As we discussed yesterday, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s custodial arrangement seems to be temporarily set. Meaning, Brad Pitt only gets monitored visits with the kids, and he only sees the kids on a psychiatrist’s say-so. This is the plan until Brad and Angelina hammer out a permanent custodial arrangement, which could take a long-ass time. On the heels of that story – which came from some paperwork Angelina filed last Friday – TMZ published a strange story on Tuesday, claiming that Angelina was still hellbent on moving to London with the kids because she really wants to take a “top position in the United Nations” (the UN is based in New York). The TMZ story was really weird and it felt like weird fan-fiction. Well, Angelina wants people to know that she’s not actually hellbent on moving to London any time soon. In fact, she’s house-hunting in LA.
Angelina Jolie is on the move. But, contrary to a report published by TMZ Tuesday, Jolie’s rep tells E! News the actress has no intention of moving to London. Instead, a source says she is looking for a house in the L.A. area.
Jolie, 41, feels it’s important to provide consistency for her kids as she finalizes her divorce from Brad Pitt, 52—a sentiment her ex surely shares. Maddox Jolie-Pitt, 15, Pax Jolie-Pitt, 12, Zahara Jolie-Pitt, 11, Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, 10, and twins Knox Jolie-Pitt and Vivienne Jolie-Pitt, 8, are each receiving individual counseling, in addition to undergoing joint therapy with their dad…. According to the source, Angelina does not determine when the kids see Brad. Their therapist devises a schedule after talking with the kids. According to the source, she “has been nothing but cooperative with the court order.”
Brad recently wrapped a global promotional tour for Allied, but he reportedly did not spend Thanksgiving with his children. As for Christmas and New Year’s Eve, the source says the kids’ schedule is TBD, given that their therapist determines Brad’s visitation time like any other day.
In Touch Weekly claimed, immediately following the Thanksgiving holiday, that Angelina had promised Brad a chance to see the kids for Thanksgiving and he flew home from Turks & Caicos early just to get some time with the kids, only for Angelina to “change her mind” at the last minute. That’s what these stories are about – she wants people to know that the custodial situation is out of her hands at this point. She also wants people to know that she’s fine with staying in LA for the time being.
Additionally, Entertainment Tonight had an interesting story about the current custody situation. A source says that originally, Brad submitted drug and alcohol testing voluntarily, but now it’s mandatory because the judge signed off on the temporary custody situation. If Brad wants to stop the drug and alcohol testing, his lawyers will have to file their own motions. A source also tells ET: “Brad has not seen his children alone without a monitored therapist since the plane incident. Angelina has not left the children’s side since the plane incident. She still has not completed her film [First They Killed My Father]. She has been with them the whole time trying to make sure they heal.” As for the family’s Christmas plans, everything is up in the air, according to ET’s sources. The therapist will ask each child if they want to see Brad, and if they don’t, the therapist won’t make them.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
IMO Brad Pitt is in the throes of some serious addiction issues, and Jolie is being as supportive as she can be while ensuring the safety of her children. Will we ever learn the truth? Not sure if it is anyone’s business but theirs. I wish them well.
Yeah That’s pretty obvious. Especially if anyone has seen these sort of things play out in real life. I have close friends going through a divorce for similar reasons after 20 odd years and BTW she still does love him she just can’t abide staying in a marriage with someone that self destructive. Luckily in her case the kids are grown up.
30 meetings in 30 days. Stop yr friends leaking rubbish sit down shut up and when yr sober then open it. Drunks are liars yr proof of that no move to uk. No thanksgiving ban.u just look bitter and stupid. U were drunk in malta yr wife dont need any more evidence than that.
Since the judge signed is mandatory, I think he doesn’t want to do the therapy sessions but why he volunteered in the first place and agreed with this agreement, now he can’t whine through his sources that angelina prevents him to see the kids while he go on vacation
Ironically It is the therapist and his kids that have the power to choose if they want to him
That’s my girl – it’s about time Angelina stood up for herself against the media.
TMZ like Chelsea Handler seems to be obsessed with Angelina and writing lies about her just because they can.
Angelina is one woman who won’t take any bs for long and I am glad she has stopped being nice.
The media and sexist sites such as TMZ & Dailymail deserves to be sued and taken down by the very people they hate – strong & independent women.
In one statement she has shown that she has always taken care of the children and that never is not the one to decide when the children sees Brad.
Now if Brad will man up and take responsibility for his behaviour – that will take away the media’s power.
+100000
Where the heck did the rumor of Angie moving to London to join the UN come from? It’s so bizarre. Why London of all places since the UN has nothing to do with that city????
