Doesn’t it feel like this year, we’ve really traveled back in time? The 1990s have come back in a big way in fashion and politics, and gossip has been going through the Way Back Machine too, like we’re stuck in 2005 and it’s all about Brangelina and Perez Hilton. Like, when was the last time Perez Hilton was really relevant to gossip? I’m not throwing shade on Perez, honestly – he changed the way celebrity gossip is accessed and disseminated and props to him. But at this point, in 2016, who cares what Perez says? Well, as it turns out, Angelina Jolie cares. Or maybe her lawyers care. I don’t know. I ignored this story for a few days because I thought there was a good chance the whole thing was a misunderstanding, but whatever. It happened. Jolie’s lawyers sent a letter to Perez over his coverage of the Brangelina Split, and Perez is furious.
He claims to have received a threatening legal letter from Angelina Jolie’s lawyers on Monday after he published a controversial article about the actress’ split from Brad Pitt. Now, Hollywood reporter Perez Hilton, 38, has slammed Angelina’s lawyers for using aggressive tactics, claiming that they actually make Angelina ‘look bad’.
Speaking to KIIS FM’s Kyle and Jackie O on Wednesday, the father-of-two confirmed that he had received a ‘rude’ letter from Angelina’s lawyer regarding an article published on his site. The article claimed that Brad Pitt was ‘wrecked’ after Angelina refused to let him see his children since the divorce news broke.
‘Is Angelina Jolie really going to sue me? Most likely not. They’re just trying to intimidate me, bully me, threaten me,’ said Perez. ‘[Angelina’s] publicist revealed to me that the lawyers have been sending out a lot of aggressive letters demanding people to stop speaking about the Brangelina split. I think that her lawyers are making her look bad and at this point it would be dumb of her if she’s not aware of this. And I think that she should let her lawyers go and get new lawyers because the public thinks negatively of her.’
On Monday, Perez took to his Instagram page with a transcript of his response letter to Angelina’s lawyers, which began: ‘Please get this message to Angelina Jolie herself. She KNOWS… I have ALWAYS been a huge fan and SUPPORTER of hers. I am livid!!! Unless she wants to turn me into an enemy, I want an apology right now.’
In the caption, he wrote: ‘In other news, #AngelinaJolie’s lawyers at Greenberg Glusker have just threatened to sue me for my coverage of her split from #BradPitt. ME!! I have always been one of Angelina Jolie’s loudest and strongest supporters and defenders!!!!! This was my email back to Angelina’s lawyers, #BertFields and #PriyaSapori. Glad I’m not running for president!!’
At this point, I guess I have to acknowledge that Angelina has assembled a crack team of lawyers, fixers and everyone else and they’re all itching to earn their paychecks and… they’re overreacting, maybe? Angelina’s PR strategy before the split was stellar, and she clearly understands how every facet of the media works. The people around her? Not so much. Between this Perez incident and the story about Jolie’s “fixer” contacting Melissa Etheridge, Jolie’s people are making her look so… thin-skinned. Allegedly. Whatever. It’s weird.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
It’s not weird. It’s bullshit.
I doubt Jolie knows this low life even exists.
I disagree. I think all celebrities follow gossip.
She probably knows that he’s a fan but doesn’t pay enough attention because he does post lies about her. If she knew that she would say f him. Some fan he is.
I think its been over-egged by both sides since the divorce was initially filed. Unless all these ‘sources’ dissing brad were not hers and just people talking and speculating and same for all the ‘sources’ saying brad is a crying, boo-hooing, room running wreck, I think both sides have blown it spectacularly. They should have just kept it as quite as possible, no leaks, no confirmations beyond ‘yes we are getting divorced.’ Its made me lose respect for both of them and feel really really sorry for their kids.
She wouldn’t have to know him or have an opinion of him in order for her team to think it was wise to take action.
I highly doubt that she even cares Perez! Gimme a break! I cant believe you even think that and that u must tell her…HELLLLO..they are called LAWYERS.
I think her lawyers have been ordered to fire a blanket letter to any and all saying negative things around the split and posting them as fact
She has a family and although it is broken she is trying to protect her children
He posts endless shit on his site with zero basis in reality. He is also a deluded narcissist at best.
Stating Brad Pitt is broken because Angelina is keeping him from his children is a really negative and very probably utterly untrue thing to put out there.
It might be the last thing her children need to have floating around
If we were in her position we would do the same thing
I respect her for her strong position on this
I doubt Jolie cares about her public image now, she has 6 kids and a nasty divorce on her plate…
Angelina is just trying to protect her kids from possibly reading hurtful things about the situation. All of those people reporting things many don’t even have credible sources, I believe. He would feel different if it was about his life with his kids. Same goes for any other publication. I think few people really know the truth about all the different aspects of the story, and they aren’t talking to the press most likely.
Shut up dude.
Or it could mean that she’s every bit as controlling as her team!? That is an option to be considered…..
Amen, sister! Even my mother who has always been a die hard Jolie fan (after cleaning up her image) thinks that Jolie is handling this divorce terribly. She is no longer a fan.
I feel the same. I think this whole thing backfired.
She is protecting her kids.
So I am more of a fan now.
