47. He Rebounded

Soon after his divorce from Kidman, Cruise became involved with Penelope Cruz when they worked on the film Vanilla Sky together, but their romance ended after three years. With Cruise suddenly single, a strange sequence of events came to pass—with the Church of Scientology behind it all.

48. It Was A Sham

After years of dating women who weren’t Scientologists, it appears that the church thought it was time that their most famous member had a girlfriend to match his status. Several sources claim that church leaders began a secret project to find Cruise a new partner that involved “auditions” of different actresses who were also church members.

This led to Cruise briefly becoming involved with actress Nazanin Boniadi—but many saw through it all, and their “romance” only led to more speculation about Cruise’s bedroom proclivities.