"We understand that the media has now confirmed that the 'suspicious' men outside of Katie Holmes’ residence were actually working for Katie Holmes (see, e.g. She married Terry Jastrow in 1979. I was there. "Bella called Katie ‘Mom.’ She was fired out of the blue, and once Katie filed for divorce, it all made sense. Sitemap | It means Rupert isn’t scared of them and their reputation for litigiousness. Nearly 40 years later, Scientology has arrived in Hollywood in a big way. They understood Scientology, and they knew how to take care of business. All rights reserved. | Do Not Sell My Personal Information The rumor claims that Davis is perhaps the father of Katie Holmes' child. But that’s how it is now.". They cannot be believed given they have acquired no firsthand knowledge of the Church for many years and have a record of making false and/or misleading statements about the Church. "By filing for sole custody of Suri, she’s making it very clear she’s not going to let what happened with Nicole Kidman happen to her," says De La Carriere. It would be a circus they couldn’t survive.". One reason for their concern might have been that it is a common Scientology practice to order members to cut off or "disconnect" from family members who disapprove of the church. It is good news theoretically for Holmes, who might be more successful holding on to Suri after her divorce than Kidman was with her two adopted children if she wins the press over to her side and is able to force some transparency in her divorce negotiations with Cruise. South, who coped with health issues in recent years, was given a memorial service at her local Church of Scientology this weekend. His stepfather is an Emmy-award winning actor and producer, Terry Jastrow. In a 2014 interview with The Guardian, Archer states that … A number of former Scientology members say Holmes must know that as Suri gets older, the church might start exerting more of an influence on her. After Tom Cruise’s divorce from Nicole Kidman, Scientology went all out to find its superstar a suitable mate. Archer's stepfather was the Los Angeles banker and philanthropist, Harry Volk. Together, Rathbun and Rinder were considered the second- and third-most powerful church officials under Miscavige and took care of troublesome legal and media issues, among them Cruise’s divorce from Kidman. “I was always interested in theater, but I never did anything with it,” she told Rolling Stone in 1986. Enter Tommy Davis, who is the son of actress Anne Archer, and also the one time handler of Tom Cruise and his then wife Katie Holmes. Bijou is married to Danny Masterson and the two frequently go to Scientology events together. The close mother-son relationship continued as he became a box-office star. The couple married on December Christmas Eve 1990 in Telluride, Colorado and had adopted two children a daughter, Isabella Jane born in 1992 and a son, Connor Anthony born on 1995. “He loved my mother so much that he took us all in, all four young people,” Cruise later recalled. Many defectors, most of whom remain loyal to Hubbard’s legacy and teachings, have accused Miscavige -- variously in the press, in books and, in the case of Headley, in a lawsuit filed in 2009 -- of being violent, of abusing adult and child labor laws at the Hemet base camp and of focusing too much on fund-raising. South, 80, died peacefully in her sleep last week. She is going to stir up a media frenzy, and a lot of people are going to find out what a lot of us have known for years. Dana Kennedy After Cruise married Holmes, they went on honeymoon with the leader of the church, David Miscavige. “He had it in him then.” But Cruise’s love of sports took precedence as he grew up. She and husband, Emmy-winning producer Terry Jastrow, practice the religion, while her son Tommy Davis is the Church of Scientology's former spokesperson and executive leader. They’ve reported every detail of Tom’s life to Miscavige for 15 years. According to the Daily Herald, Marisol battled with substance use disorder at a young age and credits the … And they really de-emphasize the family. He defended Tom Cruise for the actor's leaked Scientology video back in 2008. Davis is the son of real estate investor William Davis and film actress and Scientologist Anne Archer. ", Adds Headley: "Scientologists don’t know the world has changed. His well-read, no-holds-barred blog also contains detailed comments by many of them, a number of whom state their names. From Tom Cruise to stars of "Mad Men" and "Orange Is The New Black." latest Inside Edition report)," he wrote. One anti-Scientology activist who has worked with church members after they left the organization recalls