Or maybe she’s trying to stop stories that are intrusive to their kids’ lives? Both Jolie and Pitt seem to be actively trying not to engage in the media feeding frenzy.
My mom said feels the same way! She really liked Angelina, and doesn’t even know who Brad is (which films he appears on, etc).
The story she was trying to “control” had to do with Being perceived as alienating the kids from their father. Thats about her image. Had her focus been on the kids then she would be seeking her team out on articles insinuating things about Maddox behavior …and there have been a few. There may have been a time when she didnt care about public perception and even actively tried to inflame the public but those days are long gone. She cares about how she is read.
To @heather and @naya
One thing that has always contributed to the resentment and bitterness for Angelina among her haters is that she was above it all. She didn’t seem to need or be seeking minivan approval and she certainly wasn’t hurt by the slings and arrows.
She didn’t let whatever vile foul things being said (and they’re always being said, there is no hater break – no one goes on holiday) affect her happiness or interfere in her life. She was/is a different breed, and that annoyed her haters even more.
This is new.
If you’re objective and not biased against her. You would say this ‘split’ is different and is not the usual Hollywood or even civilian, uncoupling (if it goes all the way to that).
There seems to have been a traumatic event that triggered the breakup involving what may have been an inebriated Brad and the eldest son. Causing her to immediately file and ask for sole custody (temporarily).
This isn’t the ‘We’ve been growing apart and decided to separate but we look forward to the next chapter of our lives,’ split of Brad’s first marriage. Brad is said to be wrecked and saddened and Angelina mentions the ‘health of the family,’ in her petition for divorce.
I think it’s odd people are trying to say this is just a normal split and she’s just handling the divorce she filed (barely within 48hrs of this incident) bad.
Trying to paint her with shades of Jennifer (bitter) and trying to set a certain image – seems wholly inaccurate.
She’s going to let drug den heroin addict adulterous Angelina fly, but suddenly get concerned over crying Brad and Melissa Etheridge?
To people that follow her- yes, it seems an anomaly, but then she’s not had traumatic things that may affect her older children and spouse’s mental and emotional well being interfere with her life before.
For all we know Brad may be in treatment somewhere and the kids are getting counseling. Maybe her eldest is racked with guilt and freaks out about the tabloids lies that he’s now a part of, maybe Brad is struggling with same.
Maybe Angelina’s still the same selfless person disaffected by tabloids and lies herself but trying to safeguard her family’s wellbeing.
I’d go with that rather than the inferences some are making about her being litigious to protect only herself and some ‘image,’ she’s never really been concerned with protecting from tabloid and gossip slander before.
Then again I don’t irrationally hate or dislike her.
Yes! I seriously doubt her attorneys are taking legal action on her behalf (if you can call threatening letters “legal action”?) without her consent or knowledge. I know there are some attorneys who read CB, I hope someone will chime in on this. Also, aren’t we often told that AJ doesn’t use/has not had a publicist? She sure has one in her back pocket.
I think they could have informed her something general like “we are going to send out a warning letter to outlets that have published misleading or false information”. I don’t know if the idea was bad, but rather the execution was heavy handed.
Heres the thing though, the article in question was about Brad and his state of mind, not her. On what basis can she claim that its false or misleading to write that Brad is a “wreck” and “would do anything to see his kids”? Especially when Perez is doing what this site does everyday, reporting whats been reported. His article directly attributed the originating People article. Her lawyers must have told her it was a flimsy claim but she went ahead anyway and of course Perez who is a hardcore stan of hers called her bluff. Even that cretin can see she has no case. Anyway, she is basically using her lawyers to fight his PR team which is basically the most PR unsavvy thing you can do.
almondmilk
I think you hit the nail on the head and obviously I agree with you 100%.
Yes almondjoy. Exactly yes.
You can’t deny how everything suddenly went really quite after a bang at the beginning.
Streisand Effect.
What does that reference mean? (:
It’s when a celebrity tries to squash gossip, but unintentionally draws more attention to it. It had something to do with Barbara Streisand and one of her houses being for sale or something. I don’t remember the exact story, but it was something no one even cared about & then she sued someone over it & that’s when people even noticed. She would have been better off not doing anything and letting the story die, but she sued and made it a bigger story.
Hahahahah that is AWESOME. What a perfect call.
She unsuccessfully sued a photographer for invasion of privacy. He took an aerial photo of her house along with 11,999 others to study costal erosion for the California Costal Records Project. In year before the lawsuit it was downloaded 6 times, two of which were Streisand’s lawyers downloading it. In the month following the lawsuit ‘Image 3850’ was downloaded 460,000 times, shared on other platforms, and even had a parody song.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
Nah, I think they are doing a great job of shutting down “sources” that are tryin got make her look bad. Good for her. Too bad Brad couldn’t be the man his fans think he is and hire lawyers to stop lies about his family— Angelina had to do it. She is doing a great job of protecting her kids. No real papaparazzi photos and now tabloids and “sources” have stuck a sock in their big mouths.
The only mistake they made was sending that letter to drama queen Perez because that wasn’t his original story… He doesn’t have any stories or even fake sources of his own.
All good points, Yep, all good points!
Now, if blind items are to believed (maybe, maybe not), Angelina’s team’s strategy is to shut down any gossip about -her-, but Brad is fair game. I’m leaning towards Angelina being the better half in this debacle, but regardless.
