A few days ago, Angelina Jolie was photographed with Pax and Zahara as they went to Fred Segal, which is one of the big stores in LA. The photos were Backgrid exclusives, and you can see them here at LaineyGossip. The store used to be a paparazzi haven a decade ago, but I don’t know if paparazzi still stake out Fred Segal at this point? Do you see where I’m going with this? How did that paparazzo know that Angelina was going to shopping with Pax and Zahara this week? Did the pap follow them, or was it a set-up? Who knows? What we do know is that Angelina has been getting pap’d with the kids at least once a week since returning to LA. The images absolutely help her case that she’s the stable, loving parent who has been taking care of all six kids while Brad Pitt was in some kind of fake rehab, and when he was trying to make Neri Oxman into a thing, and even now, when he’s going for Angelina’s jugular regularly in the press. So… I guess Brad was eager to deflect from the Make It Right lawsuit, because “sources” sniped about Angelina’s pap-strolling to Page Six:
It’s distantly possible that Angelina Jolie is keen for us to see her with her kids as her divorce plays out in the press. The actress hit up a notoriously paparazzi-infested stretch of Sunset Boulevard with her brood — not once, but twice, over the past few days.
Sources tell us that Jolie dropped by Fred Segal — once considered the place for aspiring celebs to get “unexpectedly” snapped — on Sunday with teens Maddox and Zahara to peruse their goods. Then the clan went back again on Monday to buy some pieces. We’re told they checked out the pop-up Fred Segal Loves Browns.
Jolie and soon-to-be-ex-husband, Brad Pitt, seem to increasingly be using the media as a weapon in their divorce.
LOL @ the idea that it’s ONLY JUST NOW that Angelina and Brad are both using the media as weapons. *clutches pearls* Who would have thought?!? I’m not going to lie, it would not surprise me at all if we found out that Angelina had called up one or two friendly paparazzi and organized a few of these strolls. It also wouldn’t surprise me if the paps had been tracking her movements on their own and they simply got the photos that way. In any case, I don’t think Angelina-shopping-with-the-kids photos are going to sway the divorce case either way. And it seems desperate on Brad’s part to run to Page Six and whine about it.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
Weird…Is she supposed to go into hiding just cause she’s going through a divorce?WTF?
Besides, both she and Brad have ALWAYS been photographed with the kids, everywhere they went. They never hid the kids. Now she is wrong???
She is keeping their lives as usual.
I think she/they had an agreement with a paparazzi agency to ring them up occasionally so they would leave them and the kids alone the rest of the time. They are high profile, public interest is huge. This way they can have at least some level of control.
I think the suggestion of trying to sway a judge in this page six article, is really more them trying to suggest proceedings are still taking place……
I have a feeling the custody evaluators didn’t recommend visitation this last hearing, and it’s been a done deal. Hence the last few attacks on Angie being so random and personal.
Wow, Zahara’s gorgeous, and so grown up—and omggg, what a little fashionista!!!
Angie was papped yesterday without a child in sight, does that mean Brad is going to go to Page Sux and whine how Angie is neglecting the kids????
Actually…I’m team the kids here and I could have told you that because we know they can definitely fly under the radar if they want to.
But also, I will say …”so what..?”
that’s how it’s played nowadays…
Will agree with this sentiment. These are people who managed to pull off a ton in secret (2 weddings, oophorectomy, mastectomy and reconstruction, apparent marriage troubles, alcoholism). They always kept themselves and the children locked down. The kids are being seen now because someone wants them seen.
I think they can keep things locked but I have also seen the children been pictures lots of time while they were in LA.
Social media has hundreds of pictures of them while shopping etc.
@dietcokehead, What? No offense but this doesn’t make sense. Everything you named are private matters. Paps aren’t stationed at hospitals and cathedals. These are medical situations and a wedding is personal. Going outside to go to a mall is not. Lol. Paps are all over LA, especially at Fred Segal. If y’all haven’t noticed, the kids are growing up, they’re teens now. They are gonna want to go out and do the typical teen stuff. Pax and Zee especially b/c it seems like they are into chic stuff. Angie prob feels honored that they still want to hang w/ her.
