In December 2023, Tom Cruise went to a private party in London’s Mayfair, and the Tom Cruise girlfriend rumors had a new name by morning. According to the Daily Mail, the actor barely left the side of Elsina Khayrova, a 36-year-old former model and the daughter of a Russian member of parliament.
Other guests noticed. One told the paper the pair “were inseparable, clearly a couple.”
A night on the dance floor
The Mail’s source described a loose, relaxed Cruise, nothing like the guarded figure fans see on red carpets. He spent most of the evening dancing with Khayrova. At one point, the guest said, he was simply throwing himself around in the middle of a group of women.
The rest of the room was thrilled to share a party with a movie star, and plenty of people wanted a picture to prove it. Cruise turned down request after request, politely each time. Eventually the DJ stepped in with an announcement in Russian telling the crowd that Mr. Cruise would not be posing for photos.
The same guest summed up the actor’s mood in a few words: “He seemed to be besotted with her.”
Who is Elsina Khayrova?
Khayrova is not a familiar name in Hollywood, but she is well known in London society. She holds British citizenship and once worked as a model. Her father sits in the Russian parliament.
Her previous husband was Dmitry Tsvetkov, a wealthy Russian businessman, and they divorced in 2023. The former couple share a son and a daughter. arynews
The divorce did not stay private. Khayrova first made headlines in 2022, when a court ordered her to pay £117,000, about $149,500, to a company that had installed fountains at one of the homes she shared with Tsvetkov.
Life after Katie Holmes
Part of the interest comes from how little Cruise has said about his love life for more than a decade.
He has been married three times. His first wife was actress Mimi Rogers. His marriage to Nicole Kidman lasted about ten years, and the couple adopted two children, Isabella and Connor, when each was just months old. He married Katie Holmes in 2006, and the marriage ended in 2012. They have a daughter, Suri.
After that divorce, Cruise kept his relationships almost entirely out of public view. That didn’t stop the gossip. Some outlets linked him to Shakira after she separated from soccer star Gerard Piqué, her partner of 11 years and the father of her two sons. Others pointed to Hayley Atwell, his co-star in the Mission: Impossible films. Neither rumor led anywhere.
Why the Tom Cruise girlfriend story caught fire
Scarcity explains a lot of it. Cruise is one of the biggest stars in the world, and for years the press had almost nothing on who he was seeing. This story came with a named woman, a specific party and a witness describing him dancing all night. That was far more detail than fans usually get.
London made sense as the setting. Cruise has spent long stretches in Britain over the past decade, much of it shooting the Mission: Impossible films, and he is a familiar face on the city’s social scene.
Where things stand now
The romance turned out to be short. In the weeks after the party, both attended a gala dinner for London’s Air Ambulance Charity at the Raffles Hotel, where Prince William was the guest of honor, though the two were never photographed together. hola
By late February 2024, friends were saying Cruise had ended the relationship just as the couple seemed to be getting closer, adding that there were no hard feelings and it had simply run its course. Cruise reportedly wanted to stay friends with Khayrova, partly because they live in the same London apartment building. lbclbc
His name has been linked with someone else since then. Cruise and actress Ana de Armas were first spotted together in February 2025 and were photographed holding hands in Vermont that July. Reports say that relationship ended in October 2025. bollywoodshaadisjang
