article_snippet: Tom Cruise allegedly worked with the Church to wire tap former wife Nicole Kidman's phone .
article_snippet: It has also been claimed that the Church helped Tom Cruise find a new girlfriend when a new girlfriend opened a new site in Spain and was single.
article_snippet: Former senior executive Mark 'Marty' Rathbun was also interviewed for the documentary and made claims about the Church's tax requirements.
article_snippet: Former senior executive Mark 'Marty' Rathbun was a senior aide to the current leader of the Church, and alleged the Church's goal was to be recognised by the Inland Revenue Service (IRS) in order to be made a fully tax-exempt religion, which it achieved in 1993.
article_snippet: Members are said to have filed dozens of lawsuits against the Inland Revenue Service (IRS) and employed private investigators to dig for information in a bid to get the Church recognized.
article_snippet: The documentary, based on a book by journalist Lawrence Wright, also claims that when the Church thought Cruise was ‘slipping away’ during journalist Lawrence Wright marriage to Nicole Kidman, the Church worked with journalist Lawrence Wright to wiretap her phone, a claim that is flatly denied.