Actually, they can rarely hide from paparazzi when they are in LA. It’s not just Angelina that have been followed, even when the kids are on their own they take pictures of them. Of course, the pics with her get the publicity, but these past few months there are always pics of their kids without her on the internet.
Exactly.
But I doubt the pap strolls are to affect the court case. It’s much more likely they’re being done to affect the court of public opinion.
Well you see how controlling he is still trying to be over them…..two years on. Bullying them in the media like Thomas markle. And that’s after she left.
I wouldn’t put her past actions while married to him under a microscope….he was in charge pr wise …..and very controlling. She looked timid and weighed 100 pounds max….. being in an abusive high profile situation has got to be stressful and hopeless. Glad they got out. Sorry she had to endure the decade of crap everyone gave her just for being w him. She really seems to be a great person and even greater mom.
I live in LA, and honestly, no fight in this game, but she IS going to places that have tons of papps around so it does seem purposeful (And maybe that’s not a bad thing) But you can live in LA and never get papped shopping, believe me. Fred Segal, Kitson, these are all papp hot spots. It’s like eating at the Ivy, Craigs or Catch. You know DAMN WELL what you are doing when you go to those places, and the food isn’t even that good, lol.
Well…if the kids want to go to kitson……you go to kitson. These kids are telling her where they want to go too you know. As a mom, sometimes it’s not always up to us.
When the kids were with Angie in the UK, there were rarely any pics, now that she and the kids are back in pap obsessed LA, the paps are tracking her every move. This comes with being the most watched woman on the planet.
Brad is just upset that the kids won’t pose for Pap shots with him. And that the make it right lawsuit is getting media traction and making him look bad.
Yep media is picking it up now and his image is taking a hit. He deserves everything that will come at him from Mother Karma.
This is ridiculous she and her kids shouldn’t be hiding out just because of a divorce plus they can’t seem to tell the difference between Maddox and Pax since it was Pax that was with her & Zahara and not the former based on the photos Lainey has up.
You would think Pitts focus would be on MIR and trying to fix things with those homeowners because that’s beyond horrible.
Right that’s how you know this tabloids are lying. They can’t get the kids straight. They don’t know who is who? Lol.
How dare she show her face in public… Poor Brad has to hide and can only tell his story through anonymous sources to any publication that will listen, including Page Six.
I’ll start a GoFundMe to finance a bunch of tissue boxes for him immediately. Poor cry baby.
He might use them to build houses. You know stylish avante-garde houses.
@Lilly LOL, that was a good one!
I know.
He’s so mad that she can show her face in public …. and he’s tarnished his image permanently and it’s best for him to disappear. He is tainted forever…and every time he shows his face everyone will be reminded of it.
Karma.
It’s funny Angelina is a creature of habit, she always take the children shopping, be it supermarket or clothes.
Every Pap in NYC knew that if she was in the city with the children, she was going to hit Lee’s Art Store. Maddox is 16/17, so this been going on for about 15yrs.
I do think she’s probably arranging some of these, and in general I don’t care for that, but I think she’s doing it to combat some of the ridiculous negative publicity he’s thrown her way.
What he has done, in comparison, the pity party and constant slamming of her in the media, is far, far worse.
I ask myself that.Its know from paps that angelina call paps do that.the already know
Its not the first time.tpage six knows the pap its not many its one in particulary
Angelina looks more like her old self. Her lighter, more bad-ass looking, more strong-looking and devil-may-care self. I love that. I am only now realising how much she was starting to look like a light had gone out in her in the last years she was with Brad. Like someone who was constantly worried and pushed to the limit. I really like her claiming herself back.
I noticed that as well. With Brad’s drinking and being away for months at a time, her mastectomy, and other responsibilities, she looked exhausted last few years before the plane incident.
Now that she has gotten rid of Brad, she looks absolutely glowing and even started to dress like she did almost 10-12 years ago.
