Tom Cruise is selling off his property. That’s according to sources who spoke to Variety. Earlier this year he listed a compound in the Hollywood Hills, thought to be occupied by one of his sisters, for $13 million, which was dropped to $12 million. Late last year he put his Telluride mansion up for sale for $59 million and then last month he put his giant mansion in Beverly Hills up for sale for $50 million. Maybe he’s just trying to streamline and stop bleeding money in real estate, or maybe he’s become estranged from various family members and no longer wants them living on his properties. Whatever is going on, US Weekly is reporting that he’s moving to Florida to be closer to Scientology headquarters in Clearwater. John Travolta lives down there and is said to have convinced Tom to make the move.
Us Weekly claimed to know why the 53-year-old silver screen veteran is packing his bags.
‘Tom hates living in LA and is relocating to Florida,’ a source said. ‘He thinks all the people in Hollywood are fake.’The insider added that the Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation star also wants to be closer to the Scientology headquarters in Clearwater, Florida.
And it was fellow Scientologist John Travolta who got the Top Gun star interested in the state, the publication alleged.
‘John loves life there,’ said a source. ‘He inspired Tom.’
The insider also said that Cruise is ‘ready to go.’
If this is true, I want to know if Scientology leader David Miscavige is the one who convinced Tom to move as some sort of “circling the wagons” strategy. It’s like the only way things could get worse for Scientology at this point is if they had more high profile defectors and Cruise and Travolta are on the top of the list. Cruise also gets “free” slave labor from Scientology and if he moved to Florida he could pretty much get whatever he wants done on his estate without looking at a single bill. Of course he’s a huge contributor to the cult and he might be selling off his properties to further support Scientology. His net worth is said to be $470 million and he’s still cashing in on the Mission Impossible series and Jack Reacher so he can’t be hurting at all. No he’s just establishing that he’s going to remain in Scientology for the forseeable future. Until Xenu comes to free the chosen ones of their thetans. Or something. I think you have to be fully brainwashed to get it.
In related news, The Daily Mail has photos of Tom’s daughter Isabella’s wedding. Apparently it was a mix of Scientology and Christian rituals and neither Tom nor Nicole was there.
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It seems bizarre that someone can be so brainwashed and then even in the face of mass public disapproval, still fail to snap out of it. Is he just dumb?
I don’t think he’s dumb, but of average intelligence. He isn’t aware of public disapproval because he lives in a bubble. Its a shame really. I think he has deep psych issues that have been taken advantage of by the cult. I’m sure his ego is very frail and he relies on the cult to keep him going and make him feel good about himself. I don’t think he will ever leave/escape. If he didn’t question it after he lost Suri, he never will.
YES, he is!
He’s aware. Note how he has banned questions about Xenu after that brief period when he wouldn’t shut up about it.
The articles about the wife auditioning also noted he was jealous of the attention Brad and Angelina got when they got together. He was supposed to be Hollywood’s ultimate fantasy dream man. It’s all about public attention and perception for him. Tiny is deeply, pathologically insecure and desperate, that is clear. No surprise he’s easily manipulated.
Maybe his hands are too dirty to get out. We’ve heard about victimization… I don’t think he’s a victim. I think he’s one of the guilty elite
Exactly. The COS do audits with members to gather private information. The only way I see Tom getting out is to:
1) Man up and leave
Or
2) fake his death.
3) Both he and John Travolta fake their death to live on an exotic deserted Island in the south pacific.
I like number three.
Good point.
I wouldn’t call him brainwashed, he is rumoured to be second in charge to Misscabbage himself. His eyes are wide open.
I was going to say the same thing. He’s so far gone that he thinks he’s actually a savior. He’s been convinced that he’s special.
Seriously??? If he’s the second in command, wow. Just, man.
Yes this is not a man with his eyes shut.
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His name appears on the credits for a movie and automatically it goes on the list of movies to avoid, just like those with Meryl Streep in them. However, is he finally acknowledging that he and Travolta are lovers and he’s moving there to be closer to his future husband?
If last week you’d told me that Meryl Streep was going to be lumped in with the Tom Cruises and Woody Allens of the world I would’ve thought you were crazy.
Where is his mother? I was reading yesterday about her and Toms’s treatment of his stepfather who helped him launch his career. What a selfish pr$@k Tommy is.
I think she is hidden away. If I recall she has dementia???
Moving closer to John Travolta? Are they dating now?
The step dad died and they weren’t there for the funeral. The mother was living with the dad for years until she relocated with the other Cruise girls to LA during the Katie years. All of a sudden she was everywhere. Prior to that she was a church elder at some christian church. So yup tommy made her convert.
He looks like he is wearing someone else’s hair in those pictures.
LOL!!!
and the Joker’s suit.
seriously, shiny purple? WTF?
LOL – so he’s taking other suggestions from Travolta too!
