Cruise filed a $100 million defamation claim against p*rn actor Chad Slater, who goes by the stage name Kyle Bradford, in 2006, according to ABC News. The decision was made after Slater purportedly claimed that he had a love affair with the actor, which caused his marriage with Nicole Kidman to end.
Filed by the Top Gun star, the lawsuit against the p*rn star read, “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”.
Cruise won the legal battle, however, despite filing a $100 million lawsuit, he only got $10 million. The actor apparently donated the money he received from the lawsuit to a charity, according to reports.
Before this, the actor and Nicole Kidman had previously sued a British tabloid for referring to their marriage as a “sham”.
For the unversed, both Cruise and Kidman have now moved on in their lives. In 2006, the actor got hitched to Katie Holmes after parting ways with Kidman after 11 years of marriage. However, the duo ended their marriage in 2012.
On the professional front, Cruise is currently working on Mission Impossible 7, which is slated to release in 2023. While the eighth part is expected to hit the theatres in 2024.