TOM CRUISE TAKES BEST MAN ON HONEYMOON

TOM Cruise yesterday took his best man on honeymoon with him and new wife Katie Holmes after their lavish but bizarre wedding in Italy.The 44-year-old star was allegedly spotted hopping on a private jet to the Maldives with senior Scientologist David Miscavige, 46, as other boozed-up guests headed for the US. Cruise and Katie, 27, were already at Rome's Ciampino airport with the cult boss at 6am after leaving the dollar lakeside ceremony in a medieval castle at Bracciano - laid on by owner Princess Maria Pace Odescalchi. The last of the guests left at 3am. The couple, who had already tied the knot in an official ceremony at Los Angeles, were wearing overcoats in a military zone. One official at VIP flight handlers Universal, who provided the jets, said: "There must have been 50 of his friends and family here early this morning, a lot of them still drunk. "Tom, Katie and friends including the Scientologist best man left for the Maldives and the rest left on other aircraft to LA, Detroit and New York. They looked tired and tipsy and some were noisy." One of the last to leave the 11-hour party at castle Odeleschi was 36-year-old heiress Princess Maria. Cruise forked out the millions for her to put on the weird Scientology event -despite already tying the knot in LA. A member of her staff told how the cash went on the three days of partying in Rome that led up to the event, the cake, costumes, food and booze, security and limos. Other luxuries included a red carpet stretching 130 metres over lawns and steps into the castle, a cascade of rose petals falling on the 150 guests, gold and diamond Cartier wedding rings and 6,000 red and white roses decorating rooms and among the silver place settings.

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Straight best man David Miscavige