Katie Holmes is making nice with mom-to-be Nicole Kidman by giving her baby gifts!

Katie shipped hubby Tom Cruise’s eight-months-pregnant ex-wife a deluxe gift basket filled with onesies, stuffed toys, a baby blanket and more from Neiman Marcus in Beverly Hills, an insider tells Star.

“Katie wanted the best of everything in the basket,” the insider says. “It cost over $2,000.”

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Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes opened the doors of their new Beverly Hills mansion for an A-list housewarming party Saturday night.

The couple’s celebrity friends Oprah Winfrey, Jennifer Lopez, Brooke Shields, Victoria Beckham, Eva Longoria Parker and Kyra Sedgwick were among the guests.

Holmes’ extended family – including her parents – came in from Ohio for the event and children Isabella, 15, Connor, 13, and Suri, 2, were there.

Cruise and Holmes purchased the 1.3-acre $35 million estate last summer and spent a year on renovations.

Guests – mostly in black cocktail attire – began arriving around 9 p.m. They were driven up the long driveway to a large fountain by a valet service.

The party was both indoors and outdoors. Over 50 staff members from Wolfgang Puck catered the event, which ended around 1 a.m.

On the back lawn, cocktails and appetizers were served to guests who sat on white couches under heat lamps. The trees were adorned with white lights and an orchestra played music.

Tobey Mcguire (Holmes’ co-star in 2000’s Wonder Boys), Winfrey’s BFF Gayle King, Rita Wilson, Jeremy Piven and Kirstie Alley also attended.

Shields arrived with husband Chris Henchy. The party was held on her 43rd birthday.

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WENN

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are opening up their new Beverly Hills home for a housewarming party.

Celebrity pals and movie industry chiefs are being invited to the Cruise mansion this weekend for cocktails.

The invitation to the big bash, obtained by Life & Style magazine, states, “Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise invite you to share an evening in their new home.”

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Guests at New York’s famous Carlyle hotel saw a serious Katie Holmes conducting business meetings there on May 22 and 23.

“This is a different Katie than what we’ve seen when she was here with Tom,” a guest tells OK!. “She was very serious in a series of business meetings to discuss her Broadway debut. She was listening intently and jotting down notes.”

The guest continued, “At one point, her phone rang and she silenced it to focus on the meeting.”

Katie, 29, is expected back in NYC this week as she prepares for her run in the play All My Sons. “She’ll go back home to L.A. and visit a few times, but she’s going to make her primary residence NYC and she seems pretty excited about it,” says a source close to Katie.

A Broadway insider tells OK!, “Katie is a very strong and determined young lady who isn’t afraid of hard work to get what she wants.”

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Holmes is in town preparing for her upcoming role in Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons” broadway show.

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Victoria Beckham has chastised critics who have accused her of only forging a close friendship with Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes to further her acting career.

The former Spice Girl became firm friends with the Cruise family when she and her soccer ace husband David moved to Los Angeles in July 2007.

Since the Hollywood move, the Wannabe hitmaker has made a transition to the small screen, making a number of guest appearances - most notably on hit comedy Ugly Betty.

But Beckham insists she is not interested in a Hollywood acting career because she is well aware of her lack of skills in front of the camera - and has snubbed several film roles as a result.

She says, “I’m happy doing what I’m doing right now. I’m a terrible actress. Everyone thinks I’m only friends with Tom and Katie to be in a movie but it’s not true. I’ve turned down lots of roles.”

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WENN

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have sent baby botique Petite Tresor a Cease and Desist letter insiting they no longer leak any information to the tabloids.

Cruise is accusing the celebrity-popular baby store of spilling the beans to tabloids about the families spending habits. Cruise’s law form are claiming the store violated their clients’ right of privacy.

Here is an excerpt of the Cease and Desist sent by Tom’s peeps:

This firm represents Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. It has come to our attention that representatives of Petit Trésor falsely informed Life & Style - on the record - that Mr. Cruise and Ms. Holmes have spent $350,000 - $400,000 at your stores on their daughter in the past two years. Not only does this statement violate our clients’ confidentiality, but it is simply false. We also understand that you have informed other tabloids that our clients have purchased various items at your stores that they have not in fact purchased, and that they have shopped there at times that they have not.

It appears that Petit Trésor has “leaked” this false information to the tabloids for the purpose of enhancing its image and obtaining a commercial advantage. This conduct violates our clients’ rights of privacy and rights of publicity. Accordingly, we hereby request that you no longer use our clients as part of your public relations and marketing efforts.

Please do not say anything (whether true or false) about Mr. Cruise and Ms. Holmes’ shopping habits.

TMZ, INFDaily