that Kidman called him during her divorce from Cruise. "Tom’s personal staff including his sisters are much more afraid of Miscavige than they are of Tom. Cruise was filming Oblivion in Iceland but flew back to the U.S. on Tuesday, his 50th birthday. EMAIL ME, Tom Cruise Katie Holmes Kennedy's Horizontal - H 2012. Rathbun says he witnessed Tommy Davis, head of the church’s Celebrity Centre and the son of actress Anne Archer, feeding Isabella and Connor Cruise false … He Was the Chief Spokesperson for the Church of Scientology. Scobee also knew Cruise well and hired his household staff (who were Scientologists) when he was married to Kidman. A number of them are now actively working against Miscavige and Cruise by spilling church secrets to the very reporters they once threatened. “I guess I was his greatest audience,” she said. Scientology can hire all the lawyers they want now, but they won’t hold a candle to Marty and Mike. I would consider any re-publication of alleged information from these sources to be made in reckless disregard of the truth.". "I feel bad because I put them there -- they were born in the Sea Org," says Rinder. When Cruise asked her and her second husband if he could be an actor, “We both wholeheartedly agreed,” she told Rolling Stone. If you would like to opt out of browser push notifications, please refer to the following instructions specific to your device and browser: Tom Cruise’s Mother, Mary Lee South, Dies. ... Actress Anne Archer. "There was never any trouble between them," says the source. "There is nothing unusual here.". When Cruise asked her and her second husband if he could be an actor, “We both wholeheartedly agreed,” she told Rolling Stone. She knows he’s locked down up in Iceland shooting his movie and he can’t fly back to the U.S. to handle this.". The two were married in November 2006. Says Rinder: "What Katie is doing is going to drive a wedge in a door that Scientology was trying to keep closed. TWITTER ", Soter compared the religious training of children to the practice in Catholicism of beginning to receive Holy Communion at age 7. Ortega, for example, writes about Scientology at least once a week and broke the news last week that Miscavige’s father, Ron, and a niece of Hubbard escaped from the Sea Org base camp in Hemet sometime this spring after decades with the church. In a statement regarding the defectors who spoke on the record to THR, Gary Soter, a Calabasas, Calif.-based attorney representing the organization, said: "All of these people are ex-communicated self-promoters who are sadly exploiting a private family matter for their own personal financial gain. She told Vanity Fair in 2002 that she was so upset by Cruise dumping her that she lay "crying in the fetal position on the floor" at one point. by "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," says De La Carriere, who joined the church’s elite and secretive Sea Organization in the early 1970s at the invitation of Hubbard, who died in 1986, and is the last surviving top "auditor" to be trained by him. In response to previous reports in The Hollywood Reporter that cited Scobee’s accounts of her experiences, the church attacked her credibility, saying she was dismissed from the church for gross malfeasance. (Auditing is a form of counseling central to Scientology philosophy.). Holmes has hired Allan Mayefsky, a high-powered matrimonial lawyer with experience handling difficult divorces who is known to play cases out in the media, as well as New Jersey divorce lawyer Jonathan Wolfe. Tom Cruise recorded a surprise message to Women's Image Awards 18 Humanitarian Honoree, Anne Archer. Tommy told me he was physically assaulted by Tom (“I deserved it”) who followed in the footsteps of his mentor Dave. If you’re out, the way she seems to be, they want to cut you off from everyone, including your kids.". “When I was growing up, if you went to Hollywood, that was really risqué.”. You know Anne Archer– she was nominated for an Oscar for “Fatal Attraction” as the cheated on wife. In filing for divorce from Tom Cruise -- and apparently blindsiding him -- amid indications she doesn’t want her daughter raised a Scientologist and is seeking sole custody, Katie Holmes has made it clear that she is taking a very different tack from Nicole Kidman, who split up with Cruise in 2001. Get push notifications with news, features and more. Coyote Ugly Turns 20: Where Is the Cast Now? "Tommy told them over and over again their mother was a sociopath, and after a while they believed him," Rathbun says. Cruise’s best man, according to wire reports, was Scientology chief David Miscavige. "If Tom’s smart, he won’t fight her on anything, even