Did Scientology Audition Women for a Cruise Marriage?

According to an article in the October issue of Vanity Fair, titled “What Katie Didn’t Know,” before Katie Holmes, Scientology officials engaged in a top-secret mission to find Tom Cruise a wife. Special correspondent Maureen Orth spoke to a number of sources, including former Scientologist Marc Headley, who revealed that actress Nazanin Boniadi was selected to date Cruise from November 2004 until January 2005.

Apparently, Iranian-born and London-raised Boniadi—who is best known for her roles in General Hospital and How I Met Your Mother—and a number of other Scientologist actresses were called in by top religious officials and told they were auditioning for a new training film. They were then asked a series of question including: “What do you think of Tom Cruise?”

Boniadi was then told that she had been selected for a very important mission and during the month of October 2004 “was audited every day, a process in which she told a high-ranking Scientology official her innermost secrets and every detail of her sex life. Boniadi allegedly was told to lose her braces, her red highlights, and her boyfriend,” according to a Vanity Fair press release.

The rest of the Vanity Fair article outlines the couple’s first arranged date, the few months they spent living together, Cruise’s eventual rejection of Boniadi, and a number of items related to Cruise’s marriages to Katie Holmes and Nicole Kidman. Tom Cruise’s rep released the following statement in response to the article's allegations: “Lies in a different font are still lies—designed to sell magazines.”

So SodaHeads, do you believe Vanity Fair's claims that Scientology auditioned women for a Cruise marriage?