We still get asked often about Scientology’s former spokesman Tommy Davis, and so we try to give an occasional update about him. This time, we have some happy news.
Tommy is getting married to Egyptian actress Maie Ibrahim in Morocco, and we want to extend the happy couple our congratulations.
Tommy somehow forgot to include our invitation, but we’re not entirely surprised by that. In our last email exchange with him, the son of actress Anne Archer called us an “asshat” and told us never to contact him again.
We first realized that Tommy had a new friend when we saw the photo you see above at his Facebook page. We wondered who his new partner was, and we got confirmation of it from his godmother, Hollywood producer Kate Edelman Johnson, who posted a photo of the happy pair from an event at the Hollywood Bowl in August…
“Last night celebrating with my great friend Stefanie Powers (@officialstefaniepowers), my wonderful Godson Tommy Davis (@thomaswdavis28) and his beautiful new fiancé Maie Ibrahim”
We’ve kept an eye out for updates about when the couple might be tying the knot, and once again we have Ms. Edelman Johnson to thank for giving us the scoop in an Instagram post from three days ago…
“I am off to Morocco tomorrow for my godson’s @thomaswdavis28 wedding! So exciting. Photos to follow”
Photos, yes, please! We look forward to seeing the festivities.
For those just catching up: Davis was brought up in Scientology, eventually becoming a sort of go-fer and handler for actor Tom Cruise. By the mid-2000s, Davis had become the public face of Scientology as its spokesman, sparring with the likes of ABC’s Martin Bashir and the BBC’s John Sweeney. It was all part of a more aggressive approach to the media that Scientology leader David Miscavige tried out for a few years. By 2011, however, we noticed that Tommy had seemed to have disappeared. He turned up in Austin, where his wife Jessica Feshbach’s family had some property, and in 2013 Davis testified in a deposition that he was “on leave” from his job in the Sea Organization but was still a member of the Church of Scientology.
The next year, in 2014, the Davises moved to Los Angeles, as Tommy found work at billionaire real estate investor Tom Barrack’s Colony Capital. (Tommy’s father, William Davis, a wealthy real estate investor who died in 2015, was a close friend to Barrack). But then in February 2016 Tommy left his job working for Barrack and became “general manager North America” for Australian billionaire James Packer, helping to run Packer’s Hollywood studio, RatPac Entertainment.
Davis and Packer knew each other from Scientology. Packer had been brought into the church around the year 2001 by his friend Tom Cruise, and according to Steve Cannane’s excellent book on Australian Scientology, Fair Game, Packer left the church around the year 2006. A decade later, he hired Davis to help him run his movie studio. But then 2016 turned into a nightmare year for Packer as he had setbacks to his gambling empire, broke up with fiancée Mariah Carey, and his studio also took a bath on a Ben Affleck flop. Packer ended up bailing out of RatPac, and in that chaos Tommy left his job and went back to work for Barrack as a consultant.
In May 2017, Tommy filed for divorce from Jessica, with whom he had two young daughters.
In the meantime, Tommy still hasn’t responded to Mike Rinder’s challenge to come forward about what he saw working for David Miscavige in the Church of Scientology.
We hope we get to see some photos from the Moroccan nuptials. If you spot them, please send them our way.
UPDATE: Photos from the wedding…
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Bonus items from our tipsters
The push in New Delhi is on…
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Posted by Tony Ortega on June 27, 2019 at 07:00
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