Bombshell: Could Tom Cruise be straight?
A shocking new tell-all written by deceased con artist and mobster Johnny Fratto suggests that may be the case.
Fratto coached Cruise while the actor prepared for his role as a pool hustler in 1986’s The Color of Money.
Fratto claims Cruise was enamored with Fratto’s criminal past — and he also appeared criminally straight, even to a professional con artist.
“Despite what rumors you’ve heard, I can vouch from firsthand experience that Tom Cruise is not a homosexual,” Fratto admits.
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In the book, Fratto describes a night out with Cruise in a Chicago club, where he threw his arms around “two smoking hot party girls from Des Moines.”
He recalls:
“‘What’s going on, ladies?’ he asked with that mischievous superstar smile that made that f?-?-?— millions of dollars. I had never seen women actually swoon in real life.?.?. these b?itches swooned. If there was anything gay about Tom Cruise, I sure as f?-?-?- didn’t see it, and neither did the girls from Des Moines.”
Fratto’s biography, Now That I’m Dead, Here’s the Real Dirt, was penned by a Mafia historian named Matthew Randazzo V, who in the book also describes encounters with the likes of Oprah Winfrey and Paris Hilton.
In the past Cruise has pursued three lawsuits in relation to his sexuality, winning a 1998 case against the Daily Express for a piece claiming his marriage to Nicole Kidman was solely to cover up his homosexuality.
In 2003, he successful sued porn star Chad Slater (pictured below), who claimed he had an affair with Cruise that led to his marriage to Kidman falling apart.
He also sued a magazine claiming to have gay sex tapes that starred Cruise, the lawsuit stating:
“While the plaintiff believes in the right of others to follow their own sexual preference, vast numbers of the public throughout the world do not share that view and, believing that he had a homosexual affair and did so during his marriage, they will be less inclined to patronise Cruise’s films, particularly since he tends to play parts calling for heterosexual romance and action adventure.”
In 2009, Bronson Pinchot told The AV Club:
We thought Tom [Cruise] was the biggest bore on the face of the Earth. He had spent some formative time with Sean Penn—we were all very young at the time, Tom was 20, I was 23. Tom had picked up this knack of calling everyone by their character names, because that would probably make your performance better, and I don’t agree with that. I think that acting is acting, and the rest of the time, you should be you, but he called us all by our character names. He was tense and made constant, constant unrelated homophobic comments, like, “You want some ice cream, in case there are no gay people there?” I mean, his lingo was larded with the most… There was no basis for it. It was like, “It’s a nice day, I’m glad there are no gay people standing here.” Very, very strange.
Years and years later when people started to torment him with that, I used to think “God, that’s really fitting, because he tormented a lot of people as a 20-year-old.” He made such a big deal about it. Same thing with Eddie Murphy—I remember somebody calling and saying, “You’ll never guess who was just caught with a transvestite!” [Laughs.] And I remember thinking that seemed fitting, because there are certain people in showbiz who make it an agenda, every third sentence has to have something knocking that life choice, and you think, “What are you doing?” Like, these women came up to me in a restaurant—I was wearing a bright red shirt, and I was with some friends, and they said, “Would you like to join our club? We wear red.” What kind of choice is that? If you spent many years in the theater, and then you show up in movies, and people have on their to-do list for the day that they’re going to make a comment every third sentence, it strikes you as very strange. I just thought it was very funny that years later, that became his bugaboo. Which is a nice 1930s term I thought you’d enjoy.
Eldred
My loss. :/
Umlaut
me too, :\
Jim
Well, that just shows you what a dumb mobster Fratto was. Cruise is as gay as the day is long. And sadly ashamed of it, what I call the Roy Cohn Syndrome.
Nahald
Didn’t Scientology “CURE” Tom Cruise of his homosexuality?
Kieran
Bada-bing bada-boom. If he made some broads swoon, no way da kid could be a homo.
AJBray
Kieran — Oh, the laughing…it huuuuurts!
Nailed that. Bravo! It’s not often an unadorned comment has an automatic internal accent.
Sam6969
“Despite what rumors you’ve heard, I can vouch from firsthand experience that Tom Cruise is not a homosexual,” Fratto admits.”
lol, if he said so, then it must be true….*-*
Or this guy had just no clue about bisexualities and pathologically lying to oneself.
1EqualityUSA
The cult thing is a bit much, no matter his orientation. Swooning broads, flit away.
Jaxton
Even if a man is interested in women, he can still be interested in men. The heterosexual impulse does not extinguish the homosexual impulse, or vice versa.
