Tom and Katie reach divorce settlement

[Kristinmo]

That was fast

www.people.com/people/article/0,,20610394,00.html


Less than two weeks after Katie Holmes filed for divorce, the actress and Tom Cruise have reached a settlement.

Holmes's attorney Jonathan Wolfe confirmed the deal in a statement to PEOPLE:

"The case has been settled and the agreement has been signed. We are thrilled for Katie and her family and are excited to watch as she embarks on the next chapter of her life.

"This result could not have been achieved without the hard work of my partner Gary Skoloff and our co-counsel Allan Mayefsky, Michael Mosberg and Larry Trachtenberg of Aronson Mayefsky and Sloan and Peter Walzer and Chris Melcher of Walzer & Melcher inCalifornia.

"We thank Tom’s counsel for their professionalism and diligence that helped bring about this speedy resolution."

There was no immediate word on the details, but Holmes and Cruise said in a separate statement they focused on protecting daughter Suri, 6.

"We are committed to working together as parents to accomplish what is in our daughter Suri's best interests. We want to keep matters affecting our family private and express our respect for each other's commitment to each of our respective beliefs and support each other's roles as parents," says the statement from Holmes and Cruise's reps, Nanci Ryder and Amanda Lundberg respectively.

Sources close to both sides say that Cruise, 50, and Holmes, 33, were working on an arrangement in which Suri lives in New York with her mother and her father is given generous visitation rights.

Sources say Holmes's decision to file for divorce in June blindsided Cruise.

She and Suri recently moved into a new 3-bedroom apartment in New York City, where the pair have been spotted out while Cruise was at home in Los Angeles with his teenage kids, Connor, 17, and Bella, 19.

[Michelle]

She has something good on him... damn I'm curious about what it is. I bet she has it sealed up nicely so if she does end up mysteriously dead it will come out.

[heightsyankee]

Scientology wanted a quick and easy ending to that. I bet after the recent press, they told Tommy to just give her what she wants. However, if we remember the articles about Tom and Nik, theirs was a quick and 50/50 divorce, too.

[dev22]

Jul 9, 2012 12:04:16 GMT -5 Michelle said:

She has something good on him... damn I'm curious about what it is. I bet she has it sealed up nicely so if she does end up mysteriously dead it will come out.

This was my first thought. She either has something major on him or was threatening with a Scientology tell-all. No way he just gives up this quick otherwise.

[dev22]

Jul 9, 2012 12:07:46 GMT -5 @mrdobalina said:

Jul 9, 2012 12:05:56 GMT -5 dev22 said:

This was my first thought. She either has something major on him or was threatening with a Scientology tell-all. No way he just gives up this quick otherwise.

I think he rolled now and in a few months or years she'll disappear like all those other scientologists.... but my hat is of tinfoil.

Also possible.

[mcgee]

She's definitely got something on him. I hope she stays safe, for Suri's sake.

[casmgn]

I don't think she can just disappear - the way she played this backed Scientology into a corner. If anything happens to her, now or in two years, everyone is going to immediately accuse Scientology.

[IIOY]

I'm disappointed. I really was hoping that Scientology would be dragged kicking and screaming into the sunlight. Suri's best interests WHATEVER.

[Deleted]

I think this means there won't be a tell all book and I so want one.

[brookles]

Jul 9, 2012 12:33:42 GMT -5 IIOY said:

I'm disappointed. I really was hoping that Scientology would be dragged kicking and screaming into the sunlight. Suri's best interests WHATEVER.

Bah. This is ending entirely too neatly. There's gotta still be more drama to come in the future. It can't just fizzle out!

[basilosaurus]

Jul 9, 2012 12:33:42 GMT -5 IIOY said:

I'm disappointed. I really was hoping that Scientology would be dragged kicking and screaming into the sunlight. Suri's best interests WHATEVER.

This is exactly how I feel. I want a scientology trial, dammit!

[dev22]

Jul 9, 2012 13:37:33 GMT -5 brookles said:

Jul 9, 2012 12:33:42 GMT -5 IIOY said:

I'm disappointed. I really was hoping that Scientology would be dragged kicking and screaming into the sunlight. Suri's best interests WHATEVER.

Bah. This is ending entirely too neatly. There's gotta still be more drama to come in the future. It can't just fizzle out!

I have a feeling there will be. Especially if Tom thinks he is going to be able to turn Suri against Katie like he did with his other kids and Nicole Kidman.

Or maybe Katie actually scared the shit out of him and this will be it.

[Deleted]

btw: DH texted me this breaking news earlier this morning which I find amusing

[Deleted]

Actually, I don't think the dirt she has involves him being gay. I think it's fullstop about the church and their dealings.

Do I think Tom Cruise is straight, newp, not at all. But everything I've read about him suggests this is generally a very intense guy who writes a script for himself and then follows it to the letter. He has decided that he is a macho family man who races motorcycles adores his wife, and does his own stunts and thus, that is who he will be until he rewrites the script.

He isn't John Travolta.

[Deleted]

Jul 9, 2012 13:54:10 GMT -5 @mrdobalina said:

I don't get the gay vibe. I get Napolean complex

I think Patrick Swayze said this but it might have been another actor. I remember an interview with one of the dudes in the Outsiders, I think or maybe it was Taps who said that no matter what they were doing, Cruise had to be the biggest and best at it and that he would practice for hours even when everyone else had moved on to something else until he got it right.

Tom Cruise literally could not just enjoy something and joke around. Everything was part of his act.

[pinkeggs]

On the other hand, if all the contract rumors are true, it's not surprising that it was fast. She fulfilled her 5 years, everyone wraps up the paperwork and ta-da.

[ringstrue]

i shouldn't read these anymore yall make me scared for Katie's life!

[Deleted]

If it was the mere matter of ending a contract, why all the cloak and dagger?

Also, I wonder if perhaps her leverage involves what she knows about other scientologists? Rumor has it Will and Jada have secrets to keep and they aren't the only ones.

[casmgn]

Jul 9, 2012 14:20:16 GMT -5 @habbsies said:

If it was the mere matter of ending a contract, why all the cloak and dagger?

I think as far as their marriage, it was the mere ending of a contract. Custody of Suri was the only real issue being negotiated now I believe.

[dev22]

Jul 9, 2012 14:26:28 GMT -5 casmgn said:

Jul 9, 2012 14:20:16 GMT -5 @habbsies said:

If it was the mere matter of ending a contract, why all the cloak and dagger?

I think as far as their marriage, it was the mere ending of a contract. Custody of Suri was the only real issue being negotiated now I believe.

I was all on the contract train until I read all the covert ops she did to prepare to file. If it was ending a contract, I don't think she would have fired Tom's daughter, for instance. But I do believe the biggest factor for her was custody of Suri.

[Deleted]

Jul 9, 2012 14:34:21 GMT -5 dev22 said:

Jul 9, 2012 14:26:28 GMT -5 casmgn said:

I think as far as their marriage, it was the mere ending of a contract. Custody of Suri was the only real issue being negotiated now I believe.

I was all on the contract train until I read all the covert ops she did to prepare to file. If it was ending a contract, I don't think she would have fired Tom's daughter, for instance. But I do believe the biggest factor for her was custody of Suri.

I still don't think I believe the contract thing - she was just smitten with 'Tom cruise' the celeb and got in over her head.

But the work to prepare to file for divorce - she was definitely thinking of suri.

[GailGoldie]

It worked for her to say that it would be public - that was her way of getting him to settle quickly and easily... he does NOT want all his shit to come out in public.