Tom Cruise sues over 'abandoned' headlines
Legal team calls Life & Style magazine 'serial defamers'
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Has Suri Cruise been "abandoned"? One magazine is being sued for saying so...And find out what country singer is getting help for anxiety.
Cristina Mutchler has the details in today's Hollywood Minute.
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TOM CRUISE IS SUING THE PUBLISHER OF "LIFE AND STYLE" MAGAZINE FOR 50 MILLION DOLLARS FOR MAKING FALSE ALLEGATIONS ABOUT HIS PARENTING.
IN A COMPLAINT FILED IN CALIFORNIA DISTRICT COURT, CRUISE'S LAWYERS SAY THE PUBLISHERS RAN STORIES CLAIMING THE ACTOR "ABANDONED" HIS DAUGHTER SURI.
IN A PRESS RELEASE HIS LEAGAL TEAM CALLS THE MAGAZINE "SERIAL DEFAMERS" AND THE ARTICLES "REPREHENSIBLE ."
THE ARTICLES IN QUESTION RAN AROUND THE TIME CRUISE AND EX-WIFE KATIE HOLMES WERE GOING THROUGH THEIR DIVORCE.
REPRESENTATIVES FOR "LIFE AND STYLE" MAGAZINE SAID THEY HAVE NO COMMENT ABOUT THE SUIT.
LEANN RIMES IS OPENING UP ABOUT HER BATTLE WITH ANXIETY.
THE SINGER SAYS SHE VOLUNTARLY CHECKED HERSELF INTO A PROGRAM LAST MONTH TO HELP HER BETTER HANDLE ALL THE EMOTIONS THAT COME WITH LIVING IN THE SPOTLIGHT.
IN AN INTERVIEW WITH KATIE COURIC THAT AIRS THURSDAY, RIMES SAYS IT'S HARD FOR PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND WHY SHE STRUGGLES.
BUT SAYS NOW THAT SHE'S GETTING HELP, IT FEELS LIKE SHE'S BEEN GIVEN A FRESH START.
BOBBY BROWN WAS BOOKED FOR HIS SECOND DUI IN SEVERAL MONTHS ON WEDNESDAY.
WHITNEY HOUSTON'S EX WAS PULLED OVER AROUND 1AM IN LOS ANGELES FOR A TRAFFIC VIOLATION AND GIVEN A SOBRIETY TEST..
BROWN WAS RELEASED WITHIN HOURS OF HIS ARREST.
FOR HOLLYWOOD MINUTE, I'M CRISTINA MUTCHLER.
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