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Who Is Elsina Khayrova? 5 Things to Know About Tom Cruise’s Girlfriend

Tom Cruise has a new love interest.

After Cruise and Elsina Khayrova made their public debut in December, a source exclusively told Us Weekly that the pair have been quietly dating for “a while now.”

“They’re very happy,” the insider told Us . “And Tom’s extremely confident about it working out for the long term.”

The source shared that the pair met through mutual friends in London. “What started as a basic friendship quickly turned into something more special,” the insider added.

As for where Cruise’s eldest children, Isabella and Connor, stand with the relationship, the source told Us that they “think Elsina is great and are so happy to see that their dad has love in his life again.” (Cruise shares both children with ex-wife Nicole Kidman . He also shares a daughter with ex-wife Katie Holmes .)

So who is Khayrova? Here’s everything to know about his girlfriend.

Related: Look Back at Tom Cruise's Dating History

1. where was elsina khayrova born.

Khayrova was born in Russia but now lives in London. Earlier this month, she was spotted with Cruise at a party in London’s Grosvenor Square.

“They’ve hung out at Tom’s favorite private members club and regularly enjoy afternoon tea and gourmet dinners out in London,” the source told Us .

2. Did Elsina Khayrova model?

Khayrova formerly modeled for brands including Graff. In 2015, the luxury diamond jeweler shared a snap via Instagram of her wearing a pair of their earrings.

3. Who is Elsina Khayrova’s father?

Elsina is the daughter of Rinat Khayrova , who is a member of the Russian Military Police.

Related: Tom Cruise Through the Years

4. has elsina khayrova been in a relationship.

Elsina filed for divorce from Russian oligarch Dmitry Tsvetkov in 2022. The pair separated two years prior after over a decade of marriage. In December, Tsvetkov weighed in on his ex’s new relationship with Cruise when he spoke to the Daily Mail.

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“Irrespective of whoever she’s with, Tom Cruise or anybody else, they should be aware that she likes the finer things in life and has expensive and luxurious tastes,” he said. “Tom should keep his eyes and wallet wide open.”

He continued: “I’m happy for her, I wish her all the best.”

5. Does Elsina Khayrova have children?

She reportedly shares two children with ex Tsvetkov. In September, Elsina posted a sweet Instagram birthday tribute to her daughter Eva, whom she refers to as her “best friend.”

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Hayley Atwell addresses 'invasive' Tom Cruise dating rumors: 'It feels a little dirty'

A love story between “Mission: Impossible” newcomer Hayley Atwell and Tom Cruise is pure fiction.

The British actress, who co-stars with Cruise in the upcoming action thriller “Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One,” opened up about past speculation that she dated Cruise in an interview with The Independent published Saturday.

Atwell, who is engaged to music producer Ned Wolfgang Kelly , said she views Cruise and “Dead Reckoning” director Christopher McQuarrie as "sort of two uncles."

" I would be like, ‘Ooh, there’s some weird rumors, and it feels base. It feels a little dirty, " Atwell told the British outlet. "It feels grubby. It’s not what I’m about. Why are things being assumed or projected onto me about my relationship with my work colleague and boss?"

Atwell added that she found the rumors "upsetting" because of the scrutiny it brought to her private life.

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"It’s involving people in my actual life, my personal life, who have to be on the receiving end of that," Atwell said. "It becomes invasive."

'Impeccably made': 'Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One' lauded for action-packed drama

Marking the seventh installment in the iconic "M:I" franchise, "Dead Reckoning Part One" follows Cruise’s secret agent Ethan Hunt as he faces off against "The Entity,"  an evolving form of artificial intelligence that threatens global security. Atwell plays enigmatic thief Grace in the film. The pair becomes an effective duo, navigating a wild car chase through Rome in a tiny Fiat and a hellacious train trip on the Orient Express.

"Dead Reckoning" has earned rave reviews from critics for its stunning action sequences and compelling performances. Erik Davis of Fandango called the film an "impeccably made action film that does not stop entertaining."

"Each action sequence is long, crazy and intense," Davis wrote on Twitter. "The story is big and sprawling, but I like how it both felt complete and left you dying for what comes next."

Perri Nemiroff of Collider said the film is "another winner for the franchise," including the addition of Atwell’s character. "She can do it all. Action, comedy, a capable hero in many respects while trying to get her sea legs in others," Nemiroff tweeted.

USA TODAY film critic Brian Truitt gave the film three out of four stars , writing that while "Dead Reckoning" is chock-full of gloriously bonkers stunt sequences, its technological villain introduces some narrative obstacles.

"If you choose to accept this 'Mission' – and what action-movie fan or Cruise nerd wouldn’t, really – it’s the first half of a man vs. machine epic that doesn’t skimp in the thrills department," Truitt wrote. "Just don’t think too hard about it, though you’ll probably still give serious side-eye to your laptop."

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Hayley Atwell calls Tom Cruise romance rumors ‘upsetting’

Hayley Atwell is addressing the romance rumors that have surrounded her and Tom Cruise as they promote their film “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One.”

The actors share the screen in the upcoming action film, out July 12, and recently there has been speculation about their relationship off camera.

Atwell responded to the gossip and opened up about her friendship with the “Top Gun: Maverick” actor in an interview with The Independent published on July 8. 

During the sit-down, she mentioned that she heard rumors about her having secret flings with Cruise and “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One” director Christopher McQuarrie, also known as McQ. 

But she says her relationships with her collaborators are strictly platonic. The 41-year-old actor told the British newspaper that she views Cruise, 61, and McQuarrie, 54, as “sort of two uncles.” 

Speaking directly about the gossip involving her co-star and director, Atwell said, “I would be like, ‘Ooh, there’s some weird rumors, and it feels base, it feels a little dirty, it feels grubby, it’s not what I’m about.’”

She continued, “Why are things being assumed or projected onto me about my relationship with my work colleague and boss?”

The “Marvel’s Agent Carter” star called the rumors “upsetting,” pointing out that comments about her love life impact her personal relationships. 

“It’s involving people in my actual life, my personal life, who have to be on the receiving end of that,” she explained. “It becomes invasive.”

Atwell has been navigating life in the public eye since her breakout role in “Captain America: The First Avenger” in 2011. She said she has learned to be “more mindful” when giving statements to avoid assumptions about her private life. 

She told The Independent that she decided to have a conversation with Cruise about the rumors swirling around their relationship, to which the “Jerry Maguire” star gave Atwell stellar advice.

She recounted that he told her, “‘You know exactly who you are. You know what you’re about. And that is the only thing that matters. It doesn’t matter what people think of you, if you are in integrity with yourself, if you know what your value system is.’” 

The Marvel star recalled watching classic movies like “Paper Moon” and “Broadcast News” with Cruise and McQuarrie after landing the role of Grace in “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One.” 

Cruise and McQuarrie “love seeing women thrive and be in their own power,” she said. “So if I ever tried to play small or flirtatious, or play damsel, they would probably be like, ‘What are you doing? That’s not you!’”

The actress will appear alongside Cruise, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson, Cary Elwes and Simon Pegg in the franchise’s next installment. 

Atwell is already being praised for her role in the movie. In his first reaction to a screening of the seventh “Mission: Impossible,” Screen Rant’s Joe Deckelmeier tweeted that Atwell, “STEALS every scene she’s in.”

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Months After Dating Rumors, Tom Cruise And Hayley Atwell Hold Hands In New Mission: Impossible 7 Still

They're holding hands, but there is more to it.

Last summer rumors were running around that Tom Cruise and Hayley Atwell were dating as they filmed Mission: Impossible 7 . However, the actress made it clear that she’s just really great friends with her co-star recently, and she got engaged actor Ned Wolfgang Kelly, who she was linked to last summer. Now, with Dead Reckoning Part One coming out soon on the 2023 movie schedule , the actress posted a photo of her and the franchise’s leading man on Instagram of them holding hands. 

Hayley Atwell Shut Down Rumors That She Was Dating Tom Cruise  

Atwell shut down these dating rumors about Tom Cruise in early May, telling Country & Townhouse that she was aware of the discussions about her and her co-star. She explained that she does love him and the Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One team, but in a platonic way. She said:  

I felt like if I ever was worried about it, I could talk to him [Tom]. And I know that he would’ve said, ‘People say whatever they want to say, but you know who you are, I know who I am and I want you to feel safe in this environment.’

She continued to gush about her love for both Tom Cruise and the action movie’s director Christopher McQuarrie , saying:

What I feel is the truly extraordinary power of platonic love, which seems to be sometimes under-represented. And my love for Tom, my love for McQuarrie, my love for the process of this [Mission], and also the people who they keep very close to them and who are very present on set, has a wholesomeness to it. That for me, I just found so beautiful, so, yeah, I can freely say ‘I love this group of people.’

While Atwell read for Jack Reacher , and could have worked with Cruise sooner, M:I 7 is the first time she’s worked with the action star. She’s been open about working with Cruise, and everything that goes into filming one of these epic action movies including the delays on Mission Impossible 7 and 8 . Now, as the cast is getting ready to release Dead Reckoning, the MCU actress posted a fun photo from set of her and her co-star getting close during an action sequence. 

A New Mission: Impossible Still Shows Tom Cruise And Hayley Atwell Holding Hands

Hayley Atwell took to her Instagram to post a new still from Mission: Impossible 7 in preparation for the movie’s release on July 12. The photo shows the Captain America actress handcuffed to Tom Cruise, and they’re holding hands. Check it out for yourself:

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This isn’t the first time Atwell has addressed the handcuff scene . She explained that it’s not just Tom Cruise pulling off wild stunts. The Peggy Carter actress got to learn how to drift race, she backflipped over a bridge, jumped off a moving train, and had to run “uphill in high heels while handcuffed” to the Top Gun : Maverick star. 

