Tom Cruise Scientology Wife Recruitment Scandal Confirmed By Director Paul Haggis
By Radar Staff
Paul Haggis, the acclaimed writer/producer/director who left Scientology in 2010 after decades in the controversial organization, has come forward with a strong confirmation of the blockbuster magazine article about how a new wife was recruited for Tom Cruise.
The Oscar-winner pulled no punches in condemning Scientology officials for how they treated actress Nazanin Boniadi after her arranged romance with Cruise failed after three months.
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As we reported, in November 2004, devout Scientolgist Boniadi was recruited to audition for what she thought was a Scientology training film. It turned out she was being auditioned to be Tom’s next wife, sources told Vanity Fair magazine’s Maureen Orth.
Boniadi ended up falling for the Mission: Impossible star but after three months he decided she wasn’t the girl for him, Orth writes, so she was sent to a Florida Scientology center where her assignments including cleaning toilets with a toothbrush.
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But worse was to come for Boniadi when she confided to a friend how upset she was about her break-up with Tom. That “friend” reported her back to Scientology who accused her of breaking her confidentiality agreement with Tom, and ordered even harsher treatment for the Iranian-born beauty.
The search for a wife then resumed, sources told Orth, with Katie Holmes getting the nod.
“I was deeply disturbed by how the highest ranking members of a church could so easily justify using one of their members; how they so callously punished [Boniadi] and then so effectively silenced her when it was done. It wasn’t just the threats; they actually made her feel ashamed, when all she had been was human and trusting,” Haggis told Showbiz 411.
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“I’ve met quite a number of people who have been treated shamefully but are afraid to speak out…Most of the others are just ordinary people…They live in fear of retribution, legal, financial or personal…They fear an incredibly wealthy organization that boasts that it seeks truth, empowers people, brings families together, encourages independent thought and free speech, and champions human rights. I would like to say that i don’t know how its members, many of them good and intelligent people, can remain so purposely blind when they are faced with evidence like this every day, but then I am no one to talk. I was happily blind for many years, so I know the shame that Naz feels.”
Haggis said that Boniadi tried to repair her relationship with Scientology so that she could remain a member, and only resigned two years ago.
Cruise’s rep issued a statement Monday calling the Vanity Fair article a “lie.”
Katie Holmes hasn’t commented.
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Tom Cruise Calls Scientology Marriage Recruitment Story ‘Lies’
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Tom Cruise is striking back at the blockbuster magazine article alleging Scientology recruited girlfriends and at least one wife — Katie Holmes — for him.
“Lies in a different font are still lies — designed to sell magazines,” was his rep’s dig at upscale Vanity Fair, the monthly mag that is publishing the article.
As RadarOnline.com reported, Vanity Fair’s Maureen Orth has penned a devastating look at how top Scientology officials allegedly went on a hunt for a new wife for Cruise in 2004.
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Sources, including former Scientologist Marc Headley, told the award-winning Orth that Iranian-born actress Nazanin Boniadi was selected in November, 2004, but her romance with Cruise only lasted three months before she was shipped off to a Scientology center in Florida.
Orth also writes that the search, which ultimately led to Katie, was headed by the now-missing wife of Scientology leader David Miscavige.
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Katie and Tom’s divorce was finalized last month with Katie getting custody of their daughter Suri and what we’ve been told is a “sizable” trust fund for the little girl.
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Katie And Suri: Business As Usual As Scientology Marriage Recruitment Story Hits
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Katie Holmes took daughter Suri out to do some food shopping on Sunday, just as a blockbuster magazine article about how girlfriends and brides were recruited by top Scientology officials for Tom Cruise hit the Internet.
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As RadarOnline.com previously reported, Vanity Fair’s special correspondent Maureen Orth has penned possibly the most detailed account yet of how Katie, and women before her, were recruited for Tom.
The monthly put a portion of the article on its website Sunday, complete with Scientology’s wholesale denial of its accuracy.
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But today Katie seemed more concerned about keeping a tight hold of Suri who kept trying to wander away on their way back from the upscale grocery store on the street level of their Manhattan apartment building.
Holmes may be feeling more jitters about her first Holmes & Yang show staged during New York Fashion Week. It’s set for September 12.
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