Michael Doven, Tom Cruise's Personal Assistant, Spied on Him For Church of Scientology -- Report

By Dennis Romero Fri., Jan. 13 2012 at 1:36 PM

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If you wonder how the creepy Church of Scientology keeps tabs on its superstar converts (and -- perhaps -- digs up a little dirt?), Tony Ortega, editor-in-chief of our sister paper, Village Voice, might have found out.

His mega-scoop today:

Between 1991 and 2005, Cruise's personal assistant, Michael Doven, was also ...

... a church spy.

That's right. He reported directly to church leader David Miscavige (via Miscavige's wife), too. Why did they need to be all up in Cruise's bidness?

Turns out that he was estranged from the church from 1991 to 2001, according to the report:

Doven was there the entire time, reporting to Miscavige everything that Tom was doing," [former church No. 2 Marty] Rathbun told me. When I asked Rathbun how he knew that, he answered in Scientology jargon: "How do I know that? Because I was on that line."
"Doven was personally reporting to you what Tom was doing?" I asked him, for clarification.

"Absolutely," Rathbun answered. "He'd be telling me what was happening with Nic [Nicole Kidman], what was happening in the household, what was happening between Tom and Steven Spielberg. He had been reporting to us from the early 1990s."

Other awesome tidbits:

-Nicole Kidman's parents reportedly did not like the Cruise-Kidman family's involvement with the church, an issue that turned up during their divorce, apparently.

-The church reportedly wanted to pressure Cruise's agent to do something about an embarrassing 2005 South Park episode called "Tom Cruise Won't Come Out of The Closet."

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-Cruise didn't know he was being spied on, and "treated Doven like shit in front of me," said Rathbun.

Read all about it here.

[@dennisjromero / djromero@laweekly.com / @LAWeeklyNews]

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Scientology, Tom Cruise, Tony Ortega, Village Voice

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Rocko19

What an imbecile for letting Kidman go.What he has now is nothing next to Kidman.How does this cult do it? Man! they break up families, marriages, friends, all the time.Their in gov jobs, IRS, Pentagon, media, Hollywood.They had connections to Clinton with Greta at Fox.Bill Clinton went to Germany for Scientology and in return Greta and her husband, both Seismologist helped him with his legal cases. They own billions of dollars of prime property, all over the world.They just purchased the KCET Studios in Hollywood that came about 8 acres. They pay no income tax, you pay for them.They call themselves a church, what a joke.'.

Anon A

Another nail in the coffin for the sinking ship that is the Cult of Scientology.

Reasonable_Insanity

Tom Cruise is an idiot. Nuff said.

He was estranged from the cult because his ex-wife made it happen to the chagrin of David Miscaviage. That is one of the most awesome part of the article, Kidman refused to be indoctrinated into the cult and let her feelings on Miscaviage be known. Smart woman.

kirstieFATalley

That what he gets for getting mixed up with a cult that was caught in the largest case of domestic espionage in American history (Operation Snow White). Scientology figured out that knowledge is power. This is very important to a criminal cult. They even had a LAPD officer tip them off that the FBI was about to raid them.

roger mellie

I get the impression Tom Cruise isn't so in to the whole church of scientology thing, hard to say if he's still a card carrying fruitloop or not though. I really hope he's not. Does he still hang around with David Miscavige? Does katie holmes still have a church of scientology minder?

DeckardCain

Tom Cruise has dirty hands when it comes to the illegal activities of the 'Church' of Scientology. He's accepted obscenely expensive personal gifts (a customized, bullet proof SUV for example) from a tax exempt organization. I wish the Occupy movement would have focused on that waste of tax payers' money instead of pooping in the park around City Hall.