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| | Angelina Jolie wore Balmain & brought her kids to 'The Eternals' premiere | | Added 3 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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The Eternals had its big world premiere in LA last night, and Angelina Jolie stole the show, rolling up to the carpet with five of her six children. Pax is the only missing Jolie-Pitt kid, and my guess is that he just opted out because he doesn?t really like to be photographed. Or maybe he had school? So we got to see Knox and Vivienne (who are 13), Zahara (16), Shiloh (15) and Maddox (20). Can?t believe she has all those teenagers and she?s still standing!
Angelina wore this Balmain look in a sludge/mud brown. I wish it had been brighter, but I appreciate that Angelina and the kids sort of coordinated their looks. People are calling this Balmain a ?dress? but I think it?s actually pants. Big, flowy pants. There?s some structure to the top part, and I think it?s basically a built-in bustier, and then there?s some half-sack fabric to make Angelina happy. Her jewelry is vintage Tiffany & Co. and Beladora. The Beladora piece is likely the chin-cuff. How does the chin-cuff make you feel?
As for the kids? I don?t know what designers they?re wearing except for Zahara. Zahara is wearing her mom?s old Elie Saab gown!! Angelina wore that Saab gown to the 2014 Oscars. It looks like Zahara and Angelina took it to a tailor and then made a few edits, but it looks lovely on Z. It feels like this is basically a confirmation that Zahara is the one pulling stuff out of her mom?s closet. I don?t think Shiloh and Vivienne can be bothered, they know their mom is pretty unstylish. Also: Shiloh in a dress! She?s such a tomboy, this is one of the few times we?ve seen her in a dress.
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| | Angelina Jolie is on Instagram & she broke Jennifer Aniston's follower-record | | Added 3 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Angelina Jolie is now on Instagram!!! For celebrities of Jolie?s popularity and stature, it?s somewhat surprising that she?s never tried out Instagram before now. She started her account on Friday and posted one IG and one Instagram Story and that was all for 24 hours, then she posted a second IG. She is right now solely focused on using the platform to talk about her work as special envoy for the United Nations High Commission on Refugees. It?s a wonder she hasn?t realized that she could easily harness social media in an authentic way before now, to highlight the work with refugees and to promote the many causes near and dear to her heart. I would imagine that studios have asked her to join IG before too and she was probably like ?I don?t understand any of it, so no.? Or maybe she had a finsta, you never know. In any case, as soon as Angelina dropped her first IG post, she broke all of the previously-held Guinness World Records for followers. She actually broke Jennifer Aniston?s record (hahahahaha).
Angelina Jolie has joined Instagram, and broke a long-standing record in the process. The actress and philanthropist can now be found @angelinajolie, and being one of the most famous women on the planet reaps its benefits too; the account became the quickest to reach the threshold of 1 million followers in the platform.
It took Angelina just three hours to gain 2.1 million followers, which bests the previous record set by Jennifer Aniston, who quite literally broke Instagram when she accumulated 1 million followers in 5 hours in 2019.
[From Vice]
I remember when Aniston?s IG was breaking all kinds of records, and now Angelina is breaking all of Aniston?s records. That feels like? the universe is in balance. Jolie actually got more than five million followers just in the first 24 hours!!
I?m including Angelina?s Instagram posts below, they are heartbreaking and she has spent more than 20 years traveling with the UNHCR and hearing refugees? stories and working to make the world a better place for displaced people. While I?m not expecting Angelina to, like, start spon-conning waist trainers and tummy teas, I do think she?ll probably use her IG to support her films, like The Eternals. I also want to know who is helping her and whether it?s one of her kids!! Y?all know that Angie didn?t figure out how to post Stories all on her own.