Yes! She looks great and I LOVE seeing her back in pants. Finally. (The caftans, to me, are okay but strange, and I never understood the swirly-skirted ‘lady’ dresses with towering heels for simple, daytime family outings.) Angie is rocking it here! Just radiant… Happy, relaxed & beautiful. xx
I agree…she looks like the weight of the world has been lifted
Jeez can the media let this woman live.
@poppy Lol. Right. She be out here living her life and they can’t stand it.
She needs to get a PR like everyone else In la la land. Fight back Angelina, you can’t depend on common sense of people . If we learned anything the last few years is that critical thinking does not exist at the moment.
She started to fight back after Brad leaked the document to make it look like she is alienating the children.
She changed her lawyer to Samantha, a woman who won’t take bs from Brad’s team like Laura did. She showed the world that Brad is not paying his share of child support and is a deadbeat. She showed the world that it’s all now between the children,Brad, lawyers & the court to heal that relationship. She is completely out of it and the outcome is completely down to Brad.
Yes, so glad she got this new lawyer. Everything calmed down after this b/c Brad and his team was working w/ Laura, in the fact, Laura was giving in to Brad’s whims and wishes. That’s how the TMZ story came about/Laura gave it to them which is awful. Brad didn’t know who this new lawyer was and they got scared. The $$ stuff got out about him not paying his child support and he then got mad but it must have been true b/c you didn’t hear a peep out of him until this.
This lawyer is better, they can’t intimidate her. Angie has said many times this is about the kids and their father. Brad doesn’t want to do the necessary work it takes that’s why the kids don’t want to be w/ him more. They can sense it. Kids can always sense when someone is full of themselves.
I’m sure the paps follow them. And shopping at trendy stores is fun for teenagers, is she supposed to tell them no because they need to hide from the Paparazzi lest she be called a famewhore? Let this family live. If she does call the paps, it’s surely to counteract the smear campaign Brad’s PR has been doing the past 2 years. She is an actress, after all, and needs to stay marketable in order to keep the money coming to support her family. I prefer a few well staged photos of them living their lives, opposed to leaks in the media with personal details and counter attacks. I was actually beginning to think they came to an agreement recently because the frenzy seems to have died down. Hopefully it continues to be lower key than last month.
Who cares if is arranged or not. Angelina and children are literally glowing and looking happy.
The important thing is that those children always looks happy and content whenever they are pictured with their beloved mother.
Children especially teenagers cannot be told to act so these feelings are real.
The other issue is that Brad hasn’t been seen with his children for almost 2 years. If he gets pictured with them then the world will see the children aren’t comfortable with him. Hence the reason Brad hasn’t done a pap walk.
My issue isn’t that she calls the paps – it’s that we have so many comments on less liked celebs admonishing them for doing exactly this. Years of “they can avoid the paps if they wanted to – look at B&A they rarely are seen” comes off as a pretty strong double standard. They were used as an example to make others’ look worse, but now that the same is being done it’s perfectly fine.
I don’t blame her for wanting photos of her out and about with a bunch of happy kids in tow – it puts out her side of the narrative without having to actual say anything. But I hope that when other celebrities do the same the people that are thinking it’s fine in this scenario don’t rag on them for doing it.
^^^^^This! All day long!
On a side note, I really love Zahara’s outfit. She’s such a pretty girl.
The only thing I’m going to say on this story is, Pax is very handsome and Zz is a beautiful young lady.
I refused to get in Brad and Angelina’s drama.
Angelina you are doing a great job raising your children. Please stay strong and be true to yourself always!
Angie can do whatever she wants, those are her kids. Angie a good Mom. The kids want to be w/ her. She is not gonna stop living her life and her kids aren’t gonna stop either especially for Brad’s stans (these people are delusional). Brad needs to get them shoddy homes together in New Orleans, so busy trying to ruin Angie’s life, he can’t get his life together. He wishes he could be w/ them, walking w/ his kids. That’s all. He’s a jealous vain lame a— dude.
Anyway, what I want to know is if Pax is seeing his father? Something tells me he isn’t. What do y’all think?
