It feels notable that Brad Pitt’s pushback only really started after Shiloh filed to remove “Pitt” from her legal name on her 18th birthday. Notice what’s not being said – absolutely no one is claiming that Brad reached out to Shiloh on her birthday or tried to see her or send her flowers or anything like that. Notice that Brad did not run around to People Magazine, Us Weekly and Entertainment Tonight with “his side” of things when Zahara started going by “Zahara Jolie” at Spelman. Notice that Brad didn’t even say anything when 15-year-old Vivienne erased “Pitt” from her name on The Outsiders’ playbill, for which she is a credited producer’s assistant. Shiloh’s decision to actually hire a lawyer and file for a name change on her 18th birthday was a bigger statement, granted. But it also feels like Brad has just realized that he can’t continue to play the same old “Angelina alienated the kids against me.” Any of the kids could speak up at any time. Dangerous days for Brad Pitt. That being said, he’s still an idiot and clearly some people will always believe that the Villainous Jolie made Poor Brad be a drunken psycho. Speaking of:
Brad Pitt remains hopeful about reconnecting with his kids.
“After years of legal battles, Brad still isn’t ready to give up on his children,” a source exclusively tells Us Weekly. “But knowing his children are dropping his last name is upsetting.”
The name changes come after Pitt’s security guard, Tony Webb, claimed that Jolie encouraged their children to ice out the actor during custody visits. Per court docs obtained by Us earlier this month, Webb alleged that a former employee, Ross Foster, told him “about statements he overheard that Ms. Jolie made to the children, encouraging them to avoid spending time with Mr. Pitt during custody visits.”
Pitt and Jolie were together for a decade before they exchanged vows in August 2014. Two years later, the pair called it quits and have been in a long-standing legal battle ever since. In 2019, Pitt and Jolie were declared legally single. They have yet to come to an agreement regarding their divorce or the custody of their minor children and ownership over their French winery, Chateau Miraval.
However, in March, an insider told Us that their legal battle could reach its end soon — with Jolie receiving primary custody of her and Pitt’s twins, their only underage children. Pitt, for his part, “isn’t thrilled” with the arrangement but agreed to it.
“He wishes their relationship was stronger and wants to work on that,” the source said, adding that Pitt is disappointed he “doesn’t see the kids” as often as he’d like to.
A guy heard from another guy that Angelina told her kids to avoid spending time with Brad when they were visiting him? Sounds legit. As soon as the kids aged out of court-ordered visitation, all of them avoided Brad. There was still a court-ordered monitor in place for YEARS during Brad’s rare visitation with the kids too. Besides which… all of this is just sound and fury from Team Pitt, signifying a whole lot of nothing. Notice that too – there’s no plan to actually reconcile with his kids, there’s no plan to show his kids that he’s made substantive changes, that he’s a better person now. He’s made no “amends.” It’s basically just Brad calling up his media buddies and crying about how “he isn’t ready to give up” and the whole thing is just a big bummer.
Also: Entertainment Tonight has a source who claims that Vivienne was the one to personally request that “Pitt” not be included in her name in The Outsiders’ playbill. Just aesthetically, “Vivienne Jolie” sounds prettier than “Vivienne Jolie-Pitt.”
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- ‘Bullet Train’ Paris film premiere at Le Grand Rex Featuring: Brad Pitt Where: Paris, France, France When: 18 Jul 2022 Credit: Jerome Domine/ABACA/INSTARimages/Cover Images **North America Rights Only**
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“Webb alleged that a former employee, Ross Foster, told him “about statements he overheard that Ms. Jolie made to the children, encouraging them to avoid spending time with Mr. Pitt during custody visits.” How was he allowed to testify to that in court documents? That’s hearsay.
Interesting that this guy repeating what that guy said is coming out now that Shiloh legally ditched her Dad’s part of her last name. If this were useful to BP, he would have used this information years ago—AJ would not have said this recently because 4 of their kids are now adults. I think it’s BS.
It’s total BS, for exactly the reasons you said.
If Angelina was interfering in any way with the court ordered visitation, the proper recourse is through the court not some guy who used to work for Pitt spilling tea. Since that allegation was never made formally, I think it’s safe to assume it never happened. And it’s clear that the kids had their own issues with BP apart from his mistreatment of their mom.
