14 DAY TRIAL // Tom Cruise has had it with life in Los Angeles: he’s planning to relocate to Florida, so he can be closer to Scientology and leader David Miscavige, but also to John Travolta, the second most famous celebrity Scientologist.
This is why he’s trying to sell off his properties in and around LA, including his Beverly Hills mansion, for which he wants $50 million (€44.4 million), a new report cited by the Daily Mail claims.
Tom Cruise wants a closer tie with the Church
Cruise is the most famous Scientologist in the world and, in the past, he made honest efforts to get more people to join the cult by praising it in TV and press interviews. The move eventually fired back on him, and it’s only now that he’s recovering from the fallout.
While he might be more discreet about his involvement with the Church, in the sense of refusing to talk about it altogether, he’s still an active member. The fact that Scientology leader David Miscavige was best man at his wedding to Katie Holmes is proof of that.
Well, now Cruise is thinking of moving closer to Miscavige and John Travolta, another famous Scientologist and close friend. Scientology is headquartered in Clearwater.
“Tom hates living in LA and is relocating to Florida. He thinks all the people in Hollywood are fake,” an insider is quoted as saying. “John loves life there. He inspired Tom.”
Apparently, Tom is “ready to go.”
Flying under the radar
Another thing that Tom Cruise would achieve by moving to Florida is flying even more under the radar than he already does because he would escape the paparazzi and the celebrity-obsessed culture in LA.
Since the backlash of some years ago, which nearly cost him his career (and which saw him call Matt Lauer a glib and jump on Oprah’s couch because he was that in love with Holmes), Tom has been working overtime to divert attention from his association with Scientology, and back to his movies.
Obviously, he’s had little success with that, but not for lack of trying.
For instance, during the promo tour for the latest “Mission: Impossible” movie, “Rogue Nation,” no representative of the media was allowed to ask him Scientology-related questions. Not even Jon Stewart of Comedy Central dared to break the ban, and he’s not exactly the kind of guy who plays by the rules.