While the actress posted a fun still from the movie, the footage of the two cuffed together was shown at CinemaCon earlier this year. It appears the chase happens after Atwell and Cruise’s characters get into some trouble involving INTERPOL, and Ethan (Tom Cruise) cuffs himself to Grace (Hayley Atwell) in an effort to make sure she can’t get away. 

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So, overall, while the dating rumors ran amuck, those have been dispelled, and now we can really get excited about this wild action sequence that includes Hayley Atwell and Tom Cruise being handcuffed together. 

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Are Tom Cruise & Shakira Dating? He’s ‘Extremely Interested in Pursuing’ Her

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An unlikely pairing…or is it? Headlines floated around that Shakira and Tom Cruise are dating amid being spotted at the Formula 1 race over the weekend.

Shakira ‘s love interest has recently been a topic of question. The “She-Wolf” singer recently divorced soccer player Gerard Pique in a highly profiled divorce case and her own lawsuit with the Spanish government over tax fraud. Her ex-husband moved on with Clara Chia Marti, who some suspect that she was the person Gerard cheated on Shakira with.

So did Shakira find the one with Tom Cruise ? Let’s find out.

Is Shakira dating Tom Cruise?

May 9, 2023: a source says tom cruise is pursuing shakira.

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On May 9, 2023, Page Six reported that a source says that Tom “is extremely interested in pursuing her.”

“There is chemistry,” the source said.“Shakira needs a soft pillow to fall on, and that could be Tom,” adding that he’s “a nice-looking guy, and he is talented.” The insider also joked that  “she isn’t taller than him.” The outlet also reported that the Top Gun actor also sent Shakira flowers after their outing at F1

May 7, 2023: Shakira is spotted at F1 With Tom Cruise

On May 7, 2023, pictures emerged of Shakira and Tom Cruise at  Formula 1  in Miami, Florida. Another TikTok video emerged of the two talking in a private VIP area of the stadium track.

May 6, 2023: Shakira Accepts Billboard’s Woman Of The Year Award at the Inaugural Latin Women In Music Awards

At Billboard’s Latin Women In Music Awards , Shakira made a touching speech that some think is directed towards her ex Gerard Pique. “This has been a year of seismic change in my life where I’ve felt more than ever — and very personally — what it is to be a woman,” Shakira declared. “It’s been a year where I’ve realized we women are stronger than we think, braver than we believed, more independent than we were taught to be.

The singer continued, “Because what woman hasn’t at some time in her life forgotten herself because she’s seeking the attention and love of someone else? It happened to me, more than once,” she added. “But there comes a time in the life of every woman where she no longer depends on someone else to love and accept herself just as she is. A time when the search for someone else is replaced by the search for oneself. A time when the desire to be perfect is replaced by the desire to be authentic, and where finding someone who is faithful is less important than being faithful to ourselves.”

January 11, 2023: Shakira releases “BZRP Music Session Vol. 53”

Shakira released an incredibly  viral song collaboration  with Bizzarap where she directly disses her ex and his new lover. “I’m worth two 22-year-olds, you traded a Ferrari for a Twingo; you traded a Rolex for a Casio,” she sings in a  translation via Billboard.  “I understood that it’s not my fault that they criticize you; I only make music, sorry that it splashed you. You left me my mother-in-law as my neighbor, media outlets at my door and in debt with the government.”

September 22, 2023: Shakira reveals what happened during her divorce with Gerard Pique

The “Can’t Remember to Forget You” singer opened up about her divorce with Gerard in an Elle interview. “I’ve remained quiet and just tried to process it all,” she continued. “It’s hard to talk about it, especially because I’m still going through it ,  and because I’m in the public eye and because our separation is not like a regular separation. And so it’s been tough not only for me, but also for my kids.” She also talked about how the media’s perception of the breakup affected her kids, Milan, 9 and Sasha, 7. “What’s also real is the disappointment to see something as sacred and as special as I thought was the relationship I had with my kids’ father and see that turned into something vulgarized and cheapened by the media. And all of this while my dad has been in the ICU and I’ve been fighting on different fronts. Like I said, this is probably the darkest hour of my life. But then I think about all those women around the world who are going through hardship, who are going through a situation as bad as mine or as difficult as mine or worse.”

June 2022: Shakira and Gerard Pique announce they’re divorcing

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Tom Cruise has a new girlfriend. Her ex-husband isn't happy about it.

Tom Cruise is off the market with the actor reportedly now dating Russian-British model, Elsina Khayrova.

Cruise was spotted with Khayrova at a party in London’s Grosvenor Square, where they “spent most of the night dancing”, before the twosome were seen leaving together in the early hours. 

“They were inseparable — clearly a couple,” a guest at the event told the Daily Mail .  “He seemed to be besotted with her.”

The 36-year-old is 25 years younger than the Hollywood actor , and her father is Russian MP Rinat Khayrova, who is a political ally of Vladimir Putin. So there's that! 

This is Cruise's first public relationship since his divorce from his third wife, Katie Holmes , in 2012.

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Speaking of exes, we need to talk about Elsina's Russian mogul ex-husband and diamond tycoon, Dmitry Tsvetkov, who the model divorced in 2020. 

The Russian oligarch gave an interview with the Daily Mail to warn Cruise about his ex-wife. 

“Irrespective of whoever she’s with, Tom Cruise or anybody else, they should be aware that she likes the finer things in life and has expensive and luxurious tastes,” Tsetkov said.

“Tom should keep his eyes and wallet wide open.”

Dmitry said he hasn't spoken to his ex-wife about her new rumoured romance, as their “preferred method of communication” was through their attorney. 

But it wasn't all negative, Tsetkov added that he is “happy for her”, but also mentioned she was “never been a big Tom Cruise fan, but I’m sure that’s all changed now.”

This man is so messy. 

The tycoon also claims the three-year divorce cost him nearly $298 million and led to him selling off his assets to pay her. 

The couple split after over a decade of marriage and welcoming two children together.

Despite Dimtry's warnings, it's not like dating Cruise is a walk in the park either. 

Cruise has long been a prominent member of the divisive Church of Scientology. The actor has been embroiled in various controversies over the years about the church's controversial methods and mantras, including the time he scolded Brooke Shields for taking antidepressants to treat postpartum depression. 

The kids he adopted with his second wife, Nicole Kidman, Isabella and Connor Cruise, have also seemingly turned their backs on their mother since joining the church. 

Prior to the Elsina reports, the Jerry Maguire star was rumoured to be dating his  Mission Impossible co-star, Hayley Atwell.

The actress has since slammed the rumours as “weird", “upsetting” and “invasive”, telling The Independent that “It’s not what I’m about," she said. 

"Why are things being assumed or projected onto me about my relationship with my work colleague and boss?”

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Shakira and Tom Cruise Pose for Photos at F1 Miami Grand Prix 2023

On Saturday, Shakira received Billboard's Woman of the Year award at the Latin Women in Music gala, where she seemingly addressed her split from ex Gerard Piqué

Shakira and Tom Cruise were spotted at the 2023 Miami Formula One Grand Prix over the weekend.

In photos, the Colombian singer and the Top Gun: Maverick actor enjoyed the event as part of a group on Sunday. Shakira, 46, sported a green, cutout corset top and large shades while Cruise, 60, kept it casual with a white polo. He also posed with Fast & Furious actors Vin Diesel and Ludacris at the race.

The appearance came one day after Shakira received Billboard's first Woman of the Year award at the inaugural Latin Women in Music gala . During her acceptance speech, she seemingly shared her thoughts on her headline-generating split from ex Gerard Piqué .

"This has been a year of seismic change in my life where I've felt more than ever — and very personally — what it is to be a woman," Shakira told the audience while accepting her award .

"It's been a year where I've realized we women are stronger than we think, braver than we believed, more independent than we were taught to be," she continued.

"Because what woman hasn't at some time in her life forgotten herself because she's seeking the attention and love of someone else? It happened to me, more than once," she added.

Shakira, who announced her separation from the soccer star last June after first confirming their relationship in March 2011 , then talked about realizing her worth as a woman.

"But there comes a time in the life of every woman where she no longer depends on someone else to love and accept herself just as she is," she said. "A time when the search for someone else is replaced by the search for oneself."

Shakira added, "A time when the desire to be perfect is replaced by the desire to be authentic, and where finding someone who is faithful is less important than being faithful to ourselves."

RELATED VIDEO: Shakira and Gerard Piqué's Relationship Timeline

Meanwhile, Cruise accepted the 2023 MTV Award for best performance in a movie while flying a fighter jet on Sunday.

In a clip thanking viewers for the fan-voted honor, Cruise was seen inside a fighter plane high in the sky wearing sunglasses and speaking into a headset. His golden popcorn trophy was inside the aircraft with him.

"Thank you so much for this award," he said. "I make these films for you. I love you. I love entertaining you. To know how much you enjoy it, how much you appreciate it, there's just no better feeling."

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A s someone who has been in the spotlight for most of his life, Tom Cruise has been the center of rumors — lots of them. But perhaps the rumors that have gotten most people riled up are those about his dating life.