One of Brad’s employees said someone told him Angie said something questionable to the children? Sure, sounds like a reliable source who has no reason to say things to keep Brad happy.
I was thinking ,he is trying a new angle as he will probably had to promote his movie with Clooney soon. He has to be a little sympathetic, they will probably do a lot of buddy interviews together,no doubt Fatherhood will be a big topic for both of them.
Sidenote to that: I’m disgusted with Clooney for continuing to work with Brad. George has to know what is going on and he deliberately works with and promotes an abuser.
I’ve lost all respect for George over this.
I also have difficulty with George Clooney being married to a human rights lawyer in Amal—you’d think he would look at BP and be like, “Nah.”
Clooney is a phoney. He’s as shady as pitt, especially with what he got up to with young men in lake como. He’s marriage and family life is a contract to hide his sexuality. He has one of the most powerful publicty teams just like pitt and has tried to bury all the gossip about him.
Yep.
Shiloh was the one the tabloids and the bots leaned in to. “Living with Daddy!” “Shiloh moves in with Brad!”. “I’ve read that Shiloh has lived with her Dad for years”. But the new and real story is “Shiloh is 18! Finally free to live wit..Oh whoops that was in total bulls**t. Turns out Shiloh wants nothing to do with Dad”.
He’s pissed that this is more evidence he’s a liar who only cares about his image.
Agreed, he has always had a preference for Shiloh, which is creepy. I think it’s because she resembles him the most, but still. Creepy.
Brad’s giving off some real Thomas Markle vibes and I suspect Shiloh was his golden child. The children are better off without him.
Actually this really reminded me of all the” poor charles really wants to see his American grandchildren, he really wants to.”..same BS
Bro, you already gave up on them. It’s over.
How weird that we’re just now hearing from this security guy.
It was reported in the British press. That’s where I saw the story about the bodyguard.
Was it reported a while back or is it new is what I’m wondering. Interesting too since the uk press is known for paying for stuff like this.
A few months ago.
When is the last time he saw them? Any of them?
He’s oh so sad but never did a dang thing to show that he’s attempting to change, never did the level of family therapy and individual therapy needed to gain any self awareness.
He’s just s waste.
Honestly, as far as I remember. The only time I remember him talking about change and working on his sobriety in interviews. Was during the time he was chasing after the Oscar in 2020. Which he won. Then no more talk about that.
He did more work on himself to pander to Oscar voters than for his own children.
I will never forget an old professor of mine. Speaking about how he would drive for hours just to see his child for a little while. Because he knew he always wanted his child to remember there was nothing he wouldn’t do to spend some time with them. Kids remember actions.
Brad has done nothing and will do nothing. He will just have his PR team plant fake stories over how ‘sad’ he is. Too bad sad Brad. We see you for who you are.
Based on what was reported elsewhere and even by court documents, he was supposed to be drug and alcohol tested and have supervised visits and was balking at dealing with that. So how much did someone who supposedly love his kids really mean.
I do recall at one point he told the press or someone did that he flew to see Maddox with the hope to reconcile after Maddox had moved away for school. And during the Oscar chase, he had to miss an event because one of his kids was having surgery (Zahara). But that’s about it.
It’s always funny to me when the children become of age and the PR machine can’t keep churning out fake stories. Since they are adults and can clap back.
And boy did Shiloh clap back in the best way possible. Not one PR statement, not one BS interview like Brad.
She spoke volumes by her actions.
Suri Cruise turned 18 in April. I wonder if she will take the same route and become Suri Holmes. Tom can lie all he wants. About being away in London filming or face time on video.
But he has not seen or spoken to Suri since she was a toddler. Katie was labeled a suppressive person and he had to disconnect from them. As I understand there was some grumbling in their ‘church’ of why he got to see Suri when other families couldn’t. So, he got in line and followed suit. For. The. (fake) Church.