No one sees their father…is what I think. I think it will quietly be done if it’s not already (their legal whatever) . There will be no announcements in the media…….you’ll just notice one day that she and the kids always are happy and great…..and he hasnt been seen w them in a long time.
What I find very interesting is that there has not been a single pic of Brad with the kids in two years.
Brad has never been camera-shy when he was with the kids. On the contrary, he seemed to love being photographed with them at every opportunity to show off what a great dad he is. All part of maintaining his image.
If Brad was so focused on getting custody of the kids, you would think he’d be taking them out when they visit him to show everyone how happy and content the kids are when they’re with him. Why hasn’t he done that?
Bottom line: I don’t think Brad is seeing the kids. At all. And I don’t think it’s because Angie is keeping the kids away from him. I think he has just plain lost interest in his family. Period.
Since brad’s team released all the info in the sealed file, paps knew when Angelina & kids were back in LA. They have been stalking outside her property since she got back. Pitt’s property is very different, & easy to go under the radar, Jolie’s home is very well known & easy to camp outside. Whether people think these are set up, that’s up to them, but should know how paps work. They have more trackers, drones, tip offs, social media then ever. Does this help Jolie pr wise? Of course. But not everything is a set up.
Actually, no. The Cecil B. Demille house is behind a gated community in Los Feliz. You can’t just park outside. And there are at least 6 entry/exits to the area none that support the ability of Paps or looky loos to be parked outside and wait without blocking traffic. There is zero chance of paps knowing when they leave their home unless they are called.
They actually DO wait by the gates proven by the fact that they snapped photos of Maddox ALONE driving back home and punching in a code at the security gate.
I suppose that’s why there are recent pap shots of the De Mille gates taken from a close distance? As well as pap pics of Maddox driving into the property from a few months ago. As well as random other pictures of the property in the year plus, they’ve lived there? So it’s a no on your ” zero chance” assertion from me.
Like Sophie says people can make up their own minds as to whether the pics are set up or not, but to pretend that paps do not stalk Angelina & her children is bs. The same way I won’t pretend there isn’t obvious PR value of her and her happy smiling kids out and about, so meh. So I won’t pretend that she couldn’t hide from the paps for the next 6 months if she really wanted to, but I don’t see why she should though? She needs to live her life as she sees fit, and if seeing pictures of her & her children (staged or not) offends some people , it’s quite simple don’t click on them, simply ignore them.
As someone pointed out above , there are pictures all over the internet of the Jolie Pitt children out on their own without their mother, so they’re being followed by someone. Unless Angelina is calling paps to take pictures of her children in the care of bodyguards too? The ones with Angelina are just the ones that make it on to the daily fail etc.
@Booie @Alex – Pap shots of the Demille gates? You mean the community gates, as the Demille property doesn’t face any of the entrances. Is it that hard to imagine that maybe, just maybe, those pap shots were taken from their cars as the Jolie-Pitt kids were entering their gated communities after being followed? Take it from someone who grew up and still lives in the area. Paps can’t park themselves along the Blvd and sit and wait for the family to come and go. It’s a major street with heavy traffic that prohibits left turns into those gated streets during rush hour. But for some reason, you prefer the paparazzi/stalker narrative than actual facts from someone familiar with the area.
The real question No one is asking is Why has he Not been seen with the children in 2 years?
@anp Right that’s what I don’t get, his stans know he loves to have his pic taken and to have pap runs himself, esp w/ his kids when he was there. Brad always had to jump into Angie’s photoshoots over the years. Notice how she never jumped into his. Lol. Angie didn’t need it but Brad did and still does.
His stans try to make it seem like it’s Angie’s fault like the woman isn’t listening to her kids when they say they don’t want to be w/ him, that’s not alienation, that’s reality. They shouldn’t be force to do something they don’t want to do. Brad can’t or won’t get close to his kids like she has and is w/ them. But that’s on him not her. He just can’t get it b/c he still needs therapists and judges help to get the kids to even see him. He’s pathetic and his stans are too, b/c they’re just waiting for the pic of him w/ his kids so they can finally say he’s w/ them as it should be. Lol. I already know their lame responses.