One of the juiciest bits of gossip? That Cruise has a thing for divorcing his wives when they hit the age of 33. And guess what? It checks out. He split from Nicole Kidman , Katie Holmes, and Mimi Rogers when they were all that age. A former Scientologist told HuffPost that the pattern likely ties back to the religion, as it sees the number as something significant. "The number 33 is known as the 'Master Teacher,'" they explained. "It represents altruism and increasing your positive energy. It's associated with healing powers through love."

Cruise hasn't addressed this bizarre coincidence, but he has had plenty to say about the endless speculation over his love life. From his rumored romance with a Russian socialite to his purported fling with Hayley Atwell, here are some of the biggest rumors about the actor's dating history.

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Tom Reportedly Proposed To Russian Socialite Elsina Khayrova Just After A Few Months Of Dating

Post-Katie Holmes, Tom Cruise has toned down his infamous couch-jumping antics and kept his love life on the down-low, leaving us guessing about the string of people he's supposedly dated over the years. At the tail end of 2023, rumors started swirling that the actor had started romancing Russian model and socialite Elisa Khayrova after they were reportedly seen canoodling at a party in London. The two reportedly met through the city's social scene and hit it off right away. "Tom's become a popular figure in London among the well-heeled, elite types," a source told Us Weekly . "What started as a basic friendship quickly turned into something more special."

People in their circle initially thought that their relationship might actually go the distance, with an insider dishing to the outlet that the pair was "super happy together" and that the "Mission Impossible" star had been "very relaxed and content with his life right now." But come March 2024, reports surfaced that they had called it quits. Apparently, Cruise had been over the moon that he didn't hesitate to get down on one knee, which sent Khayrova running. Fresh from a messy divorce from a Russian oligarch, she wasn't exactly itching to sprint down the aisle again. "She started questioning why Tom was in such a rush to tie the knot," an insider told Radar Online . "It was all moving too fast. She got scared off."

Elisabeth Moss Was Rumored To Have Been Arranged To Marry Tom

With both Elisabeth Moss and Tom Cruise being high-profile members of Scientology, it's not shocking that romance rumors have swirled around them . But these weren't your run-of-the-mill dating rumors. Let's just say that they were a tad bit more dramatic. In 2014, rumor has it that they were set to marry — with the blessings of Scientology's higher-ups, no less.

"Friends think it would be great for both of them -- and Scientol­ogy," an insider dished to National Enquirer , noting that the church leaders would "be delighted to have their lead­ing member become involved with another celebrity Scien­tologist." The insider added that "The Handmaid's Tale" star was the perfect match for Cruise, both career-wise and personality-wise. " Lizzie is beautiful, smart and a little quirky," they noted. "She can hold her own in the spotlight, and marry­ing Tom would be good for both their careers. She has no children of her own and would be an ideal candidate to have one with Tom."

It wasn't until years later that Moss squashed the rumor. She addressed it in an appearance on "Watch What Happens Live" and set the record straight once and for all. "How did you miss that?" she quipped. "I actually was confused and also mainly got texts from people being like, 'I didn't know, why didn't you tell me?' And just confusion from my friends, but mainly poking fun at it 'cause obviously they knew it wasn't true."

Tom Denied Ever Dating Knight And Day Co-Star Cameron Diaz

Since time immemorial, it's been Hollywood cliché for co-stars to spark dating rumors, so when Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz were rumored to be an item while filming "Knight and Day," everyone just rolled their eyes — especially Cruise. The two sparked romance rumors right after Cruise's split from Katie Holmes , so naturally, people speculated that Diaz was his rebound.

Cruise's team made it a point to shut down the speculations almost as soon as they started circulating. "It's false. They are friends," one of his reps told E! News . Meanwhile, Diaz herself didn't bother with a direct denial, but she did gush about Cruise's friendship and work ethic, sharing during an appearance on  "The Oprah Winfrey Show"  that she thinks highly of the actor. "He has a very high standard," she shared, noting that Cruise is the ideal co-star. "So that's a wonderful thing. That's what you know you're getting when you're working with Tom. You know that you're getting someone who is dedicated to bringing the best product forward possible, and to do that, you have to be engaged in the process."

Hayley Atwell Was 'Upset' About Being Linked To Tom

Another co-star who couldn't escape the dating rumor mill with Tom Cruise is Hayley Atwell , his fellow star in "Mission: Impossible." Reports claimed that their on-set chemistry blossomed into a full-blown romance and that they dated for an entire year — an eternity in Hollywood terms. "They really got on well -- and they're obviously both very good-looking Hollywood stars so it made for a good match," an insider told The Sun , adding that the two apparently called it quits after wrapping up the film. "But as the latest film winds down they've decided to go back to being friends."

Atwell, who is nearly two decades younger than Cruise, was less than thrilled about the rumors. She expressed her frustration to The Independent , saying she doesn't appreciate being romantically linked to people she holds dear. "I would be like, 'Ooh, there's some weird rumors, and it feels base, it feels a little dirty, it feels grubby, it's not what I'm about,'" she shared, noting that she wasn't happy about the whole ordeal as "it's involving people in my actual life, my personal life, who have to be on the receiving end of that. It becomes invasive." And besides, to her, Cruise may just as well be part of her family. Per the star, she considers Cruise and the film director Chris McQuarrie as "sort of two uncles." And seriously, who's signing up to date their uncle?

Tom Supposedly Wants To Romance Angelina Jolie

After his high-profile marriages went up in flames, you'd think Tom Cruise would steer clear of dating another celebrity. But if rumors are to be believed, he's got his sights set on none other than Angelina Jolie. Is it perhaps to spite Jolie's ex, Brad Pitt, who he supposedly doesn't get along with ?

A source told Heat World that the two A-listers have been in talks for years about collaborating but have yet to see it to fruition. Over the years, Jolie was said to have developed an interest in getting to know Cruise on a personal level. "Ange has seemed more open to getting to know him socially," the insider dished. Cruise reportedly feels the same and that he's determined to find a way for the two of them to finally work together so he could have an in. "His goal right now is to convince her to work with him, then he'll romance her," the source added. And, believe it or not, Cruise has apparently learned a thing or two from his past. This time, he's not looking into forcing Scientology at all. "He quite astutely knows that it would send an anti-religious Angelina running in the other direction," they said.

But Jolie isn't exactly biting. She's publicly stated she has no plans to date Cruise — or anyone else — and would much rather focus on tending to her kids. "They are the closest people to me and my life, and they're my close friends," she told WSJ Magazine . "We're seven very different people, which is our strength."

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Who Is Tom Cruise’s New Girlfriend in 2024? Elsina Khayrova Age & Occupation

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Hollywood star  Tom Cruise  and his new girlfriend drew quite a lot of media attention over the past few months. According to multiple sources, the  Top Gun  actor started dating a new partner in December 2023. However, the couple have recently split up a few months into their relationship, according to  Us Weekly .

Let’s take a deeper look at who exactly Tom Cruise’s new girlfriend is.

Who is Tom Cruise dating in 2024?

Stepping into 2024, Tom Cruise was dating Russian model Elsina Khayrova. According to US Weekly, a few sources claim that they met through a mutual friend as they both live in London. After they began dating in December 2023, the couple was seen getting close at a party in London’s Grosvenor Square. However, in February 2024 they split up due to her ex-husband – Dmitry Tsetkov.

Dmitry Tsetkov is an international diamond trader and a Russian oligarch. He and Elsina divorced each other in 2022 after a decade of marriage. They have two children together.

Who is Tom Cruise’s new girlfriend Elsina Khayrova?

Elsina Khayrova is a Russian socialite and model, currently settled in London as a British citizen. She is the daughter of Rinat Khayrova, an ally of Vladimir Putin and a member of his political party. She has two children with her ex-husband Dmitry Tsetkov, whom she divorced in 2022. Recently she started dating Tom Cruise in December 2023, ending their relationship in February 2024.

Elsina and Cruise may have split up due to her ex-husband’s comments, claims Us Weekly. The couple were happy together and were also spotted at parties and events around London. They were careful to avoid being photographed around the city and kept their relationship quite private. However, they unfortunately called it quits, with Tom Cruise going back to living the single life again.

What is Elsina Khayrova’s age?

Elsina Khayrova is 37 years old as of March 2024, making the age gap between Cruise and her around 25 years. There have been quite a few negative comments, especially on social media about their age difference. However, the former couple seemed unaffected by it.

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“They're spending time together and in the ‘getting to know you’ stage,” said the insider. “It's fun and flirty.”

Here's everything we know about Hamilton and his connection with Shakira so far.

Who is Lewis Hamilton?

Hamilton is a British race-car driver, and a very successful one. He's been driving since he was only eight-years-old, and his talent was noted and cultivated early after he won the British Kart Championship when he was 10-years-old. At 15, Hamilton was the youngest-ever driver to be ranked number one in karting.

The 38-year-old now owns the Formula One record for career race victories and he became the first Black driver to win the F1 world drivers’ championship in 2008.

How long have Shakira and Hamilton been seeing each other?

In May, Shakira was seen with Hamilton and some of his friends near Miami on a boat just after she attended the 2023 Grand Prix, where he was competing.

She went to the race with actor Tom Cruise, briefly spurring rumors the two might be dating. But a source told Us Weekly that Shakira found those rumors “hilarious.”

“Shakira had a great time hanging out with Tom at F1 but she has no interest in dating him,” they said. “He was really nice and she enjoyed his company, but she isn't focused on dating him or anybody else at the moment.”

The insider added, “She has a lot on her plate and is focused on her kids and career for now.”

