Tom Cruise Is Sued for Illegal Wiretapping

Tue, 22 December 2009 03:37:01 ET

Reportedly hiring a private investigator to illegally wiretap the phone of magazine editor Michael Davis Sapir, the 47-year-old actor has to deal with the lawsuit that may cost him 5 million dollars.

Tom Cruise is facing a lawsuit for allegedly wiretapping the telephone of Bold magazine editor Michael Davis Sapir. TMZ reported that Sapir has filed the lawsuit document on Friday, December 18 in a Los Angeles court and is seeking for a minimum of 5 million dollars compensation from the Ethan Hunt of the "Mission: Impossible" series.

Sapir accused Cruise has hired a private investigator to illegally wiretap his phone during the course of the 2001 litigation in which the husband of actress Katie Holmes sued Sapir after the editor claimed to have a video tape of the actor being "engaged in a homosexual relationship." In addition to the actor, Sapir also named Cruise's attorney, Bert Fields, and private investigator Anthony Pallicano as the conspirators for the spying.

When approached by TMZ to give comment on the lawsuit, Fields insisted that the report suggesting Cruise hired the private investigator to do the illegal act is a false one. The attorney stated, "The allegations are absolute garbage. We did not even hire Pellicano to work on the Sapir case."

This illegal wiretapping case aside, the 2001 lawsuit between Tom Cruise and Michael Davis Sapir was sparked by the Bold publication which offered a $500,000 reward for video evidence that Cruise is gay. Shortly after, Sapir claimed to have received an email with a videotape. Cruise was quick to deny the accusation, and threw a lawsuit, asking for $100 million in damages.

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