Us Weekly’s cover story this week is old-school Jolie-Pitt-Aniston uncool Bermuda Triangle bullsh-t, with a newish twist: apparently, Us Weekly is excerpting from Andrew Morton’s Angelina book. Previously, Morton is the one who claims that Angelina homewrecked Ethan Hawke’s marriage to Uma Thurman, and she also supposedly seduced Lenny Kravitz back in the 1990s, and Ralph Fiennes sometime before Brad. Oh, and Andrew Morton is also going to tell us about all of the VOODOO that she does so well. In this week’s book excerpts, Morton alleged that after Jon Voight left Angelina’s mom Marcheline Bertrand for another woman, Marcheline fell apart and “abandoned” Angelina to looked after by nannies:

Angelina Jolie’s teenage years and young adulthood were marred by erratic behavior: drug-use, self-cutting and a volatile love life.

And Andrew Morton’s juicy new tell-all Angelina: An Unauthorized Biography — excerpted exclusively in the new Us Weekly — argues that it all began with a traumatic event in the star’s infancy. According to former babysitter Krisann Morel, Jolie’s late mother Marcheline Bertrand virtually abandoned her baby daughter after a painful 1976 split from husband Jon Voight.

Morel claims that, for two years, Bertrand sequestered Jolie in a separate apartment in her building, where the young girl was cared for by a revolving staff.

Now 35 and a mother to six kids she shares with love Brad Pitt, Jolie has publicly declared her devotion to Bertrand, who passed away in January 2007 of cancer. But Morton writes that Jolie was permanently scarred by this early abandonment — leading her to self-destructive acts and a “come here, now go away” personality.

For more exclusive revelations from Morton’s new biography — how Angelina seduced Leonardo DiCaprio, Ethan Hawke and others, whether she and Brad will ever wed, how Brad’s mid-life crisis contributed to his split with Jen Aniston and more — pick up the new issue of Us Weekly, out now.

[From Us Weekly]

Wait, Leonardo DiCaprio?!? Leo and Angie… did it happen? They’re the same age, they came up through Hollywood around the same time… it could have happened, but I don’t see Leo as her type, really. She likes them older, generally. Anyway, about the Marcheline stuff: um… sure. I’ll buy that Marcheline was devastated, but I don’t buy that she “abandoned” Angelina (and older son James Haven) for TWO YEARS. That’s kind of insane, even for the 1970s. And if it was true, don’t you think Jon Voight would have thrown that out in Angelina’s face when they were fighting all those years? Wasn’t Jon the one doing the abandoning? Speaking of Jon, he is the reason I’ve always suspected Angelina had her self-destructive phase. Jon and his insanity. Ugh. Well, Jon is back in her life, and he can’t shut up about it either:

Jon Voight was in proud-papa mode Monday at daughter Angelina Jolie’s Salt premiere in Hollywood. Soon, though, the Oscar-winning actor, 71, will be shipping out to Texas for the new TV show Lonestar, but he says the distance won’t put a damper on the relationship he’s building with his daughter and grandkids.

“It’s hard for me to be away from my grandkids, yes, but I’ll stay in touch with them,” Voight told PEOPLE at a screening of show’s pilot episode at the Paley Center in Los Angeles. “Thank god we have this technology, and you know, we use all of it.”

Specifically, Voight means Skype – and he plans to use it to chat with Jolie, Brad Pitt and their kids. “We’re just setting it up now,” the actor says. “Anyway, I love being in touch with the family.”

As for Jolie, with whom he had a famously fraught relationship, watching her in action in Salt was thrilling for Voight, who thought she elevated the action flick into something more gripping.

“Her work is terrific,” he says. “And Angie, for some reason, has this emotional capacity to make every piece of this really authentic, ’cause it’s really unreal stuff that they’re doing. But that’s the genre and she gives … another energy to it. She’s very, very good. It’s not like a novelty. She’s really doing it.”

One thing he admires about his daughter on screen: her versatility. “She’s a really talented person with a very wide range and lots of interests,” Voight says.

“It’s interesting to talk to her about why she made the decision to this movie … She was nursing two babies at the time that she decided to do this role.”

[From People]

You know, if Angelina wants her dad back in her life, so be it. But I still think the man is totally crazy, an emotional blackmailer, and – just my opinion – a man who is still on a destructive and self-destructive path. I find it creepy the way he talks about her and the children, and the way that he runs and gives a bunch of interviews every time he and Angelina see each other. It seems like he’s not only trying to really force the connection, but he’s trying to make sure that everyone sees him force the connection. Just my opinion, whatever.

Angelina & Brad on July 19, 2010. Archival images of Marcheline & Jon. All photos courtesy of Bauer-Griffin.

I hate when a story gets me all emotional first thing in the morning, and this video did it for me. Angelina Jolie and James Haven did a video tribute for their mother, who passed three years ago today. The video is a compilation of some home movies of Marcheline when Angelina and James were very young, and all of them were in Hawaii. The video (below) might be taken down in a little bit, but I tried to screen cap some of the images that I thought were cute/heartbreaking. Here’s PopEater’s summary:

Amid all of the split allegations, Angelina Jolie is making headlines in a more emotional and heartfelt capacity, as the superstar and her brother James have unveiled a video tribute to their late mother, Marcheline Bertrand. Bertrand, who had Jolie with actor Jon Voight, passed away from ovarian cancer on January 27, 2007. Today marks the three year anniversary of her passing.

