Tom Cruise Testimony Protected Under 'Extreme Measures' Conditioned by Actor
Tom Cruise's recent testimony in connection to a wiretapping case is making headlines after reports that the actor requested "extreme measures" to protect his videotaped deposition.
According to celebrities' site Radaronline.com, Cruise sat for a three-hour videotaped deposition on Dec. 18 and strictly ordered that the contents are never released to the public prior trial, during trial or after trial.
"No copies of the videotape, or any video or audio portions thereof, may be made and no one other than the counsel for the Parties and the Custodian, as defined below, may have access to the videotape," Cruise asked, according to court papers obtained by Radaronline.com
Cruise also asked that a sole guardian keeps the original video tape and they "shall safeguard and permit no one to view, audit or copy the videotape," without instructions from the court, reports the site.
After the strict measures, people begin to wonder, what Cruise said in the testimony that he doesn't want anybody to know.
"What's he got to hide?" said Facebook user Ree Cee on a New York Post message board.
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The wiretapping case goes back to 2009 when magazine editor Michael Davis Sapir reportedly sued Cruise for $5 million accusing him and his lawyer Bert Fields, of hiring a private investigator to tap Sapir's phones.
In 2001, Cruise had sued Sapir after the editor offered half a million dollars to the person who could have evidence that Cruise was gay. Sapir claimed he had a videotape that proved Cruise was gay but it was later established that no such tape existed and the case was settled in that instance.
If the case goes to trial, Cruise demands that the tape remains tightly guarded.
"Counsel for Plaintiff, Johnson & Johnson, shall take custody of the videotape and shall maintain and make use of same (including adaptations) through the conclusion of trail; provided, however, that Plaintiff Sapir shall not be permitted to view, use or acces the videotape (or any adaptation made there from) at any time prior to trail and, during trial, Sapir's access to the videotape will be limited to viewing the videotape during open court proceedings," according to the site.
