It looks like Brad Pitt’s family is now openly smearing Angelina Jolie too

All of the long-time Angelina Jolie fans have watched Brad Pitt’s machinations for years, as his team consistently runs to Page Six, the Daily Mail and TMZ to introduce various “Angelina Jolie is the worst because of this and that” stories. Weirdly, in recent years, TMZ has kind of gotten tired of being a Brad Pitt defender, so that just leaves the Mail and the NY Post. Last week, the Mail started running some very fishy exclusives about how Angelina’s six kids have not had any contact with Brad’s parents or extended family since the 2016 plane incident. At first, it was just “the kids haven’t seen Bill and Jane Pitt for eight years.” Then the Mail ran a follow-up exclusive with suspicious “private photos” of the Jolie-Pitt kids when they were a lot younger, hanging out with their Pitt cousins and various Pitt relations. Did the Pitt family send those photos to the Mail? Did they get paid for the pics? From the Mail:

Now, insiders have shed light on how the lack of contact has been felt by members of Brad’s wider family, including his nieces and nephews, who are also mourning the close bond they once shared with their cousins.

‘When it went down with Brad, his family was hyper focused on him getting help for his alcoholism,’ an insider told DailyMail.com. ‘The Pitt’s tried their best to keep in touch with the children but some members of his family struggled to contain their frustration with the fallout and as a result, Angelina cut the kids off. The kids were young, so any contact had to go through their mom. And now, almost nine years later, they have no relationship.’

For William, also known as Bill, 83, and Jane, 84, all their attempts to try and maintain a relationship with their beloved grandchildren has so far been in vain. ‘His parents still send cards at Christmas and for birthdays even though they get no response,’ the insider continued.

[From The Daily Mail]

The Mail published this four days ago, and I guess Brad’s team worried that it wasn’t getting enough coverage, because they ran to People Magazine with the same “Mean Angelina has blocked the kids from their Pitt relatives” storyline. Only People Mag contacted Angelina’s people, and they including Team Jolie’s response:

Brad Pitt’s six children have not spent much time with his parents in recent years, a source close to Pitt’s family tells PEOPLE. The insider notes that his six kids with ex Angelina Jolie have not spent “extensive time” with Pitt’s parents in over five years. Their kids have extremely limited contact with the grandparents, cousins and relatives on Pitt’s side, adds the source.

The actor, 60, shares six kids with Jolie: Maddox, 23 Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 18, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 16. Jolie filed for divorce in 2016, and the former couple has since undergone a contentious legal battle over finances and custody of their kids,

In response to these claims, a Jolie source tells PEOPLE, “Angelina has not blocked any communications or relationships; rather she encourages them to be in touch with their grandparents.”

“The kids send cards and gifts to their grandparents every year for their birthdays and Christmas,” says the source.

[From People]

Just so we’re clear, Brad has spent the past eight years fighting a PR war for his reputation (not his children) while simultaneously continuing his financial and emotional abuse of Angelina. He has never prioritized the kids’ health and safety, and has spent a lot of time and resources smearing his children’s mother. And yet, according to Angelina’s side, Angelina has still encouraged the kids to speak to Brad’s parents and the extended Pitt family. And it’s taken eight years for Brad to try this attack line: mean Angelina has kept the kids away from the whole Pitt family! It’s also bizarre that they ran to People Magazine after few American outlets picked up the Pitts’ leaks to the Mail.

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  1. Amyb says:

    Mama Pitt is a huge Trumper. There are probably only some of the grandkids they want contact with.

  2. Dee(2) says:

    Weren’t there rumors years ago that they treated the adopted kids differently than the biological kids? And given Brad’s behavior in recent years, that doesn’t seem so outside the realm of possibility to me. Also, most of those kids are over the age of 18 if they wanted to have a relationship with their grandparents and felt like their grandparents wanted to have a legitimate relationship with them that wasn’t about defending their father’s behavior they could. Again, just like with Brad if you are 0-6 with your kids, and they want NO real contact with you it’s not their evil mom keeping them from you in their 20s.

    • Lala11_7 says:

      ALL OF THE ABOVE!!!

    • Hypocrisy says:

      Well said.. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

    • Ivy says:

      He talks about them like they have absolutely no autonomy. It’s because that’s how he views them. As extension of him that should fall in line with what he says. There is no doubt on my mind that’s how he was raised and he still harbors those views

    • Saggie says:

      Brad Pitt’s sister Julie has her own adopted children. I don’t know how the Pitt grandparents treat the adopted children but just saying.

  3. FIFI says:

    I like how the number of years chnaged lol. From almost 9 years to 5 LOL. Guess his team found out his family went to her house for a cookout before covid. And to be quite honest, knowing his family’s MAGA views i would also keep a distance.

    If i am not mistaken yhe photos came from one of his niece’s public ig account. Not coincidentally DM didn’t show any photos of Pax hanging out with them this year. Doesn’t fit their narrative. I think they’re trying this narrative now because of Angelina new win. They wanted to smear her before the hearing.

