UsWeekly reports on Wednesday that the actress' romance with her ex-husband's longtime friend Jamie Foxx that began in August - and has since ended - didn't sit well with the Top Gun star.
But Katie's rep tells MailOnline the star never had the fling in the first place.
Tom's reps did not return calls to MailOnline.
Did sparks fly? Katie and Jamie at the East Hampton party they allegedly 'hooked up' at in August
Her 'sexy new life': UsWeekly claims Katie
Holmes had a 'secret fling' with her ex-husband Tom Cruise's friend
Jamie Foxx in a cover story out Wednesday
UsWeekly
states that Tom wanted Katie to be 'off limits' to Jamie, that's why he
didn't expect his friend to do something like this.
'Tom was not happy,' a source tells the publication. 'He doesn't care if it was just a hookup. To him it was betrayal.' But another one of the magazine's source counters, 'He's living his life being Tom Cruise. He doesn't care what Katie Holmes does.'
Tom, 51, first met Jamie, 45, when they did a chemistry read to see if Jamie was a fit for Jerry Maguire. He didn't get the part, but he did win a role opposite Tom in the edgy 2004 crime thriller Collateral, and the two became friends.
Katie, 34, got to know Jamie through her husband. Often, the Dawson's Creek
star would laugh at the light-hearted Oscar-winner's jokes, says the weekly.
When the superstar couple split in July 2012, the White House Down actor didn't take sides. He said, 'You have to commend him for already settling everything.' He added, 'That's a testament to both of their characters.'
When Katie ran into Jamie at an August 24 party at Ron Perelman's estate in East Hampton, New York, the old acquaintances clicked immediately.
Though there have already been online rumours of an courtship between the two, UsWeekly provided more details, going so far as to have a source says they definitely 'hooked up,' and that it was 'two adults having fun, getting a little tipsy, and one thing led to another.'
'Tom was not happy,' a source tells the publication. 'He doesn't care if it was just a hookup. To him it was betrayal.' But another one of the magazine's source counters, 'He's living his life being Tom Cruise. He doesn't care what Katie Holmes does.'
Tom, 51, first met Jamie, 45, when they did a chemistry read to see if Jamie was a fit for Jerry Maguire. He didn't get the part, but he did win a role opposite Tom in the edgy 2004 crime thriller Collateral, and the two became friends.
They used to all be close: The Top Gun actor (middle) with his wife and pal at a football game in Maryland in 2006
When the superstar couple split in July 2012, the White House Down actor didn't take sides. He said, 'You have to commend him for already settling everything.' He added, 'That's a testament to both of their characters.'
When Katie ran into Jamie at an August 24 party at Ron Perelman's estate in East Hampton, New York, the old acquaintances clicked immediately.
Though there have already been online rumours of an courtship between the two, UsWeekly provided more details, going so far as to have a source says they definitely 'hooked up,' and that it was 'two adults having fun, getting a little tipsy, and one thing led to another.'
Focusing on fatherhood and films: The Edge Of
Tomorrow actor, spotted on October 16 in LA, has not commented on a
reported relationship between Katie and Jamie, but he has been seeing
his daughter Suri regularly and finishing his latest movie
The flirting reached a 'fever pitch' and at 1:30 am Jamie reportedly asked the beauty to come to his room. Both were asked to stay overnight at Ron's mansion, where the party took place.
'He runs a smooth game,' a source tells the magazine of Foxx.
They were photographed together at the event arm in arm. Katie was smiling and looked gorgeous in a black sleeveless dress. Jamie, in a purple shirt and tie, appeared to be dancing.
Jamie had been in New York City - where Katie resides - filming Annie. So it was easy to see each other again, which they reportedly did in September when Katie was spotted leaving the actor's Trump SoHo Hotel one morning.
Back to work: The Batman Begins actress takes
daughter Suri, aged seven, to the The Aquila Game Reserve outside Cape
Town in South Africa on Sunday during a break from filming The Giver
with Alexander Skarsgard
'It had been a scary year, and then Jamie enters her life and puts a smile on her face,' a source tells Us.
The magazine claims it was Tom's reaction to hearing about the affair that led Jamie to say on October 15 of the hookup, 'It's 100 percent untrue.'
A source tells the magazine, 'This is a delicate situation for Jamie,' because of his relationship with the mega star.
UsWeekly also reports that the romantic relationship Katie and Jamie shared is now over and that she is presently being 'set up with non-famous guys.'
Jamie's rep did not return calls to MailOnline.
The article goes on to point out that Tom - who recently finished work on Edge Of Tomorrow - sees his daughter Suri often.
In September he took the adorable child bungee-jumping in Lake Placid, New York.
In October he reportedly visited the Mayflower Inn & Spa in Washington, Connecticut with her.
'[Katie] knows Tom makes Suri a priority,' a source tells the weekly. 'He loves her with all his heart.'
Their Katie source also said, 'Regardless of everything, he's the best father a little girl could ask for.'
When they were Mr. and Mrs. Cruise: The couple in December 2011, just seven months before they went their separate ways