Yes, his hair has a mind of its own. He must share a barber with Trump.
“He thinks all the people in Hollywood are fake” They are probably more real than that cult you belong to.
And it only took him 30-plus years to come to this conclusion.
Translation: Hollywood doesn’t embrace me the way it once did, has moved on to younger men, doesn’t through awards or prestige pics at me, and my fragile ego can’t take it. Also my youngest daughter lives a here now and I don’t want to accidentally run into her.
good job…you should work for the UN!
LoL
Nailed it.
And the irony of Tom Cruise thinking someone else is fake!
not the brightest bulb on the porch, but he sure is SHINY!
Definitely a few roos loose in the top paddock. (I stole that from a commenter the other day, but I just love the expression and it applies so aptly to this diminutive loon.)
Are he and Travolta close at all? I don’t think I’ve ever even seen a picture of them together, or heard one of them mention the other.
It’s always seemed like Cruise is insulated even within the celebrity Scientology bubble. Like he’s close with Miscavige and a few of the other top guys, but no one else. If he goes to a Scientology event, it’s to speak or be honoured, he doesn’t actually seem to socialise with other scientologists.
That’s what I was thinking! I didn’t even think Tom and John were very friendly!
Yes, theres definitely something off there. I think there was an early rivalry back in the 80s when Tom Cruise signed on and proceded to be annointed the Face all while Travoltas career slowly collapsed.
No state income tax in Florida. Betcha that’s another key reason.
You might be on to something. I thought there were tax breaks for the wealthy in Florida.
There is no state income tax here so sports teams can offer giant contracts to entice players (re: Suh of the Dolphins)
Exactly. That’s what I thought as well.
There is something weirdly attractive about Tom Cruise. When he did that lip synch thing on Jimmy Fallon he was really hot – I think it’s the way he moves.
I totally agree! I saw When he lip sync “I can’t feel my face when I’m with you” and I was oddly mesmerized.
hey yeah I saw that too and agree — he certainly can be sexy, which I attribute to his high level of confidence. It’s that confidence that COS has imbued in him, so why would he ever stop? Dude is in deep and obviously (so it appears) is a true believer. Sadly, he loves that Xenu Kool-aid. Top Gun Forever.
No way. He is not sexy, ever. And the way he has to have a topless shot in EVERY film just makes him extra creepy. I think the scariest thing about him is how he comes across intelligent in interviews and speaks eloquently on certain topics but then is the biggest S’gist in the history of the world. Some poster down there said “Only Xenu knows what’s going on behind the curtains.” So true about Tommy. Also, anyone who’s predisposed to being fanatical can have limitless confidence. It’s easier for them.
I just watched it and you’re right! He’s still super sexy… he’s very charismatic.
That is SO funny. I watched that and thought the SAME THING when he did the lip sync. I thought DANG! What was that?! It made me feel weird. I’m so glad y’all said that. I feel sorry and for him. I think aging in Hollywood must be extra hard for him. 🙁
….and he’s a fruit loop for COS.
It helps that his lip synch was rehearsed and choreographed.
This. Ask him to be relaxed and off the cuff, like on Graham Norton, and you see that he has no personality and no ability to connect with people. It’s like that eighties movie about the mannequin that comes alive.* He’s only charismatic when he has a rehearsed role to play.
*so there is the movie Mannequin but I am apparently thinking of A Mom For Christmas, ha!
I remember how Heather Locklear said in an interview that she used to date him. They went to a club and he started pulling his Risky Business dance moves on the floor. She said she sorta danced away after that. Haha. Yes everything is rehearsed with Tommy.
Cosign.
He doesn’t look like the same boy I fell in love with in The Outsiders (bad teeth and all), but he still can pull off sexyguy.
I agree, too.
The COS is crazy sh!t but Tom’s public persona is very charismatic and he’s still a handsome guy (with great hair.)
That is an extremely shiny suit. That’s all I’ve got.
Right? It’s gleaming. Where are my sunglasses? 😎
and so much fabric, with the vest and the tie. he looks like a snake oil salesman.
+1. A lot of money to look that cheap.
Xenu spun the fabric out of Thetan hairs.
I read yesterday in a comment in The Daily Mail( I know but stick with me here) that the tax rates in Florida are more favourable and would save him a lot in this move, does anyone know if thats true, (Irish woman here who knows nothing about US tax law/rates, much like Jon Snow)
Edit: Just saw MinnFinn’s comment, thank you and damn my slow typing.
Yes, state income tax going from 13.1% in CA to 0 in FL is slightly more favorable.
Love yr name, Zapp. I have lots of family in the Cork region.
Noooooo! We already have too many brainwashed out-of-touch millionaires here. Stay in LA!!
So sorry. You do not deserve this.
Poor Florida. I remember when the scariest thing about visiting your fair state was the threat of alligators, pastel leisure suits, elderly drivers and lawn ornaments. Have courage!
