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Cruise, Kidman Separate
Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman announced Monday that they are
separating after 11 years of marriage,
reports their
spokesman, Pat Kingsley. Kingsley said the decision was made with regret. "Citing the difficulties
inherent in divergent
careers, which constantly keep them apart, they concluded
that an amicable separation seems best for both of them at
this time," Kingsley said. Cruise, 38, and Kidman, 33, who
met on the set of their 1990 film "Days of Thunder" and
married that December in a top secret ceremony that left
them both with tears in their eyes, PEOPLE reported at the
time, have two adopted children, Connor, 6, and Isabella, 8.
Whether or not custody will be shared has not been made
public, and Kingsley denied further comment. Cruise and
Kidman, who have houses in Australia and Los Angeles,
certainly have demanding careers. Cruise has enjoyed a film
career as Oscar-nominated actor ("Born on the Fourth of
July," "Magnolia," "Jerry Maguire") and action hero
(the
"Mission: Impossible" movies) while Kidman has earned
acclaim (and a Golden Globe Award) for "To Die For" and has appeared
in mainstream films like "Batman Forever." The
couple has also shared screen time, in "Far and Away" and
"Days of Thunder," as well as Stanley Kubrick's final film,
"Eyes Wide Shut." Last fall, Kidman spent three months in
Spain to film "The Others," with Cruise as one of the
executive producers. The separation may come as a shock to
some, as Kidman and Cruise seemed like the fairytale
Hollywood couple. "We have so much in common that it's
almost as if we are the same person," she told PEOPLE in
1992. "We know what it takes to make each other happy." In
lighter news, Kidman, and the tennis-playing Williams
sisters, won their cases Monday to evict cybersquatters from
contested domain names. Kidman won against American John Zuccarini who had
registered nicolekidman.com and nicolekidmannude.com, but failed to respond to
the complaint, according to the separate decision by three World Intellectual
Property Organization arbitrators. The Williams’ won back the top-level
domain names venusandserenawilliams.com, venusandserenawilliams.net and
venusandserenawilliams.org. Kidman and Serena and Venus Williams all proved
that the domain names were "identical or confusingly similar" to a
trademark, that the defendant had "no rights or legitimate
interests" and that the domain name had been registered and was being
used in bad faith.