The video, which opens with a title card that reads: “One place Marcheline always love was Hawaii … She made many happy memories for her family there.” In the tribute, home videos purportedly from 1981 show a then-six-year-old Jolie and her brother playing on the beach. Bertrand introduces her children on the video, and is then seen dancing the hula with Jolie on the beach.

After many more clips of Bertrand in Hawaii, the video closes with the statement: “”We Miss You Mom… With Love Angelina and James.”

As Jolie’s fame skyrocketed, she often credited her mother with being the key figure in her family. Jolie has always had a difficult relationship with her father, actor Jon Voight.

Following Bertrand’s death, Jolie gave a revealing interview to Ann Curry on ‘Today,’ saying that her mother “was extraordinary, so full of kindness and love.” Jolie also said that she hopes to one day be “even a sliver of what my mother was.”

“She was one of those women who would spend weeks to plan the right birthday party … And to write four drafts to get the right birthday card ready that said all those things that were emotional, and you could save them and that meant something,” Jolie said of her mother.

[From PopEater]

Marcheline seemed like a lively woman, inside and out. She passed away in 2007 after a prolonged battle with ovarian cancer, and I tend to think both Angelina and James are still feeling an extreme grief three years later. These are some really lovely old home movies, and I’m personally glad they shared them.

I swear I’ve heard this Angelina Jolie story before, but this seems to be a new twist. Apparently, there are still some revelations left to be unfolded about Marcheline Bertrand’s death and her estate. Previously, I had read that Marcheline left her estate almost entirely to her daughter, Angelina Jolie, and her son, James Haven, and Angelina’s children. There was also a report that Marcheline’s estate owed back taxes, which I thought at the time might be about the thousands of dollars Jon Voight still owes in child support, from when Angelina and James were actual children. Anyway, this new twist is that documents recently filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court show that a large chunk of Marcheline’s estate will go to her only three of her grandchildren – Maddox, Zahara, and Shiloh. Those were the only three grandkids Marcheline had at the time of her death in January 2007.

Three of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s children were left a handsome six figures by the actress’ late mother, according to documents filed in Los Angeles Superior Court last week.

Actress Marcheline Bertrand — who died in 2007 after a cancer battle — gave Maddox, 8, Zahara, 6, and Shiloh, 3, each $100,000 in a new trust fund. The three cannot have access to the money until they turn 25.

Why were Pax, 4, and newborn twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline (who was named after her grandmother) left out?

TMZ.com reports that “Grandma’s will was last updated in 2006, before any of them came into the picture … so they lose out. But we think they’ll be ok.”

[From Us Weekly]

Well, that’s nice that kids will have a trust fund, and that they won’t be able to access it until they turn 25, as opposed to 18 or 21 years old, when you don’t know anything about anything. My guess is that Angelina and Brad have already set up some kind of trust for all of their kids. I’ve heard rumors that Brad also set up trusts for his nieces and nephews too, so it be kind of obvious to do the same for your own children. Anyhoodle…

In a rather boring National Enquirer story this week, they claim Angelina pitched a fit over Brad’s boozing. Much like she alleged pitched a fit over his reefer madness. The pictures in the story are the ones we ran about Brad being “wasted away again in Margaritaville”. He went out and got drunk for his birthday, for the love of God!

AN outraged Angelina Jolie exploded in a rage and threw Brad Pitt out of the house when he staggered home after a tequila-fueled drinking binge, say insiders.

“Pack your things and get out!” sources say the enraged actress stormed as Brad tried to defend his guys’ night out.

The 34-year-old beauty went on a tirade after boozy Brad walked through the door Dec. 16, confided a friend. The big-screen hunk had been downing margaritas and shots with a buddy at the Mexico City restaurant near his Los Angeles home.

Wearing a rumpled black outfit and funky knit cap, Brad, 46, looked disheveled after partying a little more than two hours at the neighborhood eatery. And NOTHING could prepare him for running smack into Hurricane Angelina.

“She shouted, ‘HOW DARE you do this! You swore you wouldn’t drink like this. What kind of example are you setting for the kids?’”

Brad was ordered out and “did as he was told,” said the friend. “He took off on his motorcycle to the beach. He let his head clear and then came back after a couple of hours. Before the night was over, Angelina forgave him.”

The sultry brunette was already seething because only a month earlier Brad had gone off with George Clooney on a stag trip to Mexico.

“She felt like she was left to take care of everything while he’s off playing the bachelor,” revealed the friend.

“The good thing was that it all blew over pretty fast,” said the friend. “But it showed they are STILL on very thin ice.”

[From The National Enquirer]

Blah, blah, blah. So maybe I just wrote about this story so I could show photos of Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand in the same post as a photo of Angelina and Brad. Angelina totally has daddy issues, because that photo of her parents is just spooky. Angie and Brad are so evocative of her parents, it’s crazy.