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| | Angelina Jolie is vacationing with her kids, friends & sack dresses in Venice | | Added 3 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Angelina Jolie was in Paris last week with her kids, but we didn?t have access to any of those photos. It just looked like some kind of holiday, and my guess is that the kids are out of school for the summer and Jolie decided to ?treat? the younger ones to a little European vacay. After Paris, they apparently went to Venice. This weekend, Angelina got pap?d walking around Venice in a glorious sack dress, brown slides and a trench coat. That?s Vivienne in some of these photos, but I think Zahara, Knox and Shiloh are on this trip too. Maybe Pax as well. Vivienne has gotten so much taller in the past year! She?s as tall as her mom now. Angelina was also seen out with people I assume are her friends. I wondered if that one masked guy might be her brother James Haven but I don?t think it is, actually. (Update: people think this is Shiloh? It might be, Shiloh and Vivi look alike, especially wearing masks.)
As for the sack dress? like, Angelina loves sack dressing. Her fundamental style is shapeless, baggy caftans and muumuus. But this is next-level sack-dressing. I also kind of wonder if she?s wearing a wig in some of these photos, or perhaps she very recently dyed her hair darker. Her hairline kind of looks unnatural to me.
This vacation could also be something of a victory lap for Angelina. Two Fridays ago, we learned that Angelina finally got the unethical private judge thrown off her divorce case. The California Court of Appeal ruled in her favor, disqualified and removed Judge Ouderkirk from the case and vacated his decision on temporary child custody. Ouderkirk was disqualified because of his own unethical actions in failing to fully disclose his ongoing business with Brad Pitt?s lawyers. Us Weekly recently spoke to Mark Vincent Kaplan, who is not affiliated with Jolie or Pitt, and Kaplan was basically like ?this divorce is going to cost them both millions in legal fees.? Yes, I agree. And?
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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| | Angelina Jolie won her appeal, got 'unethical' Judge Ouderkirk thrown off the case | | Added 3 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Let?s not go into the lengthy backstory for this, because it?s a lot. So, long story short: last year, Angelina Jolie tried unsuccessfully to have the private judge, John Ouderkirk, on her divorce case thrown off because he lied and failed to disclose that he was doing business with Brad Pitt?s lawyers. Ouderkirk refused to recuse himself from the case, and Ouderkirk went on to deny Angelina?s legal team from calling the kids to testify in their own custody case. Ouderkirk ended up giving Pitt more custody of the kids temporarily. Angelina was pissed off at the system, at Ouderkirk and at Brad. She appealed the case and? she won. The California appeals court sounds appalled at Ouderkirk?s behavior and the ruling about custody has been voided.
Angelina Jolie scored a major victory Friday in her divorce with Brad Pitt when a California appeals court agreed with her that the private judge deciding who gets custody of their children should be disqualified. The 2nd District Court of Appeal agreed with Jolie that Judge John W. Ouderkirk didn?t sufficiently disclose business relationships with Pitt?s attorneys.
?Judge Ouderkirk?s ethical breach, considered together with the information disclosed concerning his recent professional relationships with Pitt?s counsel, might cause an objective person, aware of all the facts, reasonably to entertain a doubt as to the judge?s ability to be impartial. Disqualification is required,? the court ruled. The decision means that the custody fight over the couple?s five minor children, which was nearing an end, could just be getting started. The judge already ruled the pair divorced, but separated the child custody issues.
Like many celebrity couples, Pitt and Jolie opted to hire their own judge to increase their privacy in the divorce proceedings. ?The appeals court ruling was based on a technical procedural issue. The facts haven?t changed. There is an extraordinary amount of factual evidence which led the judge ? and the many experts who testified ? to reach their clear conclusion about what is in the children?s best interests,? a statement by Pitt?s representative said. ?We will continue to do what?s necessary legally based on the detailed findings of what?s best for the children.?
Ouderkirk declined to disqualify himself when Jolie asked him to in a filing in August. A lower court judge ruled that Jolie?s request for disqualification came too late. Jolie?s attorneys then appealed. The July 9 oral arguments in front of the appeals court focused on exactly which ethical rules should apply to private judges, who, like Ouderkirk, are usually retired superior court judges. ?If you?re going to play the role of a paid private judge you have to play by the rules and the rules are very clear, they require full transparency,? Jolie?s attorney Robert Olson said. ?Matters that should have been disclosed were not disclosed.?
