Back in Brangelina’s heyday, there were always tabloid stories about how Brad’s parents missed Jennifer Aniston or how Brad’s parents didn’t care for Angelina Jolie. What’s weird is that over time, Jane and William Pitt showed up for Angelina constantly, and it was clear that Angelina was actually quite close to Brad’s whole family. There were always rumors that Angelina, Brad and the kids would make quiet trips to Missouri every year to spend time with Jane and William and Brad’s extended family. There were also stories that, actually, the Pitt family loved Angelina and the kids. But then the plane incident happened in 2016 and Angelina filed for divorce and here we are, four years later, and bitter shenanigans are still ongoing. Curious then, given this week’s private-judge drama, that it feels like Team Pitt dropped this story to the Sun:
Brad Pitt’s six children have not seen their grandparents since 2016, sources close to the family have told The Sun. Brad Pitt’s mom Jane is in the middle of a jubilant 80th birthday celebration with her family at her A-list son’s multi-million dollar beach house – but among her gaggle of grandchildren, there are six notable faces missing.
Sources tell The Sun that the kids Brad shares with ex-wife Angelina Jolie – Maddox, 19, Pax, 16, Zahara, 15, Shiloh, 14 and 12-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox – did not attend the party, with one insider alleging that Jane and husband William haven’t seen their grandchildren since around 2016.
The insider, who until recently lived in the Pitt’s neighborhood of Springfield, Missouri, said: “When they were together, Brad and Angelina would take the kids to visit their grandparents. The kids would run riot. The Pitts have a huge backyard and they would go sledding in winter and have campfires in the summer.”
But all that changed when Brad and Angelina’s two-year marriage broke down in September 2016 during an altercation in their private jet. Angelina, 45, was awarded temporary full custody while Brad, 56, was investigated by child services and was allowed supervised visits only.
William has over the past few decades developed a housing estate in his neighbourhood and named the streets after his grandchildren – with the exception of Brad and Angelina’s.
“Jane and William haven’t had the kids visit them since, as far as I know,” added the source. “I feel for Jane. She loves her grandchildren.”
You know what would NOT surprise me? If Angelina was still in contact with Brad’s parents and she already told them why she left with the kids. I’ve wondered about that over the years, why we haven’t gotten this kind of story before, and I think it’s because the Pitt family knows Angelina has her reasons and they’re not about to start attacking her in the press. Of course the Pitts still love Brad and they’re probably on his side. But I doubt they hate Angelina or blame her for what happened. As for the Pitts not seeing the kids… well, if they want to see the kids, they can visit Brad in LA for one of his supervised visitations. I mean…? This story is kind of self-own for Brad’s team. It just reminds everybody that he’s barely seen his kids for years because of how badly he f–ked up. But sure, Mean Angie v. the grandparents. Who knows what’s really going on.
PS… I’m only mentioning this because I know it will come up in the comments, but William and Jane Pitt are fire-breathing Republicans. Like, Jane Pitt wrote an op-ed about “Barack Hussein Obama” and abortion, *that* kind of Republican.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
My guess is that they’re racist, that it’s discernible to the children, and the three that are White are committed to the solidarity with their siblings.
I wouldn’t want to hang out anywhere that someone I love is unwelcome. I get it.
Well, one of the children of Brad’s siblings in is the birthday pics and he is black. I think I remember reading years ago that Angelina bonded with one of the sisters because she also adopted children.
I mean, I don’t know what their relationship is like, but I suspect it’s a welcoming environment for diversity.
Proximity =\= anti-racist.
I think that Angelina was actually the inspiration for the sister to adopt but I could be remembering wrong.
A lot of white parents with black children are racists. Ask me how I know.
@ TCBC +1
@Talie- just FYI- racist people adopt Black babies all the time.
What a strange conclusion to jump to based off a ‘story’ from a UK tabloid.
Good luck with the whole gaslighting Black people about how racism works.
Exactly. The Sun isn’t exactly known for their truthful stories. They also ran a lot of untrue stories about Harry and Meghan. Also calling Brad Pitt’s parents racist seems like quite a stretch.