    • ML says:

      The airplane abuse happened in September of 2016–8 years and a couple months ago. Saying that the grandparents haven’t had contact in almost 9 years (Christmas 2017, for instance?) sounds like Brad had a say in that. Why didn’t he want his parents near rheir grandchildren. In the ensuing half week between the DM arricle and the People one, someone realized that they jumped the shark there.
      So limited contact until about 2019. Angie was in Maleficent in 2019, a successful Disney movie. She essentially said getting married was a mistake. We discovered Maddox was not in contact with Brad. Brad had dated Sat Hari and starred in OUATIH, a successful movie. He was talking about his alcoholism, making art and finding religion and Kanye West. By 2020 he’d mention therapy and alcoholism less and he wound up in the Nico Mary dating debacle. My guess is this is directly linked to why his kids didn’t want to interact with his parents and other family members.

      The emails he’s now forced to share with the court…This period is probably very important, because he stopped acting like he was making an effort.

  4. Zut Alors says:

    Why didn’t the shithead have his parents come visit when the kids were on forced visitation with him? Sounds like those Pitt family members made disparaging comments about Angelina and possibly the kids. Angie’s kids were probably giving back the same energy they were receiving.

    • Lucy2 says:

      Exactly – they had plenty of opportunity when he had some custodial time, before the kids all aged out and avoided him.
      If the kids have cut off contact with the extended family (which who even knows what the reality is) I could see it being the family is pushing them to reconcile with Brad, or they treat the children differently than each other.

    • Michelle says:

      This is such BS from Pitt and his family. In early 2020 there are photos on instagram stories of Pitt family having dinner at Angelina’s house. The nieces were in her garden at the De Mille property Angie bought. Pax is even in contact with his cousins, they follow each other on social media. Why Pitt’s team is pushing this lie when there is clear evidence is beyond me.

      • ML says:

        Michelle, Because BP wants them to.

        Plus in the States, certain areas have something called grandparent rights, where grandparents get the right to see their grandkids even if they’re estranged from their children/inlaws. (I live where this is unusual unless the kids’ parents are unable to properly care for their kids. Could you imagine the opposite scenario where your parents say they have the right to grandkids if you and your partner are child free?) For a certain section of the jury population, hearing that BP’s parents are barred from seeing their grandkids (true or not) could come in handy for Brad if he gets his jury trial.

  5. Jegede says:

    I believe there is some family tension.🫥

    Especially as his nieces Sydney and Regan Pitt make their love for Jennifer Aniston very clear on SM till today. Tagging her, liking her pics, sending her birthday wishes, while sub-tweeting about toxic people.

    There is bad blood somewhere.

    • Meredith says:

      Brad and Jenn divorced in 2004 or 2005– are any of his nieces/nephews even old enough to remember that short marriage?

      • Jegede says:

        No idea.🤨🤨

        Though Jane Pitt and Aniston were seen lunching in Malibu, post 2005 divorce.
        Doug Pitt’s daughters do still reference “Auntie Jen” on their pages – complete with throwback pics as recently as 2022 – , so the families do keep in touch, I guess.

        And correction – I meant *Riley* Pitt, not *Regan*.

  6. Elizabeth says:

    I’ve always sensed that Grandma and Grandpa Pitt only cared about their white grandchildren, not Maddox, Zahara, and Pax.

  7. ThatGirlThere says:

    That mother of his is a queer hating anti-choice republican so smearing by that family seems par for the course.

    Per the previous post, whatever is in this emails and texts is really bad and he’s going everything to make Angelina look bad. I hope that the children will be okay when it comes out.

  8. somebody says:

    “Some members of his family struggled to contain their frustration with the fallout.” Meaning they made remarks that were inappropriate/blaming to Angelina or the children?

  9. DeepSigh says:

    “All of the long-time Angelina Jolie fans have watched Brad Pitt’s machinations for years, as his team consistently runs to Page Six, the Daily Mail and TMZ to introduce various “Angelina Jolie is the worst because of this and that” stories.”

    This so reminds me of the old adage: if he does it with you, he’ll do it to you.

    I’m old enough to remember the Anniston/Pitt/Jolie affair and no matter how you slice it Brad Pitt cheated on J Aniston and left her for Angelina Jolie. He then continually briefed against her in the press and tabloids just like he’s doing Jolie and made the person he wronged look like the bad guy. Jolie participated in that for YEARS. I think it’s awful that this terrible man was able to pit (no pun intended) two accomplished women against each other in the media and probably in real life.

    I wonder if Jolie saw how he was behaving with Aniston and believed he’d never do it to her. Pitt is a small, petty man and women should just stay away from him.

    • bisynaptic says:

      🎯

      • Amberil says:

        I’m really tired of people using the poor Jennifer Aniston as example when we’re talking about this situation, we are talking about abuse on his wife and children here for God’s sake. Aniston was kekeing with him and participated happily to the rehabilitation of his image and she had her own Friends publicly trashed Angelina and her kids for years .