@belle de jour, thank you. That’s the ⭐️best⭐️ comment ever, you have saved my week 😄 👏👏👏
Cult trying to isolate him more? Someday he will just vanish like his mother.
Interesting thought.
He is very, VERY dumb. He was unable to read and was “functionally illiterate” in school, which he now attributes to dyslexia. I read somewhere that “Tom does not read,” which I find horrifying. The site that talked about his teeth and his brain said his father was “mildly retarded” and TC might have a genetic condition that can cause retardation. (The pieces certainly fit, but nobody knows.)
I watched the video again – the one where is is wearing a black turtleneck and laughs really inappropriately – and you can tell he has no thoughts of his own. He is the PERFECT Scientology robot. He is very simpleminded, so they tell him what to think. He is literally incapable of seeing what garbage it all is.
Incidentally TC is completely unapologetic about sending people off to their boot camp (where it is said they made someone clean the bathroom floor with his tongue). He says repeatedly you’re either “in or you’re out,” and if you’re out he wants nothing to do with you. I’m sure he can’t handle questions or other points of view.
At this point he is supposed to be telepathic and able to move things with his mind. I wonder if it occurs to him that he isn’t, and can’t?
dyslexia ≠ dumb… hoping you didn’t mean that.
I know-I am a learning specialist and I work with dyslexic kids every day. They are far from dumb-they just learn differently. They also have been fighting that stigma all of their lives-thanks for perpetuating that ignorant fallacy,
BIRDIX no of course not!!! (I’m somewhat dyslexic myself!) My impression is that most dyslexics are NOT “functionally illiterate.” His handlers just grabbed the dyslexia label to excuse the fact that he can’t and doesn’t read. I think he has bigger problems, especially if there is something wrong with his frontal lobes!
Got it, thanks for clarifying. A close friend and my ex both are functionally illiterate-they are both brilliantly successful, one as a painter, the other a photographer. And both hide their dyslexia and inability to read as much as they can because of the shame of not being able to read, people not understanding, etc. The brain is complex, people don’t realize how many different ways there are to live drawing upon different parts of it.
My son wasn’t much of a reader in elementary school, so he developed an amazing ability to remember everything he heard. The brain has its ways of getting things done. Interesting about your friend and your ex being highly creative and intelligent, but not wired for reading. I’m assuming they must have excellent critical thinking skills to be so successful? I don’t think TC is capable of critical thinking, or even original thought. He’s a blank slate. How else could he respect a madman like L Ron Hubbard and accept all his insane ideas without question? The stuff Scientology presents gets weirder and weirder the higher up you go, and TC is #3 in their cult. Hasn’t he figured out by now that he cannot control space, time, and matter (or whatever he’s supposed to do)? It seems like he is terribly threatened by Suppressive Persons. Why does he have to erase them from his life? Probably because he truly can’t handle any contradictory thoughts. And Muscavige laughs at him behind his back.
Honestly, his behavior (completely separate from his belief in aliens, etc.) fits the traits of numerous mental health disorders. Scientology has no problem exploiting it.
That thing about his ‘genetic condition’ is totally bogus. He does not have one giant front tooth which can be a hallmark of the condition, he was born without one upper incisor, a very common thing actually, and it caused a slight shift of all his teeth to one side. Check out some of his big smile pics and it can be seen very clearly.
He may not be Mensa material, but his intelligence is normal. His emotional intelligence is a whole ‘nother matter.
Retarded is an extremely offensive outdated word. Please don’t use it.
I don’t think he’s dumb. He is definitely intelligent, he is an actor, producer and one can’t do any of these successfully if they are not rational and intelligent. And there are people who are intelligent and evil at the same time. And the co$ IS evil. And VILE. Funny how evil and vile have exactly the same letters.
Maybe TC doesn’t have emotional intelligence or empathy, with this I would absolutely agree.
Being enmeshed in a cult makes normally intelligent people unintelligent. Intelligence is not a stable metric. It can be, and is, manipulated. Just as people can be educated in order to think critically and understand the world around them, they can be taught the opposite. Cruise knows what Scientology tells him, and looks at the world through the lens it shows him. That makes him incredibly ignorant, and makes his thought processes wildly off.
How can a father agree to pay for their daughter’s wedding but not be in it?
Something VERY shady goes down in this family.
I’m sorry for Nicole. Actually.. I’m sorry for anybody involved.
Yes, that struck me, too. How sad not to want either of your parents at your wedding.
Only God (Xenu) knows what’s the truth behind the golden curtains.
Maybe Tom doesn’t love his children, he paid for the wedding but didn’t want to be involved either.
I feel like she has major self esteem issues tied in with anger towards her family. The small wedding thing is an excuse and it doesnt even explain why she excluded her brother. Anyway, major superstars Jay&Bey to Branjelina have been able to hold quiet weddings, so I really dont get this. I think the poor girl just didnt want to deal with her place within the family dynamic on that day.