No one is gaslighting Black people! If you’re a black person, you said it yourself – your guess is just a guess, so disagreeing with a guess based on the same article is NOT gaslighting. If Angelina’s actual kids said something about racism and we tried to prove to them that they were wrong – that would be gaslighting.
making a guess that someone you absolutely don’t know is racist??? that is despicable and equally evil.
Having someone think you’re racist is NOT equal to suffering the effects of actual racism. Calling such accusations “despicable” and “evil” is hyperbolic and an attempt to create a false equivalency.
It’s absolutely not “equally evil”. Being a white person suspected to be racist, and being a POC living with racism are two *completely* different things with unequal effects.
Kinda an asshole conclusion to jump to.
Sounds about white.
It’s not like their kids were shut out before, only after the issue with Brad.
Why do you think they are racist?
Eh, the Republican thing isn’t as surprising as I’d expect, given that Angelina has always seemed to hint that she’s not that liberal. I doubt their political differences caused this. I think it has more to do with the fact that Brad simply doesn’t see them that much, and that means his parents have less access. It’s a shame, since kids generally benefit from active, involved grandparents. But I also doubt that Angelina left them high and dry. If Brad’s issues were as extensive as some suggest, his parents would know about them just as much as his wife would, and maybe they support her.
Angelina is maybe not a liberal , but she is not Republican crazy
her father is a Trumper so all of the kids’ grandparents are right wingers
She isnt that liberal? I would have guessed she could be the poster child for it.
She has taken positions that align with conservative ideas. Most prominently, they wrote an editorial advocating for a continuing US Military presence in the Middle East – something most on the left dislike. Her argument was that the region is too unstable to be without it and leaving would create a power vacuum that would embolden terrorists and create an even larger refugee crisis. Most on the left tend to favor withdrawal from the region, which puts her at odds with them.
Truthfully, it makes me like her more than she is willing to consider the viewpoints and come to a measured conclusion.
She has a paternalistic streak present even in some of her activism which makes me side eye her. I wouldn’t be surprised if she was a “noblesse oblige” style conservative.
Brad’s family is still worse – Keep Children Away From Racists 2020, everyone.
@Noki why?
@tcbc – I totally agree with you re: Angelina’s activism. I’m often a bit uncomfortable with what she says and does in the course of her activism and causes. I’m generally afraid to comment on her posts because her fans are as rabid as any. But you’ve hit the nail on the head. I wish people could critique her with some nuance.
And yes I remember Jane Pitt’s “Barack Hussein Obama” nonsense. Disgusting.
I tend to have a positive view of her because I have friends who work in refugee services and organizations, and (secondhand sources, of course!) they hear nothing but good things about her. Some celebrities make demands of the organizations (which are nonprofits, btw), make a scene when they show up, etc. Angelina covers her own costs, brings her own people, makes no demands. So I like her for that. I think she understands that she has a massive platform and is wiling to use it to bring the plight of these people to a wider audience. I can see how that can read as paternalism, but its certainly still helpful, because would they get that attention otherwise? I’d rather a privileged person help in an imperfect way than not help at all.
She’s definitely conservative, just not a MAGA crazy conservative. More like a Reaganite which of course is also problematic in a different way.
Yeah no. I can’t see her buying into Regonomics at all.
Well, if Brad supposedly sees his kids, there couldn’t have been a chance since 2016 for the grandparents to visit at that time?
Yeah, Brad ain’t seeing them unsupervised and this article doesn’t help him at all, since it’s parents and it is up to him to make sure his kids see them.
*Brad Pitt’s six children have not seen their grandparents since 2016, sources close to the family have told The Sun*
Well duh, because it looks like he is not regularly in the lives of his kids. Pro-tip: when you end a marriage you no longer have to do the wife work for your ex-husband/partner, that includes organizing maintenance of his family relationships. This lack of relationship between the kids and the extended Pitt family is for the father of the children to address.
I have a very lovely friend who had a marriage that ended after many years. For the duration of the marriage she organized birthdays, Christmas, mothers and fathers day for her family and her then husbands family. When they divorced she once got a very aggravated (ex) Mother in law on the phone to berate her for not keeping this up, it wasn’t fair that her son won’t do this stuff for his family and that friend should continue to do it, Friend told her to ask the woman he was fu*king for the duration of her marriage to organize this crap if she was so offended by how MIL had raised a thoughtless, bone idle son. MIL never rang again.