A photo of Marcheline Bertrand and Jon Voight from the 1970s, credit: Bauer-Griffin. Additional photo of Brad and Angelina from the ‘Inglourious Basterds’ premiere on August 11, 2009, and one of Brad looking drunk on December 16, 2009. Credit: Fame.

Back in January 2007, Angelina Jolie’s mother Marcheline Bertrand died after a seven-year battle with ovarian cancer. Angelina was reportedly (and visibly) distraught after her mother’s death, dropping weight and welling up with emotion in several interviews months later when asked about her mom. Now the Enquirer is reporting that Angelina is still so grief-stricken, she’s seeking out a New Orleans psychic to help her contact her mom.

“Angelina misses her mother terribly. They were best friends, and Angie relied on her mom for advice about everything from career to relationship issues,” an insider told the Enquirer. “Lately, Angie has been talking about how she wishes Marcheline were around to help her make major life decisions, and if that means reaching into the afterworld, then so be it.”

Angelina met a female psychic in New Orleans not long after her mom died. The two kept in touch after the psychic correctly predicted Angelina give birth to a boy and a girl.

They’re planning to meet for a séance-like session during Angie’s next trip to New Orleans, which will be before the end of January, said the source.

“Angelina has had multiple face to face and telephone sessions with the psychic, but it’s only recently that she said, ‘I want to contact my mother.’”

“Angelina told the psychic that she’s like a sign from her mom that her soul is at peace. But Angie has been grappling with the dilemma of whether she and Brad should make their union official. Marcheline always said she wanted Angie to settle down, but one of Angie’s biggest regrets is that she never asked her mom if she thought Brad was ‘the one.’ Angie is also agonizing over whether or not to adopt another child, or try for another biological child.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, December 21, 2009]

Eh, I could see this, I really could. But if every word of this is true, don’t you think Angelina is using her mom’s spirit or ghost as some kind of cosmic Magic Eight ball? Should I marry Brad? “Reply hazy, try again.” And call me crazy, but I actually believe in psychics and fortune tellers and all of that. Sure, there are some scammers and con artists, but there are many who genuinely have some kind of other-worldly gift. Of course, if I was Angelina, I would be asking questions like “When does Zahara’s world domination begin?” and “Why do my twins look like Spears-Federline children?”

Here’s a nice photo of Marcheline with Angelina’s godmother, Jacqueline Bisset:

Star is reporting that Angelina’s mom Marcheline Bertrand’s dying wish was for Angelina to marry Brad. How they would know what went on in the private conversations between Angelina and her mom in the hospital is up to question:

Star can reveal exclusively that before succumbing to her illness, Marcheline, who was 56, shared tender last moments with each of them. “Marcheline was heavily medicated, but she was conscious for a lot of the time,” says the source. “Marcheline asked Brad to take care of Angelina and the kids [their adopted children Maddox, 5, and Zahara, 2, and their biological daughter Shiloh, 8 months],” says the source. And she made a similar, equally impassioned plea to her headstrong daughter.

“She spent the most time with Angelina — she told Angelina that her dying wish was for her to marry Brad,” says the source. “Even during her darkest days over the past months, Marcheline [had urged] Angelina to marry him. Marcheline adored Brad and believed he was an angel sent into their lives to take care of Angie.” So now, adds the source, despite Angelina publicly vowing in the past that she and Brad would not marry, “there is no way Angelina’s going to let her mom down.”

I guess the source could have been a nurse or something, but it sounds more likely that Star made it up. US Weekly ran a quote from Angelina’s mom before Shiloh was born saying , “I love Brad. He is wonderful. I am very, very happy and very excited for them,” so it doesn’t sound like that much of a stretch to say she told them she loved them on her deathbed and asked them to get married.

Brad Pitt was seen pleading with the paparazzi outside his Hollywood mansion to leave his family alone in their time of grief. It predictably was ineffective. He must have tried to switch strategies after being understandably a little grumpy with photographers a couple of days ago.

Angelina Jolie’s mom, French Actress Marcheline Bertrand, died after a long battle with cancer. She was just 56 years old:

Marcheline Bertrand, actress and mother of Angelina Jolie, died on Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Jolie said in a statement to the Associated Press.

The 56-year-old Bertrand, who battled cancer for over seven-and-a-half years, was surrounded by her children, Angelina and son James Haven, as well as Jolie’s partner, Brad Pitt.

“Marcheline was beautiful, caring and totally devoted to her children. I never saw her upset or sad, even after she was diagnosed with cancer,” Lea Hunter, who once dated Haven, tells PEOPLE. “She always treated me like a member of her family.”

Angelina is quite young to lose her mother like that. My mom is a little bit older than Angelina’s mom and I can’t imagine losing her at such a young age. Our thoughts go out to Angelina’s family.

According to People, instead of flowers the family is requesting donations to the Women’s Cancer Research Institute at Cedars-Sinai in LA, where Bertrand spent her last days.

The funeral is said to be private, but you know that the paparazzi are going to be keeping an eye out for it.