Princess Diana biographer Andrew Morton is set to release a book that will reportedly reveal certain deep, dark secrets about Tom Cruise's sex life and religious beliefs - and Tom is not happy about it. And we all know what happens when Tom isn't happy. The Scientology goons begin harassing people. Morton has been so thoroughly intimidated, both by Scientologists and certain random nutty fans of Cruise's, that he's been forced to pull a Salman Rushdie. That's right kids - Scientology operates pretty much the same way radical Islamic fundamentalism operates.
Morton said of his security-related exile:
I have received threats from the Scientologists and things have become pretty heavy - to the extent that it's almost more than my lawyers can handle. ... I've sold my flat and I'm not telling anyone where I'm moving to. I intend to disappear for a while.
There must be some awfully juicy stuff in that biography for Tom to get this mad. Proof that he's a homosexual maybe, and that Scientology is really just some insane cult whose purpose is to subjugate women and establish a new male-dominated order. You know, stuff we already know, but now someone's put it in a book and there are all sorts of citations so that makes it legit.
This is of course not the first time Tom has unleashed his goons on someone he was unhappy with. During some particularly intense negotiations with Paramount a couple years ago, Cruise dispatched his minions to a parking lot to confront studio head Brad Grey and pressure him into giving Tom a more favorable deal. And then there was the recent death of David Hans Schmidt, a publicist Tom was mad at for stealing his wedding photos and trying to sell them. Schmidt's demise was ruled a suicide, but I'm not sure I'm convinced.
If I were Andrew Morton I'd have someone else open my mail for awhile, and I'd definitely abstain from spending too much time alone in open spaces.
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