Katie Holmes has filed for divorce from Tom Cruise after five years of marriage.
Tom, 49, said he was “deeply saddened” by his wife’s decision to end their relationship.
Katie, 33, is understood to have filed for sole custody of the couple’s six-year-old daughter Suri.
“Katie’s primary concern remains, as it always has been, her daughter’s best interest,” the actress’s lawyer Jonathan Wolfe said in a statement to People magazine.
Tom is currently in Iceland filming a new sci-fi movie, but had his spokesperson release a similar statement, expressing his concern for Suri as well as Isabella and Connor, his adopted children with Nicole Kidman.
“Katie has filed for divorce and Tom is deeply saddened and is concentrating on his three children,” the statement said.
Katie filed divorce papers in New York this week citing “irreconcilable differences”. Gossip website TMZ reports Katie is asking for custody of Suri, possession of the couple’s New York home and a “suitable amount” of child support.
Katie signed a pre-nuptial agreement, but is still expected to walk away with a “sizeable” portion of Tom’s $275 million fortune.
Tom and Katie married in a lavish ceremony in an Italian castle in 2006.
Their marriage has been plagued with rumours Katie was unhappy, but cracks didn’t start to appear until this year.
The couple have not been seen together in public for three months, with Katie noticeably absent from Tom’s recent Rock of Ages premieres.
Constant arguments over Tom’s religion, Scientology, and his jet-setting lifestyle are said to have killed the couple’s romance.
It will be Tom’s third divorce. He split from his first wife Mimi Rogers in 1990 and his second wife Nicole Kidman in 2001.
