Hollywood A-listers Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are divorcing, marking the end to their five-year marriage, the BBC reported. The office of celebrity divorce lawyer Jonathan Wolfe has confirmed the divorce.

They have a six-year-old daughter, Suri, and Cruise, 49, has two children from his previous marriage to Nicole Kidman. Cruise married Holmes, 33, his third wife, in an Italian castle in November 2006.

It's reported that Holmes filed for divorce in New York last Thursday, citing irreconcilable differences, and that she is seeking sole custody of their daughter.

Experts said on Monday that actress Katie Holmes faces two strong adversaries in her legal fight for sole custody of 6-year-old daughter, Suri, Reuters reported. Holmes will come up against husband Tom Cruise and his scientology religion in her custody battle.

While Holmes, Cruise and representatives for both have remained quiet about the reasons for the divorce, speculation in the media is that Suri, now at the age when she begins formal education, and the Church of Scientology, of which Cruise is a key member, are central to the breakup.

Divorce lawyer Lubov Stark said: "The daughter is in the middle of this whole divorce. She seems to have been raised in Scientology up to this age, so if the judge comes in and gives custody to Katie Holmes, she can change (Suri's) religion."

Rick Ross, an expert on cults, added: "Scientology is a potentially unsafe, if not dangerous, organization."

(China.org.cn July 4, 2012)

據英國廣播公司報道，好萊塢影星湯姆·克魯斯和凱蒂·霍爾姆斯正在辦理離婚，標志著5年婚姻走到盡頭。名流離婚事務所的律師喬納森·伍爾夫確認了離婚消息。

49歲的克魯斯與妻子有一個6歲的女兒蘇瑞，而他與前妻尼柯·基德曼還有兩個孩子。克魯斯和第三任妻子33歲的霍姆斯于2006年11月在意大利城堡內舉行了婚禮。

據報道，霍爾姆斯于本周四在紐約提出離婚申請，以“不可調和的分歧”為由提出與湯姆·克魯斯結束婚姻，并且申請要求女兒的唯一合法監護權。

據路透社報道，專家表示，演員凱蒂·霍爾姆斯在打官司爭奪對6歲女兒蘇瑞的全權撫養權方面面臨兩大勁敵。在這場撫養權爭奪戰中，霍爾姆斯既要對付丈夫湯姆·克魯斯，還要應對他的科學神教信仰。

雖然霍爾姆斯、克魯斯以及雙方的代理人對離婚原因保持沉默，但是媒體紛紛推測，蘇瑞和科學神教正是離婚的核心所在。如今蘇瑞到了接受正式教育的年齡，而克魯斯是科學神教的關鍵成員。

離婚律師盧博夫·斯塔克說：“女兒是整個離婚事件的中心。她貌似是在科學神教的環境中長到這個歲數，所以如果法官把撫養權判給凱蒂·霍爾姆斯，她可以改變（蘇瑞的）宗教信仰。”

邪教專家瑞克·羅斯說：“科學神教可能是個不安全的組織，甚至可能是危險的。”