However, this month, Shakira was at the F1 Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona, Spain. Hamilton was driving for Mercedes and came in second place. They were seen out for dinner afterwards with friends Daniel Caesar, Fai Khadra and Mustafa, the latter of whom posted an Instagram Story in which the rumored couple are sitting next to one another and he has his hand around her waist.

Who else have they been romantically linked to?

Shakira broke up with her longtime partner, soccer player Gerard Pique, in June 2022. They share two children, Milan and Sasha, and first got together in 2011.

In a statement, reported by Page Six , they said, “We regret to confirm that we are separating. For the well-being of our children, who are our highest priority, we ask that you respect our privacy. Thank you for your understanding.”

The privacy was not long lasting and the break up was highly publicized, especially as it was revealed Pique had cheated on the singer. Last month, Shakira seemed to comment on the big change while accepting Billboard 's first Woman of the Year award at the inaugural Latin Women in Music gala.

“This has been a year of seismic change in my life where I've felt more than ever — and very personally — what it is to be a woman,” she said . “It's been a year where I've realized we women are stronger than we think, braver than we believed, more independent than we were taught to be.”

Shakira continued, “Because what woman hasn't at some time in her life forgotten herself because she's seeking the attention and love of someone else? It happened to me, more than once.”

Hamilton split up with longtime girlfriend Nicole Scherzinger in 2015, and has been linked in the past to Rita Ora and Nicki Minaj.

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Five days after Shakira and Tom Cruise were photographed chatting it up in Miami, their relationship status has been revealed.

Shakira   and  Tom Cruise looked comfortable with one another as they chatted each other up at the Miami Grand Prix on May 7, but there’s nothing romantic going on between them, according to  TMZ . The site reports that Shakira is “very much single” and that she and Tom simply run in the same circle because of mutual friend,  Lewis Hamilton , who is a Formula 1 racer. Lewis reportedly invited both stars as his guests to the event in Miami, which is why they were hanging out by the racetrack.

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In Jan. 2023, she teamed up with  Bizarrap on the song “ BZRP Music Sessions #53 ,” where she took direct shots at Gerard and Clara, as well. “I was too much for you, that’s why you’re now with someone more like yourself,” she said in the song. The lyrics also included, “You thought you hurt me, but you made me stronger, women don’t cry anymore, they cash in.”

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All the women Tom Cruise has loved and lost over the years

In the years since he split from third wife Katie Holmes , Tom Cruise has done his best to keep his love life out of the spotlight. But sometimes, he can't avoid headlines. Wonderwall.com is taking a look back at all the women the iconic action star — whose newest movie, "Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One," opens in theaters on July 12, 2023 — has loved and lost over the years… 

In 2016, Tom's first girlfriend, a woman named Diane Cox, opened up to DailyMail.com about her two-year romance with the A-list actor. The duo met at their high school prom in 1979 when he was 18 and she was 17 — and a grade below him. They ended up ditching their dates for each other and dating for more than two years. The high school sweethearts ultimately split when Diane cheated while they were struggling to make a long-distance relationship work after Tom left his native New Jersey for Hollywood. "We didn't talk about marriage but he told me I was the love of his life, the only person he wanted," Diane said years later.

Keep reading for Tom's romance retrospective…

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Tom Cruise 's first famous girlfriend? That would be "Little House on the Prairie" star Melissa Gilbert! They briefly dated in the early '80s. "It was when he first moved to Los Angeles and I think I was 16, maybe, or 17. … He was a struggling starving actor and I was working. I actually bought him his first set of dishes," she said during a 2014 appearance on "Watch What Happens Live," adding that Tom was a good kisser but that things between them never went much further than that.

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Actor Curtis Armstrong — who had a small role in "Risky Business" — claimed in his 2017 memoir that Tom Cruise had an "intense affair" with the film's leading lady, Rebecca De Mornay, when they shot the 1983 comedy. At the time, she was involved with a different actor: the late Harry Dean Stanton, who was 36 years Tom's senior. Tom and Rebecca were seen together several times in 1985, though it's unclear how long their "intense affair" actually lasted.

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One and done! During a 2013 appearance on Chelsea Handler's " Chelsea Lately " show, Heather Locklear said she only went out with Tom Cruise once — even though they were photographed together multiple times in the early '80s. They went to a nightclub together after meeting at an audition, she said, but her interest in him cooled when he started dancing: "You know in 'Risky Business' where he does that dance in his underwear and does the split? We were dancing in a club and he went into that," she recalled. "You just kind of stand there and don't know what to do. Do you dance around him? It was weird. So I just sat down." And that was that.

Tom Cruise and Cher first met at Madonna and Sean Penn's 1985 nuptials. They reconnected at the White House a few months later during an event focused on people with dyslexia. "We didn't go out till way later, but there definitely was a connection there," the singer recalled in 2018. Five years earlier, she gushed that Tom, who's 16 years her junior, was "in the top five" of her all-time greatest lovers. "It was pretty hot and heavy for a little minute," she said. During a 2011 interview with "Entertainment Tonight," the superstar singer said that she loved Tom but that their careers ultimately pulled them apart: "[We broke up] after 'Risky Business' and right before 'The Color of Money.' I couldn't go to Chicago [where he was working] and that was kind of the straw that broke the camel's back," she revealed.

Tom Cruise briefly romanced musician Patti Scialfa in 1985 — a few years before her relationship with Bruce Springsteen turned romantic following his divorce from his first wife, Julianne Phillips. (Patti and Bruce tied the knot in 1991.)

In the mid-'80s, Tom Cruise met actress Mimi Rogers, who's seven years his senior, through mutual friends at a dinner party. They tied the knot in 1987 when she was 31 and he was just 24. (Emilio Estevez served as Tom's best man during the super-secret nuptials.) The actor once told Rolling Stone of his first missus, "I care about my wife more than anything in the world. She's my best friend. I just really like being with her, you know? I love her." But it wasn't meant to be: Tom reportedly filed to divorce Mimi in late 1989. "While there have been positive aspects to our marriage, there were some issues which could not be resolved even after working on them for a period of time," they said in a joint statement in early 1990. (It's widely believed, by the way, that Mimi introduced Tom to Scientology.)

In the wake of his split from Mimi Rogers, Tom Cruise fell hard for Nicole Kidman . They first connected on the 1989 set of the racing drama "Days of Thunder" and tied the knot on Christmas Eve in 1990 following a whirlwind courtship of about a year. A few years later, Tom told Vanity Fair that he felt "instant lust" for the Australian actress. "I thought she was amazingly sexy and stunning. It grew into love and respect," he said.

Newlyweds Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman shared the screen for the second time in Ron Howard's 1992 Western drama "Far and Away," which performed well at the box office in spite of poor reviews from critics.

In 1993, Tom Cruise and second wife Nicole Kidman adopted daughter Isabella Jane, who was 2 months old at the time. Two years later, they became a family of four when the "Days of Thunder" co-stars adopted a 2-week-old baby boy: their son Connor.

Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman shared the screen for the third and final time in 1999's "Eyes Wide Shut." More than two decades later, the Australian actress would tell The New York Times that she and Tom were still "happily married" while shooting the Stanley Kubrick-directed erotic thriller. Still, less than two years later, their marriage of a decade came to an end: Tom filed for divorce in February 2001. "Maybe I don't have the ability to look back and dissect it. Or I'm not willing to," Nicole told the Times in late 2020 of what went wrong.

Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruise grew close while shooting the 2001 psychological thriller "Vanilla Sky." Their relationship of about three years came to an end in early 2004. Nearly a decade later, Vanity Fair reported that the couple parted ways when the Spanish actress refused to convert to Scientology.

In 2004 and 2005, Tom Cruise briefly dated Nazanin Boniadi, who later had stints on "General Hospital," "How I Met Your Mother," "Scandal" and "Homeland." According to persistent rumors, the Church of Scientology set up Tom and the Iranian British actress after "auditioning" several young beauties for the part of his real-life love interest. Former Scientologist Leah Remini, who's been extremely critical of the church over the years, claimed in her 2015 memoir that Nazanin "underwent a confidential mission for the church where she thought she was being prepared for a special humanitarian project but ended up with the role of Tom's girlfriend." The "King of Queens" alum also alleged that the church pushed Nazanin to break up with her then-boyfriend for Tom and gave her an expensive makeover to prepare her for her romance with the A-lister. Ultimately, the relationship lasted just three months. (But Tom and the Church of Scientology have denied the allegations about how his relationship with Naz came to be.)

In 2005, Tom Cruise briefly pursued a pre-fame Sofia Vergara . But things between them never took off reportedly because of their differences regarding religion.

Tom Cruise first connected with Katie Holmes — who'd spoken openly in interviews about her childhood crush on him — in April 2005 when, according to the rumor mill, they met to discuss a potential role for her in 2006's "Mission: Impossible III." Just weeks later, they made their red carpet debut as a couple at an event in Rome. The following month, Tom made headlines for jumping on a sofa while gushing over Katie during an interview with Oprah Winfrey on her eponymous talk show. Things only moved faster from there…

In June 2005 — just two months after they met — Tom Cruise proposed to Katie Holmes at the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Then in April 2006 — less than a year after they first connected — the "Dawson's Creek" alum gave birth to their daughter, Suri Cruise.

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes tied the knot at the Odescalchi Castle in Lake Bracciano, Italy, on Nov. 18, 2006. Less than six years later on June 29, 2012, she quietly filed for divorce amid whispers that their differences over Scientology were to blame.