Pitt attorney Theodore Boutrous said the attempt at disqualification was a stalling tactic by Jolie to keep Ouderkirk?s recent tentative custody decision, which is favorable to Pitt, from going into effect.
[From THR]
Pitt?s lawyers arguing that ?it?s a stalling tactic? makes no sense when the judge is actively dissembling and concealing his unethical behavior favoring Pitt. Brad?s people were running around to smear Angelina once again, and a source told People: ?Brad believes there is overwhelming evidence that the current situation isnt good for the kids. This just sets things back for everyone. The ?current situation? had three of his children willing to testify against him in their custody case, but go off. Pitt?s lawyers have also told everyone that they plan to appeal the appeal. Brad is really arguing that it?s totally fine that his lawyers were in cahoots with the judge and that it?s not weird at all that the judge refused to examine Jolie?s witness testimony or allow the kids to testify.
So, basically, Ouderkirk?s ruling on temporary custody back in May has been nullified and now Jolie and Pitt are back to their old custody agreement, which was that Angelina had primary custody and Brad has more limited visitation. I?m so glad Angelina won this appeal!
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Backgrid.
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| | Angelina Jolie & The Weeknd had 'another secret date' at a private concert in LA | | Added 3 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Earlier this month, Angelina Jolie and The Weeknd (Abel Tesfaye) stepped out for a dinner date in LA. No one knew what was going on. Was it a work thing? Abel had just gotten a deal greenlighted at HBO. Was it a charity thing? Angelina and Abel both have connections to Ethiopia. Or was it a romance thing? Abel included a line about Angelina?s lips in one of his songs. It seemed like a strange little gossip item and no one knew where it was going. Well? um, The Joliend is real, people. I think they?re really happening? Abel and Angelina were seen out on another date:
Angelina Jolie and The Weeknd were spotted on another secret date at a private concert in Los Angeles over the weekend amid ongoing romance rumors. Images of the stars attending Mustafas private concert appeared on the Instagram account Deuxmoi, which showed The Weeknd with a group of friends and Angelina sitting with daughters Shiloh, 15, and 16-year-old Zahara.
A Twitter fan account for the Blinding Lights singer, 31, also posted the images of Angelina, 46, with her kids and The Weeknd.
[From The Daily Mail]
I?m including the photos Deuxmoi posted and the photos on Abel?s fan account at the end of the post. Angelina was sitting with Shiloh, not with Abel, but it was clear that The Joliend were sort of there together. According to the Sun (eh), Angelina and Abel first met up in New York last month, during her family trip there (where she was also seen at Jonny Lee Miller?s apartment). According to the Sun?s source:
Ange has been in contact with Abel for a while, he was in New York at the same time as her and the kids. They met up for lunch in private. She took Pax along because hes a big fan and they got along really well, he was obviously thrilled. They are just friends, but who knows it could be more in the future, hes made no secret of the fact he has a huge crush on her.
[From The Sun]
Who doesnt have a crush on Jolie?? In case anyone is wondering about the age difference, he?s 31 years old and she?s 46. The age difference doesn?t upset me what upsets me is the idea that Selena Gomez and Angelina Jolie have the same damn dating pool!! Come on.
The Weeknd, Metro Boomin & Angelina Jolie last night in LA. pic.twitter.com/YYxDg1IbO5
The Weeknd World (@WorldTheWeeknd) July 11, 2021
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| | Angelina Jolie had a dinner date with The Weeknd in LA, but was it a work thing? | | Added 3 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I?m here for Angelina Jolie feeling herself and having something of a Hot Girl Summer, or perhaps a Hot Villainess Summer. It?s been a long time since Angelina has had *fun* drama in her personal life, and now I?m hoping that Jonny Lee Miller and assorted young lovers are all vying for her attention. Young lovers like The Weeknd, aka Abel Tesfaye. Abel and Angelina (portmanteau: Abelina OR The Joliend) were seen out to dinner on Wednesday night in LA:
Angelina Jolie and The Weeknd were snapped exiting celebrity hotspot Giorgio Baldi in Los Angeles Wednesday night, setting gossip tongues to wagging as to what their night out might have entailed.
