A new book about shady Hollywood attorney Anthony Pellicano is set to blow the lid on how Tom Cruise’s romp with a male prostitute was kept out of the tabloids. There’s an entire chapter online, and while it’s quite long it’s a trashy and worthwhile read.
Author Paul Barresi was working as a producer of gay porn films when he spoke to adult film star and prolific male hooker, “Big Red,” a buff readheaded guy who advertised in gay men’s magazines and websites. Big Red approached Barresi about selling his tales of hooking up with some of Hollywood’s hottest guys. Barresi was impressed with Red’s story, and found his claims both believable and verifiable. He arrange to have him speak with a contact at The National Enquirer in exchange for a cut of the profits.
He adamantly stood his guns, claiming that he could enumerate the dates, times and details of various sordid sex acts that he engaged in with his celebrity partners. “I’ve kept a detailed diary and I have receipts from restaurants, hotels, night clubs, plus other documentation as well as eye witnesses who are willing to go on the record to support my claims.”
You can’t get much better than that. Now, I’m thinking if this guy is on the level, I can make a bundle of money in any number of ways. In my mind’s eye, I first saw a story with The National Enquirer…
PAUL: Okay, before we get ahead of ourselves, let me ask you a few other preliminary questions. How many clients do you service on a monthly basis?
RED: Well, now sometimes I’ll take a month or two off, just to catch up but, in a good month, I’ll service about three to five hundred men.
PAUL: You stated you attracted celebrity clientele, one of whom is Tom Cruise. Name some of the others. Just their names for now.
RED: There’s Antonio Bandares, Jason Priestly and country singers Garth Brooks and Randy Travis.
PAUL: Okay, how did Garth Brooks find you?
RED: On boyzusa.com.
Big Red went on to tell how he topped Garth brooks for over two hours with the help of some Viagra and a condom. He said he got paid about $500-$600 and was flown out to service Brooks, who he called a whale.
Compared to that encounter, his sporty jerk-off with Tom Cruise, who dressed up in a little wrestling suit for the occasion, sounds almost chaste. Cruise was in London filming “Eyes Wide Shut” at the time, and was in the last stages of his marriage to Nicole Kidman.
I then brought up the subject of his alleged encounter with Tom Cruise. That interested me more than the others because I knew that’s where the big bucks would come in. The tabs love anything that connects Cruise even remotely to the word gay because there is always a major reaction from him. He is one of the most homophobic actors in the world.
I urged him to continue. This particular encounter, he said, took place in London during the filming of Eyes Wide Shut, on location there.
RED: Marcello (club host) took me to a room outside this club to wait and I just sat there. Then two men came into the room. They told me it would be a very simple job and that they were going to pay me in cash, showing me an envelope with approximately five hundred UK pounds in cash.
PAUL: Then what?
RED: They took me with them in a car and we drove, I think to the Highgate area, to a house. Nothing spectacular. We went into the back of the house where Tom Cruise was sitting on a small sofa. A mat had been spread out on the floor. Cruise, dressed in what looked like a body suit, looked so cute. Either a black or very dark navy blue body suit for wrestling. He had on a little cap thingy, but the chin strap wasn’t attached.
Grinning and gloating at me, he said, “Strip down to your underwear and play with me for a little while.” That’s really the only conversation we had. We played. We wrestled. He was nice to me. I mean, he let me win, then he asked me if it was okay if he could rip off my briefs and told me he would buy me a new pair.
I remember looking very close into his eyes and (I could tell because I used to tint my eyebrows and lashes) - maybe not his brows, but for sure his lashes were tinted because they had been growing out and I could see kind of like a lighter color around the edges of his eyes and if you look closer, he is a very fair skinned man.
PAUL: You wrestled around with him for how long?
RED: About an hour and a half, maybe.
PAUL: And what was going on?
RED: I was in my underwear and he was touching my butt mostly and, his finger - through the underwear touched my anus and he was stroking my balls, just a little bit. It was quick. He whispered in my ear, “It’s okay. Just relax. Just relax.” At one time he actually picked me up and threw me down and said, “I think red heads are really hot, and I hear you’re called Big Red.” Then, once my underwear was off, he got into some serious stroking. He told me to jack off so he could watch. I did and after I came, he threw me a towel. I got dressed and then the two men drove me back to the club in London.
After The National Enquirer passed on publishing Red’s sordid wrestling story, they got a call from - you guessed it - celebrity lawyer Anthony Pellicano, who is currently under investigation by the feds for illegal wiretapping and racketeering.
Pellicano grilled Red on his encounter with Cruise for over an hour and a half, reducing him to a blubbering mess. At the end, though, Pellicano admitted to Barresi that Red’s story was believable and that he knew key details about Cruise to back it up:
After an hour, Red became so petrified, he began looking away and stuttered when he spoke. I thought Pellicano would cause him to either crack or shit his pants. Strange as it may seem, however, Red survived Pellicano’s brutal questioning.
Anthony later pulled me aside and said, “I think this kid’s telling the truth. I find him to be credible.” It made no difference to me. It is well known in celebrity circles, that an accusation doesn’t have to be true, to create a smear campaign. Pellicano cashed in on that concept. A Hollywood star can’t afford even a whiff of scandal, because a tall tale can cause irreparable damage.
Barresi says The Enquirer tipped off Pellicano on the story to get him to check out it’s veracity. Instead of admitting that he believed Red, Pellicano told The Enquirer that Red was making it up, and went back to Cruise for a hefty payoff.
Red’s phone was predictably tapped after his scary encounter with Pellicano, and he often saw an unmarked van outside of his place. He ended up moving to Europe for a while and servicing less dangerous rich people. Barresi only made a $5,000 payoff after all the work he put into grooming Red.
There’s so much dirt in this story it’s amazing. I haven’t even touched the news that this gay hooker claims to have been with Antonio Bandares, Jason Priestly, and Randy Travis. He also says opera singer Andrea Boccelli was a long term client.
I don’t know if it’s true, but it convinced me. If it’s made up, why would they make Tom Cruise’s sexcapade so tame? He wrestled with a guy, touched him, and then watched him jerk off. It doesn’t sound like that much of a scandal if you ask me.
I want to know why women like Angelina Jolie can have well known affairs with the same sex while it’s taboo and career-ending for the men of Hollywood. I only care that Tom Cruise likes the company of men because he denies it so much.