I wouldn’t want to be a child in that family right now. To see both of your parents get dragged through the public mud, whether they deserved it or not must be soul crushing.
Perez can bite me though. What a nasty example of a human being.
He can hire his own lawyer to protect him. why should she do it for him. He’s not a child and is obviously perfectly capable of protecting his precious image.
Almost every tabloid last week had a negative story about her,not him.So obviously she is not focused on stories about HER.
It’s not a good idea to start a shit fight with Perez Hilton. He’s vicious and he’s hungry for attention and to increase traffic to his website. This could totally backfire on Angelina.
@Colette, I wonder if that is the result of backlash to her strategy.
@Mary Simon She already backtracked. Immediately after he posted his FU rant demanding she apologise, her guys reached out to him. There will be no suit and I suspect she will rely more on the fixers than the lawyers from now on.
This! All of this.
He’s really milking it. Jolie is going through a divorce, dealing with child services, counseling with 6 minor kids and he wants her attention? That’s why she’s letting the lawyers handle the media. Her plate is too full.
I do think the CPS side of things is why she has so many people handling things for her. I think if this was just between her and Brad she’d handle it on her own. She really only married him because her children wanted her to.
I thought they waited to get married when everyone else could. And I don’t doubt that the two of them actually wanted to get married.
Besides, the marriage isn’t the thing that is going to cause the headaches. It is the custody issues. She willingly had 3 babies with him and they share 3 adopted children. That is on them and had nothing to do with what their children wanted them to do.
Duuuude. I saw this yesterday. Perez Hilton is the epitome of le enfant terrible. I think it’s really rich that he thinks because her team is trying to keep media clean for her impending divorce that it’s personal. It’s not. She’s only going after the articles that seem like slander (?) or unfounded (I have no idea) and I don’t blame her. One thing that is awful in divorce are disparaging remarks. If she wants her people to clean it, just remove the damn post and let her deal with her life. It’s not like she’s spent her life cease and desisting people prior. You don’t write a profanity laced diatribe and post it. I can’t stand that pettiness and singular focus about Perez.
I do NOT think he is a good person, and trust, I found all of these sites in their inception because I am a diehard pop culture fan and non of my scholarly friends can handle that aspect of me. Nor can they snark properly with me.
I also worked for an internet company way before we knew what it would be, in college. I had a prototype Facebook account when it was still in beta! I had two friends who were developers for years before it took off! I say this because I’ve been down with so many gossip sites since they started. I appreciate Perez and I really enjoyed him initially.
Loved your comment. None of my friends will snark enough for me either:)
Perez’ site changed. Early, he had insights and gossip no one else had, then he got really mean, then he stopped being mean and got his gossip from other sites way later than others. Now he’ s not worth reading.
I love good snark! I too enjoyed Perez when he first started blogging, he was fun, a little silly but gave good dirt. Then he became mean and cruel, so I quit reading him.
@miss_kat: the meaner he got, the less gossip he produced too. It became all reports of other outlets’ stuff, and he was such a jerk it became easy to avoid him. I mean, the only times he’s even been a part of the gossip conversation anymore have been this and his bizarre feud with Lady Gaga.
Also the comments there started to take on a life of their own. Low low low life people commenting. It just became gross all around.
Yup, great assessment of the site.
Perez has always vastly overrated his own importance. And you’re right, he was interesting initially because gossip/entertainment reporting was so tightly controlled (a la People magazine) and anything else was considered a trashy tabloid. But he just became so mean, so quickly, and became such a sycophant to those he actually liked. There’s a reason why he became obsolete.
Agree with you on all points, but then he also became this over-the-top professional “victim of bullying” when people called him out for the things he said/did. Plus I really hated his forced outing of people who weren’t out. That was way too far for me.
I totally agree with you on that too! On both points. The irony of that man trying to claim he was bullied.
LD- Loved this “I am a diehard pop culture fan and non of my scholarly friends can handle that aspect of me. Nor can they snark properly with me.” I concur and toast with you!
I was ashamed of this part of myself until recently and have been owning it. My friends/family didn’t even know who Donald, Ivana, Marla, Ivanka, etc were. Oh lord- I told them to get a coffee & I’d take them on a ride!
When I first saw the headline of this site “Escapism can be smart” I thought I’d died & gone to heaven. I am happy to meet people here who like smart smut too.
I’ve been with CB for a long long long time. Pretty much since it started, and my FAVORITE thing is the tagline “escapism can be smart” because that’s exactly how I felt the first time I read commentary. I also feel like I followed Celebitchy somewhere else before, but I can’t remember. NO That was Bedhead, I used to follow Agent Bedhead. I don’t think she writes here anymore, or Jaybird? Point being, Me love you long time CB.
I agree with Lainey’s take on gossip. I think it’s less about dirty secrets and more about what the facades that people put up when wealth, power, and fame are on the line. What we believe says a lot about us as people, I think.
But those cease and desists do absolutely nothing. They can’t actually win a case against a gossip blog making up or repeating false stories. It’s an American blog, they’d never win. It’s not like gossip bloggers are going to get a C&D and say “I had no idea that story was untrue! I’m sorry!” They’re just going to talk about how they got a C&D from Angelina’s lawyers.
