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Katie Holmes wasted no time in moving out of the NYC home she shared with Tom Cruise and has taken residence in posh downtown digs at the Chelsea Mercantile with Suri in tow.
Officially, she filed for divorce June 28 and media reports claim that she wants sole custody of their daughter. However, in a statement Thursday, her attorney said that Holmes does not want details of the case made public and is not seeking an emergency motion to grant child support and custody, as some reports stated.
Cruise, an avid supporter of Scientology, has not spoken to the media since Holmes announced her plans to divorce him. Bert Fields, Cruise's attorney explained his silence by saying, "We are letting 'the other side' play the media until they wear everyone out, and then we'll have something to say."
Rumors have swirled around the reason Holmes wants a divorce. One points to Scientology as a factor in her decision, purporting that she doesn't want Suri in the hands of an organization that many countries in the world regard as a cult, Germany and France among them.
Shortly after she revealed her plans to divorce Cruise, she fired her security team and publicist, all of whom had ties to Cruise, and hired five bodyguards to accompany Suri and her on their outings. The Tampa Bay Times, formerly known as the St. Petersburg Times, has published several articles about David Miscavige, the leader of the Church of Scientology and his alleged physical and emotional abuse of former aides. Check
www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/article1016927.ece for one such story.
Holmes is Cruise's third wife and was preceded by Nicole Kidman and Mimi Rogers. Oddly, divorce proceedings for all of them began at the age of 33. Ham on Wry makes no comment on that fact and leaves it to readers to seek additional information online if interested.
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