Why Angelina Jolie Will not Speak About Brad Pitt Divorce

For a fast reminder, Brad and Angelina began relationship again in 2005 after assembly on the set of their film Mr. & Mrs. Smith. They didn’t get married till August 2014, once they tied the knot in entrance of simply 20 friends, together with their six youngsters: Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, and twins Vivienne and Knox.

Barely two years later, the wedding got here crumbling down when Angelina filed for divorce on Sept. 19, 2016 — days after an alleged altercation on a personal jet the place Brad was accused of bodily and verbally assaulting Angelina and Maddox, who was 15 years previous on the time.

This brings us to Dec. 30, 2024, when the couple’s divorce battle lastly concluded after eight years of intense authorized preventing. Angelina’s lawyer, James Simon, mentioned in a press release that the Oscar-winning actor is “exhausted” however “relieved” that “this one half is over.”

A divorce battle of this size is fairly unconventional, even by Hollywood requirements. And whereas neither Brad nor Angelina have talked in nice element concerning the break up, we do know that the authorized dissolution of their marriage was sophisticated by the 2016 abuse allegations and a number of other different elements regarding their shared property and the custody of their youngsters.

On Dec. 30, an inside supply advised Folks that the Maleficent star “doesn’t communicate unwell of [Brad] publicly or privately.” And now, a subsequent report has alleged that the couple’s six youngsters — who at the moment are adults, aside from the 16-year-old twins — have been rooting for his or her mother to publicly communicate out all through the continuing divorce.

“They’ve wished her to talk up for herself, to defend herself over these years,” an nameless insider mentioned of the kids in a report revealed by Folks on Jan. 1. Nevertheless, they urged that Angelina discovered it essential to decide on privateness and take a look at the larger image, apparently reminding the children to “deal with altering legal guidelines over telling public tales.”

Angelina has put a variety of time into campaigning for human rights, significantly with regard to youngsters’s rights. In 2021, she revealed a ebook titled Know Your Rights and Declare Them, which is described as “a useful resource for youngsters and younger individuals to find out about their rights” to present them “the information they should defend themselves and others.”

It has been broadly speculated that Brad’s relationship along with his youngsters was left badly strained by his and Angelina’s break up. He has not been seen with or spoken publicly about any of his youngsters in years, and a supply advised Folks in July 2024 that he has “just about no contact with the grownup youngsters” — Maddox, 23, Pax, 21, Zahara, 19, and Shiloh, 18.

Although Brad and Angelina’s youngsters are all very non-public, a few of them have seemingly taken measures to publicly distance themselves from their father by dropping “Pitt” from their final names.