Article - Tom Cruise attorney threatens National Enquirer with lawsuit

[RBMM]

July 12, 2012

"(Reuters) - Tom Cruise's attorney has threatened the parent company of the National Enquirer with a multimillion-dollar lawsuit over a new issue asserting it has details of the actor's recent split with wife Katie Holmes, according to The Hollywood Reporter."

http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/0...8IC1BJ20120712

[looker]

Inquiring minds want to know.... How much for what when and where. and whos with who and why and why not. And whats on Second?

[OperatingSP]

Hollywood Reporter: Tom Cruise Lawyer Threatens National Enquirer Over 'House of Horrors' Cover (Exclusive)

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr...horrors-348151

Bert Fields Letter: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/sites/default/files/custom/Documents/Cruise 7.11.12 L-American Media, Inc..pdf

Excerpt from article:

Tom Cruise's lawyer is threatening to sue the National Enquirer over a cover story that claims the actor is a "monster" who "abused" wife Katie Holmes and subjected daughter Suri to a five-month stay in a "tiny, windowless room."

In a blistering letter sent July 11 by longtime Cruise attorney Bert Fields to Enquirer publisher American Media, a copy of which was obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, Fields claims the tabloid's most recent cover story is "disgraceful and lurid" and will cause the actor "hundreds of millions of dollars of professional and personal damages, for which we intend to hold American Media, and everyone who participated in the perpetuation of this scurrilous attack, jointly and severally liable."

[Auditor's Toad]

Merely a matter of time until some things TC really wanted to never get out become spread all over the public media - and that will be a fine day for X's.

Hide and watch. It'll be wonderful !

[anonomog]

They must be smoking the bath salts over there.

That kid gets photographed all the time. A break of 5 months would be noticed. When she was born there was a lot of muttering about no pictures/sightings of her for some weeks, if I remember rightly, until pictures were released. She is a celeb in her own right.


Embellished or twisted truth is one thing, and par for the course in gossip rags, but this is just too much.

He should sue.

[Purple Rain]

They must be smoking the bath salts over there.

That kid gets photographed all the time. A break of 5 months would be noticed. When she was born there was a lot of muttering about no pictures/sightings of her for some weeks, if I remember rightly, until pictures were released. She is a celeb in her own right.


Embellished or twisted truth is one thing, and par for the course in gossip rags, but this is just too much.

He should sue.

Agreed - obvious lies that were completely uncalled for. I would sue too.

[elwood]

Agreed - obvious lies that were completely uncalled for. I would sue too.

I've gotta go with Bert and Tommy on this one. Looks like the NE done stepped in it.

[Lulu Belle]

Though I agree that this is bullshit and defamatory...let us not forget that TC belongs to the religion which produces, among other things, refligiousfreedomwatch.org and Freedom Magazine.

The Karma keeps on coming.

[Lulu Belle]

Well, this is interesting. This may explain why The Enquirer did this.


http://www.theimproper.com/43207/tom...tabloid-report


While Cruise may be outraged by what the magazine printed, a lawsuit would be directly counter to the privacy he sought in his divorce. The publication would have virtual free rein to discover evidence to support its article, which could become public at trial.

Under U.S. libel law, Cruise would have to prove that the publication knew the allegations were false and reckless but printed them anyway as an act of malice.

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Fields asked the publication to retract the allegations, and threated to “call the Court’s attention to your long record of printing and publishing malicious lies about celebrities in order to enrich yourselves at their expense.”

But Cruise has also been known for some bizarre behavior, and all of that would be fair game in a trial.



It may be worth it to the publication to get sued because what would come up in the trial would be more fodder for the press. The Enquirer would come out winning no matter what the outcome was.

Boy, Cruise is certainly having a bad couple of weeks.

[NoName]

Yup. Google "Curtis v. Butts" or "NY Times v. Sullivan" or "Public figure and libel".

TC has an uphill battle, and if he wants all his dirty laundry to be aired, this is the way to do it.