Posted on 02/01/2026 8:00:09 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
A source close to the Mission Impossible star, 63, said he left his £35million pad because he felt the star-studded location had 'declined' recently.
A terrifying robbery of the Rolex store near Cruise's building last week saw attackers on motorbikes ram into the shop and swing machetes at brave security guards who tried to stop them.
The thugs entered the Bucherer with a large sledge hammer, two small claw hammers and a centre point tool used for smashing thick glass.
Around 20 watches were robbed in the broad daylight raid last week which went on for three terrifying minutes before the yobs fled on their bikes.
'The over aggressive attack on the store below cemented the lack of security surrounding the multi-million pound flats where Cruise lives,' the source close to the A-list actor said.
'He often loved to take a walk around the area but it seems like Knightsbridge is becoming less safe by the week. He just felt the area has declined in the past year or two.'
Cruise was known to go for early morning runs in Hyde Park, which is directly across the road - named South Carriage Drive - from the high-end block he lived in.
One worker at a neighbouring hotel told the Daily Mail that motorbikes from either side of the Rolex store had swooped in a well-planned, pincer movement.
The worker was having a cigarette break in Serpentine Walk, a path that runs from the large South Carriage Drive to the Knightsbridge road, where the front of the luxury watch store can be accessed.
He said two bikes sped past him, with at least one driver carrying a 'very big knife', while other robbers came from the Knightsbridge side.
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Rolex watches in display cases have fake guts or no guts. Kind of like stealing an iPad from an Apple Store. They don’t work and only idiots steal them.
Let enough in, and you become like them.
Areas that are majority Latino, look like Mexico, or South America. Areas heavily influenced by Somali’s start looking, smelling, acting like you’re in Somalia. Areas full of Africans start looking, smelling, acting like you’re in Africa and not even an Obama that made his career race baiting wants to live in such an area: https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/news/a9269/kalorama-neighborhood-dc/ (97% white, non Hispanic, anglo types).
Crazy, and they will still tax you even years later after leaving the UK
Leaving the UK as a long-term resident
You can still keep long-term UK residence for up to 10 tax years after you leave the UK.
This is shorter if you have not lived in the UK for all the previous 20 years.
For example, if you previously lived in the UK for:
10 to 13 years, you’ll stop being a long-term UK resident 3 years after you leave
14 years, you stop being a long-term UK resident 4 years after you leave
15 years, you stop being a long-term UK resident 5 years after you leave
he is extremely smart and surely knows exactly what the issue is. his solution might not agree with mine or yours but he is smart enough to keep his mouth shut (also commenting in the UK might be VERY illegal)
Give up your weapons
Pay the 3rd world to move in
Sit back and enjoy as diversity happens.
> commenting in the UK might be VERY illegal <
Good point.
why didn’t Tom Cruise jump on his motorcycle and chase after the bad guys?....
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