Seriously! And the whole House of Lords thing. The government is not going to make an American actress a peer, no matter how well respected she is.
I saw that even CNN picked up that story.
there is almost no journalistic integrity these days. the election sure showed that…
👏👏
Idk. Wanna bet those who think she’s a “manipulative evil witch” would STILL think this news as a move from her side to look good in public after TMZ’s story? People already took his side since the beginning. And no matter what, they would stick with that side.
When it was said that the divorce because of Marion—they said, “HAH! That’s karma for you! And look at how good Brad looks now.” 🙄🙄🙄
And when it’s because of the plane fiasco, they said, “What an evil cold hearted woman after all this time Brad stood by her! “😒😒😒
I completely agree with all of you….
Whats funny is that the tabloids only angle is the move to London… I thought by now they would run stories like she was cheating on Brad with a woman, she is an addict and has been abusing her kids blah blah blah this just shows they have nothing on Angelina and are grasping at straws…. Stay strong Angie the kids need you. You will come out of this stronger.
Thank you CB,because people doesnt seem to understand for her to file it there must be a reason,
Brad was on promotion overseas for almost 3 weeks and then took holiday with a friend
Did he take the test? Did he drink or drug?
Probably no,yes and maybe
You are assuming the ruling is due to his failings. It could honestly be just to stop the “mean Angie” stories. The doctor he is working with and who is administrating the test is one of the top addiction specialist in the country so I doubt he is trying to only do this in half measures.
On a silly note
She looked gorgeous on the above pic,
Drop dead gorgeous
I thought the same! That dress with the pop of red – stunning. On a more serious note, I like that she is moving to LA and showing Hollywood/the media that she can take whatever they’re dishing out.
Oh, I know–that was one of my favorite dresses, and with the lipstick and hair, gorgeous.
This photo of her is just stunning. She’s just so beautiful!
Yeah, that thumbnail on the main page just turns all the other thumbnails gray and ugly. I was scrolling and gasped a little; she’s in her own league.
(Her face is what hooked me as a hormonal teenage girl, but her inner beauty is still more impressive. Hope she has all the support she needs right now.)
Like I said from the beginning, Brad said something really f-ed up on that plane. That’s why Angelina filed for divorce the next day and why the kids now can choose if they want to see Brad.
Some of ya’ll can try and paint Angelina as this evil shrew all you want, but Brad’s behavior caused this. This is sad for me because I was a brangeloonie as some named us fans of theirs.
It’s obvious Brad Pitt DID something really f-ed up and not just said something.
Who knows what actually happened on the plane but I doubt a single incident would cause AJ to bolt. Whatever happened was probably happening for a while and I tend to think neither parent is completely wrong or completely right. Team No One, except for the kids who are stuck in this awful mess.
@Esmom….I agree with you! I think things have not been good with the two of them for at least the past year, They didn’t seem to be together as a couple or as a family for a while. In most cases of divorce, there is his side, her side, and somewhere in the middle is the truth. I just hope that they can work something out, quickly and amicably, for the sake of the children. Team kids!
+1
This. I’m thinking the same. No one is completely right and no one is completely wrong. But the PR game on both side, plus the made up stories from the tabloids—-all of that just make things more worse. Poor kids.
Gotta say, I’m with you, Esmom.
Does anybody remember during the Oscars last year laura wessex said a major hollywood divorce was coming, she was obviously talking about pitt/jolie which means jolie was planning this for a while.
Laura has already stated prior to Sept she hadn’t spoken to Angelina in over a decade.She discussed this in NYTimes interview.
Thanks Colette for replying to Jada. Somehow, I don’t think facts are going to make a difference to some here.
At this point the only thing I’d take seriously is an actual public statement from them. Not that that is necessarily The Truth but it’s a commitment at least. The rest is just to keep the story alive imo.
As a child of divorce I have to say, I really appreciate that the children’s say is being considered in regards to visitation . I’m ultra sensitive about that. In my case I felt like property instead of a person . There was so many times when I heard that ,” it’s MY time.” Instead of being asked what do you want? Especially when I was older and had friends and activities I was involved in . So I am so pleased to hear that the kids have some control here.
