Tom Cruise's lawyer says his client will file a rival divorce case but will not reveal where.?Bert Fields also revealed he's allowing Katie Holmes' legal team to "play the media" before allowing Cruise to tell his side of the marriage breakdown.

It's after the actress issued a statement last week announcing her intention to divorce Tom Cruise.?The 50-year-old actor issued a statement of his own saying he was "deeply saddened" by the news.?The couple have a six-year-old daughter, Suri.?"Tactically we can't say where Tom will file a divorce case and if he'll be seeking joint custody of Suri," said Mr Fields.

Irreconcilable differences

Fields said that Tom Cruise was "very sad" about the breakdown of his five-year marriage.?"We are letting 'the other side' (Katie and her team), play the media until they wear everyone out and then we'll have something to say.

We are letting 'the other side' (Katie and her team), play the media until they wear everyone out and then we'll have something to say.?"It's not Tom's style to do this publicly. He is really sad about what's happening."

TMZ News has reported that Holmes filed divorce papers in New York last Thursday (28 June) citing irreconcilable differences and that she was seeking sole custody of their daughter.?There has been speculation that the Mission Impossible star would be filing a counter divorce case in Los Angeles and would be seeking to have joint custody of Suri, but Mr Fields would not confirm that.

Cruise married Holmes, 33 - his third wife - in an Italian castle in November 2006.

He was reported to be in Iceland shooting an upcoming film called Oblivion. He also starred in the recently released Rock Of Ages.?It has been confirmed that Katie Holmes has left her former publicist and will star alongside Gossip Girl's Chace Crawford in the upcoming film Responsible Adults.?It starts filming later this year.

滬江娛樂快訊：湯姆·克魯斯要出招了！他的離婚律師柏特菲爾斯告訴英國廣播公司，他“正在準備離婚文件”，雖暫時默不作聲，讓“準前妻”凱蒂·赫爾姆斯操弄媒體于股掌間，但他馬上就要展開攻擊了。

菲爾斯說：“我沒辦法將詳盡戰(zhàn)術告訴你，阿湯是要在洛杉磯或紐約提出離婚，或是要共同監(jiān)護女兒，抑或提出爭取唯一監(jiān)護權?！钡押桶懻?，在7月17日上法院前就讓凱蒂大放厥詞，“我們希望凱蒂把所有話或關系人都講出來，然后再見招拆招?！卑缫舱胰朔旁捊o八卦網(wǎng)站“TMZ”：“兩人離婚根本與山達基教無關，一切都是對方無的放矢，編造謊言，中傷阿湯哥，當初她上教會也是自愿的，沒人逼迫她。”與阿湯哥要好的派拉蒙電影公司也成了人證，在這個關鍵時刻聲明：“阿湯哥是個巨星，既有才能又有票房，總能吸引數(shù)以百萬計的觀眾，相信大家都該記住這點?！?/p>

事件背景：
凱蒂談離婚理由：不希望阿湯哥影響女兒宗教觀
據(jù)好萊塢方面可靠消息，湯姆·克魯斯馬上要同現(xiàn)任妻子凱蒂·赫爾姆斯離婚了。知情人士稱，此次離婚是凱蒂提出的，根本原因是凱蒂·赫爾姆斯不希望湯姆過多地灌輸他的宗教思想給他們6歲的女兒蘇瑞。