Cruz Hoppin' Mad at Aussie Tab
It's not exactly a g'day for Penélope Cruz.
The sultry Spanish beauty is suing the Australian magazine New Idea for, she claims, dissing on her relationship with Tom Cruise, her attorneys confirmed on Tuesday.
"The proceedings state that the article contains a number of false and defamatory statements concerning Ms. Cruz," read a statement from her legal firm, Gadens Lawyers, on Tuesday, the same day the suit was filed in the New South Wales Supreme Court.
"Ms. Cruz seeks substantial damages and is confident that legal proceedings will vindicate her reputation."
No word exactly what scandalous bit of gossip she is fuming about. The lawsuit hasn't been made public, her lawyers are mum on the details, and New Idea isn't commenting, citing the pending litigation.
That means we'll likely have to wait until May 30, when the first hearing is scheduled, before we learn what all the fuss is over.
Suffice it to say, being Tom Cruise's girlfriend ain't easy.
Cruz has expended a great deal of energy fending off the tabs after linking up with the mega-star following the demise of his marriage to Oscar winner Nicole Kidman.
Still, it's usually Tom who resorts to the legal power. In January, he won a $10 million judgment against a gay porn star who falsely claimed he slept with the actor. Then there was the $100 million lawsuit he brought against a magazine publisher who claimed he had a video detailing Cruise in some serious, um, risky business with another man. That suit was settled in November 2001, for an undisclosed sum, and the publisher issued a retraction. And last September, he and Kidman teamed up to sue a cosmetics manufacturer for using their famous faces in an advertisement, without the power couple's permission.
Meanwhile, Cruise and Cruz will send shutterbugs scurrying next month, when they are scheduled to grace the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival for the premiere of the latter's new French swashbuckler, Fanfan La Tulipe, which is kicking off the annual gala. Coincidentally, Kidman is also due on the Croisette to plug her new film, Dogville.
But there's no need to put up a catfight alert. According to Kidman, all is well between the exes--so well, in fact, that she even called Cruise up after snagging the Oscar last month for Best Actress (let's hope she didn't rub it in his Academy Award-less face).
"We have very different lives now," Kidman told People magazine. "But as I've said to Tom, I will be there for him for the rest of his life, always there."





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