My husband and I talk a lot about the roles that naturally fall on women without us realizing it. The mental loads, the planning, the thought energy devoted to keeping things together. You are so right about Angie and the “organizing of the family relationship maintenance.”
How is it her fault that his parents haven’t seen the grandkids? Unless she is actively blocking them from them which I doubt.
My guess would be the grandparents aren’t trying too hard, Brad isn’t trying too hard or letting go of ego to even say” I won’t be there but my parents would like to see them” or the kids don’t want to see them for a reason such as fear or knowledge that they’d be positioned against their mother by the grandparents.
yup! The number of people that think that’s the ex-wife’s responsibility would shock you.
It is my boyfriend’s brother’s birthday on Sunday. Boyfriend just got back from a trip this morning, I have bought a card, provided stamps and reminded him multiples times it needs to be in the post box at the end of our road by 5pm.
Spoiler alert – Simon will not have a card from his brother on Sunday.
I have spent ten years trying to encourage him to step up and do this kind of thing for his relatives but no joy. However I have also remained adamant that we are each responsible for our own families (and made sure his family know this so I get no blame).
The grand father named streets after their grand children except Angelina and Brad’s children? Cruel. And given how Republican they are, it’s probably a good idea to stay away. No need for more toxicity for the kids.
I’d be curious to know why, could be that Brad or Angelina asked them not to.
I would think is way more likely.
I was STUNNED by this news; one doesn’t just do this kind of thing to one’s own grandchildren, no matter what. Absolutely unacceptable, and what does it say about the kind of people they are? Maybe Angie has her reasons for not wanting to expose her kids to that attitude.
There must be a reason, I am guessing it’s either the kids declined to see them, did grandparents made an effort to see or vist their grandchildren, if the kids were with Brad couldn’t Brad made arrangements for his parents to come over at his place to be with them.
It appears that the custody issue is complicated, no one knows the full facts. I suspect all these news about him with the kids & getting on very well with Angelina, papstroll entering the community gate where Angelina lives are all PR .
Yeah, that sounded shady. I hope it’s because Angelina and Brad asked them not to but the pettiness of the move if not is totally off side.
A man like Brad Pritt doesn’t just become abusive, but very likely comes from a family where abusive behavior was committed and enabled.
If you’ve ever read his interviews he’s always blaming his dad for all of his problems and has hinted at him being maybe abusive.
Ah, and I just said, maybe there’s a reason Angie doesn’t want her kids around them…
@A Agree with you, apparently they were very strict!
My parents were very strict Evangelical parents too.
That’s a euphemism for abusive as fuck with the blessing of the church.
Spare the rod, spoil the child is a favorite of the church.
I had many years of therapy to make sure I didn’t “parent” like that.
I do not hit or spank my kids, only abusive, ignorant, immature people with anger issues do, and a whole lot use the church as an excuse
This has been known since pitts team or one of his family members planted a blind item accusing Angelina of not letting them visit them lol my thinking was like yours. If Pitt had reasonable time with the kids they could visit on his time.
The kids do not want to be with him. Even if people don’t want to believe it- Pax explained it on his Father’s Day Instagram. It was real real real. It’s sad the kids are still afraid of him. Hmmm
What was the Father’s day Instagram? I thought none of the kids had said anything publicly about Brad (yet)? I’m surprised any of them have (visible) social media
The kids are not on social media, IIRC.
Instagram only has Pax fan pages.
Thanks – that’s what I thought
Actually Pax does have an Instagram account but it’s on private, however on Mother’s Day he accidentally opened it for a few minutes but that was enough time for fans to confirm it was him as that was a personal picture he took of his mom at home. But it’s also easy to confirm when some of Brad’s nieces follow him and the Crane family who spent a lot of time with Angie and the kids do too.
So… what was the father’s day instagram then?