Four of the “kids” are now legally adults and do not have to abide by any custody agreement to see him. They can do that whenever they want. The fact is none of them want anything to do with him. He can try and spin that any way he wants
it was even before they were legally adults. I am not sure in CA but usually after a child hits a certain age. Usually mid-teens. They can choose for themselves if they want to see a parent or not for visitation. As far as I can tell. All of them stopped seeing him when they had a choice.
I have a question though : given that Shiloh triggered that process as soon as she turned 18 and it pretty obvious that her older siblings want nothing to do with him, does that mean that the twins still have to see their father on a regular basis ?
I could see Pitt trying to pull the same sh*t as soon as Knox and Vivienne turn 18 and innevitably follow the same path as their older siblings to not be called Jolie-Pitt anymore.
@Lau In California, the twins at age 14 could make the decision if they wanted to keep visitation with him. Two years on, I guess they said no and who would blame them. That may be why Knox is into mixed martial arts so that he can protect himself and his family.
That’s interesting to know but now I wondering why Pitt is not complaining as much about the twins if they don’t want to see him either ? Maybe it will come later or maybe it’s just that Jolie let her children take their own decisions and so Pitt can’t talk about the twins because that would prove that she’s not in fact alienating the children.
Brad Pitt used his children as props to further his career. He is a user. I don’t think he’s had a meaningful relationship with anyone, unless there’s something in it for him.
I keep hearing ‘parental alienation!’ over and over again on twitter and I’m sorry but do the people actually think that if the abuse didn’t happen, not a single child would come out to defend him?
Surely, if he was for the most part a lovely, attentive father – at least one of his children, four of whom are adults now, would still want to have a relationship with him?
No, I believe Pax when he said that the four youngest were terrified of him and honestly it breaks my heart.
Exactly – I have seen parental alienation happen, with a good father too, but the mother did a number on the one kid and it caused a problem for a long time. As the kids grew into adults they reconciled and have a relationship again, but that was with a good father. Not an abusive ahole who has spent years attacking their mother in the press.
When B&A split, I thought there might be some alienation happening, but seeing the full extent of the plane incident and the lack of therapy/work B did post split, she was right to keep those kids from being left alone with him too much. I suspect this whole comment from the bodyguard came from the kids complaining about having to go to B’s house, and A saying “you have to be there, but just avoid him as much as you can.” A friend of mine has to tell her kids the same thing.
Ugh you pro Pitt tried it. Well this is for you. You can’t alienate a parent from another when said first person physically assaulted two of your siblings, physically assaulted your mother in front of them, and then verbally assaulted everyone. And apparently this was not the first time he physically assaulted your mother. And your so called parent (father) refuses to acknowledge what happened in private and most definitely in the public. Who actually moved away from you and left your mother swinging in the wind with barely any assets (that stupid chateau) and left her to go and find a home for you all and still made sure she lived near your father so that if he got his [redacted] together and did the steps he needed to, could all reconcile.
Angelia Jolie has been saying out loud for years that she wants him to be able to do the work so that he has a relationship with the children. But she refused to give up primary custody and that’s what this has all been about. He wouldn’t do the work, didn’t want it to look like he was a bad father and he has used the courts to go against her. The judge was crooked in this case and refused to even interview the children who demanded to testify.
That’s it. All of it. Exactly. Well said. Thank you!!!
When a parent purposely gives up having a relationship with their child, are they expecting their child to forever wait around and not grow up to be their own independent person with thoughts and opinions on how they want to live their life? Whatever Brad Pitt. Angelina Jolie has been showing up and being the loving parent these kids need. And what they do? They show up for her too. That’s how relationship work.
Brad is a hottie.
Not really
After everything you’ve read about him, this is your take away? “Brad is a hottie?” SMH
He’s vile and abusive. That takes away any good looks he once had.
When women comment on things like that, I must learn to let it go. Some women just don’t care what happens to other women. I have to tell myself all the time. His looks have nothing to do with abuse, and if that’s the way people think, it’s sad. Also, his looks are great, so there’s that, and it’s the alcohol.
Hot sack of poo, maybe. His plastic surgeon isn’t great. He has willingly given up on his children. How on earth does that qualify him as “hot”?
