Katie Holmes’ “Escape” From Tom Cruise: How Did She Do It?

July 5, 2012 by Hollywoodite

This is the week of Tom Cruise’s 50th birthday too, July 3. The date came and went without much fanfare. He had planned to work on his current movie in production, Oblivion, in Iceland this week, although he finished a few days early and returned to Los Angeles where shooting will resume.

While still in Iceland, says an Us Weekly source, Cruise hoped to fix his marriage: “He begged her to come to Iceland for one last try at reconciliation… he was confident he could talk her out of it and keep her with him.”

He failed, so he called off the 50th birthday party he’d planned for himself and returned to L.A. “sombre” and “very, very sad” according to People.com sources. Katie Holmes had already planned her escape, literally.

This is better in context, so here’s People’s version of the escape plan.

“She was talking to Tom on the phone up until last week saying, ‘I love you,’ ” a source tells People Magazine.

“Her inner circle has been planning this and switching out cell phones since she was in China [in mid-June],” adds the source. “When new cell phones arrived, then nobody could reach her. Her old best friends [as of] last week don’t have her new number, no email. She’s unreachable.”

Holmes, 33, also rented her new apartment in New York City in early June.

“[Tom] knew that she moved there, but [he thought it was] for different reasons,” says the source.

“She said she moved there to drive into the underground garage. There are fewer paparazzi and it’s less intrusive for her,” says the source. “It was the first phase of getting everything out of the house, and that’s why she was able to say she’s moving without giving an indication that she was going to divorce him.”

Then, last week, her father, Martin Holmes, arrived in New York and helped his daughter clean house, firing many of the people around her shortly before Holmes filed for divorce anonymously in NYC. – via People Magazine.