Cruise Files Another $100 Million Lawsuit
L O S A N G E L E S, June 5 -- Tom Cruise filed a $100 million defamation lawsuit Monday against a Los Angeles man who allegedly offered to sell nonexistent videotapes of the actor having sex with another man to U.S. news organizations.
Cruise said in the suit that the man, identified as MichaelDavis, sent e-mails to at least a dozen news organizationsoffering tapes of the Mission: Impossible star having sex witha man during his marriage to actress Nicole Kidman. The 38-year-old Cruise, considered one of Hollywood's mostbankable actors, filed for divorce from Kidman, star of MoulinRouge and his wife of 10 years, in February.
Personal and Professional Harm?
"The false and defamatory assertions transmitted by Daviswere of the sort calculated to cause plaintiff harm bothpersonally and professionally," Cruise said in the three-pagelawsuit, which seeks $100 million in damages. Cruise said in the lawsuit that such claims by Davis were"unequivocally false" since he has never had a homosexualrelationship and no such tape exists. In May, Cruise filed a $100 million lawsuit against KyleBradford, a self-described "erotic wrestler," charging that heclaimed to be Cruise's gay lover in an interview with a Frenchmagazine.
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