    • atorontogal says:

      @DeepSigh…Can you tell me which tabloids ran the articles of Angie dissing Jen? I remember Jen and her friends saying A LOT about Angie and in particular I remember Chelsea Handler saying horrible things about the children.

      • Anonymous says:

        I don’t think @Deepsigh is saying AJ went to the tabloids. I think they are saying BP went to the tabloids to complain about JA. He rubbed it in pretty hard during that phase. BP was not kind to JA and he has not been kind to AJ. In other words, he is a POS.

      • Meredith says:

        Yes, I remember Brad saying he was bored in his marriage and therefore he stayed stoned all the time. Substance abusers love to blame their partners for their choices. See also Ben Affleck.

    • Joy says:

      I’m also old enough to remember the “affair”. I don’t remember Pitt choking Aniston or holding her captive on an airplane. I must’ve missed that part.

      My point is you’re pretty much victim blaming. Nice.

      • Tessa says:

        Aniston was shamed because she did not have children. Aniston reportedly had miscarriages. Brad then made a big deal of having children with Angelina. I think brad was mean to both his wives.

    • Josephine says:

      I feel like Aniston has made clear that Brad was not abusive toward her? And Pitt and Aniston made a point of telling the public that they remained friendly. So I don’t think that Angelina saw any abuse by Pitt, just defensiveness. And it’s possible that Pitt never felt threatened by Aniston because he was such a bigger star at the time so maybe she escaped the worst of his abuse.

      • Anonymous says:

        BP might have not physically abused JA but he behaved horribly during the divorce. JA claimed he was missing a sensitivity chip when in reality he was behaving like a selfish POS.

        He insinuated he wanted a family and left because she wouldn’t give him that. He could have been honest and admitted he fell in love with someone else. It happens.

        He posed in W Spread “Family Bliss” while still married.

        He accompanied his then girlfriend to adopt a baby while still married.

        He got his then girlfriend pregnant while still married.

        He could have been more considerate of JA feelings. He could have finished his divorce prior to starting a family with AJ.

        These actions in no way excuse his abhorrent behavior toward AJ and their children. It just means that there were signs she missed when she got together with him.

    • Carmen says:

      How did Jolie “participate” in that?
      The only time I ever saw her mention Aniston was in a magazine article (I think it was Vogue but I may be mistaken) when the interviewer asked her if she would like to have a sit-down with Aniston. Jolie replied, “That would be her decision, and I would welcome it.”
      To the best of my knowledge, she never mentioned Aniston again, either directly or indirectly.

  10. Kat says:

    RE: The Pitts.
    When people show you who they are, believe them.

  11. Jais says:

    Sounds like the kids may have reasons for not wanting to pursue a relationship with Brad’s parents. And if they keep going to the DM and People, some of those reasons may just come out. The Pitts should stop effing around for money with the DM.

  12. Ivy says:

    Please! His family likes Jon voight’s rants about Trump being the savior all the time on IG. They can sit all the way down with this mess

  13. Sunshile says:

    First in Dailymail they haven’t seen the kids since the divorce so for 8 years and then in People they haven’t spent extensive time with them in 5 years. His own team can’t keep up with the lies.

    And I’m sure him and his family attacking the mother of the children and sole provider in the media is definitely going to help.

    • Ivy says:

      TBH I wouldn’t be surprised if he wasn’t aware that his family keeps in touch. They probably keep him in the dark.

  14. Keaton says:

    Why is this coming out right now? I don’t follow them as closely as some you do but it feels like he’s trying to hurt her acting resurgence. People are saying she might get an Oscar nomination. Is he trying to stop that from happening?
    What a nasty piece of work Brad Pitt is.
    Move on jackass!

    • Carmen says:

      Exactly this. In the eight years since their separation, neither of the senior Pitts has said a word publicly either to condemn Angie or to support their son. So why now?

  15. Sunshile says:

    Exactly this Keaton.

    He’s trying to hurt her Oscars chance. He knows the “she alienated the kids from the family” angle is going to hit home with some voters. His sources have been bragging for years he got Hollywood in the divorce, so seeing her nominated would be a slap in the face for him. He’s trying to prevent it. Such a toxic individual

  16. Lau says:

    Bill and Jane only have one person to blame for this situation and it’s their own son.

  17. Carmen says:

    In all the years since Angie left Brad, I have never seen one word of sympathy or support from either of the senior Pitts toward their son, until now.

    • Eva says:

      The noose around Brad’s neck is clearly getting tighter and he is reaching for new solutions because the old ones didn’t help him in the long run. The guy forgot that in the age of social media it’s just as easy to shower someone with hate as it is to refute someone’s lies. And because Brad and his PR have been lying in recent years, they now have a big problem…

  18. Zut Alors says:

    Was seeing Knox looking so happy to accompany his Mom to an industry event so triggering for the Pitts?

  19. Anonymous says:

    Mama Pitt looks like Jen Aniston.

  20. CLOVE says:

    They feel like that because they are on Pitt’s payroll. Shame on them! We didn’t forget seeing you all at Angelina’s house! His entire MAGA family is horrible!