You’re not a girl’s girl, are you? This is the guy who wanted a family while Jennifer Aniston was mourning her miscarriage. He got the company she founded in the divorce. He’s abused Angelina Jie and at least two of his kids, which you can follow in an FBI report. He built sh!t homes in New Orleans and screwed over poor people. He’s wanted for tax fraud in France.
And you do realize that Brad has been known for not showering (and therefore smelling of B.O. and cigarettes) since the 1990s, right? During Once Upon a Time in Hollywood a source reported how baby wipes don’t do as good a job as showering.
Even without the abuse, I have zero pity for parents who claim to be disappointed they don’t see the kids as often as they like. Your choices reveal your priorities. My mind is still blown by the fact that Eminem of all people turned out to be a great dad. He went to therapy and put in the work to get sober. Meanwhile Brad Pitt turned out to be an abusive deadbeat. How the world has changed since the aughts.
Brad Pitt may not be ready to give up on his children, but they’ve clearly given up on him. Quite understandably.
As for the “statements he overheard that Ms. Jolie made to the children, encouraging them to avoid spending time with Mr. Pitt during custody visits,” that could have easily been their mother advising them how to navigate mandated visits they didn’t want any part of. “Just go and try to avoid spending time with him” sounds exactly what one might say to a kid who was (again, quite understandably) upset about having to see someone they don’t want to see.
That’s for sure my take as well. She was 100% giving advice to kids that asked about staying away from their dad who they’re terrified of.
My parents divorced and my mom was basically Betty Broderick without the murders. She badmouthed my father nonstop. It started when I was 7 (when they divorced). She didn’t stop. I mean anyone within earshot they were assaulted with everything my dad ever did wrong. Car rides with her were the worst as she would unleash her vile tirades. She was awful and hated my dad more than she ever loved any of us.
I always had a good relationship with my dad and he never said a cruel word about my mom. To this day, I resent my mom for how she handled this divorce, her attempts to alienate us from our father, and all the drama she brought to every sporting event, every holiday, graduation, birthday, and so on. The tactics worked AGAINST her. This is absolutely NOT that situation. Jolie is the class act parent here.
People act like children can’t make up their minds or don’t know a good parent when they see one. Pitt is full of crap. He barely has had contact with his children, doesn’t acknowledge their birthdays and would rather spend time abusing Jolie in the courts or running to TMZ or page 6 rather than figuring out his children’s interests, likes, dislikes. These children dance, make art, act, etc. when has Pitt ever shown up for them? The answer is never.
When you are a good parent alienation attempts don’t work. Jolie is a great mom to those kids – she doesn’t play favorites (unlike Pitt who seems only interested in Shiloh). Jolie is a class act who did everything she could to protect her children. I doubt she was badmouthing him at all. Maybe don’t be an abusive A-hole, don’t be violent is the lesson here?
Such a great comment and I’m sorry you had to deal with that growing up.
Ah thank you so much Christy! I am in a great place and two of us four kids now have zero contact with my mom. A third only calls on holidays and barely has contact. She blames my dad for this but it’s 100% of her making. And even after our father died, she continued to badmouth him. It never ends with her and the record never changes. I see now why Betty Broderick’s kids show up to her parole hearings and say she’s not sorry, don’t let her out.
I am divorced myself, and there are some things I would never ever say in front of my kid. That’s his father. And I love him more than I have disdain for anything his dad has ever done. I judge that situation so harshly now as an adult and a parent. The silver lining is, as hard as she tried, she never got to sever our ties with our dad. So I am grateful that we had one decent, present parent growing up. Crazy cause we lived with my mom (years long custody battle, but courts just didn’t give dads custody back then) but my dad was more present. He was the adult in the room and in our lives. I’m glad Angelina’s kids have her.
Daddy Dearest isn’t gonna take this lying down. Not when his sad noodle ramblings can be posted in conjunction with his movie promotion. He’s lucky he still has 1 child left who’s carrying his last name. Once the twins hit 18, all bets are off. I hope they ether his career.
If he really wanted to do the work he wouldn’t have sat there and lied about his relationship with the kids. All it’s showing them is that his image and the way people perceive him is more important then the actual relationship.
This all reminds me of Alice Evans. Now that’s a case of parental alienation. How can people honestly believe Angelina Jolie is like Alice Evans??