Leah says the stories she’s heard from former Tom Cruise employees follow a repeated pattern. “I think it’s important to show a history of Cruise using Tommy Davis and his Scientology power to abuse and bully people,” Leah says. “They used the information of Nicole’s confessional folders. They went into the folder of Nazanin’s boyfriend to find his confidential ‘trangressions’ to feed to Naz and break them up so Tom could have her. When the member of the team started making noises about Tom not being able to do what they had been hired for, they were pulled in for interrogations. ‘Do you have overts towards Tom?’ they were asked. It’s a history, and it’s a pattern. It’s all about keeping people silent about Tom, and they’re using the money and power of Scientology to silence people, like they did with the Australian news program.”
One way that Cruise silences people is through draconian non-disclosure contracts that he requires people in his life to sign, including the employees at Odin Productions. We obtained a copy of an Odin employment contract, which included a section about how much his employees could expect to pay if they dare to speak out about him.
A list of liquidated damages amounts follows, “which they [the signer] acknowledge and agree is reasonable in light of the circumstances at the time this contract is made.”
Disclosure of confidential information: $50,000 “for each person to whom each such disclosure or repetition is made.” Cooperating with a publication: $20 for each copy printed of a newspaper or magazine, with a minimum of $1,000,000 per publication. $250 for each copy printed of a book, with a minimum of $1,000,000 in the US, $500,000 per territory in Japan, the UK, Germany, Italy, France, Canada, Australia, Scandinavia, or Spain. $20,000 per theatrical exhibition. $5,000,000 per network television broadcast. $2,000,000 per non-network television broadcast. $1,000,000 per foreign television broadcast in “major” territories (see above) $500,000 per broadcast in other countries. $30 per unit for video recordings, with a minimum of $1,000,000. $10 per unit for audio recording, with a minimum of $1,000,000. By other public disclosure: $1,000,000 per disclosure or repetition.
No wonder, Leah points out, that most people never utter a word.
