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Tom Cruise and David Miscavige at the Church of Scientology opening in central Madrid, 2004
After that, Brousseau was regularly assigned to work on special projects for Cruise.
Shelly Miscavige had drafted Brousseau and seven other Sea Org members, along with
many of Cruise’s employees at Odin Productions, to work for more than two weeks
rehabilitating Cruise’s leased nine-bedroom mansion on Alpine Drive in Beverly Hills—
painting, xing the roof, doing cabinet work, stretching the carpet, rewiring, pressurewashing
the tennis court, weeding and planting, repairing the irrigation system, and
even reorganizing the clothes in the closets. In the last week, Brousseau says, he had at
least a hundred contractors under his direction in order to get the house ready for
Cruise.
Brousseau and a Sea Org executive, Steve Marlowe, also oversaw the renovations on a
Blue Bird bus, like Hubbard’s, that Cruise had purchased. Later, Cruise bought another
bus, which he called The Silver Screen. Brousseau spent three months commuting to the
Marathon Coach factory in Coburg, Oregon, to oversee the retrotting of the forty-foot
vehicle into an elaborate motor home. Brousseau estimates that the redesign cost about
$1.5 million, but that doesn’t include his labor or that of Sea Org members in the Golden
Era prop department, who manufactured the furniture, countertops, and cabinetry. In
2006, Brousseau also customized a limousine for the star, using the body of a Ford