As for Tom Cruise, who cares? I find his personality boring. He’s no longer the draw he used to be, and his looks are fading. I never liked his thick legs anyway.
1EqualityUSA
Well, if you must pick apart anatomy, big noses, male or female, is always a plus. David-Bowie-nose. woof. Brian, you continue to reduce us to “homosexual impulses” We are self-actualized citizens of the United States, equal to heterosexuals, identities protected, NOM defeated, killthegaysPastors ridiculed. Trolls chipping away at the identity status through constant messaging on threads? Russian hands and Roman fingers?
Donston
In Brian’s world “gay-identifying” men are deformed, socially inept, lesser than creatures while everything else (even extremely gay-leaning/homo-dominant men) are mere off-shoots of heterosexuality and are far superior. Also in Brian’s world a man should naturally want to be with a woman and want to retain hetero-normalcy no matter where his sexual attractions and passions are. Or he should be alone and closeted his whole life, like Brian likely is. As sad as it is you gotta learn to just laugh at his inane, self-hating hypocrisy. He ain’t going no where and he won’t be budging from this redundant nonsense.
Steve
No big deal I can’t give that crazed lunatic any concern..
paul dorian lord fredine
johnny, that’s why they call it acting.
Josh447
Tom Cruise is a multi million dollar media product, not about to take the marketing plunge into opening up a box suggesting a bi or gay sexual orientation. He has a certain formula, a brand, and there’s nothing gay about it. I don’t see that changing any time soon. Unless he’s caught on cam do’in the deed, nothing will ever break down that thick transparent steely door. There’s a thick coat of steam on both sides.
Jaxton
Josh 447,
Yep – it’s all about the formula.
DCguy
Golly Gee willikers, he put his arms around two women and smiled at them. Yeah, sounds like a real poon hound.
Jaxton
Tom Cruise is part of the Hollywood machine, a machine that makes money by flattering the female public. If you’re a male who has the ability to reject women’s bodies, you are considered poison to this Hollywood formula.
Liberal women are just as bad as conservative women in expecting flattery. Flattery props up the female ego and assures women that they can control males. It’s a battle-of- the-sexes issue.
Women see homosexuality in their male “objects-of-desire” as a threat to girl power/privilege.
Heywood Jablowme
“Girls have cooties!” – Tom Cruise
Jack Meoff
I wonder how much the Scientologists paid Fratto to write that into his book.
Bob LaBlah
I think I speak for the majority when I say that with Tom Cruise now over fifty years old who really give a damn about where, with whom and what position are involved in his sex life. I mean really, isn’t this b/s at least thirty years too late? You report stuff like this on young stars, not aging actors/singers/. Were a video of Cruise to surface showing him in an orgy with at least ten BBC and he the only white guy there I’m willing to bet there are no less than fifty homemade vids on xtube or xhamster that will top it. Leave this now middle-aged man who still thinks people don’t know or still care regarding the obvious about him alone.
He BGB
Who cares? He’s so weird who cares? Who would date a scientologist? He’s not even an actor but a movie star. Big difference. He always plays a handsome hero. Now about those lawsuits where he sued because they accused him of being gay which would ruin his believability in romantic movies. That is insulting to gay men and to actors. Can gay men sue if accused of being straight? Gay is minority, I know but still. He should be flattered people think he’s gay snd I agree the mobster is a fool. I think naive people think they have to catch you with a d up your a to be proven gay.
He BGB
And who auditions women to be your next wife? First his staff rounds up some poor woman then she has to go through the ordeal to see if she will be a good little girl, be a scientologist, sign all the paperwork to keep your mouth shut, then after a few years of hell escape with your child(ren).
NateOcean
Absence of evidence, is not evidence of absence.
Hillers
Overcompensation, natch.
baggins435
1) Just because you wish it to be true doesn’t make someone gay.
2) Just because someone acts one way in front of the cameras or in public doesn’t mean they are that way in private.
Which leads to
3) Unless you have proof, you don’t know either way.
And
4) Who the F cares anyway.
Doug
This is really stupid. So a mobster talked about how he saw Tom Cruise flirt with some women once in a club and decided he was completely straight as a result? If Cruise was as closeted as I’ve been hearing about for years, did Fratto think he would seriously cruise guys in front of him (after all, closeted gay men always do that when they’re in the presence of mobsters)? And he revealed this “on his deathbed,” lol? If that’s the best topic he could bring up before dying, he must have lived a pretty dull life! From the way this reads, it sounds like he barely even knew Cruise.
Why is this article even worth posting? It wouldn’t surprise me if Tom Cruise’s people had something to do with it.
