Editing David Miscavige (section)

===Friendship with Tom Cruise===
Miscavige is a close friend of actor [[Tom Cruise]]<ref name="cruiseand">{{cite news |last=Hoffman |first=Claire |title=Tom Cruise and Scientology |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=December 18, 2005 |url=https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-scientology18dec18,0,2963052.story |access-date=October 12, 2010}}</ref> and served as [[best man]] at Cruise's wedding to [[Katie Holmes]].<ref name="revisits">{{cite news |title=John Sweeney revisits the Church of Scientology |work=[[BBC News]] |date=September 26, 2010 |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front_page/newsid_9032000/9032278.stm |access-date=October 15, 2010}}</ref> Cruise was converted to Scientology by his first wife [[Mimi Rogers]] in 1986, becoming an outspoken advocate for the [[Church of Scientology]] in the 2000s. Around the same time Cruise was beginning his relationship with Rogers, Miscavige made an announcement at a Church of Scientology rally, "The most important recruit ever is in the process of being secured. His arrival will change the face of Scientology forever."<ref name="cahalan">{{cite news   | last =Cahalan  | first =Sussanah  |author2=Cathy Burke |author3=Jeane MacIntosh   | title =Slam vs. Sect in Tell-All on Tom: Writer's Tale of Love-Life Control Sure to Provoke Scientology  | work =[[New York Post]]  |    date =January 6, 2008 | url =http://www.nypost.com/seven/01062008/news/nationalnews/slams_vs__sect_in_tell_all_on_tom_116950.htm?page=1  | access-date = January 6, 2008 }}</ref>

His involvement in the organization was leaked by the tabloid ''[[Star (magazine)|Star]]'' in 1990, and he publicly admitted to following Scientology in a 1992 interview with [[Barbara Walters]]. According to the book ''[[Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion]]'' by [[Janet Reitman]], seven years after Cruise started studying Scientology, the organization's leaders promised to share Scientology secrets, such as the story of the extraterrestrial ruler [[Xenu]]. According to Reitman's book, Cruise "freaked out" and took a step back.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=How The Scientologists Recruited Tom Cruise |url=https://news.yahoo.com/news/church-scientology-landed-biggest-megastar-164734456.html |access-date=June 18, 2022 |website=news.yahoo.com |date=July 9, 2012 |language=en-US}}</ref> He removed himself from the Church and worked on the film ''Eyes Wide Shut'' until 1999 when Miscavige sent [[Mark Rathbun|Marty Rathbun]] to successfully "retrieve" Cruise and convince him to continue training.<ref name=":2" />

[[Lawrence Wright]]'s 2013 book ''[[Going Clear (book)|Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief]]'' and [[Alex Gibney]]'s [[Going Clear (film)|2015 television documentary adaptation of the same name]] cast a spotlight on Cruise's role in Scientology. The book and the film both allege that the Scientology organization groomed romantic partners for Cruise and that Cruise used [[Sea Org]] and [[Rehabilitation Project Force]] workers as a source of free labor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/tom-cruises-secret-scientology-girlfriend-nazanin-boniadi-2015-3|title=Tom Cruise's secret Scientology girlfriend Nazanin Boniadi|date=April 1, 2015|work=Business Insider|access-date=April 4, 2015|archive-date=December 22, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222081113/http://www.businessinsider.com/tom-cruises-secret-scientology-girlfriend-nazanin-boniadi-2015-3|url-status=live}}</ref>{{r|wright|pp=270-303}} In the film, Cruise's former auditor Marty Rathbun claims that second wife [[Nicole Kidman]] was wiretapped on Cruise's suggestion, which Cruise's lawyer denies.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11370754/Scientology-leaders-ordered-Nicole-Kidman-wiretap-during-Tom-Cruise-marriage.html|title=Scientology leaders 'ordered Nicole Kidman wiretap' during Tom Cruise marriage|date=January 26, 2015|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|access-date=April 2, 2018|archive-date=December 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229041531/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11370754/Scientology-leaders-ordered-Nicole-Kidman-wiretap-during-Tom-Cruise-marriage.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eonline.com/news/618897/controversial-scientology-documentary-alleges-tom-cruise-wiretapped-nicole-kidman-s-phone-church-slams-claims|title=Controversial Scientology Documentary Alleges Tom Cruise Wiretapped Nicole Kidman's Phone, Church Slams Claims|work=E! Online|date=January 27, 2015|access-date=April 4, 2015|archive-date=December 13, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151213122621/http://www.eonline.com/news/618897/controversial-scientology-documentary-alleges-tom-cruise-wiretapped-nicole-kidman-s-phone-church-slams-claims|url-status=live}}</ref> Cruise's ex-girlfriend [[Nazanin Boniadi]] later compared the Scientology organization's auditioning of women to date Cruise and experiences with him to "[[white slavery]]."<ref>{{Cite web|date=May 10, 2017|title=Nazanin Boniadi's FBI testimony: Cast as Tom Cruise's girlfriend by Scientology|url=http://tonyortega.org/2017/05/10/nazanin-boniadi-fbi-testimony-cast-as-tom-cruises-girlfriend-by-scientology/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170510133625/http://tonyortega.org/2017/05/10/nazanin-boniadi-fbi-testimony-cast-as-tom-cruises-girlfriend-by-scientology/|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 10, 2017|access-date=July 13, 2021}}</ref>