Jolie filed for divorce Monday, citing “irreconcilable differences”.
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The 41-year-old actress reportedly made a decision to end the couple’s marriage as she was “extremely upset” by how Brad was parenting their children. “They had a joint mutual outlook on life and the strength of their family unit was at the centre of it”.
Weeks after Aniston filed for divorce, Brangelina was born.
Jolie was previously married to Thornton and British actor Jonny Lee Miller. In keeping with their habit of giving to charity, the couple contributed the payment to the Jolie-Pitt Foundation.
Robert Offer, Jolie’s lawyer, said the actress had filed for the dissolution of the marriage “for the health of the family”.
Their ceremony included all their children, including adopted offspring Maddox, Pax and Zahara and their daughter Shiloh and twins Knox and Vivienne. Last year, the couple starred together in her “By the Sea”, playing a glamorous couple vacationing together in France while their marriage was on the rocks.
The pair fell for each other on the set of Mr & Mrs Smith in 2005 while Brad was still Wednesday to Jennifer Aniston. Pitt built homes in New Orleans for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
In a 2014 interview with The Associated Press, Jolie Pitt said playing a couple with marital problems was cathartic. “You study it, you let it out, you attack each other and then you just want to hold each other and make sure you never behave that way”. That same year they negotiated with People on another deal, giving the magazine exclusive photos of Ms. Jolie and Maddox for an estimated $750,000 and the promise to cover Ms. Jolie Pitt’s charity work. The film, about the 1970s Khmer Rouge regime, was shot in Cambodia.
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Pitt, 52, had been rumored to have been cozying up to his “Allied” co-star Marion Cotillard, 40, for months during the pair’s filming of the World War II drama in London.
