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It's a cliche to say that some of history's greatest battles have been fought over, or to end the incessant nagging of, a great woman. And yet according to Page Six, that is exactly what might have been the catalyst for what led to one of the most sensational verbal slap-fights in recent Hollywood history, between semi-fossilized Viacom chieftain Sumner Redstone and his former marquee kook, Tom Cruise:

According to an insider, [Redstone's wife, Paula] Fortunato, a former school teacher, was "incensed" by Cruise's criticism of Brooke Shields, who wrote about how prescription drugs relieved her postpartum depression.

Our source says Fortunato told her powerful husband, "I never want to see another Tom Cruise movie again!"

Viacom spokesman Carl Folta said, "It is true that Mrs. Redstone disagrees with Tom Cruise's views, but she and Mr. Redstone see every Paramount film."

It adds yet another delicious wrinkle to this high-powered spat when you start to consider the women behind the men. (Or, in certain instances, beneath them, gagged and tethered to a 400-pound iron ball, seven stories below the Scientology Celebrity Center.) We look forward to the moment that Fortunato—tired of seeing her desiccated studmuffin's good name soiled by Paula Wagner—rallies to her husband's defense, handwriting out her own statement for Extra's Jerry Penacoli to read on the air, in which she passionately expresses, "Yeah? Well I find his fruitcake ideas about saunas and vitamins unprofessional, so there!"