(December 1, Los Angeles)  Tom Cruise has dropped a $100 million dollar lawsuit against a publisher who claimed to have a tape of Cruise having gay sex.

The suit was killed after publisher Michael Davis recanted in court and said no such taped existed.  The judge agreed to quash the case after Davis made a public apology.

Cruise's attorney Bert Fields said the star was pleased with the outcome. "Especially what Tom was after was the very finding that the court made," Fields said. "The story was false. He's not gay and the judge so ruled."

Davis, who publishes Bold Magazine, offered a $500,000 reward to anyone who could provide incontrovertible proof that Cruise was gay. He claimed that he had been sent a video from Germany  that showed the star engaged in gay sex.

Fields said it was important for Cruise to dispel this rumour that he is gay.

"Tom is a great believer in everybody's freedom to choose his own sexual preference," Fields said. But he added that not all movie audiences feel the same way, "especially when (Cruise) has to play a heterosexual male lead."

Fields said Cruise needed to set the record straight about his personal life. "Every time someone says something defamatory about Tom, he has brought a lawsuit," Fields said.

A libel suit is still ongoing against gay porn star Kyle Bradford following a published report in Europe that had Bradford saying he was Cruise's lover.  Bradford has since denied speaking to the magazine, and says he has never met Cruise.

In October, Cruise was ordered to pay legal fees to Bradord's ex wife. 

Cruise named Kristina Ann Kirstin in his defamation suit against Bradford alleging she tried to sell a fake story to the National Enquirer saying her husband left her for Cruise.

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