
And he has also made it clear that he is determined to examine the actor’s history of filing lawsuits.
But Cruise’s lawyer told the Reporter: “Tom doesn’t go around suing people. He’s not a litigious guy…”
In return, Cruise’s legal team wants Life & Style to reveal its anonymous sources and all their communication with them.
They also want to know what Bauer’s policies and practices are with respect to obtaining information from sources, paying those contacts and verifying the credibility of the people who supply them with information.
The legal team for the devout Scientologist also wants to examine what they call Bauer’s history of “bigotry and hatred toward minority religious groups and their members.”
Bauer is fighting back, however, by trying to exert the right of journalists to protect their sources.
If the case goes to trial, it is estimated it could last five days.
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Tommi Girl's Lawsuit Gets Dirty. Attorneys Demand to Know Suri's 'Mental & Emotional State'
Tom Cruise’s $50 million lawsuit against Bauer Media Group, the publisher of Life & Style is set to become really ugly — with the report that his daughter Suri is being dragged into the mess.
The Mission Impossible action star slapped a lawsuit on the tabloid in October after the magazine ran a story suggesting he had “abandoned” his daughter after his split from her mother Katie Holmes.
Now, as both sides gear up to go to battle they are demanding an ever-growing list of information from each other as part of the discovery process.
And the demands – if granted – could prove embarrassing for both the Hollywood star and the publisher.
In court papers filed on Thursday both parties outlined what each is seeking in discovery.
According to The Hollywood Reporter the attorney representing Bauer Media wants to know “the extent to which Cruise was in contact with Suri following his separation and divorce.”
The publisher also demands to know the role the actor’s membership in the Church of Scientology played in his decisions regarding visiting and communicating with the six-year-old.
Bauer’s attorney Alonzo Wickers also demands to know what Suri’s mental and emotional state was following her parents’ separation and divorce.
And he has also made it clear that he is determined to examine the actor’s history of filing lawsuits.
But Cruise’s lawyer told the Reporter: “Tom doesn’t go around suing people. He’s not a litigious guy…”
In return, Cruise’s legal team wants Life & Style to reveal its anonymous sources and all their communication with them.
They also want to know what Bauer’s policies and practices are with respect to obtaining information from sources, paying those contacts and verifying the credibility of the people who supply them with information.
The legal team for the devout Scientologist also wants to examine what they call Bauer’s history of “bigotry and hatred toward minority religious groups and their members.”
Bauer is fighting back, however, by trying to exert the right of journalists to protect their sources.
If the case goes to trial, it is estimated it could last five days.
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Cruise is a lot of things, but I don't think he's a bad father.
I got custodial guardianship of my sisters when I was ALMOST 18. One was ALMOST 14, but it counted and held up in court. I got shit done without the backing of Scientology.
Don't mind me, I'm projecting.
You're right. Fuck Tom Cruise.
Which makes sense, given that she returned to Australia after the divorce, and I can imagine that being a very intimidating change for kids.
Also, all the insider Scientologist stories about their divorce say that Tom was pretty disconnected with the Church during his marriage to Nicole, and that he was very amicable in his split with her. But that Miscavige used this opportunity to get closer to Tom, and that is when he really got batshit into Scientology. And likewise it would make sense if the kids started getting batshit into Scientology, and distanced themselves from their mother on their own.
Don't get me wrong - as the parent, I blame him for putting his children in a cult. But I don't think it was quite as simple as him cutting Nicole off, otherwise I would expect her, as a loving mother, to have kiboshed it from the start. It's much harder to stop something that has crept up far more insidiously.
exactly
On the other hand, a trial is no place for a child
i feel bad enough for Suri and all other children of celebrities being exploited for tabloids and money like this
lolllllolllllol
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