Cruise and Holmes to divorce after five-year marriage

29 June 2012 Last updated at 21:15 ET Help

Hollywood A-listers Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are divorcing, bringing an end to their five-year marriage.

The office of celebrity divorce lawyer Jonathan Wolfe confirmed the divorce. "This is a personal and private matter," he said in a statement.

They have a six-year-old daughter, Suri, and Cruise, 49, has two children from his marriage to Nicole Kidman.

Cruise married Holmes, 33, his third wife, in an Italian castle in November 2006.

David Willis reports.

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