This is the mail reportedly sent to Perez.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BLcxwGIA-QI/
I think her lawyers are going after everyone reporting false news about the kids and CPS terms. I can’t really blame her for that, people who work for CPS are still regular people who watch news and read this sh** and they could consider it bad if she doesn’t do something. Beside with everything she’s going through I’m not surprised she lets her lawyers handle the PR in this situation.
This shows she is protecting the kids, tabloids are acting like she is preventing Brad to see his kids but DCFS have the right to determine when Brad has to see his kids
I’m in complete agreement. Given all that’s been said about her in the past and she’s never responded, I’m pretty sure that this is not about her. This about the kids and trying to shut down the false information out there that could affect the kids who must be going through such a rough time right now. Especially Maddox.
ETA. I read the letter sent to Perez and that just reinforces my opinion. I say good on Angie’s team.
I agree .
Almost all the tabloids and gossip sites have written negative stuff about her last week and this week.
Also Perez wrote about this letter LAST week,so he bringing it up again to “milk it”.He is not the only one who got this letter.He is the only one whining like a baby about it.
Perez still acts like a 9th grade girl, I see.
That’s really All I came to Say, Oh Look After many Moons Perez Is Still Outchea being Petty Pestilence Personified
Let us not downtrodden 9th grade girls shall we? I know many more mature 7th graders.
What he acts like is a selfish, narcissistic, petty toddler. I also see a resemblance in behavior to a certain Cheeto.
I don’t think she is thin-skinned, I actually believe she is doing this for her children. Worst things have been written about her and she never reacted. I have a feeling this is about protecting the misinformation that her children could possibly read in the future.
More props to Angelina for doing what she thinks is best for herself and her children, who cares how she looks to a bunch of people who doesn’t know her or her situation.
I think if jolie had the best interests of her children in mind she would be keeping things more private. No child benefits from one of their parents being dragged through the mud.
I agree. Someone planted that story of Brad being an alcoholic and abusive, and nobody shut it down. Because we all still don’t know what really happened on that plane. Why didn’t they just release a simple statement: we’re are gonna get divorced, we stay friends, please respect our family’s privacy. Done. Instead, she issues a statement alone, talking about the “health” of her family, and lets the gossip spin begin. That private airline representative already stated they are not involved in leaking anything about their clients…I think Jolie handled this poorly, and it backfires now. And those kids suffer.
I like AJ but I still think she is very calculating about her image and what she puts out there. And @siri is right, she started this shit storm and it backfired on her. Now she wants to silence people.
@V4real,
I agree with you. I still think a public joint statement would help curb all of this. I don’t think it’s going to happen though. It’s very much a case of closing the barn door after the horse is already out!
“[Angelina’s] publicist”
I thought she didn’t have one?
Right? Angie likes to play the role like she is above all the gossip but clearly not, she is following this closely and I don’t think anyone is making ny moves without the okay from the jolie
Yeh. I think a lot of what has happened has been very telling. The fact that someone took the time to reprimand Melissa Etheridge (someone no one took seriously because how could you) was just weird and shows how closely they are trying to play all of this.
But Melissa implied that “nothing” happened between Madddox and Brad on that plane, and wasn’t even there. I think that’s why Melissa got told.
Was just going to say….
lol good point!
She doesn’t have one this is why her lawyers are sending cease and desist letters to tabloids until the DCFS close the case
Great she is doing this. No news is good news. I wonder if in the end we migth have a reconciliation. that would be epic.
“Please get this message to Angelina herself” lol Perez is delusional! I’m sure AJ has nothing better to do than worry about this big baby!
Lol it is amusing though, Perez spent years going after Aniston pretty viciously as some twisted way to support Angelina. And Angelina killed his ego with one letter.
I don’t know if they had people advising them or if they chose to go forward like this on their own… But they have obliterated the family image that they worked over a decade to create. I am still in disbelief that two people so controlling of their images let things play out like this.
He was definitely still trying to control his image after the incident came out –poor Brad , Angie is so mean– but she shut that sh** down. Now what is he going to do? His sources were going around crying about how much he wanted to protect his children and he did nothing. Angelina is acting like a mama bear right now — it is sad it took this incident with her kids for her to shut that tabloids down but I’m happy she finally did it.
I mean more the way all this took off in the beginning. I don’t understand who would have thought it was a good time/ way to handle it. Even if you hate someone there is a quieter way if you don’t want people digging as hard into your business and putting your kids names all over the internet. Celebrity couples break up all the time. The statement “for the health of our family” for instance… Instead of…” We’ve grown apart with the hectic schedules and distance but will work together to raise our children”. It’s hard to imagine someone didn’t know what they were doing.
@Lalu I think the better strategy for Angelina would have been to file without the leaks to TMZ. She could release a benign statement without giving cause, then allowed the investigation to come out on its own or leak it a few days later without editorializing from her sources. People’s first instinct is to dislike/distrust her, so when she comes out swinging they immediately take his side.
I’m just talking about this from a PR standpoint, BTW.
@YepIsaidit
Pleaae. I don’t believe Brad Pitt for one second had anything to do with those vile tabloid stories.
Like he would have to ‘make’ tabloids and gossip rags/sites write horrible b.s. about Angelina. Are you kidding? Lol Those rags and gossips know she’s still enemy no. 1 with the Walmart tabloid buying ninnies and many minivans.
