People Magazine Cover: Why Did Katie Holmes Leave Tom Cruise?
July 2, 2012 by Hollywoodite
As expected, this week’s important tabloid covers (the ones with the highest circulations) have been released early. This is pretty much par for the course with a scandal of this magnitude that has the potential to scale exponentially, run for years, and get really, really nasty. It’s the groundwork for all their subsequent covers, so they start small. In this case, People Magazine starts with the basic question “Why Katie Left Tom” and then reaches for the answer, as have all the tabloids over the weekend although no one outside TMZ.com and The Village Voice’s Runnin’ Scared blog have offered any real insight (RadarOnline.com has, apparently, been full of inaccuracies while stretching the truth for page views).
People is one of the magazines that rushed to compile a cover, a photo retrospective (we can presume), and source conjecture about what happened within the marriage. The cover says: “People Special Report: Why Katie Left Tom. Her dad’s secret plan. Parents ‘wanted old Katie back’; Tom ‘did not see this coming’; Scientology’s role in the split. The fight over Suri.” The only inset story is Adele’s pregnancy (there would usually be a sidebar).
The cover seems accurate, if outdated for anyone who read those details online already. And, for what it’s worth, the subheading about her parents is probably 100% accurate, if today’s reports from a formerly high-ranking defector are to be believed (they are). Tom Cruise’s former personal auditor, Marty Rathbun, who will not reveal what was said during sessions, was also his legal affairs adviser. Rathbun ranked number two in the church after decades of service directly under leader David Miscavage (whose father defected recently as did founder L. Ron Hubbard’s granddaughter).
Rathbun told The Village Voice that Cruise should let his estranged wife have everything she wants, in order to expedite the divorce, because Cruise nor the church can get away with the things they did in 2001 when he blindsided a pregnant Nicole Kidman (it’s debated whether either party knew she was pregnant at the time, as suggested in her divorce documents, and she later miscarried). Rathbun says, in short, “I think he’d be an idiot not to let her be the primary caretaker, as long as he gets visitation right.”
Rathbun also told RadarOnline the same, admitting Holmes’ family were supportive and kept abreast of her indoctrination: “I did audit sessions with Tom Cruise from 2001-2004, and I can tell you that I have a friend that has been providing Katie Holmes’ family information for years about the iron grip the Church of Scientology has on Tom Cruise’s family and professional life. This has been going on for at least four years.”
As one of Hollywood’s most powerful stars, Tom Cruise is accustomed to being in control. But when his wife of five years, actress Katie Holmes, filed for divorce in New York on June 28, the actor, who has been filming the sci-fi thriller Oblivion in Iceland, was caught completely off guard.
“He had no idea this was coming,” a source tells People in this week’s cover story. “He’s totally devastated and heartbroken.”
In reportedly moving for sole custody of their 6-year-old daughter Suri, Holmes has signaled she will not be backing down.
The actress did have some important help in her corner: A source tells People that her Toledo, Ohio-based lawyer father, Martin, came to New York to aid in quickly orchestrating her decisive exit. But the final decision was all hers. “She’s a strong person and makes up her own mind,” says a source in her circle. And in the choice to end her marriage, “She’s unwavering.” – via People Magazine.
IMAGE CREDIT – PEOPLE MAGAZINE