custody. ... Bijou is married to Danny Masterson and the two frequently go to Scientology events together. | California Privacy Rights r43, when Connor was born in the 16 or 17 years ago, Tom would NOT have been able to tell the public that Connor was his biological son. Introducing ... PEOPLE's Products Worth the Hype. Rogers married Tom Cruise in the late 1980s, giving rise to Hollywood’s biggest Scientologist. She got married to Taron Lexton, the son of Marry Shuttleworth, who founded the Scientology front group Youth for Human Rights. Two former Scientologists who say they have a connection to both a member of the Holmes family and people still inside the church claim that Holmes’ family has been wary of Scientology from the start. "They don’t have the resources or the people to help them attack the way they used to because so many key people have blown," says Amy Scobee, whose mother signed her over to Scientology when she was 15 and who went on to run the church’s Celebrity Centres before leaving in 2005 because she did not like Miscavige. Rathbun says Cruise was a "total gentleman" during his divorce from Kidman, and they split everything 50-50, including custody of their adopted daughter Isabella and son Connor. Rathbun says he witnessed Tommy Davis, head of the church’s Celebrity Centre and the son of actress Anne Archer, feeding Isabella and Connor Cruise false information about their mother so as to turn them against her. I have never spoken with Isabella or Connor about their mother and never would as it is none of my business.". Katie was always being watched. ... Actress Anne Archer. A former Scientologist with close ties to members of Cruise's family says his adopted daughter Isabella worked for Holmes at her clothing line, Holmes and Yang, and was abruptly fired about two months ago. In April 2006, Holmes gave birth to a daughter, Suri, and in November of that year, she and Cruise married. Cruise helped with money from a paper route. THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER is a registered trademark of The Hollywood Reporter, LLC. 2. When THR cited Rathbun’s experience with Scientology in a previous article, the church also attacked his credibility, focusing partly on alleged personal transgressions. Privacy Policy | Engineer Creates App To Translate Your Cat, Find out what your cat is trying to tell you with a new cat app, The Sweetest Photos of Princes Harry with Diana, Princess Diana died when Harry was just 12 years old, Sean Connery's Cause of Death Revealed Weeks After He Dies at Age 90. But despite the enormous amount of negative reports online about Scientology -- whether written by ex-members, church opponents or investigative journalists such as Lawrence Wright of The New Yorker, Tony Ortega of The Village Voice or the staff at The Tampa Bay Times -- none of it has really seemed to stick to the church, Rinder says. ", Scobee says that the impending divorce -- Cruise’s third -- will be an embarrassment to Scientology. Jessica Feshbach and Tommy Davis were married for almost eight years. Rinder says his biggest regret about leaving is that his son, daughter, mother, sister, sister-in-law, brother-in-law and several nieces and nephews refuse to speak to him. Kidman effectively lost the two children she adopted with Cruise when the kids chose to live with their father after the divorce. "Nicole reached out to us because there was really no one else to go to," the source says. The exclusive, shocking story of … "It’s supposed to help people with their marriages, not get divorced three times.". "Hubbard always said, 'Attack, don’t defend.' FACEBOOK She knows how to play Tom, and she’s been doing it brilliantly. De La Carriere says Holmes may be legitimately scared for her daughter because she claims Scientology deliberately turned the two adopted children of Cruise and Kidman against Kidman during and after the divorce. Still, Holmes’ decision to file for divorce from Cruise in New York state and ask for sole legal custody and primary physical custody of their 6-year-old daughter, Suri, sent a strong message, ex-members say, that she isn’t cowed by Cruise and his reputation as a prominent member of what has long been considered a powerful and litigious organization. “Because we both felt it was a God-given talent … So to make a long story short, we gave him our blessing — and the rest is history.”