Tom Cruise's lawyers have threatened to sue the parent company of the National Enquirer over its latest issue claiming to have intimate details of the actor's recent split with Katie Holmes, according to reports in the US.
The Hollywood Reporter posted a letter on its website from Cruise's Los Angeles lawyer, Bert Fields, in which he lambasts American Media Inc, parent of the Enquirer, for what he calls "false and vicious lies" he says will cause "hundreds of millions of dollars" in damages to Cruise.
"As you were notified in advance, your current issue of National Enquirer makes numerous false and defamatory assertions about our client Tom Cruise," the three-page letter begins.
The letter draws attention to disparaging descriptions of Cruise in the Enquirer's issue that hit news-stands on Wednesday, with Fields writing, "These are all lies – vicious, hurtful, damaging lies."
Mr Fields did not respond to Reuters' requests for comment late on Wednesday and a representative for American Media could not be reached.
Cruise and Holmes have been the subject of hundreds of headlines worldwide since she filed for divorce from the "Mission: Impossible" movie star two weeks ago, seeking sole custody of their six-year-old daughter, Suri.
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