After spending hours at the high-end Italian eatery, the pair were sure to leave separately so as to not be photographed together. The 46-year-old Oscar winner wore a black silk dress and trench coat while the ?After Hours? singer, 31, kept it simple in a denim look and black boots.
While it?s possible the beauty and mother of six shared a romantic evening with the Toronto artist, the singer, n Abel Tesfaye, is also looking to further his career in Hollywood, meaning the pair could?ve met up for business reasons and nothing more.
?They?re clearly not trying to hide [the dinner date],? a source close to The Weeknd told Page Six. ?He?s definitely focused on getting to the movie business. He has the new HBO series he?s starring in.?
Tesfaye ? who played a memorable role in Adam Sandler?s ?Uncut Gems? and co-wrote an episode of ?American Dad? last year ? is set to co-write and star in the new HBO series ?The Idol,? which he co-created with Reza Fahim and ?Euphoria? creator Sam Levinson.
[From Page Six]
Other outlets are saying that it was for-sure romantic, but Page Six?s source definitely makes it sound like it was a work thing. That new HBO series was the first thing that came to mind, because it was literally just announced too Abel is working with Sam Levinson to develop a drama series called The Idol. The one sentence pitch is: ?The series follows a female pop singer who starts a romance with an enigmatic L.A. club owner who is the leader of a secret cult.? Abel is not just co-writing it, but I guess he?ll play the enigmatic cult dude. But is there even a role for Angelina? Or was he just asking for advice? I don?t know. Maybe she just wanted to make Jonny Lee Miller jealous.
EXCLUSIVE : Angelina Jolie and The Weeknd spotted exiting celebrity hotspot in Los Angeles https://t.co/FPGRTHBlQw pic.twitter.com/LtAvblPLHB
Page Six (@PageSix) July 1, 2021
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| | Angelina Jolie told the court months ago that three Jolie-Pitt kids wanted to testify | | Added 3 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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In May, we learned that Judge John Ouderkirk had made a tentative ruling in Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt?s years-long custody battle. The specific details of the ruling were not explained in the press, but we do know that Brad was given ?more custody? over the minor Jolie-Pitt children. We also know that Angelina was extremely pissed off about how everything went down in the custody trial. Apparently, Judge Ouderkirk refused to allow the Jolie-Pitt kids to testify about how they felt and what they wanted. There were reports that Maddox who is now old enough to not be covered in custodial proceedings testified against Brad during the trial, but it doesn?t seem like any of the other kids were allowed to. Well, Jolie is appealing the ruling and there?s some kind of hearing happening in July. The issue of whether the kids will testify is the centerpiece of Jolie?s appeal:
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have been locked in a battle over custody of their children since their divorce was finalized in 2019, and a newly uncovered document shows the fight could have been even more complicated. Lawyers for the Maleficent star, 46, filed a document in December 2020 claiming that three of her six children with Pitt, 57, wanted to testify against him during the proceedings. The former couple share Maddox, 19, Pax, 17, Zahara, 16, Shiloh, 15, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 12.
?The children whose custody is at issue are old enough to understand what is going on,? the document obtained by Us Weekly reads. ?The trial is necessarily going to impact them emotionally. Three of the children have asked to testify. To make any of the children endure what may be a futile and void proceeding is beyond unjustified. It is cruel.?
The document was filed as part of Jolie?s ongoing attempt to have Judge John Ouderkerk removed from the case because of his alleged connections to Pitt?s legal team. The actress? lawyers argued that the children shouldn?t have even been put in the position to want to testify because the judge should have been disqualified.
Earlier this year, Jolie filed additional documents alleging that the judge refused to hear evidence she believed was pertinent to the case, including her children?s testimonies. ?Judge Ouderkirk denied Ms. Jolie a fair trial, improperly excluding her evidence relevant to the children?s health, safety, and welfare, evidence critical to making her case,? the documents claimed.