@ Sidewithkids Your post is correct.
I think the evaluators didn’t rule in brads favor……I don’t think the kids see him at all.
I’m thinking the dearth of pics of him with his kids is why this is a story. He’s probably irritated that she looks like the hands on mom and he’s the absentee father so he has to put it out there that she’s only doing this for press and then he can make the argument that there are no pics of him with kids b/c he would NEVER use them for press. (He only slams their mother on a routine basis to the press b/c he’s classy like that)
@kate That’s the thing, he was an absentee father. The year before the plane incident Brad wasn’t w/ them, he was hardly living w/ her and the kids. That’s why I still believe Angie filed for full physical custody and not legal custody. I think she felt Brad would want it that way. This is the irony of it all, HE DOES. He just doesn’t want the public to know he wants it this way. The kids know tho, they come to the understanding they can see their Dad here and there but their Mom is who they can rely on. She’s their family and their hers. She won b/c she got what she wanted, her kids above everything else.
I’ve wondered about this, too. He’s got ALL that visitation now, what do they do when they’re together? I guess stay inside the compound?
I don’t think he does. Have all that visitation. I think it’s done. I think the visitation therapists didn’t recommend the kids have visitation w him…. and they agreed on it. They did “what the psychiatrists/ custody evaluators recommended” during the last whatever…….and then he came back w the ridiculous Amal Clooney story…and another personal Angie smear……
I think the kid situation is handled and they are w mom full time. No visitation.
They do nothing because I don’t think the children are visiting Pitt.
Pitt has had visitation as clearly spelled out in the early June court order signed by Judge Ouderkirk. That order still holds, there is no record of any other orders sealed or otherwise since that time. Rest assured he’d had that visitation. Any notion of what evaluators or therapists have been thinking is pure speculation.
@TheOtherSam In August they went back to court and no leaks came out of what ever the decision was by the court. So you are speculating yourself.
Sam…..last month the evaluators reached a descision and everyone agreed. The hearing was then cancelled because it was no longer necessary…..an agreement was reached. The evaluators seemingly didn’t recommended visitation, and they aren’t going to force the children….
Brad then ripped her in the media…..not the actions of a guy who has visitation all the time…or at all.
distantly? It’s distantly possible Angelina Jolie is keen for us to see her with her kids. Maybe that’s why they couldn’t tell the kids apart? They were too far away. Way to go Page Six.
They have always called the paparazzi. I remember back when she was pregnant with Shiloh they went for a trip to Vienna and at first were completely ignored by the Austrian media and photographers as no one even realized they were there. So promptly they send out a timetable to all the important media of when they would eat where, which hotel they stayed in, when they would enter and exit the museum, etc. An Austrian newspapers wrote about it back then and exposed them.
Question why is Not the media and paparazzi down in NOLA covering his MIR foundation. This is a distraction from the tabloids in which people do forget about the residents in NOLA.
I just don’t think she cares that much to have some covert plan against Brad. She’s busy being present for the kids….day to day. He needs to accept that she’s moved on.
They will be seen out and about ….. it happens. From a fellow homeschool mom I know sometimes you gotta go get an ice cream, do some shopping, hit the movies and the park etc…… Life goes on…….they seem to be living it. Happily.
And btw I think she has handled…and is handling this entire situation impeccably.
Can we talk about Z’s style? She’s just impossibly cool.
I’ve always loved her spirit and style.
Yes, I agree. I wouldn’t be surprised if she gets a model deal in the next few years. Her and Pax. Lol. Even though, Angie would want them to contribute to society in other ways. Which I think they will do too.
We rarely saw the kids right before the divorce; now we’re seeing them all the time. In my opinion, pap shots aren’t going to sway a judge (especially one in Hollywood who deals with celebs all the time) so I don’t know if that’s the angle but we are seeing the JP kids a lot more now.
I’d get used to it. Life with mom seems to agree with these kids. Seeing them happily out and about seems to really bother some people though……..hmmmmmmm
And why you think she needs to sway a judge is beyond me….this has been out of her hands…..and in the hands of custody evaluators a long time.