Just watched his lip sync battle. He has the best smile. Jimmy Fallon is the best. He always looks like he’s having so much fun.
His face looks super weird.
Right?!
I think he *finally* might have overdone it with the fillers. The work on his face was always so well done, but maybe he’s past that point now.
He’s pretty much lived in London full times for the last few years, as far I’ve heard.
I truly believe that Tom has no emotions or thoughts of his own…He is always “on”, always acting! And, I don’t think he even knows it! I saw him on Oprah once, and she asked him about Connor being half black, and how he felt about that…and he said, “he’s my son, he is just my son”…which is wonderful, but the WAY he said it, sounded like he was saying it in a movie! I hope I’m making my point clear….it’s was the same interview, when he jumped on the couch, and I thought he scripts his life….
MRSB – totally agree! Didn’t Nicole say something about that? There’s no separation between his acting and his life, and after awhile you don’t know where the acting leaves off and reality begins?
Thank you for saying it so well! That’s exactly what I meant! I don’t think HE even knows where the acting leaves off and reality begins!
He’s well aware of it. He once said in an interview that he’s always on even around his his family. That really struck me because if you can’t be yourself around your friends and family who can you be yourself around. He seems to believe he the characters he plays in movies.
Then again if Tom wasn’t always on, he might actually have to take a look at his life and the damage he has done to his family and others.
Wow I haven’t thought about this, but you guys are so right about this. He does always seem in-character. That’s some sick and twisted mind he has.
Poor Florida. Can it really handle all that extra crazy in it’s borders? I mean…It’s already known as the state where crazy happens. That’s not going to improve when Tommy brings his fillers, lace fronts and lifts to town.
I’m glad this wasn’t a long story and there weren’t too many comments when I came on. Reading about TC started giving me the creeps and I came over all shuddery, so I’m clearing off this one.
John Travolta doesn’t even live close to the headquarters. He’s over in Ocala, Florida out in the country. That’s what he lives there and why he lived in South Daytona in a fly-in community before that. When his planes got too large, he moved over to Ocala to have his backyard airstrips. Clearwater is way over on the west coast. John flies everywhere. To go over to the Scientology center, he could just as easily fly quickly in his plane from anywhere. He moved to Ocala for a reason, his planes. And he’s got lots of other homes also elsewhere. It’s not like he and Kelly are parked in one place.
so you’re saying he has a small carbon footprint? 🙂
We need the gif of Bugs Bunny sawing Florida off the map.
Lol.
Thank you!
http://giphy.com/gifs/looney-tunes-florida-bugs-bunny-zNyBPu5hEFpu
‘He thinks all the people in Hollywood are fake.’
But Xenu, now…. he’s real? Ach, the mental twisting that Scientology incurs.
He just makes me feel sad. He always looks so tightly wound to me. He needs to develop a liking for cocktails!
He will never leave Scientology. Not even Tay Tay could lure him away. And maybe he and Travolta will be happy together. But I really think the winner here is that evil Puppet Master Miscavige. God! So scary.
I like how the article referred to him as the “Top Gun” star, as though he hadn’t done anything noteworthy since then.
I have no respect for Tom Cruise and John Travolta because they know about the human rights abuses being done towards children on a ship, but they don’t care because they believe Scientology is needed for their career and their egos are boosted by it. That evil cult needs to be stopped. They hide behind the religion label to claim they are being discriminated against if someone dares to question them. Sick of so-called religions getting away with human rights abuses that under any other circumstances would land someone in jail.
I clicked on the DM wedding pictures: the wedding dress and bridesmaids outfits are really bad. And if she’s a make-up artist/hairdresser for Vidal Sassoon … OMG …
I feel like I should hate that shiny blue suit, but I kind of love it.
I am, however, the sort of person who un-ironically loved all of Lady Gaga’s wilder fashions too.
Floridas not far enough ….wish some being,any being WOULD come and take this nut job away ‘ he really is a piece of work. And why is this slave labour and abuse allowed to continue? I hate to think about those poor kids waiting for someone to rescue them and no one comes.
Doesn’t Florida provide significant tax benefits as well? But I’ll believe he’s moving for HO$.
I actually checked out the Telluride mansion and thought it was pretty good but I wasn’t giving him a cent over $55 million . So negotiations broke down.
It’s always kind of funny when people talk about Xenu like he’s their god, because he’s actually more akin to the devil and most Scientologists know nothing about him. The only god in Scientology is L. Ron.
I hope this isn’t true for the sake of the poor people who would become full time slaves to Tom… although I’m sure he has/had plenty in LA too. There are Scientologists everywhere, sadly.
Listen, we already have enough lunatics in florida. Please don’t move here, tom.