According to court records, a hearing is scheduled for July 9. The activist wants to use the appeal to ?demonstrate clear, reversible, prejudicial legal error? on the part of Ouderkirk. Jolie?s appeal will be heard by a three-justice panel and attorneys for both parties will be given time to present their arguments.
[From Us Weekly]
Okay, let?s see. Back in December, Angelina told the court that three of the kids were ready to testify in their custody trial. Angelina argued that it would be grossly irresponsible to allow them to do so if the trial was going to be null and void anyway, because of the series of disastrous decisions made by Judge Ouderkirk. Angelina knew she was going to appeal Ouderkirk?s ruling even then, because she was so pissed off about the way he was handling the case. I?m incredibly curious about the shenanigans involving Pitt?s lawyers and the judge, and just how much business they give Ouderkirk and what kind of backroom deals are happening. Sounds like Angelina is curious too.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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| | Us: Angelina Jolie 'will never forgive' Brad Pitt for the judge's custody ruling | | Added 3 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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We genuinely don?t know many details about Judge John Ouderkirk?s ruling in Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt?s custody battle. We heard that Brad won significantly more custody over the minor children, but sources suggested that the ruling is ?tentative.? We know that Angelina is mad at the system and the judge, and she?s appealing Ouderkirk?s decision mostly on the basis of Ouderkirk?s refusal to allow the minor children to testify. We know that Brad?s team has run around telling many outlets that the judge believes Angelina ?lacks credibility.? And we know that Angelina thinks Brad is disgusting for ?gloating? about beating the system. So what now?
Angelina Jolie is not happy with the court?s decision to award Brad Pitt joint custody of their children, an insider reveals exclusively in the new issue of Us Weekly.
The Eternals star, 45, is ?bitterly disappointed? after Judge John Ouderkirk ruled in favor of her ex-husband, 57, earlier this month. ?Angelina?s testimony lacked credibility,? the source adds. ?The decision was based on extensive testimonies from people who spent time with the kids and by highly respected professionals.?
On May 13, the judge issued a temporary ruling giving the duo shared custody of the children excluding Maddox, who is no longer a minor. Pitt was ?delighted? by the decision, the insider says, but Jolie is already planning her next move.
?She will never forgive him,? the source says, adding that she will use ?everything she?s got? to appeal the arrangement. ?She maintains it?s far from over and still believes that justice will prevail.?
[From Us Weekly]
I?ve read the theories that Angelina has tried, from the beginning, to merely draw this out as long as possible so that the children would be able to spend these years with the monitors in place and limited visitation for Brad. I think there?s something to that theory, but I also think Brad was doing the most to screw over Jolie behind the scenes, and he?s been slow-walking parts of their divorce as well. Plus, Angelina actually thought she could spend the money and fight for what was right for the kids and she genuinely didn?t think she?d get screwed over by a judge in league with Brad?s lawyers. Still, it seems less personal at this point I doubt Angelina is like ?I hate Brad, I?ll never forgive him.? She?s focused more on what happens next legally.
PS? NBC News published this very good essay about why Angelina is fighting the good fight about wanting her kids to testify in their custody trial. Go here to read.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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| | Angelina Jolie is 'warm & gentle' with kids: 'Who you are to the children is everything' | | Added 3 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Angelina Jolie is promoting Those Who Wish Me Dead, a film which looks like a somewhat straight-forward action vehicle for Jolie. Like, if they switched the gender of the lead character, I could easily see Liam Neeson or Bruce Willis playing a ?fire jumper? and protecting a traumatized kid. To promote the movie, Jolie recently chatted with Sydney Morning Herald?s Sunday Life magazine. She worked with an Aussie child actor in the film, and she?s very complimentary of him (and he adored her too). She also chats about her mom, representation on film and a lot more. Some highlights:
On playing badass women on screen: ?There are times when it?s the first time somebody takes a step and shows that ? whether it be a woman, a man, somebody ? they can do something different. Somebody pushes the boundary, then says this can also be done this way, or this gender can also do this. Then you push those boundaries and tell those stories, and you look for other stories to tell ? you don?t want to just repeat the same message.?
