Two years ago exactly, Angelina Jolie filed for divorce in LA. It was a Monday. Just a few days before that, there was some kind of incident on their private plane, something that involved Brad being drunk and – he insisted – Maddox not getting hit “in the face.” Angelina fled with the children and never looked back. Two years later, things are still at a relative standstill. Brad spent the summer smearing Angelina, but even now that he has more visitation with the kids, he’s still being constantly monitored by DCFS. For months, Brad’s team had been hyping… ...Read full story
Brad Pitt & Make It Right will be sued for their shoddy work on New Orleans homes
Back in late June and early July, some local New Orleans media outlets began reporting that Brad Pitt’s Make It Right NOLA had screwed over many of the families they wanted to help. Make It Right tried to make eco-friendly lower-income housing in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward, the same area which had been massively devastated by Hurricane Katrina. I remember when Brad started Make It Right, and the complaints at the time – that the homes were taking too long to go up, that the houses were falling apart pretty quickly. And in July, a local paper painted an even dire… ...Read full story
So why did Angelina Jolie go outside of the LA legal pool for her new lawyer?
As we discussed yesterday, Angelina Jolie “broke up” with her divorce lawyer Laura Wasser. Wasser was her divorce lawyer from the beginning of this mess in 2016. Wasser has also been sitting by as Brad Pitt and his team smeared the crap out of her client for two years, a smear campaign which seems to be heating up rather than simmering down. I felt like I understood why Jolie switched attorneys – my thought was that she simply wanted a lawyer who had more … ...Read full story
Page Six ran a huge smear job on Angelina Jolie, gee, that’s so weird
On Twitter, I said this Page Six was possibly the nastiest, most pathetic smear job I’ve ever seen. I’ve been going through the memory banks to see if I can remember any public split or divorce ever getting this disgusting, and all I can come up with is Johnny Depp-Amber Heard (which was SO bad) and Halle Berry… ...Read full story
ET: Brad Pitt is ‘sickened’ by Angelina for ‘letting’ their custody battle go public
This week was supposed to be full of Brad Pitt’s Vindication stories. I could already feel Team Pitt gathering around to leak all kind of nasty information about Angelina Jolie and how she’s a terrible mother for… you know, taking care of the kids after Brad’s violent drunk incident on the plane two years ago. They were supposed to have a big custody hearing on Tuesday, and Team Pitt was promoting the hearing like it was going to be the big Come To Jesus moment for the custody … ...Read full story
Page Six: Angelina Jolie thinks Amal Clooney is Single-White-Female-ing her?
Today is the day. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s lawyers go to court today for some kind of hearing on the custody of their children. Well, five of their children. I believe the court has already determined that 17-year-old Maddox gets to make his own choices about whether he wants to see Brad (and he does not want that). In the lead-up to this hearing, there’s been a lot of drama and what feels like a concerted whisper-campaign, if you want to call it that. I tend to think of it less of a “whisper campaign” and more like a full-throated… ...Read full story
Brad Pitt previews his legal strategy to The Blast and TMZ, because of course
I feel like bashing my head into a wall with this Brangelina drama, quite honestly. It’s making me sick on a lot of different levels. For whatever record, I don’t think Angelina Jolie is perfect, nor do I think her every action and statement and legal maneuver has been completely brilliant. On the other side, I feel like Brad has been attacking Angelina so consistently, so wall-to-wall, that we can’t escape this current narrative that Angelina has “alienated” their kids… ...Read full story
Part 2: Angelina Jolie’s lawyer slams Brad, ‘a loan is not child support’
This is Part 2 of the Brangelina coverage. Part 1 was Brad Pitt’s legal filing claiming that he’d already paid Angelina $9 million in child support, even though by his own accounting, $8 million of that was a loan. Brad’s legal team filed their paperwork on Wednesday, after which TMZ threw a party and reveled in the fact that Brad Pitt – an abusive drunk who terrorized his family – was coming to get that difficult, evil bitch Angelina Jolie. So Angelina responded through her lawyer, and woooo, this is something. Angelina Jolie is hitting back at ex Brad Pitt after he claimed she made recent court filings over child support … ...Read full story
Angelina Jolie seeking court order to force Brad Pitt to pay child support
It feels like Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are playing two different games with each other. For Angelina, the long game suits her just fine – she’ll deal with Brad’s outbursts as they come up, but I guarantee that The Villainess Jolie’s biggest concern is how everything ends. She’s looking at the war, not the individual battles. Brad, on the other hand, is playing a more traditional game, hoping he can simply smear Angelina in the press to the point of capitulation, focusing on individual battles rather than the longer view of things. Brad and his lawyers must have found out late last week that Angelina and her lawyers were about to drop a filing, and that’s … ...Read full story
Us Weekly: Angelina Jolie ‘refuses’ to take co-parenting classes with Brad Pitt?
Here we go again. This weekend was full of contradicting information about Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s divorce. “A source close to Brad” ran to TMZ to tell them that Angelina’s divorce lawyer, Laura Wasser, was dumping Jolie because Jolie is an evil villainess. Jolie’s rep told People Magazine that it wasn’t true, but that Angelina had added some new people to her legal team for the unfolding custodial battle… ...Read full story
TMZ claimed Angelina Jolie’s divorce lawyer is quitting, but no, that’s not true
A curious story dropped early Saturday morning on TMZ. According to their sources… Angelina Jolie’s lawyer, Laura Wasser, is divorcing Jolie. As in, Wasser is quitting Angelina and the Jolie-Pitt divorce case. What’s very curious about this is the sourcing. It’s no shock or surprise that Laura Wasser would or could leak something to TMZ – many of her clients leak to TMZ, and I suspect Wasser has done and will continue to do some leaking to TMZ as well. But note the sourcing in this piece… this comes from “one source connected to Brad.” Why is Brad Pitt leaking to TMZ about his wife’s lawyer? … ...Read full story
Brad Pitt & Leo DiCaprio got pap’d on the set of ‘Once Upon a Time’ in LA
Here are some photos of Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio on the LA set of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, the Quentin Tarantino film which is a fictional tale set against the backdrop of the Manson Murders in 1969. Just a reminder: DiCaprio is playing the “actor” and Brad is playing his stunt double. Their characters live together, and Sharon Tate is their neighbor. Many believe Margot Robbie is playing Sharon Tate. The film is allegedly about the changing landscape of Hollywood at that time, and… ...Read full story