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Tom Cruise authorized the filing of a $50 million lawsuit against Life & Style magazine for publishing a false claim about his relationship with daughter Suri.

According to his lawyer Bert Fields, a defamation claim was filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

The litigation is the result of a false story claiming that Cruise abandoned his six-year-old daughter after Katie Holmes filed for divorce.

Fields released this statement: “Tom doesn’t go around suing people. But when these sleaze peddlers try to make money with disgusting lies about his relationship with his child, you bet he’s going to sue.”

“These serial defamers are foreign-owned companies with their global headquarters in Hamburg. They take money from unsuspecting Americans by selling their malicious garbage. Having to pay a libel judgment may slow them down. Tom will undoubtedly give the money to charity. He always has.”

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