On the need for wider representation of badass women: ?It?s an interesting question. It?s a deep question. Particularly for women: what is the representation that?s not yet been shown on screen? Who is a woman and what is a woman capable of? There?s a lot to discover, there?s a lot that?s yet to be represented, and there?s a space being created right now that is not yet there. There?s a lot of trauma behind the strong women in a lot of these roles, and it will be nice to get to a place where we?re also in our maternity, in our femininity, strong and intelligent and not fighting to survive.?
Her late mother Marcheline Bertrand: ?My mother was very gentle. I can be many things in my work and in life, but I am very warm and gentle with my children. That kindness and warmth is a foundation that?s unbelievably important. She gave me many other things and taught me many lessons. But if you don?t have that base, to feel valued and safe, then it?s hard for any of the other messages or lessons to land. I hope that I?ve been able to be that [for my own children], that I?m that warm, safe place. Because ? and it?s maybe a funny thing to say ? but considering what my different jobs are, or what people think they know of you, or what you feel you have to be in the world, in truth none of those things are what you really are. Who you are to the children is everything.?
Her character in Those Who Wish Me Dead: ?She?s intentionally reckless and clearly is not functioning well. If the path this film takes her on didn?t happen, I?m not sure she would have recovered from what she?s carrying. And that is a lot. Not to get heavy, but I?ve been to places where there are different groups of people being treated ? those who had physical injuries or were harmed, and this other group, those who had to participate in harming others as part of their torture. The damage was so clear, but the mental-health trauma, you can?t see it. Those who do those types of jobs, anybody on the front line, you just never know what they?re going through when you look at them. So in this story, which is not as heavy and depressing as I?m making it sound, these people, you throw them together and you light a fire and you see who makes it through.?
Working with Aussie child actor Finn Little: ?We?d both be very serious actors on set, but also have play dates on the weekends with my kids and go hang out all the time. So part of our work, if you will, was just playing paintball or swimming. So our professional bonding was just a lot of fun, being friends.?
Respect frontline workers all the time: ?When there are fires, we seem to honour the firemen, and during the pandemic we?ve been very supportive and focused on those in the hospitals and on that front line. You?d hope these things continue regardless of what is happening in the world. It shouldn?t have to take a large fire to respect a fireman, or a pandemic to respect a nurse.?
She doesn?t mind a dangerous situation: ?I?m a bad person to ask. Maybe it?s something that?s off about me, but I tend to walk into slightly dangerous situations and be the last to panic. So I didn?t feel like I was in danger during filming. I didn?t feel like it was too much. There were certainly times when it got really hot, very fast, and we had to all move to the other side. Again, being with Finn, it did something different, because when you?re next to a child, you?re so hyper-focused. So when the bullets and shrapnel were flying, all I could think about was his eyes and keeping them covered. When we?re in situations near the fire, or in the river surrounded by fire, I had my eye on him. But I will say that he?s an Aussie, and tough, so there was no real need for me to be concerned for him. He wasn?t afraid of anything.?
[From Sydney Morning Herald]
She?s dead-on about Aussies being tough as hell. I?ve seen the spiders, snakes and Aussie creatures y?all seem to live with on a daily basis. Finn was probably like ?whatever, it?s fine, I see more danger from the spiders in my house.? I also enjoy the fact that Jolie is working with more child actors as she gets older, and she seems so maternal with them. She?s practically ready to adopt all of those kids. As for what she says about her mom and hoping she provides the kind of safe space to her children which her mom provided her? I think she?s absolutely like that. It?s a little bit weird to think about who she was, like, 22 years ago? The goth girl who didn?t give a fk, the rebel without a cause. And now she?s so much like her mom.
Here are some pics of Angelina & Vivienne out in April.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid, Avalon Red.