I think they already decided also earlier this month. I don’t think the evaluators recommended the kids have visitation w him…..and it’s done.
Maybe that’s why they are so happy and out and about.
@…. Lol. Yeah, some people are very bothered by her. Strange. Angie tho is unbothered, she’s living her life. Angie has never really cared what people think of her. She knows her true self and who she is really and it seems to me the woman is a kind hearted person. Plus, I think someone else mentioned it. She looks happier, healthier and freer now that she’s not weighed down by you know who. I love that the most. Angie just being free and happy.
There may be something to what you say, seems interesting in the fact Pax has been w/ his Mom the last few days. I think for sure he’s not seeing Brad. Now the younger kids maybe but that last statement put out about everything being over may have been the truth. Brad and his team said it wasn’t over by a long shot. But something tells me, it may be. The kids are w/ their Mom.
Rarely? The kids have been papped all their lives. It’s just now that it became an issue cuz of Angelina smear campaign. There are probably more pics of them lately because now they have to live in LA. When they are not in the US, it’s harder to get pics, but even so there are paparazzi pics of them all over the world.
And this tactic Of brads is obvious. He is trying to imply proceedings are still happening, but I have a feeling it was over last month when the custody evaluators came to an agreement.
I don’t think they recommended the kids be near him and it’s been a done deal.
So he’s gonna act like it’s just still in litigation forever…….hoping no one will figure it out. He sure isn’t gonna announce it.
Meanwhile we’ll see her and the kids doing their thing….
Brad so worried about Angie, he better take care of these New Orleans homes. He’s getting sued now. NBC just wrote an article about. Wow. Can’t believe a news outlet finally said something about it. I hope more join in and do the same. This dude gets away w/ too much. It needs to stop. It’s called karma. He tried to clown Angie and her foundations and the good things she contributes to the world. Just b/c he couldn’t keep up w/ her intellectual prowess and overall coolness.
On The Today Show they talked about Pitt and Make It Right getting sued for those homes in NOLA,did Page Six cover that story?
As for the kids they are followed all the time.I’ve seen pics of the kids out and about without Angelina.I see Maddox by himself.I’ve seen Pax with a female friend eating ice cream.Pax with a teenage male friend doing what teens do.
He has Not been seen in public with the children for 2 years. Most everyone is avoiding the question why he has not been seen with the children in public.
I think brad knows pictures say 1000 words and he has no photos with his kids to show he’s an active father so he tries to talk and talk and talk to control the narrative. anytime someone is badmouthing someone else this much I know the opposite is usually true but they’re trying to distract us from seeing what is right in front of our eyes-angie as an active mother with regular access to her kids because the court didn’t see brad fit to see them unsupervised
@Meg Thank you for the truth.
@meg You hit the nail on the head. Let me also add that Angie hasn’t changed up anything. Even before Brad and her babies, Angie was a free spirit who went outside to play and lived her life, if paps were there, oh well, she didn’t care. This hasn’t changed. Now that she has kids, she just takes them along or they take her along, they are teenagers now and most teens want to get out of the house.
Brad sets up things, paps shots and when she was w/ him, she just went along w/ it. Look at Brad now, on the set of this awful new QT movie. An fifty-something year old man trying to still be a heart throb b/c that’s all he really has/his looks. He’s walking around flexing his muscles and the tabloids are like, he looks so hot and young. Lol. He doesn’t btw but that’s what he wants people to believe. (Also, dude needs to quit w/ the Botox, his left eyelid is dropping).
I love angie. I still think she is a wild one.but a good mom.
Did y’all see this Wendy Williams bs. I disliked this woman before, now I seriously dislike her. She’s hating on Angie for no apparent reason, kinda reminds me of Handler who is no where in sight now. There is no evidence or proof in anything she’s saying. She’s up here fighting for a man who doesn’t care about her at all. These women are so jealous of Angie. Angie just lives her life and people are so bitter about that. SMH. I applaud Angie for not responding since she knows the truth. You keep doing you, Angie.