Brad Pitt spends much of his weekends doing extracurricular activities. Dinners out with his tight group of male pals (“most of them are not in the industry,” according to one source), riding his motorbike around L.A., or putting his hands to work at the studio of his sculptor chum Thomas Houseago. Sometimes he’ll go on a date, but as one source tells E! News, “he doesn’t have anyone important in his life.”
However, the actor met with a major VIP last Sunday. A whole brood of them, in fact. “He spent the day with his kids,” says the insider, after flying to London, where his estranged wife Angelina Jolie is filming her fantasy sequel Maleficent 2.
Angelina Jolie And Brad Pitt’s Children Over Time
At the risk of sounding corny, it was most certainly the nicest Father’s Day gift he could have asked for. As his divorce from Jolie, 43, approaches the two-year mark, the Oscar winner, 54, is still pushing for more time with his children Pax, 14, Zahara, 13, Shiloh, 12, and Vivienne and Knox, who are 9 years old. (At 16, their eldest son Maddox is considered old enough to make his own decisions about how much time he wants to spend with his father.)
He scored one success this month when the court presiding over the couple’s divorce devised a specific visitation schedule for the summer, then filed documentation stating that the children’s “not having a relationship with their father is damaging.” The papers, acquired by E! News on June 12, also claimed that Jolie faces losing full custody of their children if she does not allow them to develop their relationship with Pitt.
The surprising note triggered a flurry of reports that the exes’ feud is becoming increasingly heated. Insiders say the once hopelessly in love couple aren’t exactly best friends, but Pitt is determined to have a friendly demeanor. “He hopes to keep things civil with Angelina for the sake of the kids,” a source tells E! News.
They appeared to have reached an agreement in December 2016. After Jolie’s surprise September filing, it appeared that their divorce would become one of the most contentious in history, with rumors circulating about everything from an affair between Pitt and Allied costar Marion Cotillard (which both denied) to the truth about what happened on that fateful flight from France.
However, months after Jolie requested sole physical custody and Pitt responded with a request for joint custody, they reached a temporary agreement in which the children would remain in Jolie’s care while Pitt was granted “therapeutic visitation.” The announcement came shortly after the FBI concluded its investigation into Pitt and the alleged incident that occurred when the peripatetic family flew to Los Angeles on a private jet without filing charges, and the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services cleared him of any abuse allegations.
With his legal issues behind him, Pitt appeared willing to accept responsibility for the end of the golden couple’s 12-year marriage. GQ was informed of the situation “He admitted to drinking too much (“I could drink a Russian under the table with his own vodka”) and, worse, not living up to his potential as a father: “It’s hit me smack in the face with our divorce: I gotta be more for them.” I must demonstrate. And I’m not very good at it.”
He also seemed determined to move forward with as little disruption to his children as possible. “When Child Services was called, I was really on my back and chained to a system,” he told the mag. “And, you know, since then, we’ve been able to work together to solve this problem.
We’re both giving it our all. ‘No one wins in court—just it’s a matter of who gets hurt the most,’ one lawyer said. And it appears to be true; you spend a year just building a case to prove your point, why you’re right and why they’re wrong, and it’s just an investment in vitriol. I simply refuse. And, thankfully, my coworker concurs. It’s just very upsetting for the kids to see their family ripped apart.”
Angelina Jolie appeared to be on board. She chose not to elaborate on what led her to leave her partner of more than a decade in an at times evasive Vanity Fair cover story, stating simply that “things became difficult.” She, like Pitt, seemed determined to act in their children’s best interests, even if it meant hiding her pain by sobbing in the shower. She remarked on her children’s bravery, saying, “We’re all still reeling from the events that precipitated the filing… They are not getting over their divorce. They’re healing from some things in life…from life itself.”
All the while, the former couple—who famously met while filming Mr. & Mrs. Smith in 2005 while he was still married to Jennifer Aniston—continued to work out the divorce and custody details, with Pitt constantly requesting more time. When Jolie wanted to take the kids to Europe for the duration of her Maleficent 2 shoot in London this spring, negotiations came to a halt.
