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WASHINGTON, United States of America – Katie Holmes was spotted in New York on Monday without her wedding ring, days after filing for divorce from fellow actor Tom Cruise.
The 33-year-old Hollywood star left a shoot for a television series in Times Square, her hair pulled back conservatively in a sleek pony tail and wearing a navy ensemble. Throngs of television satellite trucks and paparazzi were camped outside the Manhattan building where she was staying.
Cruise, who turns 50 today, July 3, wed Holmes in a storybook wedding in an Italian castle in November 2006 after declaring his love for the former “Dawson’s Creek” star live on “Oprah” — famously jumping up and down on a couch in the studio.
It was Holmes’ first marriage and Cruise’s third. They have a six-year-old daughter, Suri.
Cruise is among the many celebrity members of the Church of Scientology.
American Scientology leader David Miscavige was said to have officiated at the event, arguably the most high-profile Scientology wedding to date, in a ceremony that lasted no more than 15 minutes.
Tabloids, shadowing the couple since the get-go, have speculated for some time that the relationship was on the rocks after the pair was not seen together for months.
Reports at the time of Holmes’s marriage to Cruise said that under their prenuptial agreement, Holmes — who converted to Scientology — would receive US$3 million for every year of the marriage plus ownership of a California mansion if they split.
Holmes has admitted to having a teenage crush on Cruise, even saying she had a poster of the “Top Gun” star in her bedroom growing up.
In an interview with Playboy magazine in May, Cruise said he would be spending his birthday Tuesday shooting a film in Iceland — without his significant other.
Andrew Morton, in an unofficial biography he wrote on Cruise, said the Holmes was one of the many actresses “auditioned” by talent scouts from the Church of Scientology shortly after Cruise and second wife Nicole Kidman split in 2001.
Other actresses considered for the role of Cruise’s wife were Sofia Vergara and Scarlet Johansson. Inside Edition interviewed US magazine senior editor Ian Drew, who said that Holmes “went in for a meeting, and it was many hours. It was quite a few hours where they talked about her, they looked into her background. So, it was quite an extensive thing.”
Holmes eventually converted to Scientology, but the divorce is a statement that she’s had enough. – Agence France-Presse
Here’s the 2005 video of Tom Cruise’s famous jump on Oprah Winfrey’s couch after declaring his love for Katie Holmes:
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