Showing posts with label Brad Pitt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brad Pitt. Show all posts

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Brangelina break up? Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie meet lawyers to divide fortune, share custody: report


Say it ain't so - Brangelina might soon be just Brad and Angelina.

The Hollywood power couple is headed for splitsville, London's News of the World reported Saturday.

Citing sources, the paper says Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have met with California divorce lawyers and have agreed to divide their vast fortune.

In legal papers signed this month, the world's most famous couple has also agreed to share custody of their six kids, sources say.

"The document was signed in early January," a source told the British tabloid.

The contract, signed by Pitt and Jolie, is similar to a pre-nuptial agreement.

"It seemed clear they want the world to know they'll both play a part in the upbringing of the children," the source said. "But Angelina will actually be the one who lives with them full-time."

Pitt, 46, will have full access to their three biological children - Shiloh and twins Knox and Vivienne - as well as the three adopted children - Maddox, from Cambodia; Zahara, from Ethiopia; and Pax, from Vietnam.

The couple, who never married, have been together since shooting the action film "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" five years ago, when Pitt was married to Jennifer Aniston.

Pitt and Jolie, 34, have not been photographed together in recent days, fueling reports that their story-book relationship was on the rocks.

On Jan. 6, the National Enquirer reported that Pitt and Jolie had a heated argument inside the Alto restaurant in Midtown.

The magazine said Pitt demanded Jolie get psychiatric help for the depression she has suffered from since the death of her mother three years ago.

Pitt was photographed Friday night backstage at the "Hope for Haiti" telethon in Los Angeles but without Jolie.

Reps from both the Pitt and Jolie camps declined to comment yesterday.

rschapiro@nydailynews.com

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Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Vanity Fair's New Establishment '09 released: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie= Highest ranked power celebs after CEOs


Vanity Fair's annual "New Establishment" list is out—the highly subjective guide to the 100 most important people in the Information Age, or in Graydon Carter's (Editor-in-Chief's) world.

At the top of the list are the world's corporate power players - CEOs of Goldman Sachs, Apple, Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, Google, BlackRock, and News Corp. Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt come in at #8, the highest ranked celebrities on the power list:

8. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie (Actors, activists) LAST YEAR: 9.
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: The tabloid-haunted, globe-trotting couple reminded us that they both can really act with Pitt’s Oscar-nominated performance in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Jolie’s in Clint Eastwood’s Changeling.

VOX POPULI: A campaign formed on the Web to recruit Pitt to run for New Orleans mayor even though Pitt hasn’t lived there the requisite five years—Pitt, 45, and Jolie, 34, spent $3.5 million for a French Quarter house in 2007. He isn’t even registered to vote there, and when asked by the Today show’s Ann Curry whether he would enter the election, he replied, “I’m running on the gay-marriage, no-religion, legalization-and-taxation-on-marijuana platform. I don’t have a chance.”

BRAGGING RIGHTS: Jolie’s $27 million in earnings put her atop this year’s Forbes “Celebrity 100” list and ahead of erstwhile romantic rival Jennifer Aniston (who was quoted in Vogue as saying that it was “uncool” for Jolie to talk about how her relationship with Pitt developed while he was married to Aniston). Pitt, meanwhile, scored box office success with Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds.

LATEST ACTS OF DO-GOODERY: The couple’s foundation donated $1 million to the United Nations to help the hundreds of thousands of refugees from violence in Pakistan and Afghanistan. It also donated $1 million for a cancer center in Springfield, Missouri, named after Pitt’s mother, Jane. Pitt gave $100,000 to the No on Prop 8 campaign in California and said that he and Jolie won’t get married until gay people can, too.

Others on the power list: Steven Spielberg (#11), JJ Abrams (#27), Judd Apatow (#29), Oprah (#38), George Clooney (#39), Meryl Streep (#40), AND STEPHENIE MEYER (#100)


Sources: Vanity Fair