Katie Holmes & Tom Cruise Divorce: Updates, Conspiracy Theories
July 5, 2012 by Hollywoodite
There’s more shrapnel on the Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes divorce that is better addressed, separately, in bullets (completely skipping over misreporting like HollywoodLife.com insisting Holmes filed an “emergency custody” and “support hearing” that Holmes’ lawyer Jonathan Wolfe says is completely untrue).
* Holmes is/ was, probably, being followed by Scientology handlers says Karen De La Carriere, a former high-ranking Scientology executive who left in 2010: ”I have no doubt that she’s being tailed by them. It’s par for the course. But she had to have planned this very carefully, right down to using disposable cell phones and laptops to throw people off her trail. It had to have been a very cloak-and-dagger operation.”
* According to The Hollywood Reporter, part of Holmes cleaning house involved firing her own stepdaughter. THR reports: A former Scientologist with close ties to members of Cruise’s family says his adopted daughter… worked for Holmes at her clothing line, Holmes and Yang, and was abruptly fired about two months ago. ”There was never any trouble between them,” says a source. “Bella called Katie ‘Mom.’ She was fired out of the blue and once Katie filed for divorce, it all made sense. This was a carefully planned ambush. Katie didn’t want Bella working for her anymore because she was Tom’s kid.”
* Marty Rathbun, former number #2 in the Church of Scientology who worked directly under its current leader David Miscavige, has been singing to everyone from The Village Voice to RadarOnline.com. Rathbun tells THR he witnessed the church poisoning Cruise’s kids with Nicole Kidman against their mother. Tommy Davis, head of the church’s Celebrity Centre and the son of Fatal Attraction actress Anne Archer, was allegedly the main culprit. ”Tommy told them over and over again their mother was a sociopath and after a while they believed him,” Rathbun says. “They had daily sessions with Tommy. I was there. I saw it.”
* And Kidman was completely lost with little support in 2001, turning to an anti-Scientology activist while going through her divorce: “Nicole reached out to us because there was really no one else to go to,” a source tells THR. “It was very different back then and she didn’t have anyone to go to for help and answers.” But Holmes is more fortunate, says De La Carriere, “This was a very bold move on Katie’s part, but at the same time she knows these are different times and she has more support.”
* There’s a theory that Holmes has been given underwhelming movie and television roles as part of a contrived Hollywood plot to quell the rise of Scientologists in film. A source tells Celebuzz.com: “She wants to win Oscars but instead has been getting fluff roles. There’s a good reason why her husband has never won an Oscar. He was brilliant in Born on the Fourth of July and should have won. He was also denied for Jerry Maguire and Magnolia. Look at another Scientologist, John Travolta. He seemed like a shoo-in for Pulp Fiction but was also denied.”
* Lastly, the Celebuzz source conjectures what will happen after the divorce is done: “She’s terrified that Tom or the Church of Scientology will do something to take Suri away from her. After her divorce is final, she wants to move overseas for a while. She wants to keep Suri away from all the chaos and put her in a top British school. She wants to disappear the same way Nicole Kidman did. It’s the only way she will keep her sanity, and keep Scientology goons away from her. Tom is the world’s most powerful and most famous Scientologist. Katie prepared for months her ultimate escape from both parties. She’s no fool. She knows how powerful and monolithic the people she’s dealing with can be. She certainly didn’t act on a whim. She gave a lot of time and thought to prepare for this.”