The actress's lawyer describes the divorce as "a private and personal matter" The star of 'Dawson Grows' has requested exclusive custody of her daughter Suri.
After five years of marriage, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are divorcing (the celebrity news portal TMZ wrote this last word in capital letters in the coverage of this information, to accentuate the state of 'shock' in which they already presumed the man was in. public). According to a statement provided by the actress's lawyer last Friday, "this is a private and personal matter for Katie and her family."
According to TMZ, Holmes is the one who filed the divorce petition last Wednesday in a New York court, citing “irreconcilable differences,” and claiming sole custody of their six-year-old daughter, Suri. According to sources close to the couple cited by the digital site, his wife's request has been a total surprise for the protagonist of Born on July 4, who will turn 50 next Tuesday, the 3rd. Holmes is 33.
First marriage for her, third for him - after the failed ones with Mimi Rogers and Nicole Kidman, consecutive non-simultaneous, and with whom he adopted two children - the couple had a prenuptial agreement that will not cause many headaches when it comes to dividing the fortune of both, estimated at about 275 million dollars.
One day in February was the last time the couple was seen in public and together. The actress has not attended any of the premieres of the film Rock of Ages, where her still husband, they say, nails her role. The most recent snapshots of Cruise are from this week, in Iceland, where the protagonist of the different Mission Impossible installments is filming the film Oblivion. Of Holmes and little Suri, the paparazzi have images in New York throughout this week, which now may not happen in a good season.
Always through her lawyer, Jonathan Wolfe, Holmes has made it known that the first and last priority has “always” been the well-being of her daughter, which is why she asks the media to respect her at this time.
Crusie – a well-known member of the Church of Scientology, which is why the tabloids always have some tasty headline for him – and Holmes were married in November 2006 in a lavish ceremony in a castle in Italy. Cruise publicly declared his love for the young actress on the millionaire - in audience and dollars - Oprah Winfrey's show, jumping emphatically on the couch where he was being interviewed and creating a school of comedians who from time to time remember the feat. . Doing the math, the fairy tale in which they claimed to live has lasted exactly five years and seven months since the wedding, which took place on June 16.
