
Fresh from his bitter public split with Paramount Pictures, Tom Cruise has found a new financial backer.Â
The Mission: Impossible star has struck a deal with an investment group that includes Daniel M. Snyder, the owner of the Washington Redskins football team, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday.
Snyder, who’s also the chairman of Six Flags Inc., is said to be the lead investor in a two-year agreement with Cruise, 44, and his producing partner, Paula Wagner.

Sunday’s 58th annual Emmy Awards ceremony was a big night for first-time winners. After three nominations, Mariska Hargitay finally won her first Emmy, as leading actress in the dramatic series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.Â
“When I named my son August, I had no idea that the month would end like this!” said the thrilled Hargitay – who, with husband Peter Hermann, welcomed their first child on June 28.
Britney Spears has unloaded her Manhattan condo after it was on the market for more than two years – since before her marriage to Kevin Federline and the birth of their son, Sean Preston.Â
The 4,400-sq.-ft. apartment fetched $4 million, reports the Wall Street Journal – noting that the price is $1 million more than the pop princess paid for it four years ago, but $2 million less than her original asking price.