The hate Angelina gets from them is their default position. Brad, even if he was that diabolical and in the condition to scheme, wouldn’t even have to.
I’m sure a lot of people as usual will have egg on their face when this is all resolved or at least settles down.
You misunderstood “the health of our family” means that the whole family are hurting not just her and Brad, when DCFS opened an investigation against your family and this why they’re doing family therapy and to heal the family
No. I totally understood “health of the family” and that was my point. That is no one’s business. And you don’t invite that in. And yes, I know there were stories that came out about the plane etc but still half of those were proven false and I think something putting the divorce on them and not the family would have just made better sense.
Of course, I am just going by what I have seen. I don’t know these people or their real motives etc. I just thought it was odd.
She hired a fixer, and this fixer is doing her job. You don’t put someone on the payroll to sit on their hands.
Good point.
I can’t remember what was the story that made me stop reading his website but i recall he was riding on everybody’s tail and making it like he was the guy who tells it like it is , the adult stars can’t touch.. he was so high up there in his mind into thinking that he won’t be bullied by celebrities and yet doubling down on everything and having attitude like he was the queen of the queen of the queen of gossip god. i can’t stand him. every time i see him I feel like i just smell a whiff of rotten eggs.
I don’t know if this is the story you’re thinking of, but he released a graphic, private video of Kesha with one of her boyfriends without her consent. Kesha was devastated and the boyfriend broke up with her. She called him the love of her life. That was when I started to see how nasty and petty Perez is. Every time he’s in a beef he does this– he makes it about him. “I want an apology, make sure she sees this, blah blah.” He thinks he’s much more important than he is.
Ahahahahahahaha rofl Yepper buddy, she is going to fly her personal jet straight onto your driveway, roll out a carpet coloured delusional Rouge, and pat your back while whispering how sowwy she is that your false reports led to a legal warning. If that is even true.
Ps: melissa etheridge is looking for a duet partner…you might want to look into that bright opportunity.
She is simply shutting down articles that say she is deliberately keeping the children from Brad, when actually they had to wait for DCFS to say when he could see the children.
The letter from the lawyer(which is on Radar) is about the children and that DCFS were the only ones who could say when Brad saw the children.
There are plenty articles out there accusing Angie of all sorts, she is not asking for those to stop.
Perez doesn’t care about Angie and how she looks in public, because he continues to copy and paste all sorts of rubbish about her with no corroboration.
The article he republished about the children, didn’t actually state that Angie was keeping the children from Brad.
No doubt her lawyers over reached, but if Perez was a supporter of Angie’s, he could have just pointed out the mistake and got a retraction or apology.
But no he wants to use it to get attention, like the drama queen he is.
He is typical of many bloggers who say they like or support Angie but then will repost the worse tabloid stuff about her or attack her for a myriad of reasons.
No, they want to use her public profile for their own ends, support, admiring does not come into.
Angie is fighting for her family at present, you would think as a father he would understand that.
Again DCFS doesn’t have the authority to take children away from their parents without a court order.
She did not have to wait for the DCFS recommendations. It was her choice to wait. They aren’t legally binding recommendations anyway so both of them could have ignored it. The only time DCFS had some kind of control over when he saw his kids was between the period of him agreeing to the terms and them finding a therapist with room in her schedule to oversee the first visit.
Lindsey… Thank you for your insight on Dcfs. I have never had any dealings with them… But just from what I have seen from shows like dr Phil (please don’t judge), it seemed to me like it takes a lot to lose your kids. And from what I heard of this plane incident… It just didn’t sound like the makings of anything.
I get that there is behavior that we frown upon as a society like getting drunk and yelling at your kids but I don’t think that would be enough to lose your kids even on a regular basis and isn’t this the first we’ve ever heard of Pitt doing something mean to their children?
Go read the lawyers letter, the lawyer says DCFS, were the ones to say when he could first see the children.
Just because the agreement is voluntary does not mean that in the beginning, she did not have to wait until DCFS investigation was complete.
If you are met off a flight and interviewed by DCFS, you are not going to be taking any chances.
If nothing that DCFS say is binding, why was the incident reported and why did DCFS carry out an investigation.
Also Perez is misrepresenting what the letter was about, it wasn’t about the split it was about saying she was stopping the children from seeing Brad.
Is Brad in rehab right now? If he is, that could be why he hasn’t seen the children.
I believe Brad is in rehab.
That could explain it. A lot of rehab centers don’t allow any visits with anyone during the first phase of the program.
Lol at Perez Hilton trying to give advice on making yourself look good. Is he going to tell us how to get a lot of MySpace followers too? He is such a sleaze.
I D rather be controlling , strong than let others play the field with me.
she is a woman who no matter how people judge her, she is still identifies with strength.
strength with health , kids and causes she fights for.
Angie has so much Goals in her life than brad, that why i have feeling Brad one day will court her back.
Good very her for on hiring tough team. Drastic measures for drastic time .
she is making all media back off and minimize gossips.
