Tom Cruise hired a notorious private investigator who secretly wiretapped his ex-wife Nicole Kidman during their 2001 divorce, according to a lawsuit filed in a Los Angeles court.
As the Top Gun star prepares for a legal battle with his third wife Katie Holmes, who filed for divorce on June 28, Celebuzz
has obtained court documents that detail sensational claims about how
the actor handled his shock split from Kidman in Feb. 2001, after she
miscarried their baby.
Cruise, 50, conspired with former private eye-to-the-stars Anthony Pellicano
to spy on Kidman, 45, according to a $5 million lawsuit filed by a
tabloid magazine editor who once tried to “out” Cruise as gay.
Michael Davis Sapir first tangled with Cruise in June 2001 when the actor sued him for defamation over the attempted “outing” in his Bold magazine. He had offered a $500,000 award for videotape evidence that Cruise was homosexual.
Now — 11 years after that case was settled — Sapir is pursuing a
civil lawsuit in which he alleged Cruise maintained a “long-standing
business relationship” with Pellicano, who is now serving 15 years in
prison for tapping the phones of Hollywood’s rich and famous.
“In or about the mid 1990s,” Sapir claimed in paperwork filed with
the L.A. County Superior Court, “Cruise visited Pellicano’s office for
the purpose of listening to wiretaps.”
He alleged: “During the time Cruise was about to divorce Nicole
Kidman, Pellicano recorded conversations of Kidman and Cruise. Pellicano
discussed with at least one of his employees the substance of those
recorded conversations.”
Cruise, according to Sapir, had a “pattern and practice of hiring
Pellicano, either directly or indirectly, for the express purpose of
conducting wiretaps.”
He claimed Pellicano taped conversations between him and his attorney to gain an advantage for Cruise in the slander litigation.
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