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Cruise plans hilltop retreat

(World Entertainment News Network)
2006-05-26 10:19

Tom Cruise is looking to build his dream family home overlooking California's San Fernando Valley after secretly acquiring a plot from the Church of Scientology.

Church officials reportedly bought the remote hilltop plot last year for $10 million and now top Scientologist Cruise hopes to build a home there for himself, wife-to-be Katie Holmes, their baby daughter Suri and his two adopted children, Isabella and Connor.

A source tells In Touch that the movie star plans to spend up to $25 million on the project after agreeing to knock down one existing property and buying up a second next door.

But Cruise and his clan won't be alone on their hilltop retreat, according to a real estate insider his plans to buy a third neighbor’s home have been thwarted because the family has no wishes to move.

Cruise plans to wed fiancée Holmes at the end of the summer.