Posted on 02/13/2006 8:34:40 AM PST by presidio9
HOLLYWOOD megastar Tom Cruise is furious royal biographer Andrew Morton is using a gay porn actor to investigate his private life.
Friends of the movie star said yesterday Morton had "sunk to a new low".
Morton, who collaborated with Princess Diana to produce an account of her troubled life, is paying 58-year-old Paul Baressi to help him with his warts-and-all book about Cruise.
Baressi has starred in 25 gay porn films but now works as a private investigator in LA.
"I am a key source of information regarding several things," Baressi said.
Baressi claims to have provided Morton with documentation regarding a bizarre episode in which Cruise, 43, was falsely accused of having a homosexual encounter while shooting the film Eyes Wide Shut in the UK.
Yesterday Cruise's lawyer Bert Fields said the actor would sue Morton and New York-based publishers St Martin's Press if they used the letter he wrote in response to try to cast aspersions on Cruise's sexuality.
"I wrote a letter to Mr Morton back in November and said he obviously was entitled to write the book but 'make sure you check your facts'," Mr Fields said. "If he tries to use my letter to create the impression that Mr Cruise did have a gay affair, we will certainly sue ... because the story is false.
"Mr Cruise is not gay."
A friend of the actor said: "Morton is scraping the bottom of the barrel. If Baressi is the best Morton can come up with, that just goes to show how low Andrew Morton has sunk."
I question the timing of this. ;-D
PageSix
February 13, 2006 --
JUST ASKING
... WHICH movie heartthrob might not be completely straight? Although he has a girlfriend - called by some "the professional beard" - he left Bungalow 8 the other night with a man and took his new pal back to the Mercer. After their quickie session, the hunk told his "date" to "get lost."
http://www.nypost.com/gossip/pagesix/pagesix_u.htm
Comes with the territory.
I loved that episode but my favorite BY FAR was the Mormon episode!
From NNDB:
Tom Cruise
AKA Thomas Cruise Mapother IV
Born: 3-Jul-1962
Birthplace: Syracuse, NY
Gender: Male
Religion: Scientology
Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Matter of Dispute
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Flamboyant Scientologist
MISTER CRUISE. . . . THIS IS THE SOUTH PARK POLICE DEPARTMENT. . . .
PLEASE COME OUT OF THE CLOSET !!!!
(evil grin)
I have sympathy for Mr. Cruise. He's damned no matter what he does. I also think he's underrated as an actor.
Actually, he could stop doing it and it would be ok.
me thinkest thou protesteth too much
ewwwwww lmao
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