"Rock of A long time" big name Tom Cruise and his spouse Katie Holmes are divorcing after 5 years of marriage, Fox Information Channel confirms.

"This is a private and personal topic for Katie and her family," Holmes' legal professional Jonathan Wolfe mentioned. "Katie's number one fear remains, because it at all times has been, her daughter's best possible interest." 

A rep for Cruise issued a press release pronouncing that Holmes filed the divorce papers.

"Kate has filed for divorce and Tom is deeply saddened and is targeting his three youngsters. Please permit them their privateness to paintings this out," Amanda Lundberg said.

The information of the divorce was first mentioned by People magazine. 

The couple has a 6-year-old daughter, Suri Cruise.

Cruise, 49, and Holmes, 33, had been married at an Italian fortress within the fall of 2006 after a whirlwind romance that garnered leading headlines for each stars. 

Cruise was extensively mocked and panned for an look at the "Oprah Winfrey Show," the place he jumped on a sofa at the same time as emphatically pointing out his love for the previous "Dawson's Creek" actress in 2005.

"I cannot be cool. I WILL NOT be laid-back," Cruise instructed Winfrey on the time. "ONE THING came about and that i need to have a good time it."

The couple's dating persevered to be a huge supply of public fascination over the following couple of years. After relationship for only a few months, Cruise reportedly proposed to Holmes on most sensible of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Holmes steadily gushed approximately her husband, announcing she dreamed of marrying him given that she was a tender girl.

But the reputedly fairytale romance was additionally suffering from studies that their marriage was a sham. Holmes ceaselessly gave the impression on tabloid covers being portrayed as a sufferer or prisoner of the connection. Holmes' conversion from Catholicism to Scientology additionally ruled headlines, as did younger Suri's penchant for prime heels and Starbucks.

This was Cruise’s 3rd marriage. He was up to now married to Nicole Kidman, with whom he has children, and Mimi Rogers.  It was the primary marriage for Holmes.