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Tom Cruise hit sister magazines Life & Style and In Touch with a $50 million lawsuit on Wednesday over recent reports that the 50-year-old “Mission: Impossible” actor had virtually abandoned his 6-year-old daughter, Suri.
Cruise filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles over In Touch’s July 30th cover story (“Suri in Tears: Abandoned by Her Dad”) and In Touch’s Oct. 1 issue which rehashed similar allegations.
In the complaint, a copy of which was obtained by the Daily News, Cruise charges that “through his representatives, plaintiff has attempted to correct these fabrications by providing defendants with the true bacts before the lies went to press. But defendants have demonstrated that they have no interest in the truth, and will stop at nothing to push the sales of their tabloids, even if this means exploiting a defenseless six year old child on their cover.”
Both magazines, owned by Bauer Publishing, claimed Cruise had grown increasingly estranged from his daughter after his divorce from her mother, Katie Holmes, this summer.
“It’s been 44 days (at press time) since Tom Cruise has been photographed with his daughter Suri, last spotted together at Disney World on Aug. 4,” began the In Touch cover story.
“Tom doesn't go around suing people,” Bert Fields said in a statement. “He's not a litigious guy. But when these sleaze peddlers try to make money with disgusting lies about his relationship with his child, you bet he's going to sue."
"These serial defamers are foreign-owned companies with their global headquarters in Hamburg. They take money from unsuspecting Americans by selling their malicious garbage. Having to pay a libel judgment may slow them down.”
In addition to a $50 million judgment, Cruise is also asking for punitive damages for invasion of privacy.
“Tom will undoubtedly give the money to charity. He always has," added Fields.
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