Just like Faye Dunaway in Chinatown, Lee Anne DeVette's relationship with her brother Tom Cruise is complicated, to say the least. First, she was his publicist, but then her Scientology kookiness got in the way of Cruise's image (Ha!) and he demoted her to "personal" assistant. But now there are rumors that DeVette has taken on some of her old duties from Cruise's current PR firm, R&C.

"They say she's his assistant, but everything has to go through her," said an insider. R&C's Paul Bloch told us: "Lee Anne DeVette has always worked for Tom Cruise. She works for his charity. She's not his gatekeeper." And Bloch denied that journalists who recently wanted to interview Cruise in Italy first had to read an article about Scientology. "All they were given was material on ["Valkyrie"], Bloch said.

Don't you see: She's his assistant and his publicist! Even celebrities need to trim down during the recession, and that means making their family members work double duty.