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| | Angelina Jolie says her divorce judge refused to allow the Jolie-Pitt kids to testify | | Added 3 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt?s divorce proceeding will turn five years old in September. From what we can see of the slow-moving divorce, it has been enormously contentious, mainly around the custody issues of their children. Although I?d be curious to learn if they?ve handled the financial aspects of their divorce, because I think that is still on-going as well. For years now, Brad and Angelina have been employing a private judge, Judge John Ouderkirk, to oversee their divorce proceedings. Last year, Angelina tried to have the judge kicked off the case because her lawyer discovered that Ouderkirk had been doing business with Pitt?s lawyers for years and Ouderkirk had failed to disclose that to the court. Ouderkirk fought the issue and refused to recuse himself from the case. And now that same judge is refusing to allow the Jolie-Pitt children testify in court and Angelina is calling him out, yet again.
Angelina Jolie criticized a judge deciding on custody arrangements for her and Brad Pitt?s children during their divorce, saying in a court filing that the judge refused to allow their kids to testify. Jolie, who has sought to disqualify Judge John Ouderkirk from the divorce case, said in the filing Monday that he declined to hear evidence she says is relevant to the children?s safety and well-being before issuing a tentative ruling. The documents don?t elaborate on what that evidence may be.
?Judge Ouderkirk denied Ms. Jolie a fair trial, improperly excluding her evidence relevant to the children?s health, safety, and welfare, evidence critical to making her case,? according to the filing in California?s Second District Court of Appeal.
The actress also said the judge ?has failed to adequately consider? a section of the California courts code, which says it is detrimental to the best interest of the child if custody is awarded to a person with a history of domestic violence. Her filing did not give details about what it was referring to, but her lawyers submitted a document under seal in March that purportedly offers additional information.
Her new filing says the judge has ?refused to hear the minor teenagers? input as to their experiences, needs, or wishes as to their custody fate,? citing a California code that says a child 14 or over should be allowed to testify if they want to. Three of Jolie and Pitt?s six children are teenagers, 17-year-old Pax, 16-year-old Zahara, and 14-year-old Shiloh. The oldest, Maddox, is 19 and not subject to the custody decision. They also have 12-year-old twins, Vivienne and Knox.
In response to Jolie?s filing, Pitt?s attorneys said, ?Ouderkirk has conducted an extensive proceeding over the past six months in a thorough, fair manner and reached a tentative ruling and order after hearing from experts and percipient witnesses.?
Pitt?s filing said the judge found Jolie?s testimony ?lacked credibility in many important areas, and the existing custody order between the parties must be modified, per Mr. Pitt?s request, in the best interests of the children.? It says Jolie?s objections and further delays in reaching an arrangement would ?work grave harm upon the children, who will be further denied permanence and stability.?
It?s not clear what the current custody arrangement is because the court seals most files. When the divorce process began, Jolie sought primary physical custody ? meaning the children would live more than half the time with her ? but changes have been made that have not been made public. Pitt sought joint custody.
Others close to Jolie say her family struggles have prompted her to take a more active role in changing the law?s approach to custody issues. ?Ms. Jolie has been working privately for four and a half years to both heal her family and to fight for improvements to the system to ensure that other families do not experience what hers has endured,? Peter Harvey, an attorney and former attorney general of New Jersey who has been working with Jolie on policy issues, told The Associated Press.
Jolie has sought to disqualify Ouderkirk, a private judge she and Pitt chose to maintain their privacy, arguing that he has an improper business relationship with one of Pitt?s attorneys. She said in Monday?s filing that if the tentative custody decision is made final by Ouderkirk, she will appeal it.
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So, Jolie?s filing says that the custody trial/hearing is a failure because Ouderkirk failed to allow the Jolie-Pitt children to testify about how they feel about their parents. Pitt?s response is that Jolie is just generally a liar. Yeah, this is a fking mess and Ouderkirk should have recused himself last year. I?m curious as to what is contained in the sealed documents but I bet it?s horrific. Pitt does not want any of this going public, which is why he?s still ride-or-die for Ouderkirk, who is clearly partial to his main employer, the law firm representing Brad Pitt.
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