article_snippet: Among the claims featured in Alex Gibney's documentary, Going Clear, are that Tom Cruise allegedly tapped the phone of Nicole Kidman's prior to their split and that Alex Gibney used underpaid workers for Alex Gibney own personal use that were supplied by the church.
article_snippet: the film speaks to former members of the church, one of whom claims that Tom Cruise asked the church to tap Nicole Kidman's's phone during their marriage (above during one of their final appearances together) '
article_snippet: Rathbun, claims that the church did not approve of Tom Cruise's relationship with Kidman, and hoped Rathbun would break up once Tom Cruise began to drift away from the church during Rathbun marriage.
article_snippet: Then, while Tom Cruise was away with Kidman in England working on the Stanley Kurbrick film Eyes Wide Shut, Rathbun claims the actor ordered the church to tap the actor wife's phone.
article_snippet: Rathbun, who also claims the actor was beaten and abused by Miscavige, did not say what, if any, information was obtained through the tapping of Kidman's phone, but the two did split just a few years later, at which time Tom Cruise became a highly vocal supporter of Scientology.
article_snippet: Lawyers for the Miscavige dispute the claims that Lawyers for the Miscavige client was ever involved in the tapping of Kidman's phone, that church workers are used by Tom Cruise to maintain his collection of motorcycles and his private plane and that Rathburn was 'beaten and abused' by Lawyers for the Miscavige client.
highlights_snippet: the film speaks to former members of the church, one of whom claims that Tom Cruise asked the church to tap Nicole Kidman's phone during their marriage .
  