Donston
I don’t get it either. Some random dead mobster who seemed to have only briefly known Tom Cruise claims that he saw him flirting with a chick many years ago. Not only is this dude hardly a reputable source, but when did flirting with gender equate to that gender being apart of your orientation (hell, having sex with someone hardly has to do with orientation). And how is this random nothing moment worthy of an article? Not only is this empty click-bait, but it also pushes the idea that behavior and “lifestyle” and sociology are the basis to orientation, which is something “queer media” has been selling non-stop in recent years.
And ultimately, no one care about Tom Cruise anymore.
jamessavik
someone in Hollywood has to be str8
Nahald
Cruise joined Scientology because he figured they could cure of him being gay. In a way I feel sorry for him. Hiding from yourself as to who you really are doe4sn’t do a person a person any good with their mental health. And obviously with Cruise’s antics over the years he should come out and be true to himself.
JamJewel
Which is probably what Scientology holds over his head to this day and why he went along with the miscarriage of justice of having her children dissociate from their mother. And is probably what Katie Holmes has on him that allowed her to disassociate from him.
The other piece of irony here is the old old rumor that it was Paul Newman on the set of “The Color of Money” who told him to never come out or it would ruin his career. And you know how these gay rumors always have a way of having truth to them.
GayEGO
My husband and I knew a homophobic that knew he was gay and had a gay partner until he broke up, set his house on fire, and burned himself up in it. He said he hated himself and gays were worse than murderers. As for Tom being straight, where are his children? Does he have any or did his willy fall asleep when with a woman?
Everyone I know has said he is gay, so buck up Tom, accept yourself as the gay man you are, and get on with life as it is not a mental condition.
Anders69
….and that’s why we should all believe something a dead mobster supposedly said.
Oh sweet Jesus in diapers, not only is NOT interesting, but it’s about Tom Cruise!!
He is such a mess….who CARES??!!
surreal33
Yes, and I am a blushing virgin.
eeebee333
I’m ashamed of myself for even having an opinion about this. But, I suspect that Tom Cruise is asexual.
baal61
Who cares? Is he pro Trump’ that’s what’s important to me.
jjose712
Sorry, but this is not news. It was all over the place some time ago.
And frankly, when gay rumours surround you for more than thirty years, there’s some truth in them
michael
if Tom Cruise is gay, he must be the loneliest, most boring, sexually frustrated gay man on earth. Why would you choose that, just for the money? He already has plenty of money.
jkthsnk
Queerty: so desperate for content it reposts 18 month old “stories”.
Josh447
If the mobster were a stinking hot gay/bi guy we may have heard a completely different story.
Josh447
And I don’t doubt that Tom’s rabid attachment to Scientology, so much so he over threw two marriages, has to do with his history of counseling sessions where he told about homosexual encounters. That’s alot of sensitive info that could be used to threaten, a thing scientologists have zero problem enacting. Tom would be piranha bait if he ever tried to defect.
winemaker
Like who gives a rats tukus about arrogant and sef centered Tom Cruise. it’s is business to remain in the closet or come out publicly, really who cares, move on to more important issues.
tennisteacher2
Well OK….Meanwhile back at the RANCH…
Jaxton
When you’re a male heart-throb in Hollywood, you are required to be heterosexual in your acting roles and preferably in your public and private lives. It’s what the Hollywood formula demands.
Hollywood’s formula is based on the leading man theory. The leading man must appeal to women in the paying audience. He must be “attainable” if he’s going to be profitable..
If the male projects any hint of homosexuality, it kills off the idea that he needs vagina – and only vagina – to achieve happiness. He becomes less desirable to the woman.
To women, it represents the loss of her vaginal power to penile power.
aprilmurphy444
as Annie replied I didn’t even know that any one able to earn $8091 in four weeks on the
computer . why not check here…
John
What’s going on with Queerty lately posting stories they have already posted before? First American Gods, now this.
Ronbo
Hummmm, a short, studly, handsome, masculine hottie who is aging quite well into his “little man” complex? Bring me two!, daddy is hunnnnngry.
Josh447
Like I say, if you can still bounce a quarter off it….
RomanHans
Next Queerty will post a scoop about the Titanic sinking.
Nahald
Didn’t Scientology “CURE” Tom Cruise of his homosexuality?
dm10003
Lack of evidence or one person’s opinion doesn’t prove anything either way about the mind of another person.
jpcolter
Right, like a mobster/criminal is someone you should believe about anything. I wouldn’t believe him if he said water is wet even on his deathbed.
gary69mike
I don’t care… at 55 I’d still do him.