Tom Cruise ‘Living Like a Working-Class Actor’ Bankrolling Scientology: ‘He Should Be a Billionaire’

Tom Cruise is lining up a ton more money-spinning projects for 2025, notably Top Gun 3 and Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 2, which has his Scientology bosses rubbing their hands together as they’ll be biting into a big helping of his eye popping profits, a high level source who has worked with Tom on multiple major projects over the last few years exclusively reveals to In Touch. 

Over the years, the Risky Business actor’s involvement with the Church has come under intense speculation in the press, especially considering the mysteries still surrounding the organization and its leader. While it’s known Tom, 62, has been an ardent devotee of the religion since his then-wife Mimi Rogers converted him in 1986, the precise details of his social, economic and religious attachment remain murky. 

The insider says that the household isn’t just a pretty face and charismatic PR rep to help them recruit more members, but actually a financial pillar of the institution, which is actually an interconnected web of corporate entities, founded in 1950 by L. Ron Hubbard and currently headed up by the actor’s close friend, David Miscavige. 

"After all the hits and all the starring roles, the economics of Tom's movie career are still completely upside down because of his devotion to Scientology and his willingness to back that up with money right out of his own pocket,” the source explains. 

“Tom should have hundreds of millions of dollars from his decades of success, but that is not how he lives at all, and, especially in the last few years, he's whittled down his property holdings and pretty much lives out of a suitcase and moves from movie project to movie project with little to no vacation time.”

A second source had told In Touch back in August that the A-est of A-listers “literally has no friends,” because of the break-neck pace of his work, which has seen him hop from blockbuster set to blockbuster set nearly non stop for years. 

The first source says that, despite the fact that “Tom has been making more than $20 million per movie since the mid-nineties,” his bank account is a bit bare considering the wealth he would have been able to accrue over his four-decade career in Hollywood. “He says he's all about the work, but there's a lot more going on here and you can't help but wonder where all the money he's making is going. He should be a billionaire by now and he clearly isn't!"

Moreover, “he's living like a working class actor when he's actually still one of the biggest stars in the world.” 

One of the actor’s fellow Hollywood stars and former Church member, Leah Remini, has famously denounced the religion and has been rallying against Scientology’s alleged malpractices, which includes stating that the All the Right Moves star has been aware of their abuse and intimidation tactics for a long while, though, her claims have never been proven.

Still, the source states, “Scientology is clearly benefiting from Tom's sky-high status, even if Tom himself isn't.”