According to a source, the plan was for the family to spend only two weeks in England before returning to L.A. Pitt had even chosen his next project, Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, about the 1969 Manson family murders, because filming would be limited to California. According to E! News, when Jolie attempted to switch custody, Pitt moved to block it: “Brad will be filming in L.A. for the summer and wants to see the kids on his regular custody schedule.”
While he was fine with Jolie taking the kids on short trips—she took Shiloh and Zahara to a refugee camp in Jordan in January and brought the entire family to Paris that same month—”he’s not OK with his kids being away for months,” the source says. “He believes that Los Angeles is their home base and that this is the best place for them to be.”
The Truth About Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt’s Divorce
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are separating after two years of marriage, and the world’s well-informed gossip journalists have dug deep to figure out what’s going on.
Here are seven causes for the separation, culled from reliable sources on the internet.
1. Angelina hired a private investigator who uncovered Brad’s affair with Marion Cotillard.
According to Page Six, the divorce is the result of Jolie’s hiring of a private investigator, who discovered an affair with Pitt and his Allied co-star, Marion Cotillard. Is Pitt simply being linked to Cotillard because she’s a beautiful woman who happens to be in a film with him? You have no right to ask that question. This is how journalism works.
2. Brad and Angelina have disagreements about parenting.
In breaking the news of the divorce, TMZ disputed the Cotillard claims, claiming that the split is due to Brad and Angelina’s differing parenting methods. This appears almost plausible, which is why I refuse to believe it.
3. In his dream, Brad murmured Gwyneth Paltrow’s name.
The tenacious investigative journalists at Morning News USA and The National Enquirer broke the tale wide open, reporting that Angelina was quite unhappy because Brad supposedly said Gwyneth Paltrow’s name in his sleep one night, leading to the breakdown of their marriage. It appears to be solid.
4. Brad traveled to Croatia with his friends.
According to In Touch Weekly, the “final straw” for the marriage was Pitt’s refusal to spend the last few weeks of summer with his family and instead headed to Croatia for some bro time with his brothers. I’ve never visited Croatia. It’s said to be lovely.
5. Brad smoked and drank excessively, and he had an anger issue.
This is also according to TMZ, which indicated that this was the root of the aforementioned parenting troubles.
6. Angelina Jolie is a reptilian alien.
I mean, the author makes a strong point here.
7. Brad and Jen have reconnected.
The stalwart of Brad Pitt tabloid stories. You can set your timer for them. I’m looking forward to reading these stories as I get older. Anyway, that’s all there is to it. We can deduce that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie separated because a drunk, high, angry, Croatia-bro-downing Pitt was having affairs with Marion Cotillard, Jennifer Aniston, and Gwyneth Paltrow, possibly at the same time, all in front of his children. Angelina Jolie is also an alien reptoid. I’m shocked this split didn’t occur sooner.
Brad Pitt’s Relationship History
A judge agreed, much to his delight. They collaborated to create a detailed visitation schedule for the summer. Pitt was allowed to have one or two children at a time in London for four hours per day (with a therapist present) from June 8 to June 17, with visits extended to ten hours per day from June 27 to July 1.
Then, from July 8 to July 14, he’d be allowed four consecutive days with the kids, with a therapist present. Finally, he’d have custody of the kids from July 21 to July 29 in California. “They worked out a mutually acceptable agreement,” a source tells E! News, adding that Pitt “felt like he actually had a say and that the court was seeing his side of things.”
Despite the fact that the schedule requires the kids to travel back and forth, Pitt is overjoyed to get so much face time, according to the insider. And, while he’s been immersed in his latest project, he’s carefully planned his commitments so that he’s always available.
“He is overjoyed that the kids’ summer schedule is set and that he will be seeing them on a regular basis,” an insider tells E! News. “He considers this a huge victory. It’s a significant step, and he hopes to continue reconnecting with each of the children.”
According to a source, Jolie is “exasperated” by the protracted legal battle, but she accepts the judge’s decision. (Documents also state that the children will have access to cell phones on which Pitt can text them without Jolie monitoring their conversations.) “Everyone is now focused on the kids having some relationship with their father,” an E! News source says. “She is aware that this is a court order and that she must comply.”
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