Newsmakers

Tom Cruise has spent the better part of a decade denying rumors that he is gay--perhaps because he has starred in films with titles like A Few Good Men, Top Gun and The Firm.

Now he's filed a $100 million lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court against a porn star who may or may not have told a French magazine that Cruise was his lover. According to the suit, Chad Slater, who performs under the name Kyle Bradford, told Actustar that he had "a continuing homosexual affair with Tom Cruise and that this affair was discovered by Mr. Cruise's wife, leading to their divorce." Slater issued a complete denial. "I have never been to France, I have never spoken with Actustar magazine and have never said any of the alleged statements," reads a message on Slater's website.

Whoever is at fault, Cruise's lawyer Bert Fields sounds like a man sitting atop one-third of a big pile of cash: "We're still trying to figure out the facts, but if [Slater's] denial turns out to be the truth, we're really going after that magazine." Please, someone call me gay.