Bravo
This is ALL about CPS. If Brad and Angelina had decided to split I think it would have been handled as privately as possible. But once CPS got involved in their lives, with the power to take their children and put them into foster care until resolved, then Angie went into Mamma Bear mode: keep her children together and with her no matter what. Her entire energies are going toward that, period. She has never cared what people say about her, she doesn’t now. She cares about protecting her children. Even while her heart is probably breaking over her relationship with Brad.
Before criticizing her, think about how you would react if CPS came into your life with the authority to take your kids? Yeah, so maybe we should all cut her a break?
Didn’t someone from her team already apologise to Perez? And didn’t they offer to have her call him direct? That’s weird to me.
Allie B Angelina didn’t put those stories out there. Why would she put them out there? then spend a lot of time & money clearing up all the mess. As usual brad gets all the support & she gets the hate. She can’t win no matter what she does. Brad getting a free pass when it was his behaviour that started this & got cps involved. Angelina is doing all the clean up work.
Exactly, molly.
We can probably agree on Brad not putting the ‘story’out. The private airline didn’t, according to a statement. So, who did, and why? Why did Angelina file for divorce with “for the health of my family”, and later rumors fly she wouldn’t work together with CPS ? Looks a lot like backtracking, and damage control.
I don’t know if she put those stories out there or not. And I don’t know what actually happened on that plane. I do know that it sounds like it was blown way out of proportion.
It really irritates me that everyone is making this all about “the safety of the kids”. No. This is about two grown ups that got married and don’t want to be together anymore. Those kids have nothing to do with it. These two aren’t divorcing because their children are in danger. Their kids are in a bad situation due to the grown ups not liking each other anymore.
She was pregnant with his child before he was even divorced. This is on them. If they don’t like each other anymore, they need to own it and quit hiding behind their children (like I am beginning to think they’ve done for over a decade).
I am sure they are both decent people deep down that love their kids. I just think it’s sad that those kids one day might think they cause this… When they most definitely did not.
Wow, finally a “legitimate” input from someone. “This is about two grown ups that got married and don’t want to be married anymore. ” You figured it all out without knowing them or being witness to the incident. It irritates you that this is made about “the safety of the kids” ! How could they?!
No. You’re right. It makes total sense to lay this debacle at the feet of the kids and say this is all to protect them.
I am sure it has nothing to do with their parents both being a mess.
And yes, I have been nose to nose with my 14 year old son. And he loves and respects me. He isn’t shattered etc. He is a foot taller than me and getting bigger by the day. At his age, he is naturally beginning to challenge authority and I remind him that I am the parent. And not one day have I ever considered that may be abuse.
If you don’t like Pitt… Fine. But let’s not label people abusers unless abuse has actually occurred.
@lalu and again, are you drunk when you are nose to nose with your kid?
No. I am not drunk when I go nose to nose with my child. And I would never argue that it is okay or appropriate to do so. What I am saying is that unless he has exhibited a pattern of this behavior, what he did is a mistake, sure, but not abuse.
He has been praised as being a wonderful dad for years. That makes me slow to convict him without something very condemning.
And I am not saying Angie is a liar, manipulator etc. What I was thinking is that it doesn’t seem fair that two adults don’t own their disfunction as a couple and that it isn’t working out… And instead paint this as being done for their children and to protect them.
This is just my opinion. I don’t mean to offend anyone. Not trying to be rude. I was a child of divorce that was “for the children”. When it was actually about two adults that screwed up but couldn’t own it.
Those kids didn’t start this relationship and they have no part in ending it.
Lalu…you sound very sensible!
Well Brad was drunk when he went nose to nose with his child (he didn’t strike maddox ‘in the face’).
You said: He has been praised as being a wonderful dad for years.
Maybe lately he changed (addiction on denial or anger issue or whatever) or do you think one person is always the same? celebrities are people too.
I don´t believe the plane altercation was the first time he was drunk with the kids around but the first with witness/es who did de report to DCFS.
@lalu
But your theory doesn’t make any sense because this isn’t just a situation with a family going through a divorce, it’s that plus they have DCFS on their backs. At this time they are working with DCFS. It’s more than just two parents not liking each other. Obviously they have problems because they are getting divorced. I know people want to paint Angelina as a villain and Brad as an abuser, but we don’t know anything about this couple and their children. We can’t assume they don’t want to protect their children and this is all about them having problems as a couple when we don’t have the facts. I read the letter her lawyers sent to Perez. It clearly about their children, not their marriage. Angelina isn’t stopping stories that are about her marriage to Pitt. The stories she’s coming down are the ones that involve their kids. The letter also mentions her cooperating with DCFS, when sites like Perez Hilton are stating she’s stopping Pitt from seeing their children. Did you read the letter? People tend to project their experiences with a situation on others, when they don’t have facts.
Exactly thanks people are keep ignoring the DCFS part in the letter saying she is acting in compliance with DCFS
Paige… Yes, I am sure that I am projecting a lot. And making some assumptions. And you are right… We just don’t know.
I am not trying to paint either of them as bad people. I most definitely liked her way more than him prior to the divorce filing. And I am not even saying they are doing this on purpose.
I think about kids and how hard divorce is on them anyway. And then throw in all this talk that Angie had to do this to protect her children and it just sounds so wrong. He was arguing with her on the plane supposedly. These two have probably been on the brink for a while, possibly even before they officially got married. When the authorities get involved, you have let things get way out of hand. The adults here let it get out of hand. They are wrong and in a toxic place. But dragging the kids into it saying this divorce is for their safety and health doesn’t sit well with me. Mom and Dad made this problem and it is about them… Not those kids.