. Cruise issued a statement saying he was "deeply saddened.". His longtime lawyer Bert Fields did not respond to requests for comment, but it has been reported that Cruise has hired Dennis Wasser to represent him in the divorce -- the same attorney who represented him in the split from Kidman. She's married to cinematographer Taron Lexton, the son of Mary Shuttleworth, who founded the Scientology front group Youth For Human Rights. "Katie ambushed Tom Cruise and in so doing outwitted some of the most controlling people on Earth," says Karen De La Carriere, who was once one of the most powerful executives in Scientology and was married to Heber Jentzsch, Scientology's longtime president who mysteriously hasn't been seen in years. He has a half-brother, Jeffrey Tucker Jastrow. "They’ve been in it their whole lives. Davis, 44, is the son of "Fatal Attraction" actress Anne Archer and real estate bigwig William Davis, and has boasted about being a Tinseltown rich kid and having bottomless pockets. This is a private matter, and it is inappropriate for comment. Fox News' Geraldo Rivera followed the boss’ tweet with one of his own on Monday, asking, "Does Scientology have special program to provide cover for closeted gay superstars? Tommy was subservient to “Mr. The family lived in Syracuse, New York, where Cruise was born, and Ottawa, Canada. "That’s why Katie is making custody such an issue in the divorce petition. The people Miscavige needs to help him with the Tom and Katie mess are now on the outside working against them.". ", Holmes has not commented yet on why she decided to file for divorce from Cruise, but the actor's camp has indicated it was Holmes’ decision. She returned to the United States, and worked a series of jobs to keep her family out of poverty. "The church is supposed to be about people improving their lives," she says. ... Bijou is married to Danny Masterson and the two frequently go to Scientology events together. "My experience in growing up in Scientology is that it is both mentally and at times physically abusive," Jenna said. This was a carefully planned ambush. Hundreds of people including high-level leaders have left -- or tried to leave -- the Church of Scientology, especially in the past six to seven years, as dissatisfaction with Miscavige has intensified. Rathbun, Rinder, De La Carriere, Scobee and Headley told THR they are still sometimes confronted, threatened or followed by people sent by the church years after having left Scientology. She dated Cruise a couple of times but then asked Scientology spokesman Tommy Davis, the son of actress Anne Archer, if she was being deliberately “set up.” Holmes has the advantage of going up against an organization that has been significantly weakened during the past decade, as an increasing number of high-level Scientologists such as Marty Rathbun and Mike Rinder have defected. The Church has respected and will continue to respect the privacy of both parties during this difficult period.". Married for 8 years. Terms of Use | Text us for exclusive photos and videos, royal news, and way more. After Holmes left Cruise, and took their daughter Suri with her, Davis and his wife disappeared for two years. Old friends: James Packer in 2005 aboard Arctic P with Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes (right) and Tommy Davis (shirtless, far left). He even massaged his mother’s sore feet after she came home from long days at work. Unfortunately, on 5 February 2001, the pair announced their separation and the marriage was dissolved in August of the year, due to irreconcilable differences. "With Katie, it's like she’s taking a leaf from [Church of Scientology founder]  L. Ron Hubbard's own playbook," says Marc Headley, an ex-Scientologist who fled the church with the help of police in 2005 after years spent working closely with Cruise and his close friend, Scientology's powerful and feared chairman, David Miscavige. “Murdoch basically telling all his own reporters that it’s open season on Scientology. We got a lousy education from unqualified teachers, forced labor, long hours, forced confessions, being held in rooms, not to mention the mental anguish of trying to figure out all of the conflicting information they force upon you as a young child. After the play, Cruise surprised his mother by asking if he could have 10 years to give show business a try. After a knee injury sidelined her son’s varsity wrestling career, Mary Lee encouraged him to try out for a high school production of Guys and Dolls. "It was very different back then, and she didn’t have anyone to go to for help and answers.". Soter sent the following statement attributed to Davis: "Marty Rathbun never witnessed conversations between me and Isabella and Connor Cruise about their mother because no such conversations ever occurred. Connor is a minor and Bella is only 19.". Mary Lee South, 80, died peacefully in her sleep last week, say sources. 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