I didn’t see it myself but apparently for the few minutes he opened some people followed him I guess. So on Father’s Day he supposedly posted a picture on his stories of brad saying he was a horrible father who made their lives a living hell and is incapable of understanding and that the four youngest are are fearful of him and that he keeps lying to everyone and one day it’ll come out. Whether it’s real or not I can’t tell you for sure. It is the account as confirmed by the picture he posted of Angie but this specific story could be photoshopped to include his handle. If you look on lipstick alley someone posted it. I think it’s on twitter too if you want to look for it. But that one idk. I just know the Mother’s Day one was real as it was a recent picture of her that’s not anywhere else online. Brad’s was a picture of him at the oscars with the text put over it.
The account is real tho. He even once had a close up selfie in a typical teen fashion where it was clear as day it was him. Now it’s a blurry mirror selfie with flash covering his face. Take that as you will.
He does but it’s private.
He had the Instagram message up for 24hrs.
Nope, that said Pax father’s day post is totally fake. Pax is still followed by the cousins and in fact he was in santa barbara this monday with the cousins.
You speak with an awful lot of certainty.
Funny though, how he was supposedly in Santa Barbara with the cousins who according to the Sun, who worked with his family to post about about dear Grandmas birthday , said the kids haven’t seen them in four years. The cousins are the same bunch. They are attention seekers who want to be “Insta influencers” and let themselves be made into tabloid headlines as “up and comers”.
And another interesting coincidence is that his pap strolls outside her gates started right after that ‘fake’ Father’s Day post.
If it’s real or fake, I’m sure we’ll find out soon enough as pax and Maddox don’t seem to care much for him and are incredibly visibly protective of their mother. Will be interesting to see how they react as things heat up.
I know for a fact that’s it is real. I know at least one Pitt fan follows him and knows it’s true as do a group of Angelina fans. As I said it’s real and sad the way he talks about brad Pitt. Pitt is an absolutely terrible father according to pax jp. The one way to get y’all to believe is for the press to pick it up but since they’re in pitts pocket they won’t.
And since Pitt is once again attacking his mother who he absolutely adores I expect him to say more.
Pidney regularly posts about her dear auntie Jen and pax still follows her so I highly doubt that the cousins relationships is impacted by Pax’s parents. Pax can hate Brad and like his cousins.
The niece posted an insta last monday and she called P and someone said he was playing pingpong and will try to get him.
The IG father’s day post was totally fake, it was proven how easy to photoshop and lots of inconsistencies in the photo, besides that it used a public photo of Brad, as is the son dont have any old private photo of the father, just like what he had for his mother. Only the rabid Angie fan who hates Pitt believes it, in fact some people knew who photoshopped it, she posted what was said in that IG post here. Btw, im an Angie fan but will not tolerate those fake anti pitt posts.
Franny, is that you? Still stalking Pax via his Instagram?
Just curious when they last saw their maternal grandfather. She has been off and on with her Jon Voigt for years. Is he in her children’s lives? Or are they separated from all grandparents? If yes, that’s sad. Relationships between grandchildren and grandparents can bring so much to both groups.
When voight is asked he always gushes about those kids, but voight was spotted out and about without a mask on so not sure if he’s around them during the pandemic. LoL
He is a super Trump supporter so if the reason Brad’s parents don’t see the kids is their beliefs then I doubt they see him much. But if she keeps beliefs separate from a familial relationship then they likely have to some extent.
Both Brad and Angie have terrible, racist families. (I don’t know about Angie’s brother. Seems like he has been low profile for a while now.) I hope those kids can rely on each other.
My parents split for good last year after 40 years of marriage (the got together when they were 20 and 17, married super young, etc). My mom is still on the cousins, aunts whatsapp group chat, she’s been invited to weddings and Christmas, while my dad, who is a great but complicated person, barely saw his brother and sisters before the pandemic. Why? Because all along the years, my mom forged those relationships with her inlaws.
Same with my divorce from my husband of 30 years. At first, my mother in law was a bit pissed on her son’s behalf but when it came down to visiting, I kept making arrangements for our kids to visit his mother and our kids are regularly invited to family events and reunions. my mother in law and I maintain a pretty great relationship, despite the divorce from her son. If I had left it up to my ex, our kids would never see any family. I don’t mean this as any kind of shade towards Angelina and her situation. It worked out well for me to keep the paternal visits going and I’m glad I did.
My parents divorced and eventually my dad was completely out of the picture (he’s problematic) and my mum had a relationship with all of his family. My grandmother considered her another daughter. Part of that was my dad being awful but even without that mum loved them and cared about them so maintained the relationships.
