Angelina Jolie is ‘actively moving beyond the past, she wants to focus on her family’

Angeline Jolie has been in New York this week to promote Pablo Larrain’s Maria at the NY Film Festival. The film won’t stream on Netflix until December, so I feel like we’re getting the bigger promotional rollout in a few months. But for now, Angelina is fine with chatting about the movie and even dropping some information into People Magazine, especially about her recent FOIA withdrawal on the FBI’s records. Some highlights:

Angelina Jolie is grateful to have her kids as her “biggest supporters.”

Just a few days after the actress, 49, dropped her legal case against the Department of Justice and FBI over documents connected to the alleged 2016 plane incident involving ex Brad Pitt, a family source tells PEOPLE that Jolie is focused on moving forward with their six children — Maddox, 23, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 18, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 16.

“In the past few years, she’s been able to create a life for herself and the kids that make them all happy. It was a struggle for a while, but Angie is proud about how resilient and strong the kids are,” says the insider.

“They are her biggest supporters too,” adds the source. “The kids are all amazing.”

“Being stuck in the past is not anything that Angie wants. She’s actively moving beyond the past. She wants to focus on her family, work and the future,” the insider also shares. “These are all things that make her happy.”

“Being stuck in the past is not anything that Angie wants,” continues the source. “She wants to focus on her family, work and the future. These are all things that make her happy.”

Under the anonymous “Jane Doe,” Jolie had requested in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in 2022 that FBI documents about the incident be released to her. Court documents obtained by PEOPLE indicate the Maria star dropped the case on Wednesday, Sept. 25.

[From People]

A chunk of People’s coverage reiterates what Jolie found in the partial records released by the FBI, including Jolie’s own statements about the 2016 plane incident, statements which she made to the FBI. I don’t think Jolie dropped the FOIA request because she’s suddenly forward-looking and/or conciliatory. I think she dropped it because she got most of what she wanted, and she will hopefully use the records as the divorce is finalized and, more importantly, as she countersues Brad Pitt over the Miraval situation, since her sale of her half of Miraval is directly tied to the abuse on the plane.

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17 Responses to “Angelina Jolie is ‘actively moving beyond the past, she wants to focus on her family’”

  1. Jenba says:

    Totally random observation: I’ve noticed in the NYFF photos that it appears Angelina is in the process of removing her new bird chest tattoo, & has now acquired a Swallow on her upper arm instead? Same tattoo, yet a different & more meaningful spot. Very cool!

    • PinkOrchid says:

      I noticed the new bird on her upper arm, and noticed the heart bird looked faded in these pics, too. Getting it removed so soon? Gotta be painful. Maybe it was a temp or she put makeup on it for the premiere, to fade it out for some reason?

  2. chatter says:

    She is raising 6 children who seem to be thriving.
    Protector, Mother, Surviver, Oscar winning Actress, Director, etc.
    The press wants to keep her in a tabloid box.

    AJ moves forward. Good for her.
    Why does the press insist on locking women into “Ex Mrs. whoever”?

  3. Amberil says:

    The way People mag has been covering this entire thing with a very obvious bias towards Pitt is disgusting.
    I wish nothing for the best for Angelina and her family

  4. Mirelle says:

    Thanks for the summary Kaiser, because I ain’t clicking on any People article. This is another all sugar no substance fluff piece People editors had their interns scrounge up in their latest attempt of “See! Angelina talks to us!”. Next up: syrupy sappy article on Brad and Ines or power couples Brad/Ines and George/Amal or Brad/George. I read reports that Brad and George are looking to revive the Ocean series with another sequel. So, expect that PR campaign to mount soon.

    OFF TOPIC: To the trolls, haters, and sublime shaders who are tired of reading “daily coverage” of Angelina (@Get Real), feel free to exit your way out of this thread and not READ anything about her. That way you can “move on.” You do know you have that choice, right?

  5. Leah says:

    I’m just always so impressed by her! (Didn’t even read the People excerpt because they’re a nonsense publication–I just like seeing articles on Angelina.)

  6. Jais says:

    No idea if she spoke to People but she and the kids have been looking happy so thats a good thing. Hope BP loses the miraval case and they can move on.

    • Stay says:

      She’s NOT spoken to People Magazine, they are on Pitt payroll & more so now with their daily updates fed by Pitt & his PR. They know Angelina has got what she could from the corrupt FBI , at least they admitted there was probable cause to charge Brad Pitt and they also admitted that by not charging him they have violated Angelina Jolie and her children’s victim rights that’s all on record so at the end of the day Angelina has managed to get even it took five years for them to give her some documents she still managed to get what was needed

  7. Bb says:

    Angelina Jolie hasn’t given it people magazine any form of information and once again people magazine are fully biased and supporting Brad Pitt the amount of articles they’ve been doing in sporting and fully and promoting his latest girlfriend of two years as if their life depended upon it just confirms further more they like to click bait and you use about Angelina but the reality is that they know nothing and nobody has talking to them

  8. Stay says:

    People magazine are no different than in touch magazine and Daily Mail just as trash tabloids ,and they’ve from day one have been supporting Brad Pitt by trivializing Angelina Jolie’s domestic violence, not once have they done a fair assessment of the domestic violence that was done by Brad Pitt towards Angelina Jolie their trevilized her and her children’s domestic abuse and they know nothing about the FBI files and nobody is talking to them and most definitely Nobody from Angelina Jolie’s side is talking to them at all they should stick to keeping the daily updates on Brad Pitt and his superficial life and his latest replenishment family intentions that he’s got all the vulgarity that comes with it

    • ROFL says:

      Brad Pitt’s latest movie worh George flopped hard 😂 noticed how media are paid to not report it because to save the egos of two old men, just because the studio already reported a fake sequal 😂. The ocean announcement was pretty obvious it was another PR stunt. Glad audiences stayed away from watching the 1 week theater run & not support the streaming only acquired 645k viewers 😂

      • Lauren says:

        I noticed that on Box Office Mojo the movie doesn’t even show that it came out on limited release on the weekend of September 20th. If you search the name on the site there is no box office info. I didn’t know studios could hide box office results.

        Or was the limited release fake also ….

  9. ROFL says:

    @LAUREN The movie was released from 19th September to 26th September in limited theaters for 1 week only then on 27th September went on streaming, yea there is nothing posted by BOM nor the media posted any figures because it was an embarrassing flop that couldn’t even make what they throught woth.suxh star power would make. Now after a week.om streaming a fake PR puff given to “Deadline ” Without receipts and zero evidences, just confirms the movie flopped on streaming too. Its number 3 if you look up and audience rating has furthe4 dropped down in Rotton 🍅. Noticehow nobody on any social media platforms is talking about this movie , nothing, instead the ones who saw it gave posted how bad it is . 🍏 just bribed Deadline to save face of more like Clooney and pitts mutual PR agency put out fakenews ,but nobody’s buying 😂

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