Tom Cruise Weirdo alert: Interactive Interview and Gay Rumors

1. Tom Cruise is suing Kyle Bradford for defamation. Bradford, a gay porn star whose real name is Chad Slater, allegedly told French celebrity gossip magazine Actustar that he had an affair with Cruise during his marriage to Nicole Kidman. The $100 million lawsuit states, "There is not a germ of truth to this vicious, self- promoting story. While Cruise thoroughly respects others rights to follow their own sexual preference, he is not a homosexual and had no relationship of any kind with Kyle Bradford and does not even know him." A longer story at E! reviews Cruise's history of battling gay rumors and reports that Actustar has since printed a retraction. Daze reprints and translates the original Actustar story here.

2. After being sued by Tom Cruise for $100 million, Kyle Bradford posted the following statement on his personal web site: "Regarding the news everyone has been reading...... I have never been to France, I have never spoken with 'Actustar Magazine', and have never said any of the statements allegedly said by me. The things being reported internationally are totally untrue and very hurtful to all parties."

3. Tom Cruise has filed another $100 million lawsuit to quash gay rumors, this time against someone who sent emails offering a videotape which supposedly depicted Cruise having gay sex. His lawyer says, "[Cruise] is a great respecter of homosexual rights, but he's not gay, and he's ready to prove this in court," which would certainly boost ratings at CourtTV.

4. Tom Cruise has extended his $100 million defamation suit against gay porn star Kyle Bradford to include Bradford's wife Kristina Ann Kirstin. Cruise filed the original suit in May based on an article in the French tabloid Actustar, in which Bradford supposedly recounted his yearlong affair with Cruise. Bradford has since denied ever meeting Cruise or speaking to Actustar, and the magazine published a retraction. Kirstin admits she spoke to the National Enquirer about the alleged affair, but only after the original lawsuit was filed, and she denies saying anything defamatory.

5. A Los Angeles judge on Wednesday ordered Tom Cruise to pay $27,900 in legal fees to Kristina Ann Kirstin, the ex-wife of gay porn star Kyle Bradford (real name: Chad Slater). Cruise sued Bradford for $100 million over a French tabloid story which quoted Bradford discussing a torrid affair with Cruise. Bradford denied ever talking to the tabloid or ever having met Cruise, and the tabloid published a retraction, but Cruise is still pursuing the lawsuit. Then Kirstin tried to sell her own story about a Bradford-Cruise affair to the National Enquirer, so Cruise added her to the lawsuit.

6. Author David Ehrenstein has posted several rounds of legal correspondence between Tom Cruise's lawyers and the lawyers for William Morrow & Company, publishers of Ehrenstein's book Open Secret: Gay Hollywood 1928-1996. (Link snagged from Metafilter, natch.)

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