Might just be rosacea, but Brad’s Dad looks like a heavy drinker.
Probably. Alcoholism can run in families.
He does.
Many years ago, I went through a bitter divorce with three young children.
The Paternal grandparents SHUNNED my 3, as they gloriously embraced the other grandchildren.
Is was painful then; but my children, now adults, have little to nothing to do with them in their later years.
My maternal grandmother was similar, though not from divorce. Several of her children were estranged, several were not on close terms, and only 1 was the favorite. She had grandkids she didn’t see in decades, and possibly some she never even met. I had a relationship with her, but a few years before she passed, she cut my family out too. The favorite’s children were all that mattered (and they were pretty awful).
You’re not going to like this story but I lived in Springfield MO when they came for a visit. A well-known local pizzeria was closed so the family could have it to themselves. After they left, the horror story came out – the family was overall rude and the kids were off the hook. The kids climbed over tables, knocked things around, damaged property, and all were rude to staff. But that won’t fit your narrative of how great this family is.
Why this story is even more outrageous is that I observed that locals in southern Missouri (Ozark country) let their kids at restaurants run wild all the time. It was a consistent and repellent problem we dealt with when dining out. The fact that locals thought the Pitt-Jolie shenanigans were horrible, says a lot.
I read this in a tabloid a long time ago. LoL maybe you were the source 🤷🏽♀️
We know, your “exclusive” was in Us magazine in 2012 https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/brad-pitt-angelina-jolies-kids-jump-on-tables-throw-food-at-missouri-pizza-parlor-20121411/
It is possible for both things to be true- perhaps the poster really did witness this and was unaware of the US cover story.
I know I don’t pay attention to tabs at checkout, I’m usually on my phone or watching people.
She didn’t say it was an exclusive so your quotation marks are incorrectly used. Just because it was reported doesn’t mean she didn’t live there I don’t know what the issue with her post is.
That’s funny. Guess I won’t send my resume in then. I got a request on Indeed today for a potential job interview for a “high-profile client” in Los Angeles, California, who needs a traveling teacher. The children were 7th grade twins, which fits the ages of the Jolie-Pitt twins. They were very specific that they need someone who is open-minded, basically worldly and has traveled extensively. (I have).
While I doubt it really is the Jolie-Pitt twins, I find this bit of gossip amusing about pizza place. Rich people, man. 😆
Is the pay decent lol
Hey I’m from Springfield area! Went to college in Springfield at SW Missouri State University. About 15 years ago. I believe you. I don’t see a reason for you to lie.
Assuming your information is correct, that story is an outlier in terms of how the kids are usually described. There are so many variables as to how this could happen – maybe the wait staff was rude/didn’t respect privacy; maybe there was something else going on, etc. Again, if it was a frequently reported pattern of behavior I would give it more weight.
@bluemoonhorse, were you there in the pizzeria itself when this took place? So you know for a fact that all of this actually happened, because you witnessed it with your own two eyes? Inquiring minds would like to know.
I would bet a million bucks bluemoonhorse did NOT in fact see this with their own eyes 😂
If the grandparents wanted to see the grandkids or vice versa, I can’t really see Angelina blocking that.
First I hope this story is not true. It would be sad as Brad’s family seemed to play an important role to the kids for a long time. Although, I get it if you are having a drawn out messy divorce with their son how do you set up time with those grandparents? It may just be circumstance, and nothing against them. I mean it seems logically it should be Brad setting this up, but he doesn’t seem to have much time with the kids in general.
Now the political things, well all living grandparents are definitely on the conservative crazy side. Jon Voight is the worse though, cause he has a bigger platform and doesn’t seem to mind saying it often. Angelina’s relationship with him seems on/off. Pretty sure that has nothing to do with political views more Jon’s never really been there for his family and supposedly a bit of an ass. I think his political views are just the icing on his crazy cake. I think Angelina & Jon’s relationship is slightly on now. He never seems to know much about her kids though, when he is asked so I think he has been as absentee with them as he was with his own kids. I thought Jon was a great actor, and it bugged me he was such a jerk.