In the summer of 2012, several dubious tabloid reports attempted to link Tom Cruise to fellow devout Scientologist Yolanda Pecoraro, who reportedly met the A-list actor for the first time in 2004. According to the rumor mill, he was interested in her at the time, though nothing ever came of the attraction. Nothing ever came of the talk in 2012 either! Despite the rumors that the Church of Scientology wanted to set up Tom with Yolanda in the wake of his split from Katie Holmes , they were never seen together in public. She ultimately married a different famous Scientologist: "Malcolm in the Middle" actor Chris Masterson. (They're pictured together in 2015.)

In late 2012, Tom Cruise got tongues wagging when he was seen spending time with Jennifer Akerman — the younger sister of his "Rock of Ages" co-star Malin Akerman — at a nightclub in Stockholm following the Swedish premiere of "Jack Reacher." But the actor's rep called the romance rumors "completely ridiculous" and insisted to E! News that the blonde beauty had a serious boyfriend at the time. Just a few weeks later, Tom shut down another set of false romance rumors when he was linked to Cynthia Jorge — then-manager of New York City's Beauty & Essex — after they were seen dancing together at a different NYC hotspot. A source told People magazine "it was nothing but a casual night out" while a New York Post source insisted the pair were "just friends."

The rumor mill worked overtime to connect Tom Cruise to former Bond girl Olga Kurylenko after they co-starred in the 2013 sci-fi love story "Oblivion" … even though she was dating Danny Huston at the time. There's no evidence they were ever anything other than colleagues.

Tom Cruise sparked romance rumors with fellow Scientologist Laura Prepon when they were seen dining together in Los Angeles in late 2013. Then in April 2014, Page Six reported that the duo had been "secretly dating" for months. But reps for both the action star and the "That '70s Show" alum insisted the rumors were "not true" and that the pair were just friends. (Laura eventually married a different actor: Ben Foster. She's since walked away from the church.)

In May 2017, the rumor mill erupted with buzz that Tom Cruise was dating "Mission: Impossible – Fallout" co-star Vanessa Kirby after they were photographed sharing an on-set smooch . (Previous tabloid reports alleged he'd fallen for her … and that he thought she was " perfect to be his next wife .") The following year, Vanessa called the rumors " disconcerting " — especially because she was in the midst of a long-term relationship with actor Callum Turner at the time.

In late 2020, The Sun reported that Tom Cruise and "Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One" co-star Hayley Atwell were secretly dating after growing close on set. The following day, a People magazine source threw cold water on the British tabloid's report, insisting that the romance rumors were "not true at all." Yet the rumors persisted, although there was a spattering of reports in the summer of 2021 claiming the action star and the British beauty had gone their separate ways.

The co-stars were all smiles while attending Wimbledon together in 2021. Though fresh reports claimed they rekindled their romance in early 2022, The Sun published a story in June 2022 citing sources who said it was over again. "They get on really well, and have fantastic chemistry, which is why they decided to quietly give the relationship another try earlier this year. But what was working behind closed doors didn't work out so well when it was made public, and the fanfare around them as a couple exploded again," a source told the British tabloid. "They have now decided they are better as friends."

In July 2023, Hayley shot down the reports herself, telling the Independent the "weird [romance] rumors" felt "dirty" and "grubby" and that she views Tom and "M:I" franchise director Chris McQuarrie as "sort of two uncles," not love interests.

In May 2023, Tom Cruise once again got the rumor mill churning… this time with speculation that he'd fallen for a global pop star after he was seen chatting with Shakira at the 2023 Miami Formula One Grand Prix in Florida that month. Though they certainly looked comfortable together, TMZ reported that Shakira and Tom were not romantically involved and were at the F1 race because they'd both been invited by a mutual friend, driver Lewis Hamilton.

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61 Fascinating Facts About Tom Cruise

1. Thomas Cruise Mapother IV  was born on July 3, 1962, in Syracuse, N.Y., to  Thomas Cruise Mapother III , an electrical engineer, and Mary Lee Pfeiffer , both of Louisville, Ky. (His grandfather and great-grandfather were both Thomas Cruise Mapother, as well.)

2. He has two older sisters, Lee Anne and Marian , and one younger sister, Catherine , nicknamed Cass. 

3. Cruise wanted to act from around the time he was 4 and started doing impressions of everyone from Donald Duck to Humphrey Bogart and Elvis Presley .

4. In 1974, when the family was living in Ottawa, Mary Lee packed up and took the kids back to Louisville. She officially divorced Tom III in August 1975 and, six weeks later, he remarried, briefly. Joan Lebendiger , recently widowed, had four kids, one of whom later told biographer Andrew Morton that they never saw their stepbrother Tom again after the wedding.

"As a kid, I had a lot of hidden anger about that. I'd get hit, and I didn't understand it," Cruise  recalled to  Vanity Fair  in 1994.

"He was the kind of guy who really got picked on a lot at school himself when he was growing up," he said of his father. "He had also been small, though he ended up being six foot two. People had been quite brutal to him. Inside, I believe he was a really sensitive individual." Tom III could also "actually be quite loving." 

But in 2006 he told Parade  that his dad was "a bully and a coward—the person where, if something goes wrong, they kick you. It was a great lesson in my life, how he'd lull you in, make you feel safe and then, bang!"

Cruise visited his father in the hospital before he died of cancer in 1984 and Tom III said he'd get better and they would "'talk about the whole thing,'" the actor told  VF , but that never came to pass.

5. Tom was very close to his mother, whom he described to James Lipton on Inside the Actors Studio   as "a very warm, charismatic woman, very kind, very generous." She worked four jobs at any given time to take care of them, and Tom had a paper route to pitch in. "Every night I'd come home, bathe my feet and sit in the family room, and Tom would massage my feet for a half-hour," Mary Lee recalled to Rolling Stone . (She died at 80 in 2017.)

6. He was also protective of his sisters and, as the man of the house, took on the role of scrutinizing their boyfriends when they'd come by to meet the family.

7. Cruise was raised Catholic and he spent his freshman year of high school at St. Francis Seminary in Cincinnati, after a priest named Father Ric Schneider gave a talk at his (also Catholic) school in Louisville. "He was a typical teenager, trying to find his way in life," Schneider told the New York Daily News in 2013. "We would give them an IQ test, and he just about made the cut. The cutoff is 110, and he scored exactly 110."

It's been rumored that Cruise considered entering the priesthood, but he doesn't it remember it that way. "We didn't have the money back then, and I went for the education for a year, and it was free," Cruise has explained.

8. Mary Lee got remarried to Jack South in 1978 and the whole family moved to New Jersey when Tom was 16.

"In the beginning, I felt threatened by my stepfather," Cruise told Rolling Stone . "There's a part of you that's in love with your mother. But he is such a wise, smart man. He loved my mother so much that he took us all in, four young people. We'd bet on football games, and he was a terrible bettor, so I'd make lots of money."

As for his dad, Tom III, who had recently passed away, "I think that he felt remorse for a lot that had happened. He was a person who did not have a huge influence on me in my teens; the values and motivation really came from my stepfather. But he was important. Really important. It's all sort of complex. There wasn't one thing I felt."

9. He was always a daredevil, jumping off things, riding his bike too fast, sometimes into walls and, here and there, breaking bones. In high school he joined the glee club and did plays. He was also an athlete, over the years dabbling in soccer, baseball, basketball, football and ice hockey, and he wrestled. Sports and acting were where he really stood out and, shocker, the ladies have loved him since grammar school.

"I was a wild kid," Cruise admitted. "I'd cut school. Everything had to do with my wanting always to push the envelope to see: where do I stand with myself? How far can I go?"

10. Cruise has been open about his battle with dyslexia, calling himself "a functional illiterate" in school, though he "loved learning. I wanted to learn, but I knew I had failed in the system."

"My energy was always all over the place. Reading was not at the top of my list, because it took me so long," he told Cameron Crowe for Interview in 1986. "When I wrote a paper, my mother would help me with it. I would take a test and get very nervous. I would skip questions and skip lines. I've gotten better. I've learned to control my eyes. I used to have to use my finger all the time. I just wasn't relaxed about it."

11. Senior year of high school he got kicked off the football team after he was caught drinking, according to Morton, but that left him time to audition for the school musical, Guys and Dolls . He played Nathan Detroit, and a commercial director who happened to catch a performance told him he should pursue acting professionally. So, he started going to New York on weekends to audition for musicals—and he missed his graduation ceremony while performing in an amateur production of Godspell .

12. Cruise made his movie debut in the 1981 drama Taps , in a role that was bigger than the one he was originally cast in "because you could see right away that he had a giant talent," former Paramount head Sherry Lansing said in Stephen Galloway 's 2017 biography Leading Lady . "He was always extremely focused and exceptionally polite."

13. On the set of Francis Ford Coppola 's The Outsiders , featuring a veritable who's-who of '80s-era heartthrobs , prankster Cruise scrawled "Helter Skelter" on co-star Diane Lane 's mirror and put honey on her toilet seat.

14. The only direction Cruise received for his iconic Risky Business dance to "Old Time Rock and Roll" was one line in the script: "Joel dances in underwear through the house." He ad-libbed the rest, grabbing the candlestick, "using it as a guitar, jumping on the table. I waxed half the floor and kept the other half dirty, so I could slide in on my socks. As we went along, I threw more stuff in," he shared with Crowe in 1986.