We don’t know he was arguing with her, TMZ reported the argument was between him and son and other tabloids were reporting he was arguing with her, you see is all speculations no one knows what happened in that plane, until one of them talk, tabloids will keep speculating
FA, thank you for the correction. I did not realize that it was speculation brad was arguing with Angie. I am having trouble keeping up.
No problem honestly there are a lot of speculations out there and we don’t know which story to believe and it’s hard to keep up anymore
Pretty much all the media says Brad was arguing with Angelina and Maddox stepped in the middle of it. They have argues fiercely since at least 2009, Angelina often mentioned it herself and had one of the most interesting things is that the kids helped write their marriage vows, on of the vows was that ‘when Brad and Angie argued they had to say they were sorry afterward’ I think that says a lot about how toxic the relationship was. It really has nothing to do with the kids and they shouldn’t be used as ‘the’ excuse to end the marriage. As Lalu said they both just need to own it.
@Lalu post #57 ( really all of your posts)
Preach it! So glad someone else doesn’t have on “team” or “celebrity” goggles 🙂
Very insightful points, Lalu. We can only hope the adults here can amicably settle their differences and give the poor kids lots of support moving forward. Counseling is a great start.
@Fixer of nothing: So how do we know he WAS drunk? It’s all still rumors.
Reports from his side say he got drunk on the plane AFTER the screaming match and no one has contradicted that from Angie’s side, probably because there was CCTV on the plane the prove it. Her team has only ever said he was drunk when they landed.
If you don’t like Jolie… Fine. But let’s not label people manipulators sand liars unless you actually have proof.
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I agree with you. The parents are a mess and my guess is the children will be too. Because of the parents!
DCFS did not order supervised visitation because he got only got “eye to eye ” with his child.His side acknowledges he was drunk,yelling and had some physical contact with Maddox.When a person is drunk it doesn’t really matter if the contact is inadvertent,it’s still unsettling .Especially on a plane where you can’t escape from the area.
Wow, that is not normal. I will not agree that needing to physically intimidate your children is okay. I try to be open minded about different parenting styles, but that’s not a question of style.
Bridget… “Physically intimidating your child”. Yes, I am awful, please don’t judge me. Again, my son is a foot taller than me at 14, but okay… I intimidate him. I also tell him he has to study, shower, eat his veggies etc. I am a big meanie!
I have also drilled into his head that he will be way bigger than everyone else and he is to look out for people that are weaker and not abuse his power.
I am one of those awful parents that pays attention to my child and actually expects him to be disciplined and respectful. I mean, he is going to grow into a giant man, after all, that will be released into society. Some people think that is important. But yeh, maybe it’s just a different parenting style.
@Lalu, for someone who doesn’t want to speculate, you sure are speculting quite a bit. No one on this message board knows what happened on that plane, but you are throwing Angelina under the bus for filing for divorce almost immediately after and citing the children as part of the reason. As a lawyer, I can tell you this makes sense if you are looking to get sole physical custody in a divorce filing where he couple has only been separated for two weeks. And many states require that you be separated for six months before you file for divorce.
And maybe Angelina is a huge manipulator/mastermind out to destroy Brad who may or may not have gotten physical with one of their children. And legally speaking, the fact that he said he didn’t strike Maddox “in the face” is telling because it does not rule out the possibility that he stuck Maddox somewhere else. I say this because if he outright denied all physical contact then this would be brought up in court/mediation/etc against him and his team knew that.
Totally agree with this, its not about what his sources say he denied in my opinion but its what he didn’t outright deny. On another note they seemed to have lock things down which is a good thing for all involved.
I must say these are some bold statements coming from people that don’t know a thing about their personal lives. Strangers surely know more about Brad and Angelina feel about each other and their children, than they do.
Ikr, crazy.
@lalu on post #35, Great post. No conjecture, just the facts. Brilliantly stated.
@ Lalu: BRAVO.
I just checked his site. Apparently he has received an apology from her people, who offered to connected him with AJ so she could directly apologize. Wow.
Now THAT would truly be a bone headed move.
Receipts, plsthnx. (Perez, not you)
He has the receipts (published on his site).
I think Kay meant where is Perez’s proof Angelina’s lawyers apologized. Not his word of mouth.
Paige, yes…I looked online an thus far found nothing more than his claims…not to say it did not happen but I do find it odd af if it is true.
Jolie made herself look bad and this guy is simply taking a ride for some attention. If jolie truly cared if her children were going to be hurt she should have handled the whole divorce with a bit more discretion. She only has herself to blame for the media shitstorm.
The filing for divorce is about the immediate protection of the children, they were then in her custody only, not the accused parent.
If this whole thing was about a divorce it would have been handled differently.
She had to act quickly, once officials get into your life you don’t know where it will end.
She made it about the children.
But why did ‘officials’ get into their life? Who accused Brad of alcoholism, drug abuse, abuse? And why not simply releasing a joint statement about the divorce? So far, nobody has officially declared Brad an unfit parent, drug tests he voluntarily took were negative. How did it come to that?