Actually, back in the day I always thought politically Brad and Angelina were interesting. Both had conservatives in their family background, and both seemed to be liberal in views at least. Angelina was particularly interesting as she claims she’s independent. She definitely has liberal progressive views on social issues at least, but she’s not supporting a particular party. Brad was more conventional in his party affiliation and support with the Democratic party and his Oscar speech definitely went there. Not sure which way is better. Probably Angelina in the long run, but today I think we all just have to go with no Trump and support the Democrats.
Angelina and jon seem to be in a good place. She’s explained that they don’t talk about politics and keep to more artistic stuff. In one interview she did she explained jon was in the library reading to the kids. Also he’s shown pix of his house and he had photos of his grandchildren all over.
Also, Pitt is at it again but this time in people magazine. Angelina kept it classy with just her lawyer explains facts and Pitt is using his lawyer to attack her and a source to do the same. So basically the same as page six and an attempt to keep public court on his side- as if she cares about that. LoL
I wonder if Angie does often does a ‘WTF was I thinking” re her getting involved with Brad. Some people have that ONE relationship where they think that. She appears to have gotten along well with her exes…except for Brad. I am glad people are seeing Brad for exactly who he is.
So if your parents aren’t seeing the kids, Brad, does that mean you’re not seeing your kids ???
Make it make sense please
With these stuf Pitt’s pr team just reminds us that after 4 longs years the guy still needs supervised visits with the kids… something really bad happens with him. Man, go to a therapist for the god sake. Stop blaming to the deviĺ ex wife. It’s exhauted.
Even worse is the judge has a side deal with the his lawyers. Makes you wonder if what he did was so bad, even quid pro quo couldn’t grant him anymore than supervised visits or he just doesn’t care to see them.
Once custody is settled and divorce is completely finalized, the children will probably have more opportunity to spend time with Brad’s family at their residence in Missouri. On a podcast last year Brad said he and the kids would go on trips yearly to visit his family in MO. So Brad’s family are very much part of the JP kids lives. On the same podcast Brad himself said his family comes often to Cali to visit him. I’m certain all his MO relatives have spent time with the JP kids in Cali since the break up.
I agree.
I listened to that podcast and he actually used “we” pronoun when he described it: We would take kids often to visit my folks. So, he and Angelina and kids would go to Missouri together.
So past tense as she dumped his ass 4 years ago.
I don’t understand how Angelina is responsible for Brad’s parents to see the kids. It would be up to Brad to make arrangements with his family. Obviously the story is supposed to be “Angelina is horrible for keeping the kids away” but it doesn’t make sense. Considering this is supposed to be a slam on Angelina, it says something that there’s no mention they asked her to see them. Sounds like the grandparents don’t care.
That’s what I don’t get either. If he has visits with the kids, then the grandparents would have access to those kids during those visits.
They may not be flying out to Missouri to see their grandparents or whatever, but if they’ve spent time with their father and their grandparents haven’t seen them in 4 years, that’s on Brad and his parents.
His parents don’t seem very nice, at least not politically, but if they kids did have any kind of loving relationship with them and do miss them, I hope they are at least still in touch.
Oh for Pete’s sake why is the responsibility of the kids relationship with the PATERNAL grandparents on Angie??!!!!! How much more do we expect her or in that vein MOTHERS to do???!!! BRAD is their son and those are also his kids. He’s responsible for their ongoing relationship with his side of the family. But hey, tabs are bored this week, let’s just put the onus on Angie because…well you know, she’s evil. 🙄🤨
Don’t understand why is always Angie fault? Why the grandparents are not making effort to visit their grandkids instead whining to tabloids?
Don’t understand why is always Angie fault? Why the grandparents are not making effort to visit their grandkids instead of whining to tabloids?
Because they know brad can’t see them unsupervised
I do think the story is false. Maybe the older kids, but I think all of Brad’s relatives could easily go stay at his multiple home compound and see the kids. As he has them part time. I recall pics from the pool on the younger cousins’ Social media.
I don’t know about these photos. I remember the JP kids invited their cousins Voight , and they were having a pool party at De Mille .
If Brad was so interested in his parents seeing his children, he probably shouldn’t have slapped one of his children around. It’s not Angelina’s fault that Brad doesn’t have full access to his children. If he wants his parents to see the children, he’ll probably have to petition the court and that would remind all of his fans about that pesky ‘beating his child’ thing.