15. Cruise dated his Risky Business co-star Rebecca De Mornay , who called him a "pure person." She told Rolling Stone in 1986, "There's something earnest and virtuous about him that's quite rare." According to Taps co-star Sean Penn , they were out at a club in New York one night and after realizing that a girl he was talking to was trying to pick him up, Cruise "screamed at her, 'I have a girlfriend I'm in love with!'" (Perhaps at the time readers thought Penn might be exaggerating.) He and De Mornay started dating in the summer of 1983 and maintained a long-distance relationship while he shot Ridley Scott 's Legend in London, but broke up when he returned to the U.S. to start making Top Gun .

16. Top Gun producers Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson envisioned no one other than Cruise playing Maverick after they saw a magazine story about the elite flying school at San Diego's Miramar Naval Air Station and went down to see the hot shots in person. "From the first time we went down to Miramar—even before the script was written—we said, 'These guys are Tom Cruises,'" Bruckheimer told Rolling Stone .

17. Although Cruise also told Rolling Stone in 1986 that he wasn't sure he would be able to get married in his "present state of mind," he tied the knot with  Mimi Rogers on May 9, 1987, two years after meeting her at a dinner party. Emilio Estevez  was Cruise's best man.

18. Paul Newman , his co-star in 1987's The Color of Money , turned him on to race car driving and Cruise has been feeling the need for speed on land and in the air (and sometimes on the water) ever since. Years later the student became the teacher when, in 2010, Cruise taught Zac Efron  about motorcycles. "I don't know," Efron told Details when asked why Cruise offered to do that. "I don't even want to know. It's just so cool that he gave a s--t, the fact that he cared at all."

19. Mimi and her first husband, Jim Rogers , were both members of the Church of Scientology (Jim was a high-level auditor) and she's said to have introduced Cruise to the organization, giving him L. Ron Hubbard 's Dianetics and other literature. His immersion in Scientology coincided with the release of Top Gun and the actor becoming one of the biggest stars in the world, and to this day Cruise remains the most famous member of the church.

20. Despite being critically panned, 1988's Cocktail , starring Cruise as a playboy bartender, gave Disney its biggest opening weekend ever at the time: $11.8 million.

21. According to Morton's 2008 biography  Tom Cruise , director Oliver Stone wanted Tom to be injected with a chemical that would have rendered him temporarily paralyzed so he could better identify with the role of real-life Vietnam War veteran and activist Ron Kovic in 1989's  Born on the Fourth of July . The insurance company understandably shut that idea down. The film still won two Oscars, best editing and best director for Stone, so it worked out.

22. People named Cruise its "Sexiest Man Alive" in 1990. Soon after, he and Rogers divorced. When Vanity Fair  asked about his first marriage in 1994, Cruise replied tersely , "It was a long time ago. I really don't think about it."

23. Cruise met Nicole Kidman  during casting for the racing drama Days of Thunder and they tied the knot on Dec. 24, 1990. They adopted two children, Isabella and Connor , and starred in two more movies together, Far and Away and Eyes Wide Shut .

After Isabella arrived, Cruise told Vanity Fair in 1994 , "We talked about children from time to time, but there was always the work. But then we went, When is it ever going to be the right time? That's how the conversation started. You're lying in bed at night and you're trying to sleep, so you roll over and you go, What would happen if we had this in our life?

"One of the things that Nic and I talk about is that now suddenly we're a family. We're at that point where we're trying to define where we are. Can we still party? Are we really boring? Oh, my God . . . we're old!"

24. Disney had Cruise in mind when they created the look of the title character in 1992's Aladdin . "There's a confidence with all of his attitudes and his poses," lead animator Glen Keane said in a DVD extras feature.

25. An old tabloid go-to back in the 1980s and '90s was to claim that this or that star was gay, and Cruise was aware that the rumor was out there.

"First of all, I don't think it's an indictment," Cruise told Vanity Fair in 1994. "But I hadn't heard those rumors till about three months ago myself… I don't know why they say it. I've heard everything from I've cheated on my wife to my wife was there on the set of  The Firm  because she was pissed off about my love scene on the beach. It's not true, but people are going to say what they want to say."

26. Cruise wanted Brian De Palma to direct Mission: Impossible , which would mark his debut as a producer with his agent turned partner Paula Wagner , even though De Palma was in movie jail following several flops. Cruise even deferred his $20 million salary (not including his back-end deal) so they could raise the movie's budget. Mission accomplished: M:I made almost $500 million worldwide and spawned a franchise . De Palma, however, didn't attend the film's premiere in May 1996, reportedly because he and Cruise didn't always see eye to eye during production.

27. Shooting M:I , Cruise insisted they use a fan big enough to create the 120 mile-per-hour wind he'd be facing if he was really clinging to a bullet train while a helicopter exploded behind him. A crew member told Galloway, "He said, 'I want the wind blowing in my face and I want my jaws to be blowing.' That's Tom. He's a guy's guy."

28. The intense Eyes Wide Shut shoot was scheduled to last four months but ended up keeping Tom and Nicole in London for 18 months. Also during their time in England, as fate would have it, they attended Princess Diana 's funeral in September 1997, as did with Tom Hanks  and Steven Spielberg , who were in town making Saving Private Ryan .

29. "All I can say is that I hope we are together when we are 80," Nicole Kidman told  Talk  in 2000. "I can't say we will be, but I will be so devastated if we are not." Alas, they announced their separation on Feb. 5, 2001. "She knows why, and I know why," Cruise cryptically told Vanity Fair later that year. "She's the mother of my children, and I wish her well. And I think that you just move on. And I don't say that lightly. I don't say that with anything."

30. Penélope Cruz  successfully sued an Australian tabloid in June 2003, winning damages and a retraction over a story claiming she and then-boyfriend Cruise had postponed their impending marriage because she had cheated on him. They broke up in January 2004 after more than two years of dating, a source telling People the relationship "just ran its course."

31. The Church of Scientology denied a 2012 Vanity Fair report that Homeland actress Nazanin Boniadi , then a church member, had basically been recruited to date Cruise for a few months, starting in October 2004 with a group outing that included renting the skating rink at Rockefeller Center and dinner at Nobu. "I'd rather not talk about that," Boniadi told the New York Post in 2013.

32. Cruise specifically held out for J.J. Abrams to direct Mission: Impossible III —Abrams' feature film debut—after watching some episodes of Alias . Paramount was freaking out, wanting M:I3 for a summer 2005 tentpole release, which wasn't going to happen if Cruise and Abrams—busy at the moment with a show called Lost —got their way, but it turned out Cruise had an ace up his sleeve. Spielberg was ready to roll with War of the Worlds in time to give Paramount the summer blockbuster it needed while they waited for Abrams to become available.

33. On May 23, 2005, a giddy Cruise raised his arms in victory, got down on one knee and did a couple of fist pumps, and then jumped up on Oprah Winfrey 's couch (also twice), fueled by love for his new girlfriend, Katie Holmes . "You're gone," the talk show host observed.

"I've got so much energy, I can't help it," Cruise said.

They were both laughing hysterically and the studio audience was cheering, but… maybe you had to be there?

Lest anyone forget, Holmes was at the taping and Winfrey led a chant for her to come out. "She's gonna run!" Cruise exclaimed. "She is freaking out ." Then he took off for backstage to go get her, the camera trailing him, and once they had emerged Cruise enveloped the Dawson's Creek star in a hug.

That moment unwittingly set the tone for Cruise and Holmes' entire relationship, romantic to many but to everyone… just a lot .

34. A month later, Cruise accused Matt Lauer  of being "glib" when the Today host questioned his take on mental health care—specifically, his dismissal of psychiatry and his criticism of Brooke Shields ' "irresponsible" use of medication to treat postpartum depression.

35. Cruise and Holmes' daughter, Suri Cruise , was born on April 18, 2006.

36. Mission: Impossible III came out on May 5, 2006, and did… fine. It was (and remains) the lowest-grossing installment of the franchise, making $134 million domestically, but more memorably it marked the moment where folks started wondering if Cruise had lost his movie-star mojo, if his unadulterated zeal had turned off audiences for good. Not making it better: Paramount severed its 14-year relationship with Cruise's production company that August, and then-Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone actually told the Wall Street Journal , "We don't think that someone who effectuates creative suicide and costs the company revenue should be on the lot. His recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount."

37. Suri was introduced to the world on the September 2006 cover of Vanity Fair , zipped up in her father's leather jacket akin to how Paul McCartney   snuggled daughter Mary on the cover of his 1970 solo album McCartney . The first glimpse at the cover was a huge get for Katie Couric 's first night as lead anchor of the CBS Evening News .

38. Cruise and Holmes' wedding at the 15th-century Castello Orsini-Odescalchi in Rome on Nov. 18, 2016, reportedly cost upward of $3 million . Guest Giorgio Armani designed the bride's ceremony and reception dresses and attendees included Will Smith  and Jada Pinkett Smith , John Travolta  and Kelly Preston , David  and Victoria Beckham , Jim Carrey  and Jenny McCarthy , Leah Remini  and Angelo Pagan , and Jennifer Lopez  and Marc Anthony . Andrea Bocelli performed.

39. Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige was Cruise's best man. According to Remini, who left the church in 2013, a traditional Scientology wedding ceremony includes the vow "to never close their eyes in sleep on a disagreement or an upset."

