CRUISE RUSSIAN TO THE ALTAR!
Falls hard for Putin princess
LOVE-STARVED Tom Cruise is romancing a ravishing Russian socialite with close ties to the brutal regime of her homeland’s dictator, Vladimir Putin, sources spill.
But the Mission: Impossible superspy and his mysterious sweetie Elsina Khayrova — daughter of Russian parliament member and Putin crony Rinat Khayrov — should be wary of each other harboring hidden motives for their fling, tipsters tell The National ENQUIRER!
Cruise, 61, was recently caught canoodling with the former model, who’s fresh off a divorce from diamonddealing oligarch Dmitry Tsetkov, at a high-society
affair in London and insiders hint marriage is in the air.
“Tom’s been told Elsina could be a Putin pawn,” a mole squeals. “Convincing an American icon to look sympathetic to his warmongering agenda would be a huge international P.R. win for Putin!”
Meanwhile, sources dish the onetime Miss Europe contestant, 36, should scrutinize the Top Gun hunk’s intentions, too!
“Tom has been looking for a new bride for years — and not just for himself,” an insider blabs. “He is the de facto face of the Church of Scientology, and there is nothing they would like more now than for Tom to have a highly publicized wedding!”
Sources insist the religion’s bigwigs are convinced a Cruise marriage would erase all the negative attention Scientology received when another celebrity poster boy, That ’70s Show star Danny Masterson, was convicted of raping two former church members, who told a court the organization tried to suppress their charges. Scientology officials insist the women are lying — and aspects of the case are now in civil court.
“Scientology’s leaders would LOVE the positive press that would come with Tom crowning Elsina the church’s new queen,” the insider says. “But her links to Putin make it a two-edged sword.”