Angelina Jolie has filed for divorce
from Brad Pitt and is seeking custody of their six children, TMZ
reported Tuesday, spelling the end for “Brangelina,” one of Hollywood’s
highest-profile celebrity couples.
According to the entertainment news
site, the 41-year-old Jolie filed legal documents on Monday citing
irreconcilable differences with Pitt, 52, listing their date of
separation as September 15.
Two of the world’s biggest stars, they
formed a Hollywood power couple second to none, so famous they were
known simply by their combined first names.
The A-listers wed in France in August
two years ago, but have been together since 2004 and have six children
together, three of whom are adopted.
Jolie is seeking physical custody of the
children, with visiting rights for Pitt, according to TMZ, which said
she was not seeking spousal support.
Pitt came into the public eye 25 years
ago with a much-talked-about shirtless debut as eye-candy in the hit
movie “Thelma and Louise” — and went on to become a household name in
Hollywood.
A three-time Oscar nominee for his
acting, Pitt took home a golden statuette for best picture in 2014 as a
producer of “12 Years A Slave.”
He has built a resume of varied film
roles, starring alongside some of the industry’s other mega-watt stars:
with Tom Cruise in “Interview with a Vampire,” Anthony Hopkins in
“Legends of the Fall” and George Clooney in “Ocean’s Eleven.”
Jolie catapulted to stardom with her
role in 1999’s “Girl, Interrupted,” taking home an Academy Award for
best supporting actress for her fierce portrayal of a rebellious woman
in a mental institution.
She has since played everything from a
fairy tale villain (“Maleficent”) to a sexy video game heroine (“Lara
Croft: Tomb Raider”) to the widow of assassinated American journalist
Daniel Pearl (“A Mighty Heart”).
The red carpet darling is now better
known for her humanitarian work than for her tabloid-ready actions,
having served for several years as a goodwill ambassador for the United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
– Golden boy –
In 2012, she was promoted to special
envoy and has visited refugees around the world, from Syria to the
Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda.
More recently, she has been a vocal
advocate for victims of sexual violence in war zones, co-hosting a
global summit on conflict rape in 2014 in London.
She also was made an honorary dame by Queen Elizabeth II.
She is one of the world’s most visible
symbols in the battle against cancer, having undergone a double
mastectomy and removal of her ovaries and fallopian tubes to prevent an
aggressive form of the disease that killed her mother, grandmother and
aunt.
The actress had been married twice before, to actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton.
Pitt, born to a middle-class family in
Oklahoma, supported himself in early adulthood with a series of
part-time jobs, including as a chauffeur, removal man and even dressing
up in a chicken suit to advertise a fast-food chain.
But from 1987 the work started to
trickle in, with bit parts in the television series “Dallas” and “21
Jump Street” and a few low-budget movies.
His position as a Hollywood golden boy
was assured by his 2000 marriage to “Friends” star Jennifer Aniston,
which made them one of the hottest couples in the world.
Pitt and Jolie fell in love on the set of action film “Mr & Mrs Smith,” although they didn’t get engaged until 2012.
In May 2006 Jolie gave birth to their first child, a girl named Shiloh.
Their joint fortune is estimated at over $300 million, and they are among the highest paid stars in Hollywood.
Jolie, the daughter of Oscar winner Jon
Voight, made her directorial debut in 2011 with “In the Land of Blood
and Honey,” an unflinching drama about rape as a weapon in wartime
Bosnia.
Her fourth feature behind the camera,
historical thriller “First They Killed My Father,” is being released on
Netflix later in the year.
AFP
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