40. Shields and husband Chris Henchy were also in attendance, Cruise having apologized for publicly disparaging his Endless Love co-star's use of medication to treat postpartum depression. "If you get invited to that wedding, you go," Shields recalled on The Jenny McCarthy Show in 2016. The actress even provided the bride's "something old": an antique enamel compact.

41. 2010's Knight and Day with Cameron Diaz  was widely treated as some sort of "comeback" movie for Cruise, a test to see if he could still have a monster action movie hit after Mission: Impossible III underwhelmed.

"I don't understand why people think that," he marveled to the U.K.'s Telegraph . "I've been working the whole time."

42. His roles in the interim had included his unrecognizable—and hilarious—surprise turn as crass, bullying, bald and fat studio exec Les Grossman in Ben Stiller 's Tropic Thunder , for which he earned a Golden Globe nomination.

"I had about a dozen people making the silicone prosthetics for his head, neck, chest, and hands," makeup designer Barney Burman recalled to Grantland . "We made him special gloves. I did the sculpting, someone else did the molds, someone else was casting them. I had six different people punching hairs into the scalp piece, so his entire head was one-at-a-time, hand-punched hairs; his arms were hand-punched one at a time; his chest was hand-punched."

Added Aida Caefer , "I made the fat suits for Tom Cruise. He was all for  the more ridiculous, the better . The suit went from his neck all the way down to his ankles…The character moved around a lot and he was so soaked in sweat that we had rotating suits for him—one in the morning and one after lunch."

"Tom choreographed all his own moves," Stiller said. "I remember watching him do this stuff and thinking this is so frigging funny."

43. The rumor that Cruise turned down the role of Iron Man, which would have changed the whole vibe of the Marvel Universe, is not true, he says. "Not close," he told ComicBook.com in 2018 when asked if he was really almost Tony Stark. "Not close, and I love Robert Downey Jr. I can't imagine anyone else in that role, and I think it's perfect for him."

44. For 2011's Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol , Cruise hung off the edge of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai—the world's tallest building—without a double (though with the appropriate wires). And while he'd been doing as much of his own physical laboring as possible for decades, this reinvigorated Cruise's reputation as the guy who does all the death-defying stunts the insurance companies will allow. The film's $695 million worldwide box office also signaled that Cruise's reputation had preceded him—in a good way.

45. Holmes filed for divorce in June 2012. Her father, attorney Martin Holmes , had helped draft their prenuptial agreement and all was remarkably settled within weeks. And neither of them have ever talked about what happened . They've acknowledged that they were once married to each other, but why it ended has remained anyone's guess. And, oh, how the people have guessed.

46. Eyebrows were raised when the 5-foot-7 Cruise was tapped to play 6-foot-5 vigilante Jack Reacher from Lee Childs ' best-selling novel series.

"Size in my books is a metaphor for an unstoppable force," Childs explained. "Cruise portrays that in his own way."

47. Not as initially OK with the creative license was Interview With the Vampire   author Ann Rice , who according to Vanity Fair was livid in the early '90s when Cruise was cast to play Lestat, having written the character with Rutger Hauer in mind.

"It always helps if one is controversial in casting a movie," director Neil Jordan said. "I just thought that if Tom was willing to go the distance this character demands—and he was—then we could end up with something quite extraordinary, and we did."

48. Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation was legendary before it hit theaters in 2015 for Cruise's viral airplane stunt, in which he hung onto the door of an Airbus A400M as it took off. For real. He also did his own motorcycle chase and learned how to hold his breath for six and a half minutes for the underwater document swap.

49. He was back on the bike for Mission: Impossible—Fallout and "when the [safety] rigs didn't work, we just went for it," director Christopher McQuarrie told the New York Times . "Everything that you're seeing Tom doing, he's doing free riding on cold cobblestones. Sometimes there was rain; sometimes there was morning dew. There was always a danger of skidding and wiping out."

Cruise also did his own skydiving along with Henry Cavill 's stunt double, dangled from a rope attached to a flying helicopter, and piloted a helicopter for a mid-air chase scene, getting his certification in six weeks. It normally takes three months, McQuarrie said, but Cruise trained for 16 hours a day to cut the time in half.

"Tom was having the time of his life," the director said.

50. Cruise has social media accounts but they are strictly for un-risky business, and he prefers to not know everything that's happening online. "Sometimes I have to for work, but I keep it very limited," he told E! News in 2016. "I don't spend time doing that kind of stuff."

51. Cruise isn't one to let himself go in between physically taxing roles. "Sea-kayaking, caving, fencing, treadmill, weights, rock-climbing, hiking… I jog… I do so many different activities," he has said.

In fact, he refers to his personal workout space—a version of which he takes with him everywhere—as the "Pain Cave."

"Only the motivated can enter," he explained to the AP at the 2017 premiere of The Mummy . "All you got to do is just be motivated. Anyone can come in, we have the crew come in, and we just make it available to everyone."

As co-star Jake Johnson   revealed: "You start every morning with the daily challenge. So before work starts, you're in there. His hair and makeup team is in there, his crew is in there, so there's about 15, 20 people every day doing their squats and jumping jacks. And then I kinda got into it with him…I wanted to be in a Tom Cruise movie and do it the Tom Cruise way."

That includes, alas, avoiding sugar.

"I love sugar," Cruise assured James Corden  on The Late Late Show in 2018, "but I can't eat it because when I'm training, I'm doing all these movies—so I send it to everyone." And then, "I wait for the calls. Like, 'tell me about it.'"

52. Don't tell anyone, but Cruise is human: Aside from what he did to himself running around in childhood, he threw out his back making Legend ; developed an ulcer while shooting Eyes Wide Shut ; tore his labrum scaling a cliff at Dead Horse Point, Utah, for Mission: Impossible 2 ; and broke an ankle on Mission: Impossible—Fallout .

"It was the easy one where I'm running and I jump from one building to the next," Cruise later described the fateful stunt on  The Tonight Show .

53. But this guy commits . In addition to doing three months of helicopter pilot training in six weeks and learning how to hold his breath like he's David Blaine , he played pool for 12 hours a day to play Fast Eddie Felson's protegee in The Color of Money. He lost 18 pounds and read classic books out loud to work on his diction to play centuries-old Lestat in Interview With the Vampire. He learned German to better embody a World War II-era officer in Valkyrie . He actually spent a year and a half learning how to fly a helicopter for  Mission: Impossible—Fallout  (before his whirlwind certification).

54. "I haven't seen him in awhile, but he has sent me a birthday gift every year since I was 11 years old," Dakota Fanning  said on Watch What Happens Live in 2016 about her dad in 2005's War of the Worlds . "Beautiful gifts, it's really kind. I always think, 'Oh, when I'm 18, he'll probably stop. Oh, 21, he'll stop. But every year."

What does Team Cruise pick out? "It's usually shoes," the actress, then 22, shared.

55. In 1986, he told Cameron Crowe , "Let's face it, I'm not saving lives here. I feel fortunate, but this is just one aspect of my life. I love my work, but my family is very important to me, too. You pick up the paper and see that there are many things happening outside my little world."

Since then, the real-life heroics include, all within a few years in the '90s: He lifted two boys over a barricade to prevent them being crushed at the Mission: Impossible premiere in London; he sent his own yacht's skiff to rescue a family whose sailboat was on fire in the Mediterranean in 1996; he rushed to the aid of a woman who had been mugged in London; and he paid the $7,000 emergency room bill for an uninsured cashier who was injured in a hit and run—an accident Cruise witnessed.

"It's just an impulse," Cruise told People in 2000 about his spate of good deeds. "I was never a Boy Scout, so maybe I'm making up for it now."

Or, as he said in the video of an interview for his church that went viral in 2008, "You can't drive past an accident, because as a Scientologist you are the only one who can help"

56. Though he's the most famous face of Scientology, Cruise is incredibly protective of his beliefs and doesn't say too much about it publicly. But in October 2016, he told ITV at the London premiere of Jack Reacher: Never Go Back , "It's something that has helped me incredibly in my life. I've been a Scientologist for over 30 years. It's something that is, you know...without it, I wouldn't be where I am. So, it's a beautiful religion. I'm incredibly proud."

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Tom Cruise is “extremely confident” about his rumored newfound romance with new flame Elsina Khayrova, according to a report.

The “Top Gun” actor, 61, was first romantically linked to the Russian socialite, 36, last week after the pair cozied up at a party in London.

And it seems as though their rumored romance, which has reportedly been going on for “a while now,” is going from strength to strength.

“They’re very happy,” a source told Us Weekly . “And Tom’s extremely confident about it working out for the long term.”

“They’ve hung out at Tom’s favorite private members club and regularly enjoy afternoon tea and gourmet dinners out in London,” the insider went on.

“Tom’s become a popular figure in London among the well-heeled, elite types. What started as a basic friendship quickly turned into something more special.”

The insiders claimed the actor’s eldest children; Isabella, 30, and Connor, 28, are supportive of their dad’s love life despite the pair’s fairly new relations.

Isabella and Connor “think Elsina is great and are so happy to see that their dad has love in his life again,” the source adds. “He wanted to take his time and not rush into any relationships just for the sake of it.”

Page Six has reached out to Cruise’s reps for comment.

Earlier this week, Cruise spared no expense and rented out an entire floor of the swanky London restaurant Novikov for the pair.

The “Mission Impossible” star “seemed very loved up” and appeared to be “hanging on every word Elsina was saying,” an eyewitness  told the Sun.

“They seemed physically very close,” the source added, telling the outlet that the Russian socialite was “dressed to the nines in a sparkly dress and black fur coat.”