The FIL is a developer and named streets after all the grandkids EXCEPT for the Pitt/Jolie kids? How awful of him – they do not come across well at all in this post or article it is based on. That says a lot about him.
His entire family is currently on vacation at his Santa Barbara compound celebrating brad’s mum 80th birthday.
I’m sure brad is capable of taking his kids to them for few hours.
But wait a min his only getting supervised visitation with his kids.
His 80 year old mom traveled to California in the mist of pandemic? That is not very smart!
Something tells me that they probably flew private.
When my parents divorced I didn’t see my grandparents on my Mom’s side as often (lived with my dad). It was just not really a thing, fight or reason for it, but my Mom’s visiting time didn’t usually include a visit out of state.
There must be a reason, I am guessing it’s either the kids declined to see them, did grandparents made an effort to see or vist their grandchildren, if the kids were with Brad couldn’t Brad made arrangements for his parents to come over at his place to be with them.
It appears that the custody issue is complicated, no one knows the full facts. I suspect all these news about him with the kids & getting on very well with Angelina, papstroll entering the community gate where Angelina lives are all PR .
Nah I call bull on this one . There were some reports about them coming to LA and staying at Malibu residence and the kids visiting them and their nephews
Brad himself said his family come to Cali often to visit him (even prior to 2016 – there are photos that back this up). I don’t believe for a second that this article is true. The SUN is a UK tabloid and the article is almost certainly a lie. By all measure Brad remains very close to his family and his parents were always part of the JP kids lives.
His family gave the sun a bunch of updates and this story has far too many details to be fake- straight from his Family and makes Pitt looks super bad. LoL
Look, we’re in a pandemic. Big birthday parties for 80-year-olds are not okay right now. Even with masks. Family gatherings like this are making a lot of people sick. So whether the “Pitt kids don’t get to see some grandparents” thing is right or not, I think she’s 100 percent right with not taking them to a family birthday party. This is NOT the year for that.
‘if they want to see the kids, they can visit Brad in LA for one of his supervised visitations. I mean…? This story is kind of self-own for Brad’s team. It just reminds everybody that he’s barely seen his kids for years because of how badly he f–ked up. ‘
Exactly! But somehow brad not inviting his parents to see the kids during his visitation is somehow angies fault? Jeez brad looks horrible here. or would the court not allow them? do they think that little of brad after what went down on that plane? Either case its not angies fault but yeah throw the mother of your children under the bus, man brad is just awful
My brother in law got divorced and everytime he had the kids, he dumped them at his mother’s.
The young teens stopped wanting to see/ visit because they grew disillusioned with him, and their grandma had mobility issues, and on top was tasked to help them with homework.
He just wanted to continue fooling around on his kids’ time.
Eventually they stopped all contact, it made my MIL very sad, but I blame him, as he was a lousy father.
Well, Brad should takes his kids to visit his parents. How is this Angelina’s fault?
No loss, if they truly wanted to see those kids, they could hire a lawyer and assert their visitation rights as Grandparents. That has become a thing in the last 25 years.
My Ex Husbands parent were extremely religious, choir, and deacon at their church.
His Mother was an RN. I divorced him due to his adultery. That Mother of his went high and low telling everyone that I refused to let them see my daughter.
A friend mentioned this to me “Why are being so awful to them?” I flat out answered the truth, “They never asked to see her. I am not stopping them but, I damn well won’t beg them to see her either.”
They NEVER asked to see her. Not once. Our divorce took 2 years to finalize.
In the following 14 years…not once. Bye, we are fine w/out you.
I do not think grandparents’ rights has any actual basis in law, at least not in the US. Grandparents think otherwise, obviously, but they seem to not realize that they factually do not have a case, period.
The grandparents law is not a thing, at least in California.
My rich ex in-laws gave that one a try, but nope.
The judge said they could see my kid during his father’s visitation. They were not entitled to “extra” visitation
Brad’s family has always visited LA periodically hell his parents used to travel abroad to spend time with the Jolie Pitts before the divorce.Brad can charter a jet to fly his family to LA to see his kids when he has them so if this is true it’s his fault his kids haven’t seen them.
