NEW YORK — Actors Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are divorcing, bringing an end to one of Hollywood’s most unexpected marriages, one that spawned euphoric couch-jumping on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and endless speculation in the tabloids.
After five years of marriage, Holmes filed for divorce from Cruise on Thursday, said Cruise’s lawyer Bert Fields.
“This is a personal and private matter for Katie and her family,” Holmes’s attorney Jonathan Wolfe said Friday.
Cruise, 49, wed the 33-year-old Holmes in 2006 in an Italian castle after his starry-eyed public declaration of love on Winfrey’s show — famously jumped on the studio couch.
The couple has a 6-year-old daughter, Suri, who has herself become a staple of the tabloids and celebrity magazines that chattered about everything from the couple’s fights and Suri’s shoes to Holmes’ conversion to Scientology.
Holmes appeared to have filed anonymously, a method of divorce filing legal in New York. Cruise has two children with his previous wife, Nicole Kidman, and was previously married Mimi Rogers. This is Holmes’ first marriage. The Associated Press