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Cruise reportedly dropped over $600 on lobster, seafood, and sushi at the Russian-owned restaurant, pairing the meal with luxe mocktails.

The source noted that the “very generous” actor had tipped the staff over $100 before he and his date “slipped out the side door into a waiting getaway car.”

Cruise was previously married to actresses Mimi Rogers from 1987 to 1990, Nicole Kidman from 1990 to 2001 and Katie Holmes from 2006 to 2012.

Khayrova, for her part, filed for divorce from Russian oligarch Dmitry Tsetkov in 2022.

The exes, who separated in 2020, share two children.

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Suri Cruise has announced the next big step in her life as she’s set to attend the prestigious Carnegie Mellon University in September.

Suri , 18, the daughter of Hollywood icons Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, revealed the news in a rare TikTok post where she and a group of friends each wore a sweatshirt from their chosen college.

The video, set to the tune of Abbi Sutphen’s Always Remember You, has the caption: ‘LaG commitment day.’

Carnegie Mellon’s School of Design is one of the oldest and most highly ranked programs in the US, and it’s believed the 18-year-old is leaning towards studying fashion .

‘She is a smart girl, and she is turning into a very intelligent mature young woman,’ an insider told the Daily Mail .

‘She has a very close group of loyal friends, and she knows exactly where she comes from.’

Top Gun icon Tom, 61, and Dawson’s Creek’s Katie, 45, welcomed Suri on April 18, 2006, the anniversary of their first date.

Suri is reportedly extremely close to her mum, but it’s believed she hasn’t seen her dad for 11 years .

It’s claimed that the Mission Impossible actor helps his daughter financially, but no longer sees her after he and Katie divorced in 2012 and she left the Church of Scientology.

Tom also has two children from his marriage to Nicole Kidman – Isabella, 31, and Connor, 29 – who he is believed to see regularly and are both members of the Scientology church .

Their divorce settlement stated that the actor agreed to pay his ex-wife $400,000 (£314,200) a year until Suri turned 18, and he will pay for all her college fees.

The agreement states that although he might not see his daughter, he has to cover ‘medical, dental, insurance, education, college and other extracurricular costs.’

Around the time of the divorce was the last time Tom was publicly pictured with Suri, taking her to Disney World in 2012.

At the time, a spokesperson said: ‘Kate has filed for divorce and Tom is deeply saddened and is concentrating on his three children.’

It’s reported that Tom has not seen Suri in the 10 years since, with the pair being no contact for the last three years.

A source told Heat magazine: ‘Tom is feeling guilty about missing so much of her life, but insists that he hasn’t completely shut Suri out of his life, and does get updates from time to time.’

Katie has not commented on Tom’s relationship with their daughter and has stressed the importance of allowing Suri to maintain her privacy.

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Entertainment | like brad pitt’s kids, tom cruise’s suri may have dropped dad’s last name, report says, one-time co-stars brad pitt and tom cruise share an unfortunate bond: both are reportedly dealing with being estranged from once beloved children.

Before news broke in the past week that two of Brad Pitt’s daughters have stopped using his surname, a report said that Tom Cruise’s daughter, Suri, didn’t want to use her mega-star dad’s last name when performing recently in a stage musical.

After Suri celebrated her milestone 18th birthday in April, she is about to graduate from La Guardia High School in New York City, and hinted in a classmates TikTok video that she’s headed to Carnegie Mellon University in the fall. She also made the subtle yet noticeable choice to only be identified as Suri Noelle for a performance of the stage musical “Head Over Heels,” according to a report from Hello magazine.

It’s not clear if the show was presented at Suri’s public high school, which specializes in teaching performing and visual arts, or at a theater in New York City. Suri lives in Manhattan with her mother, Katie Holmes, Cruise’s ex-wife. Hello magazine said Suri starred as Philoclea in the juke-box musical, which features music from the Go-Go’s.

For the show’s program, Suri used Holmes’ middle name, Noelle, as her last name in the show’s credits, Hello reported.

It’s long been reported that Suri has been estranged from her mega-star father, since around the time her mother surprised Cruise in 2012 by reportedly “blindsiding” him and asking for a divorce. Following Cruise and Holmes’ high-profile breakup, there were reports that the “Dawson’s Creek” star left the marriage so that she could protect her daughter from being raised in the cult-like Church of Scientology, of which the “Top Gun” star is a prominent member.

Since then, Suri has grown up under the care of her mother in New York, with the two sharing a close mother-daughter bond, Newsweek reported . There have been questions about whether Suri’s reported estrangement from the Jerry Maguire actor is due to Scientology.

According to its website , church recommends that members stay away from people labeled “suppressive persons,” or SPs, because they are considered “anti-social” personalities who seek to upset and undermines a members’ adherence to Scientology.

It’s been reported that Holmes secured sole custody of Suri in the divorce, while Cruise retained “meaningful” visitation rights. Yet, public sightings of Cruise with his daughter dwindled soon after the divorce, with Page Six saying they were last seen together at Disney World in the summer of 2012.

As Suri has come of age, she has shown an interest in the performing arts, attending La Guardia High School, which is officially known as the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. Her actor-director mother also told Glamour last year that she had asked her daughter to sing the opening credits of her 2022 film, “Alone Together.” Suri’s next destination is Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which is known for having one of the top-ranked undergraduate drama programs in the county.

The Hello report didn’t say whether Suri was using the name “Suri Noelle” just for the musical, or if it signals a more permanent shift in how she identifies herself and in how she may want to relate to her father.

Of course, Cruise wouldn’t be the only top male star right now who’s had a once beloved child reject her association with him, if that’s what Suri intends to do.  The same thing happened to Cruise’s one-time co-star Pitt, who may be estranged from all six of his children with Angelina Jolie.

Pitt, who co-starred with Cruise in the 1994 gothic thriller, “Interview with the Vampire,” has been reminded of this “loss” in recent weeks, a source told People, after he and the rest of the world learned that his 18-year-old daughter Shiloh had dropped “Pitt” from her last name.

There have been news reports over the past several years that indicated that Pitt had probably become estranged from his older adopted children — Maddox, 22, Pax, 20, and Zahara, 19 — amid his contentious and protracted divorce from Jolie. But it’s become apparent in the past week that Pitt may no longer have relationships with his three biological children, Shiloh and 15-year-old twins, Vivienne and Knox.

Last week, Shiloh celebrated her 18th birthday by hiring a lawyer to help her petition the court to legally drop “Pitt” from her surname and to henceforth be known as “Shiloh Jolie,” not “Shiloh Jolie-Pitt,” People and other news outlets reported. People also reported last week that Vivienne had dropped “Pitt” in her Playbill credit for the new musical “The Outsiders,” which her mother produced.

The news about Shiloh hiring an attorney to officially distance herself from Pitt has proved to be especially painful for the “Fight Club” star, according to the People source.

“He’s aware and upset that Shiloh dropped his last name. He’s never felt more joy than when she was born. He always wanted a daughter,” the source said.

“The reminders that he’s lost his children, is of course not easy for Brad,” a source told People Monday. “He loves his children and misses them. It’s very sad.”

People magazine reported that Shiloh’s decision to drop Pitt’s last name was in part motivated by Jolie’s allegations related to her father’s “abuse history.”

The storied Hollywood super couple union between Pitt and Jolie came crashing down in September 2016 when Jolie filed for divorce and reports began circulating that the split was prompted by an altercation involving the couple on a private plane ride from the South of France to Los Angeles.

Several of the actors’ children also reportedly were involved in the incident, according to a subsequent FBI report. Since then, Jolie has accused the “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” actor of being physically abusive on the plane ride and during their two-year marriage and 12-year relationship. Pitt has long denied the abuse allegations and his representatives have pointed out that he was never charged with a crime. Sources close to Pitt also have accused Jolie of working to turn their children against them.

Meanwhile, before Shiloh and Vivienne dropped “Pitt” from their full names, legally or otherwise, their older sister Zahara made a similar move. Zahara was seen in a video shared by Essence magazine, calling herself Zahara Marley Jolie at a 2023 event at Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority at Spelman College.

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Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' daughter Suri reveals her college plans

Tom cruise and katie holmes 18-year-old daughter suri cruise appeared to reveal her college plans in a tiktok video., by sabba rahbar | e online • published june 8, 2024.

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And it seems Suri Cruise already has big plans for her college years with a TikTok from a classmate revealing where she is headed in the fall.

In a video shared on TikTok May 20 with the caption "LaG commitment day," Suri and her friends celebrated which schools they would headed to in the fall, showing off their college sweaters in the video set to the Hannah Montana song "I'll Always Remember You." And the 18-year-old could be seen sporting a red Carnegie Mellon University sweater while making silly faces for the camera and doing a cute dance with her friends.

And while Holmes — who split with Tom in 2012 — has expressed her desire to keep Suri out of the spotlight she has reflected on their life together. And for the "Batman Begins" actress, letting Suri have a private life was important because she was "so visible at a young age."

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"I really like to protect her," the 45-year-old told Glamour last year . "I'm very grateful to be a parent, to be her parent. She's an incredible person."

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And it also meant a lot to the "Dawson's Creek" alum to have Suri sing and do background vocals on her recent projects, 2022's "Alone Together" and 2023's "Rare Objects."

"I hope she always does something on my films," Holmes said. "I always ask her. But both of those experiences came out of the same sense of what I love about our industry, which is, you have these projects and you become a family with people."

She added, "It was very meaningful to me to have her there, because she's my heart."

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