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July 8th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Celebrity lawyer Lynn Soodik, who represented Meg Ryan in her divorce from
Dennis Quaid, recalls: “I was involved in a case where the couple spent
something like $200,000 contesting the issue of, ‘What is the value of the
use of the private jet?’ The wife said, ‘I need to be able to use it’, and
the judge thought he was being very smart and said, ‘OK, any time you want
to travel, your husband will have to buy out all of first class so that you
feel you’re in a private jet.’ She looked at him and said, ‘But, your
honour, it’s not the same. Commercial airlines don’t leave when I want to
leave.’”
There’s a sound reason for this strategic squabbling. Every Hollywood divorce
features a third party known as public opinion. You are not simply fighting
your case in court but on Oprah Winfrey’s show, Piers Morgan Tonight and in
the pages of Vanity Fair. Your wife might persuade a judge that you are a
no-good, womanising drunk, but if your PR team can sell you on the airwaves
as a living saint, you’ve a lot less to worry about.
Harvey Levin, managing editor of the TMZ celebrity gossip website, says: “It
used to be that couples would put up the wall of silence. But now the stuff
gets out there anyway, they are jumping into the fray early on and spinning
it in a way that serves the client’s image. If the client doesn’t look good
at the end of the divorce, regardless of how good the financial settlement
is, they’ve failed.”
In Tom’s two previous divorces – from actresses Mimi Rogers and Nicole Kidman
– the settlements were agreed out of court and few details emerged of the
couples’ incompatibilities. This time – with the custody of the Cruises’
six-year-old daughter, Suri, at stake and the air rank with accusations of
obsession, jealousy and brainwashing – the chances of keeping things quiet
are rather slimmer.
Which makes them a lot juicier for the men in the alligator-skin loafers and
Day-Glo braces whose job it is to get the best deal for the client.
Officially – but not necessarily helpfully – California operates a “no
fault” divorce code, under which the courts cannot address issues of blame.
The idea was to stop mud-slinging, but the main effect has been to shift it
into the public arena, where it is now practised by some of the world’s
deadliest image manipulators.
Mel Gibson lost half his estimated $850 million fortune to his ex-wife, Robyn,
last year, but the lasting damage was done by the stories that raced around
Hollywood of his rages, bigotry, drunkenness and infidelity. Alec Baldwin
came out of his divorce from Kim Basinger saying that he wanted to kill her
lawyer “with a baseball bat”, while Michael Douglas was portrayed by his
ex-wife Diandra’s side as a chronic “sex addict”. She got $45 million, but
was still suing for more 10 years later. Robin Williams came out of court
wincing: “I believe the word divorce comes from the Latin for a man having
his genitals ripped out by way of his wallet.”
Is it the place or the people? There’s little doubt that life in the movie
industry makes marriage difficult. There are long separations, many
temptations, too much money, narcissism and superficiality. Brad Pitt and
Angelina Jolie – shortly to take the matrimonial plunge – refuse to work on
simultaneous projects. Instead, each accompanies the other on location. Why
didn’t Brad’s ex, Jennifer Aniston, who lost her man to Angie on the set of
Mr and Mrs Smith, think of that?
Yet the statistics suggest that Hollywood marriages actually last longer than
the US average. For every Britney Spears lasting two days with Jason
Alexander, or Renée Zellweger a week with Kenny Chesney, there’s a Paul
Newman racking up half a century with Joanne Woodward.
The battle of the Cruises is unlikely to be pretty. Or cheap. Or quick. Katie
has begun by hiring a new publicist – a sure sign in Hollywood divorce
logistics that things are going to get dirty.
“He has been Tom Cruise for 30 years,” she sniffed last week. “I know who I
am, and where I am, and where I am going.” And, possibly, how much she
intends to take him for.
Which is why, as they say in the movies, love hurts.
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