Officials got involved before the divorce was announced and all the stories started. All the lawyers in the world wasn’t going to stop the news about their family being investigated from hitting the media
@siri at this point it’s very clear that someone on board did a report to the authorities for brad erratic behaviour so it’s impossible to be private when 2 mega celebreties are involved.
About a joint statement, if the first news were true, brad refused to filed together. How is possible release anything together if one of them not want to do it?
Finally, why brad or DCFS offered or ask for any test if nothing happened? And why not for angelina? Not to bright to say he was drunk or sometihng like that
Just MO
Do you discipline your 14 year old by going nose to nose with him in an argument?
@Bridget
Everybody parent differently. And yes some parents do go nose to nose with their kids. All parents are not The Cleavers and all kids are not The Brady kids.
I agree with @Lalu on a lot of her points.
molly says:
“Brad getting a free pass when it was his behaviour that started this & got cps involved.”
And he never made any public excuse about it, because brad seems to be a major interest: his own public image and his career. Big support to angelina for run away from this shallow weak man
What did Perez say that was so different than all the other sites, which have been circulating all the same stories?
If he really crossed a line, I don’t have issue with her team notifying him, but with all the talk of this it does sound like they are overreaching.
@lalu well somebody thought what brad was doing was not ok for them to call cps & get them involved.
The guy is ignorant he think angelina sues every nasty thing tabloids say about her , he he just posted this and saying angelina should sue NE for this story but the NE have always printed much worse than this headline but she always ignored
He still not getting that the letter he received was about the false defamatory about kids that he posted
https://twitter.com/ThePerezHilton/status/786201591636303872/photo/1
His news is no different than anyone else’s news-all the headlines are the same as the magazines at the checkout counter. And after he dumped the mean image, he became a serious celeb asskisser-so why are her attorneys picking on him specifically? Maybe ten years ago he deserved it but now he’s similar to CB itself and is mostky harmless.
They probably sent letters everywhere that was printing the stuff about CPS (or DCFS or whatever it is).
LOL that Perez claims to be “livid.” — “Ecstatic” is more like it, because he’s getting some desperately needed relevancy and PR.
Ride those coattails, Perez. Yeehaw!
Ah, so this just proves Melissa E’s claim that there are “fixers” out there. It also proves, for me, a little theory I had that Jolie and Pitt were the ones responsible for launching an attack on Aniston back when they got together. And kept it going. Those two are shifty. It’s going to be interesting to see how they attack each other in this divorce.
Did Perez Hilton just pull the “don’t you know who I am” bullshiz? lol That’s crazy!
On a side note.
I thought Brad would have responded to her divorce petition(If that is the right word).I read he has 30 days to respond.She filed on September 19th. Maybe he is going to wait until the 30th day?
Place your bets, gentlemen.
mine, yes until the very last minute. So there will be another 30 next days for more media speculation or trashing until allied premiere. Then the things will be more calmed and can focus on the movie press
This guy is a piece of crap! How he is milking this and announcing it out loud makes him such a disgusting human being! How in the world did this ass become famous.
Google TheLookofLove1365 and re-think whether Jolie doesn’t know how the Internet works…..
I actually listen to his podcast and he addressed this. He actually got an apology! It was explained to him that her new lawyers had sent a blanket email to everyone and that Jolie was so sorry and if he so wished, she would call him because she knows how much of a supporter he is.
So yeah, Angelina Jolie cares and KNOWS.
Feel bad about this divorce saga, No wonder she’s for more than decade always thin, other side Brad looks healthy, good body, and he never defend her everytime media attacked her, and he openly defend her ex, and marry her after together 10 yrs, and now with this divorce situation, she.s again get attacked she;s the villain, God forbid when the truth comes out, really sad, just think about as a human,
i think her weight loss was due to stress trying to keep everthing and everybody together. in the meantime i think his drinking got worse .
Lalu, it sounds like you’re doing a great job with your son. I wish there were more parents like you. Thank you!
If she has fixers working for her, I don’t get why people claim she has no publicist.
That was my fleeting thought. The rest of this messy divorce — I can’t keep up.
Oh Angelina bad move.
“Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel load”………Mark Twain
People should understand that there is a difference between Angelina ASKING HIRED LAWYERS to sue someone verses her HIRED LAWYERS ASKING HER permission to sue someone. These are lawyers of high reputation hired by Angie with the expectation that they will use that reputation with the legal weight it carries to in affect police the tabloid press. I have no doubt Perez is being used as an example to other; the subtext being, we’re serious and we will take legal action where and when necessary.
Just the fact that this is the polar opposite of her media strategy since forever makes me think it’s the people working for her doing this rather than her, but who knows. Maybe she just really lost her shit because of what happened and is really fragile right now.
I thought she had no PR?
Perez hilton is a leech. As soon as you give him his 15 mins, he will milk it for eternity. Angie’s team got this one wrong sending him the letter, he is getting all the attetion he can from this.
He’s horrible. I remember the last time I read his blog was years and years ago and he was making fun of Adam Sandler’s daughter and I was done.
The worst thing about this is that her lawyers have given this tosspot the idea that he’s relevant. Does anybody even read that site anymore? He’s made a mint ruining people’s lives in an attempt to become famous himself. Human trash.