Tom Cruise’s Scientologist Sister To Be Deposed In Libel Lawsuit
Nov. 14 2013, Published 6:31 a.m. ET
The sister of Hollywood megastar Tom Cruise will be forced to answer questions about her brother’s parenting and split from ex-wife Katie Holmes as part of the bitter libel lawsuit against two magazines, Breaking Celebrity News has exclusively learned.
Lee Ann De Vette, a Scientologist and key member of the 51-year-old’s entourage who once acted as his publicist, has been slapped with a subpoena by Bauer Media in a move to compel her to sit for the interrogation, multiple sources have confirmed.
As Breaking Celebrity News first revealed, De Vette was dragged into Cruise’s case against In Touch and Life & Style — who he is suing for $50 million over claims he abandoned his seven-year-old daughter Suri.
In emails uncovered in the discovery phase of the lawsuit, it emerged De Vette was acting as her brother’s pseudo-publicit in the wake of his marriage split by instructing some of Cruise’s loyal aides to respond to a report over her brother’s trip with Suri to Disney World in Florida.