Cruise \nHOLLYWOOD - That'll teach the Star - or any other tabloid, for that matter - to say how bumbling Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were between the sheets. The husband-and-wife acting team who starred in Eyes Wide Shut have not only settled a suit against the Star for saying so, but the tabloid will print a full retraction and donate an unspecified sum to a charity of the couple's choosing.
In March, the tabloid published a story headlined "We Had To Teach Tom and Nicole How To Make Love," claiming the late Stanley Kubrick had to hire a pair of sex therapists to coach Cruise and Kidman because, presumably, the couple were hardly convincing in bed.
Almost predictably, the couple fired back, calling the article baloney and filing a defamation suit a month later, claiming "shame, mortification, hurt feelings, and severe emotional distress," according to Yahoo! Entertainment Headlines.
Nevertheless, Phil Bunton, the Star's editor in chief, stood by the article at that time. But on Friday, the settlement was announced. The full retraction runs in the current issue. The couple's attorney is quoted as saying his clients "are very pleased".
The Star had claimed in the original article that sex therapists Tony and Wendy Duffield were hired to coach Cruise and Kidman, but the couple fired back with sworn affidavits from the Duffields saying they weren't hired to coach the couple and never even met Kubrick, whom allegedly triggered their hiring in the first place.