FINALLY!!!!!I Think people are finally starting to see the situation for what is/was…Simply Put Brad behaved badly & Angelina went into mommy mode!…my respect for her as a woman has grown during this period..Msking decisions appropriate for her kids etc & we’ve barely seen her since this whole debacle….Still love you Brad but my respect for you has gone down a few notches…you could have defended the mother of YOUR kids thanks To YOUR behavior…
This is just nuts. They don’t leave the house. Their mother never leaves their side. They each have individual counselling and group counselling and when they see their dad they are individually asked if that is what they want to do and they have someone sitting there monitoring them throughout the visit. Now if Pitt had been found guilty of abuse by child services of the FBI then that would be one thing, but this seems totally excessive. Even so I have worked with children who were dreadfully abused and they don’t have to deal with all this. I had one girl actually say to me ‘can you be the one adult that doesn’t constantly ask me how I am feeling and just treat me like the others?’. She was one of the most serious child concern cases in the city and when there was a meeting about her there would be a dozen professionals sat around a table, but even she had less frequent counselling sessions than the Joilie Pitt kids. This paperwork could have been filed because Brad is not keeping to the bargain or it could have been filed because he is no longer prepared to go through all this and thinks it should go to court. I am going to stop commenting on this because it all sounds nuts to me and I feel desperately sorry for these children.
@jellybean x10,000
TMZ just reported Brad filed for an emergency hearing with the court, which is scheduled for tomorrow….
This is what I wonder about. I am not a child psychologist or anything. I have one child and I do volunteer work with children who live in a shelter and have seen all kinds of awful stuff… Point is, I don’t have any real education as far as traumatized kids besides lay knowledge. But it seems way over the top if they are in fact doing all this counseling. Is this not almost like parental alienation?
Do people not see how the kids would take all of this to mean that their dad is a very bad man that cannot be trusted?
Kids are actually pretty resilient. I am not brushing off abuse or anything… Just saying, if there was just this one incident… Would months of intense therapy really make sense? Is that not uncomfortable in itself?
I keep waiting to hear something really awful about him. Seems like there must be way more than what we’ve heard. Because none of this is normal. Even for rich Hollywood people.
Jellybean:
Excellent post. I agree completely!
Good for her.
I think the war is not between brad and angelina. The war is between tmz and angelina. Tmz is trying to push the custody war while angelina is trying to discredit tmz. A lot of media outlets, legit or not, quote tmz. Probably thinking that by doing so, the more “legit” media outlets might think twice about quoting tmz the next time around. Maybe this is why tmz is so anti-jolie. IMO
Exactly, yesterday I was getting an oil change and TMZ Live came on.Their first story was the reason Angelina Jolie filed for divorce and wants full custody is because she wants a position at the UN.She wants to move the kids to London.I screamed,”The UN is not in London,She can never be the head of the UN”.
Now the other customers in the waiting room at Goodyear think I am insane for screaming at the tv about the United Nations.Lol
Not once did TMZ explain why Brad has to go to individual therapy twice a week or get tested for drug and alcohol FOUR times a month.No explanation why after he was cleared he didn’t file his own motion to change the monitored visitations.
So that’s why I get frustrated by people saying Laura Wasser is leaking info to TMZ.If she was maybe we would know why Brad is individual therapy,two 50 minute sessions a week.People are always claiming Angie is mentally ill or on drugs so why isn’t she being drug tested?
TMZ is doing it again. Brad wants to seal the records, which makes since. But they are still taking shots at her in the latest story.
Now he wants to seal all documents related custody and pretending to care about the kids and still can’t do anything about the agreement because he signed it and these documents are hurting his image not the kids
@Fa..I think sealing the records is fantastic, but I also think this is more about sealing his misdeeds. Let’s hope his ‘sources’ obey the ruling.
I know he got exposed that agreement his sources where denial before but now the world had seen it and he can’t taking and he using the kids by saying she is hurting the kids
To be honest the both hurting their family by playing PR game
They should’ve seal documents before is too late now
Yeah. He doesn’t want us to know what actually happened. Don’t worry Brad. As soon as the divorce is finalized Angie will tell us everything about it.
So can the tabloids keep insulting angelina through his sources
@Fa…How are they “BOTH”hurting they’re family??…I find it funny that as soon as Angelina Provides facts in the matter it’s “oh they need to sort it out privately”..uh hello..she’s the one who’s name is being dragged negatively in this whole situation thanks to HIS begaviour..Brad won’t stand up for her,so she’s clearing her name & providing facts..btw..weren’t there people stating TMZ is pro-Angie,by the looks of things they’re anti her & by giving this information she’s immediately discredited them…
They should’ve seal documents before and shut up their sources particularly his but now is too late she will still be the bad and him the good guy for tabloids nothing will change until for the coming weeks or months
@Adorable: agreed completely.
