Former marine John Paulus has accused American Idol runner up Clay Aiken of a gay sexual tryst and is telling anybody that will listen graphic details of the encounter.

His story now may cause a delay in Aiken album number two, and cut into the singer's bottom line.

Paulus has reportedly has taken a lie detector test to prove his allegations and his XXX rated description of the alleged hook up with Clay. Paulas went on the Howard Stern Radio Show on February 9 and publicity and willingly gave it all with details.

Yesterday Cruise's lawyer Bert Fields said the actor would sue Morton and New York-based publishers St. Martin's Press if they used the letter he wrote in response to try to cast aspersion on Cruise's sexuality.

"I wrote a letter to Mr. Morton back in November and said he obviously was entitled to write the book but 'make sure you check your facts'," Mr. Fields said. "If he tries to use my letter to create the impression that Mr. Cruise did have a gay affair, we will certainly sue ... because the story is false.

"Mr. Cruise is not gay."

A friend of the actor said: "Morton is scraping the bottom of the barrel. If Baresi is the best Morton can come up with, that just goes to show how low Andrew Morton has sunk."