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A guide to their brief marriage

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In an early sighting, Tom Cruise and new girlfriend Katie Holmes leave a restaurant in Rome after a lunch date in April 2005.

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Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes at the London premiere of his film “The War of the Worlds” on June 19, 2005.The Associated Press

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Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes laugh as they kiss in Rome in July, 2005.The Associated Press

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Tom Cruise does one of his famous couch-jumping-on-a-TV-talk-show moves on “The View” on July 1, 2005. The behaviour was meant to be a demonstration of his love for his fiancee Katie Holmes.Reuters

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Tom Cruise surprised Yahoo employees by bringing Katie Holmes onstage and showing off her very pregnant belly, at the company’s quarterly Influential Speakers Event in March, 2006.The Associated Press

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Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, with their daughter Suri, hold hands as they leave their hotel in Rome on Nov. 16, 2006, just prior to their wedding in an Italian castle.The Associated Press

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A photo from Tom Cruise and actress Katie Holmes’s fairy-tale wedding on Nov. 18, 2006, in the 15th-century Odescalchi Castle overlooking Lake Bracciano outside of Rome. The ceremony was officiated by a Church of Scientology minister.The Associated Press

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Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes pose at the Mentor LA's Promise gala in Los Angeles, March 22, 2007.Reuters

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Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes at a private party in honour of Victoria and David Beckham at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles on July 22, 2007.The Associated Press

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Cruise and Holmes arrive for the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala, "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy," in New York on May 5, 2008.Reuters

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Cruise and Holmes on the red carpet before the European premiere of the movie "Valkyrie" in Berlin on January 20, 2009.Reuters

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The couple attend the premiere of “The Romantics” on Sept. 7, 2010, in New York, pretty much the midway point of their marriage.The Associated Press

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