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The publisher of two tabloid magazines saidit never intended to imply that Tom Cruise had cut all ties to his daughter after his divorce and announcedFriday that it had reached a settlement with the actor over its two stories. Bauer Publishing and Cruise’s lawyer wrote in a joint statement that the terms of the settlement were confidential. “Bauer Publishing, as well as In Touch and Life & Style magazines, never intended to communicate that Tom Cruise had cut off all ties and abandoned his daughter, Suri, and regret if anyone drew that inference from anything they published,” the statement read. Cruise sued the company over stories published in Life & Style and In Touch in 2012 that claimed the actor hadn’t been in contact with his daughter for several weeks after his divorce from actress Katie Holmes. The actor sued Bauer in October 2012. His lawyer, Bert Fields, called the stories outrageous and said Cruise spoke tohis daughter frequently while working on a pair of movies that kept him overseas. In a declaration filed in November, Cruise rejected the notion that he had abandoned his daughter, as the tabloid stories suggested. He said that despite filming back-to-back movies in the second half of 2012, he spoke to his daughter nearly every day and got frequent updates about her from Holmes.

Casey Kasem’s wife and one of his daughters havereached a settlement that ends a bid to place the ailing radio personality in a conservatorship. Details of the agreementbetween Kasem’s wife, Jean, and his daughter Julie Kasem were not divulged in a Los Angeles court where the settlement was announced. Julie Kasem had been seeking a conservatorship and has said her stepmother has blocked her and her siblings from seeing their father, who is suffering from advanced Parkinson’s disease. Her attorney, Andrew Katzenstein, said the terms of the settlement are confidential. Another of Kasem’s daughters, Kerri, has not reached an agreement. Her attorney, Troy Martin, said she may have to file a petition to see her 81-year-old father without certain restrictions. Casey Kasem, who is best known as the hostof the long-running radio countdown show American Top 40 and as the voice of Shaggy in the Scooby-Doo cartoon franchise, is currently hospitalized, Martin said, but he wouldn’t provide more details.

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