Pitt and his family are playing “the big happy family”, himself papped doing “good” for community, the jerk booted his OWN KIDS from family home , and had to be asked for child support. Never forget that. Actions are loud , not photos and/or blabling words. Btw his niece is there for fame whoring, this it it. The fact that they went to the worst UK tabloids “the sun” knowing they will write some awful and undeserved stories about their cousins and their mother is disgusting. What A list wants to be linked to family members leaking stories and photos? This moron and his family are NOT private. In fact Angelina has every right to distance herself from untrusty people, especially the nieces who didn’t make a secret they wanted their oncle back with “the America sweetheart ” hypocrite. They are all the same. I’m happy that Angelina has her hands free.
Every A list or celeb divorcing are making a point to appear peaceful with their ex wife or husband , in public. More over when kids are involved. At least wishing the other well and working for the well being of the kids.
It is a really bad bad bad PR advice to be so disrespectful towards the mother of his 6 kids so publicly ( we know he is “indoors” ). And he didn’t even had to answer Samantha Dejean filing as it was adressed to the judge. A free load of spit harsh words . I wonder what the other “A list ” are thinking. He wants to tell the world ” i have 50% custody”. He doesn’t care about the kids, being verbally abusive publicly just shows that he doesn’t care about the kids.
All Angelina has to do is going to public court .
Patience is a virtue & he doesn’t have that unfortunately! His Hollyweirds family will rally around him & he knows that. Bley, Bley is cool! She has no time for public scoring no shamming & slamming so & so, no space for tabloids in her vocabulary, she is more into listening, fact finding, investigating, discuss & explains, advise client, plan, pause, informed people that needs informing, & viola action & execute! court scoring is more her target than public scoring! straight to the point of the matter. Bley seems very professional, no criticism on Pitt. Her concerns were the activities of Pitts attorney & the judge nothing to do about Jolie & Pitt. I don’t understand why Pitt & his sources are responding. If Bley don’t disclose it now & this issue comes up later with her knowledge she could be sued so she is protecting herself/ firm/ practices, her reputation, Jolie & Pitt. She could have turned a blind eye but she didn’t. Judges, attorneys, agencies watch out! One thorough clever lady attorney is rocking the legal world hopefully to get rid of bad practices & improves practices in the legal profession! Bley is no member of the Hollyweird community who turn a blind eye on bad practices & against the law she takes action as she finds it! Just look at Weinstein, etc; Ellen scenarios they were all protected/tolerated. Where is Weinstein now? Clients pays legal professionals who knows best to represent them as they know nothing about how the legal system works , they pay professionals to look after their case & professionals are expected to act honestly on their behalf & represents them to their best ability & not to be taken advantage of
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fwiw, Brad’s niece posted a clear photo of her enjoying a plate of bbq in Angelina’s backyard, at the DeMille house. This was in her Ig stories a short time ago.
This shoots down the Sun story about the kids not seeing Brad’s family. It’s very likely they (perhaps minus Maddox) were up at Brad’s beach pad for his mom’s birthday party last week. They all returned back to LA on Sunday & the Pitt cousins were invited over to hang out and eat, likely with Angelina’s permission and welcome. It supports recent rumors that Brad & Angie are getting along a bit better recently.
That pic of the niece at Demille and her calling Pax’s name(on purpose) in the middle of the court drama last week is crazy af. If Brad and Angelina are off the wall fighting per some spitfire response by his counsel to Page 6 then he and his team are delusional. Bley was outing Pitts sleazy counsel and judge. Does that mean they are cordial because his family seemed happy at Demille. There was no tension there.
That Sun article was garbage printed by a bunch of lairs/ I said that I didn’t believe Angie would deny her kids relationship with his parents nor him if you ask me.
Maybe Pax was in SB, maybe he went with Pitt I don’t see how all of them fit in a Tesla.
TBO I don’t think any of us know what’s going on. But the presence of Pitt himself at her gates and now pics of his family eating there is fact that we really don’t know.
anyone manage to grab screen caps of the stories?
I think Pitt’s niece posted those photos in response to the Sun’s article “ Grandparents hasn’t seen their grandchildren. They are all in touch I don’t think Jolie is mean to her ex in laws