Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes’ Marriage Was “Broken Irretrievably” 6 Months Before They Split

October 3, 2012 by Hollywoodite

Katie Holmes filed for divorce from Tom Cruise the same week as she did a bunch of promotional interviews telegraphing her feelings about her ailing marriage (she portended the split by talking about her independence then refused to mention Cruise by name).

Moreover, she wrote a script about a wife leaving her husband and taking their daughter and “threw” the script on Cruise’s desk as he proudly recounted to Playboy Magazine a few months beforehand while talking about supporting Holmes’ career. And she reportedly pulled off the “great escape” with the help of burner phones and her family, especially her lawyer father who Vanity Fair says prepared a prenup “filling five bankers’ boxes.”

According to divorce documents obtained by National Enquirer, though, the divorce may not have completely blindsided Cruise, as previously reported, since his marriage was dead six-months before they split for good.

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ marriage was irretrievably broken six months prior to [Holmes] filing for divorce, according to court papers exclusively obtained by the National Enquirer.

In the legal documents dated August 17, 2012 and signed by New York State Supreme Court Judge Matthew F. Cooper offers details of the divorce decree, including the specifics of the… couple’s custody agreement with 6-year-old daughter Suri have emerged.

The “marital relationship” had “broken down irretrievably for a period of at least six months immediately preceding,” the papers state.

Tom, 50, and Katie, 33, tied the knot in a lavish wedding in Italy in 2006. However, the legal documents say they officially married “in a civil ceremony” in Los Angeles on November 11, 2006. A prenuptial agreement was acknowledged and signed by Holmes months earlier.

In terms of child support, Tom was ordered to pay $400,000 a year to cover Suri’s “medical, dental, insurance, un-reimbursed medical and dental, education, college, extracurricular and camp expenses.”

The total payments, however, won’t eat into Tom’s estimated $250 million fortune. With experts calculating the expense will cost [Cruise] $4.8 million in total. He only has to pay child support for the next 12 years until Suri turns 18.

And in the highly unlikely event that Tom skips payment? He will be faced with a jail sentence “for a term not to exceed six months.” – via RadarOnline.