Brad was fine that for the last 2 months that Angelina was crusified in the media for something HE did. He was fine that the media used lies and tried to ruin Angelina.
But now that Angelina is fed up and actually fights back, he has issues? Because the truth shows us that the government is the one who is deciding when he can see his children. The government wants HIM to take drug and alcohol tests 4 times a month to prove that he is clean.
If Brad was a real man and a true father, he would have stepped up and stopped the attack on Angelina. He would have told them to stop dragging in his son into the mess.
Brad has completely lost my respect and i pray that Angelina continue to stay strong and gets the support she needs.
Sealing the documents IS best for the kids…. and Brad.
Exactly!
Great question brought up by this story,how long can a child custody arrangement like this last? At some point, wouldn’t a judge, a psychiatrist, or parents think that this situation is too unstable (maybe, detrimental) to the children? Any particular amount of time considered typical?
Genuine questions because I’ve never seen or been involved in something like this and my concern centers on the kids.
You would think, that if the ONLY bad incident of Brads, had been the airplane incident, and both the FBI and child services closed their files on this, that would be it. Brad’s lawyers would say, he’s cleared, he should have equal time with the kids, unmonitered! It makes me feel like, when they talked to the children, more bad behaviour on Brad’s part must have been discovered. Also, FOUR drug tests a month, sounds excessive. I hope that I am wrong. I’ve always loved Brad, but I really loved he an AJ together, with their beautiful family. It all seemed like a fairy tale love story, and a happily ever after. I should have known that there is no such thing. That it was just Hollywood, smoke and mirrors! At least, towards the end…
I’m sorry that you are disillusioned but, to be fair, they did put out an ideal type relationship that just doesn’t exist. Too much praise and gushing, too unreal.
Anyway, glad that an emergency court hearing is being held. I think it’ll be best for all concerned.
It is super excessive considering what we have heard. I am waiting for the announcement that he bites the heads off of live chickens or something.
I don’t know him but I always just assumed he was a chill guy. I would think that even if he got drunk and lost it one time in front of his kids… For most normal people, that would be enough for them to get themselves together, without all this other stuff. Would everyone around be blowing it so out of proportion? I don’t know.
I feel bad for all of them. It is so sad anytime a young family falls apart and especially like this.
It does sound excessive, but he agreed to the testing and monitored visits. As soon as he was cleared by child services and the FBI he should have requested his lawyer terminate or change the agreement. But he sat on it for whatever reason.
What the f did he do to those kids that was SO awful that it had to come to this!?
Any one ID her lippy ?
After 12 years she think he has addiction? Hadn’t for the incident she still would be there saying nothing right? Angie just let it go… He’s not no where near ideal but it just doesn’t make sense this way
I looked at the court filing. The only thing new about this temporary agreement is that it was signed by the judge. YES — it takes 6 weeks to get an order signed by the judge and it was signed on the 2nd. Once signed it’s filed with the court. Nothing new to see here. Washers assistant got the signed order back and filed it with the court. What will be coming up soon is the ACTUAL order for custody. This is an interim agreement. There will likely be shared custody. Good for Pitt taking the initiative to seal the case. About time.
Been working as a paralegal for 20+ years with hundreds of cases in this courthouse. Psychologists do not determine when a parent sees a child based on what the child says. This is some weird back end alienation going on.
I can’t stop thinking about how for years and years and years she gushed about what a wonderful man & father he was. He was their rock, their everything, the perfect parent. But now he’s a monster that’s so awful & damaging he shouldn’t be allowed near his children without supervision even after the investigations were closed and it was found he did nothing wrong?
I’m not “Team” either side but all the pieces of this situation just don’t go together.
And I’m all for kids having a say but I hope there are more factors involved then just if they want to see him or not. Sometimes kids don’t know what’s best for them and just parrot what they hear or go with the funner option…
Yeah, it doesn’t make sense.
@Erica, spot on. And it’s why I try to stay out of it.
Then Brad should never have agreed to the therapist and D&A testing.
Also, he should never have gotten drunk and went nose to nose with his kid.
Succubus from hell.
Don’t really know what to make of this. It does sound excessive, but they have so much money that they can afford it and that can drive what is actually done. It also might just be a legal precaution. And of course we don’t know what the full history is.
On the early visits, it seemed that only the oldest didn’t want to see his dad. At his age, nobody would force it. So even if they’re asking each kid individually, the only “no” might be coming from the one who would have that choice anyway. It’s not unusual for a boy that age to need to distance himself from a parent after such conflicts. This may just be a temporary thing that they can work through one on one after things settle down.